for those who are interested in virtual sound installations and intereactive/generative music projects.
visit the site for the experience
May 6, 2009
assignments
belkis / ahmet : (10.05.2009 23:59 – belkis: full visual identity to be presented on blog) / 10.05.2009 23:59 – ahmet: interaction flowchart)
berk / sarp / refik (10.05.2009 23:59 - sarp,refik: data analysis, learn maxmsp *please look at help for tutorials* ) / (10.05.2009 23:59 – berk: investigate real data & music, find criterias to transfer into music harmony,13.05.2009 full visual identity to be presented on blog)
çağın / emre (10.05.2009 23:59 – emre: modeling) / (10.05.2009 23:59 – çağın: 400words technical statement)
canti / haluk (08.05.2009 23:59 – canti&haluk: video entry, visual sketches and concept)
merve orhan / cem (07.05.2009 23:59 – post your project proposal with visual references) + present only one project and be precise!
ali somer / can şen / kaan (haylazlar)(07.05.2009 23:59 – post your project proposal with visual references)+ present only one project and be precise!
merve arkunlar / şafak (07.05.2009 23:59 – post your project proposal with visual references)+ present only one project and be precise!
serhan (07.05.2009 23:59 – post your project proposal with visual references)+ present only one project and be precise!
ali / aslı ( 06.05.2009 23:59 – time is ticking…)
May 6, 2009
reordered groups
belkis / ahmet
berk / sarp / refik
çağın / emre
canti / haluk
merve orhan / cem
ali somer / can şen / kaan (haylazlar)
merve arkunlar / şafak
serhan
ali / aslı (6 mayıs 2009 – 23:59′a kadar mühlet) – ciddi görülebilir ilerleme bekleniyor, eğer yoksa ali çağın’ın grubuna katılacak
May 6, 2009
group project evaluation
belkis / ahmet — 6 (interface design, visual identity, screenshots)
berk/sarp/refik — 6 (real data implementation/analysis )
çağın / emre — 4
merve /*can* / şafak — 0
merve / *ali* — 3
*canti* / haluk — 2
*kaan* / cem — ?
*ali / serkan / asli yılmaztürk* — ?
April 27, 2009
Bogdan Bogdanović’in Ölümden Doğan Mimarlığı
April 27, 2009
digital compositing & visual storytelling seminars in Sabanci Unv.
Dr. Akleman is a computer graphics researcher who made significant contributions to shape modeling and computer aided sculpting. Based on his theoretical work on topological modeling, high genus manifold shapes can easily be constructed using a Topological Modeler called TopMod3D. He also had a significant body of work in subdivision modeling and implicit modeling. His preliminary work on links, knots and weaving called “Plain-Woven Objects” will be presented in Siggraph 2009.
Dr. Akleman is also a professional cartoonist, illustrator and caricaturist who has published more than 500 cartoons, illustrations and caricatures in publications such as Girgir, Cumhuriyet, Milliyet and Yeni Gundem. Dr. Akleman is working in Visualization department at Texas A&M University, which is unique in the sense that it is designed to prepare students who are talented both science and art for a range of long-term careers in visualization. Among 150 former students more than 100 are currently working in animation and special effect industry including PIXAR (20), ILM(10), Dreamworks (10) and Electronic Arts (7). Blue Sky (6), Rhythm and Hues (6), Will Wilton (6).
In Sabanci University, Dr. Akleman will give two seminars based on his courses in Visualization department.(28 April – 14 May) The courses do not have any requirement.
In Digital Compositing seminar, participants will learn practical image based lighting, rendering and compositing techniques which are essential for combining real photographs with computer generated images. Participants will learn to practically identify critical information from real images such as position and orientation of the camera, camera parameters, orientations and positions of real objects and lights, surface properties of the objects and properties of lights.
In Visual Storytelling seminar, participants will learn to explore of visual storytelling techniques for the attainment of desired storytelling effects; includes character development, using shots, camera, lights, props and background elements, master plots, one and multi-panel cartoons, comics, storyboards, animatics and story-reels.
