VIS 145A / ICAM 102- Time, Movement - Sound
Instructor: Jeff Knowlton knowlton@34n118w.net,
class syllabus: 34n118w.net/145A
TA: Annina Rüst arust@ucsd.edu , office
hrs: friday 1-2p VAF 270 -or- VAF 228 (our lab)
When emailing a technical question, please describe how you have attempted to
solve the problem.
Lab Door Code: 0653316
Section Schedule
Week 1 01.13.06 : Director
Project 101
Week 2 01.20.06 : Lingo behavior
scripting
Week 3 01.27.06 : Project proposal discussion in
section (with Jeff & Annina). Behavior scripting control
structures & variables
Week 4 02.03.06 : Students will work on their projects
in section, Annina will help & maybe do more Lingo demos. Sound
Demos
Week 5 02.10.06 : Projects due in section (on friday,
02.10.06. Selected projects will be shown in lecture in week 6, all others will
be shown in section.
Week 6:02.17.06 : How to deal with Text in Director
... and for the advanced: how to download XML files and parse them week6.html
Week 7:02.24.06 : Fun with DDR dance pad and Joysticks
and other strange hardware week7.html
Week 8:03.03.06: Annina in Boston for interview
-no section (but you must email your proposals anyway
to both jeff and me)
Week 9:03.10.06: Students will work on projects
/ annina will help & do demo about something Some Demos
Week 10: 03.17.06: Students working on projects
/ annina will help & do demo about something
Finals Week: We will meet on the day/time of the
final to look at and discuss all the projects.
If we don't update this, the final will take place in Mandeville 103 on the day/time that Tritonlink tells you (Tuesday 03/21 7-10p). Please have your project ready for presentation.
ACS Webspace: Get an OCE account (if you have not already got one...)
An account in the Open Computing Environment gives you more space to store
and display projects on the web.
http://acs.ucsd.edu/account-tools/oce-upgrade.php
oce-vart Upper Division Visual Arts Majors and Graduates
oce-icam Upper Division ICAM Undergrad Music & Visual Arts
Director Tech Links
www.director-online.com Director
community w/ articles, forums etc.
www.director-online.com/lingo.php
Lingo database
www.jmckell.com/contents.html
Lingo Math animation Tutorials
www.macromedia.com/support/director
Director support center / tech notes
www.macromedia.com/cfusion/exchange/index.cfm?view=sn170
Listing of Director Xtras
how to connect
a gps via the serial Xtra
Simple
Sound Tutorial
-> some demos from macromedia (those should be in your /Director/Learning folder and some of them don't really work in the browser...): forms_and_post.dir, lingo_QT_and_Flash.dir, parent_scripts.dir, quad.dir, read_and_write_text.dir, sound_control.dir
Some Director Project Links
ixi software
non-conventional music software
sissyfight 2000 makes use of director's
multiuser server to create a strategy game.
scream by deprogramming.us / amy
alexander. Scream at your computer and see it tremble. This project uses the
Director Buddy API (Xtra) to mess with the Windows OS.
Los Logos by büro destruct. 3d city
scape made up of the Logos of small shops etc. that are becoming extinct because
of the influx of MacDonalds, Starbucks etc.in urban environments.
34n118w.net/ by Jeff Knowlton, Naomi Spellman,
Jeremy Hight - the project uses Director's ability to interface with hardware
like GPS receivers (f.ex. through the serial Xtra)
Right as Rain Poetry generated
live depending on weather reports by Jeremy Hightm, Jeff Knowlton, Naomi Spellman.
Makes use of director's ability to download and parse XML data.
Triggerhappy A playable on-line re-creation
of the ATARI classic, 'Space Invaders' where instead of fending off pixelly
alien invaders, you must defend yourself against paragraphs of philosophical
text taken from Michel Foucault's essay, 'What is an Author?'
Project Archives / Festivals etc. (not necessarily director related...)
runme.org - software art repository
rhizome.org announcements about new projects
etc. / project database is free on fridays.
Transmediale festival for media art
media
art archive of the international media art award (ZKM)
ars electronica center/festival