Emphasis Fabrication Spring 2007

Tuesday/Thursday
7:15 PM to 10:15 PM Hybrid Lab, Founders Hall Rm. 304

Assignments

Resources and Links

Weekly Schedule: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15
Lecture this week!
Mark Pauline: Survival Research Laboratories
Media Arts lecture
Thursday, March 15, 7:30 pm

Nahl Hall, Oakland campus
Info: 510.594.3656

Survival Research Laboratories (SRL) was conceived of and founded by Mark Pauline in November 1978. Since then, SRL has operated as an organization of creative technicians dedicated to redirecting the techniques, tools, and tenets of industry, science, and the military away from their typical manifestations in practicality, product, and warfare.

Since 1979, SRL has staged over 45 mechanized presentations. Each performance consists of a unique set of ritualized interactions between machines, robots, and special effects devices, employed in developing themes of sociopolitical satire. Humans are present only as audience or operators.

Faculty

Todd Blair: Fabrication and Kinetics

  • todd@hybridarts.org
  • Current projects
    • Public Art Commission at Lake Merritt - Oakland
    • Public Art Commission on Pierson Street - Oakland
  • Recent Projects
    • Produced 70 New Media Projects for the 13th ISEA Conference and the 1st ZeroOne Festival of Global Art on the Edge - San Jose
    • Curated 40 Artworks for the Phaeno Science Center - Wolfsburg Germany

Don Day: Electronics and Sensors

Barney Haynes: Media and Programming

Grade Breakdown

Attendance: Miss 3 classes lose 1 grade point, miss 4 you will not pass

Active participation in class labs, mini assignments, field trips (see below) and punctuality 10%

Timely Completion of Assignments: 65%:

  • Assignment 1: due 2/13 Presentation Artist Report 10%
  • Assignment 2: due 2/15 Preliminary Proposal & Individual Meetings 10%
  • Assignment 3: due 3/6 Chaotic Motion 10%
  • Assignment 4: due 3/29 Final Proposal and Critique 10%
  • Assignment 5: due 4/26 Final Critique 25%

FINAL: Timely Completion of Final Project for Presentation in an Exhibition 25%

NOTE: Missed or late assignments will result in the loss of associated percentage

Field Trip

Sources Field Trip: Saturday 3/10 Just like a class - absence condemned

Sources for Materials and Field Trip Locations

Assignments Explanations

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Assignment 1: Artist Report -Due 2/13

Pick an artist or group working in the field of kinetic and electronic art and prepare an audio-visual presentation for the class. Web sites, videos, and power point presentations are appropriate mediums for the presentation. They should be 5 to 10 minutes in length.

Some Starting Points

Assignment 2: Preliminary Proposal -Due 2/15

Written preliminary scope of work explaining and illustrating your proposed project for the final show following guidelines provided. We will analyze the proposed projects for feasibility and set up individual meetings to discuss the proposals during Week 6.

Assignment 3: Chaotic Motion -Due 3/6

Identify and bring in for a class presentation something that moves unpredictably - it can be mechanical, a household object, fabricated or found. Don't forget heat rises, light is very fast and gravity tends to make things fall. One caveat however, this project should be a combination, collage or construction of multiple components. For instance, a toy or a balloon in and of itself would not suffice, but an interaction between the two would.

Assignment 4: Final Proposal -Due 3/29

Present materials ( drawings, written descriptions, working components) detailing your final project proposal to class.

Assignment 5: FINAL CRITIQUE -DUE 4/25
7:00 PM Saturday May 5th FINAL SHOW!!!
Presentation of completed project in a gallery setting

Week 1

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1/16

Introduction to the class

  • Delineation of the 3 areas of concentration / departure
  • Expectations: Assignments and show
  • Possible strategies and models
  • Collect contact information for students

Barney: Computers and the Hybrid Lab (RM. 304) 

Don: Power & Control and Electro Safety 

Todd: Introduction to Fabricating Electromechanical devices 

An in depth description of the Max programming environment can be found on pages 9-27 in the "MaxGettingStarted.pdf" located in the Documentation folder found in the Max/MSP 4.6 Application folder

 1/18
Todd: Actuation

Review of actuators and major mechanical components

  • Electric Motors
  • Fluid Power
  • Solenoids
  • Alternative Means

Week 2

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1/23
Don: Electrical Components Workshop

1/25

Barney:
Programing: Introduction to Max/MSP/Jitter

Max Tutorials 1-5

Week 3

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1/30
Video Night (postponed because of the Centennial celebration on the SF campus) in other words no class tonight.		 2/1
Todd:
Power Transmission

To compenstate for the postmonement of Video each of us will show a selection of work pertaining to our respective areas. Todd starts tonight by showing tapes before his lecture. That will be the format for the next two classes.

Week 4
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2/6
Don:
Relay H-Bridge Lab
And a Circuits Lecture demystifying what you just did. Teleo Motor Controllers.

H Bridge Diagram

Don's Video Selections

 2/8
Barney:
Programing: Make Controllers

Barney's Video Selections

Week 5
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2/13

Artist Presentation

 2/15
Preliminary Proposal Due
Please make 3 copies, one for each of us

Barney
Programing: Controlling Actuators

Week 6
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2/20
Tuesday
7:15 Natalie
7:35 Josh
7:55 JP
8:15 Boots
8:35 Break
8:55 John
9:15
9:35
9:55 		2/22
Thursday
7:15 Matt
7:35 Aili
7:55 Alan
8:15 Chorus
8:35 Break
8:55 Diana
9:15
9:35
9:55

Week 7

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2/27
Todd: Introduction to Materials and Fabrication		 3/1
Todd: Designs for Motion

Week 8
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3/6
Chaotic Motion		 3/8
Field Trip Lab

Controlling Actuators Demo

Map to Triangle
10:00AM Saturday 3/10 -Field Trip-

Week 9
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3/13
Don:
Applied Power and how to moderate it		 3/15
Visiting Artist

Mark Pauline: Survival Research Laboratories
Media Arts lecture
Thursday, March 15, 7:30 pm

Nahl Hall, Oakland campus
Spring Break 3/19 - 3/23

Week 10
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3/27
Addressing Critical Needs		 3/29
Class Presentations of Final Project

Week 11
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4/3
LAB		 4/5
LAB

Week 12
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4/10
LAB		 4/12
LAB

Week 13
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4/17
LAB		 4/19
LAB

Week 14
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4/24
LAB		 4/26
FINAL CRIT

Week 15
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5/1
Panic Lab!!!		 5/3
Panic Lab!!!
7:00 PM Saturday 5/5 FINAL SHOW!!!