Timeline / Location FENS L055
28 April Digital Compositing I 17:40- 19:30
30 April Visual Storytelling I 17:40- 19:30
5 May Digital Compositing II 17:40- 19:30
7 May Visual Storytelling II 17:40- 19:30
12 May Digital Compositing III 17:40- 19:30
14 May Visual Storytelling III 17:40- 19:30
(many thanks to Tolga Eren for the news and the text)
April 26, 2009
My Colleagues…
Having just come home from the “Beyond Darwin: The co-evolutionary path of art, technology and consciousness” conference in Valencia, I want to post the links to the works of 5 of my colleagues from the Planetary Collegium, which I think may be of interest to you:
Guto Nobrega works with plants, robots and artificial systems to create emotional, delicate and ultimately very beautiful/meaningful works of art. Especially check out his latest project, “Breathing”:
http://www.gutonobrega.co.uk/
Monika Weiss:
http://www.monika-weiss.com/main.php
Simply stunning!
Unfortunately, Nicolas’s website is being rebuilt at the moment so the best that I can do is provide a link to one of his works on Flickr and also this http://www.newmediaart.eu/montr.html, where you will need to scroll down a bit to find him. These giant, gentle, flying cubes possess curiously animal/human attributes, reacting to one another and the people in their environment very much like living creatures do.
Natasha Vita-More creates artwork as well as research in the controversial area of Life Extension and Transhumanism, working with robotics, medicine, computer science and nano technologies:
http://www.natasha.cc/primo.htm
Luis Miguel Girão is a sound designer/musician who showed some very interesting output. Unfortunately I could not find a website for Luis, however pdf’s of some of his work are here:
http://www.nime.org/2005/proc/nime2005_164.pdf
http://www.icdvrat.rdg.ac.uk/2008/papers/ICDVRAT2008_S09_N02_Almeida_et_al.pdf
April 20, 2009
‘bending space’: photography of georges rousse
http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/10/view/3684/bending-space-photography-of-georges-rousse.html
although french artist georges rousse is a photographer, his work contains a lot of painting. his works are photographs of paintings done on buildings which are made to look like overlays of colour. from the single point perspective of rousse’s camera, his paintings are made to appear 2-dimensional. in reality you would see that the paintings are strategically done in 3 dimensions. this illusion is what makes rousse’s work so intriguing. his ‘durham’ project is currently the subject of the documentary ‘bending space’, a fitting tile to describe rousse’s work.
April 15, 2009
Peter Zumthor – Swiss architect & winner of the 2009 Pritzker Prize
Peter Zumthor was born in Basel (26 April 1943), the son of a cabinet-maker. He apprenticed to a carpenter in 1958 and studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule in his native city starting in 1963.
He studied at Pratt Institute in New York in the 1960s. In 1968, he became architect for the Department for the Preservation of Monuments of the canton of Graubünden. This work on historic restoration projects gave him a further understanding of construction and the qualities of different rustic building materials. As his practice developed, Zumthor was able to incorporate his knowledge of materials into Modernistconstruction and detailing. His buildings explore the tactile and sensory qualities of spaces and materials while retaining a minimalist feel. (From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
April 15, 2009
Gwon Osang’s photo sculptures
Korean sculptor Gwon Osang creates these outstanding 3D pieces from 300+ photographs of the original subjects, which are overlaid onto a lightweight life-size mannequins (see above). Osang, graduated from the Hong-ik University sculpture department, ever since hes been one of the most recognized contemporary artists in Korea for his non-conventional approach to sculpture.
Osang’s composites made up of photographs look almost like ceramics to the naked eye, although closer inspection reveals the technigue of grand illusion; there are elements of realism mixed with distortion that makes the audience see the reflections from the fuzzy lens. Gwon’s photo-sculptures require a meticulous and cumbersome procedure to create his quilted tapestry of human attributes. After many different sections of the model’s anatomy are shot with the same light source, the film is developed and the prints are pieced together to form a sculptural body. The fact that Gwon used this process to achieve a sculptural end-result is without precedent in the history of contemporary art. Though, recently, similarities of Gwon’s sculptures with artwork of German artist Oliver Herring have been made..
See more of his work:
http://paintalicious.org/2007/07/09/gwon-osangs-photographic-sculptures/
April 15, 2009
Multicolr Search Lab Flickr Set – Idée Inc.
Idée Inc. extracted the colours from 10 million of the most “interesting” Creative Commons images on Flickr. Using their visual similarity technology you can navigate the collection by determining multiple colors as search parameters.
http://www.stumbleupon.com/toolbar/#url=http%2525253A//labs.ideeinc.com/multicolr/
April 8, 2009
data globes
During siggraph 2007, the only project that could attract our attention + made us spend more than an hour observing it was these globes. During exhibition, 20 (maybe more) of these globes were installed in a dark chamber and were illuminated from inside. Each globe, same size and shape, represented a type of data that belongs to the world (terrorism rates, number of tv’s, money transactions, oil sources, etc…). It looked very detailed and visually compelling. Love the work.
Now that I’m working on my thesis, I remembered this project and I think it’s a very good source of inspiration. It’s a pretty long lived project (from 1988 to 2005).
April 7, 2009
The Evolution of Google
My colleague Francesco Monico from NABA Milano, sent me this link to one of his BA student’s projects:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THiiPp_wwA4&feature=related
:-)
…
April 1, 2009
groups
serhan gürmeriç – aslı yılmazturk – ali yakamercan
çağın torkut - emre birişmen
merve orhan – can şen – şafak gezer
kagan üstüngel – cem önduygu
ahmet sülek – belkıs ışık
sarp uzunkuşak – berk çakmakçı – refik türkeli
haluk can yasan – can timor
ali somer – merve arkunlar
god speed…
- create a new blog
-name it wisely
-meet at least 3 times
-decide on 2-3 project proposals
-come up with sketches and visuals
March 29, 2009
animated information design
Great work by Tomas Nilsson (graphic design student in sweden). He tells the story of Little Red Riding Hood (kirmizi baslikli kiz) in an informative way :)
…and he claims that he was inspired by Röyksopp – Remind me.
March 29, 2009
periodic table of visualization methods
Doesn’t look designed but gives an idea about the number of different methods – and how they might look like. Most of the examples are old but you can always use google to find good stuff.. Or just refer to the older posts.
go have a look. mouse on to elements to see the example.
March 27, 2009
about openCL
This might be a bit nerdy BUT for those who are willing to create their works on computers in future, it is totally related to their capabilities to express their ideas… Those who are already involved with computer graphics, I guess they should know what is going on in recent tech news. If you already know about openCL, than it’s great.
Shortly, openCL is the new member of “open” family – which are openGL (open graphics library) and openAL (open audio library). OpenCL stands for “open computing language) and is a platform that opens the boundaries between different processors (cpu, gpu, whatever you have..) and lets you program across heterogeneous systems. Basically, in a down to earth manner, the program written in this platform can use all the available processors to do a single/multiple job/s (simulation, calculations, etc…) on win, linux, mac os, mobile os’, etc… in real time.
If this isn’t interesting, I should remind you that normally anything related to graphics is processed on GPU and you can’t use its processing power for other purposes (although there are ways to do it- which are complex and limited on current tech).
These demonstrations are done using openCL platform by Havok.
and
A quote from openCL site
“OpenCL is being created by the Khronos Group with the participation of many industry-leading companies and institutions including 3DLABS, Activision Blizzard, AMD, Apple, ARM, Barco, Broadcom, Codeplay, Electronic Arts, Ericsson, Freescale, HI, IBM, Intel, Imagination Technologies, Kestrel Institute, Motorola, Movidia, Nokia, NVIDIA, QNX, RapidMind, Samsung, Seaweed, Takumi, Texas Instruments and Umeå University.“
Which means it will be used very very widely.
just to keep everyone up to date…
March 26, 2009
General Electrics Smart Grid augmented reality
See a digital hologram of smart grid technology come to life in your hands. Please follow online instructions and get amazed…
March 25, 2009
INSILICO
Images of the beautiful sky city INSILICO in Second Life, where we were in class today. Sadly it took a very long time to rez, so hopefully these on my Flickr will make up for what we couldn’t properly see while we were there.
More images of Insilico can also be found in the INSILICO Flickr pool.
The blog post I wrote for INSILICO on the NPIRL blog is here.
