[Course] Interactive Performance and Technology, Spring 2013

Course Title: Special Topics in Interactive Performance and Technology
Term: Spring 2013

Meeting times and locations:

• Lecture /Seminar: Monday (3 pm – 5pm), ARCC207

• Studio Lab: Wednesday (3 pm – 5pm), ETB2005

Instructors:

• Jinsil Hwaryoung Seo, hwaryoung at viz.tamu.edu
• Jinxiang Chai, jchai at cs.tamu.edu
• Christine Bergeron, cbergeron at hlkn.tamu.edu

Assistant/Technical Developer

• Peizhao Zhang, stzpz at neo.tamu.edu, newstzpz at gmail.com

Max Specialist

• Morgan Jenks, mjenks at viz.tamu.edu

Syllabus

Weekly Schedule 

Week 12 (Apr.10, Wednesday)

• Workday

Week 12 (Apr. 8, Monday)

• Schedule_Modified
• Apr. 17: Tech Rehearsal
  Apr. 22: Brief Showing Sessions (8pm for outdoor projects)
  Apr. 29: Final Show (8pm for outdoor projects)
  Apr. 30: Documentation Video Due
  May. 1: VIST Show 5-8pm (Performance 6pm)
  May. 3: VIZ-A-GoGo Downtown Bryan
  May. 5: Paper, Blog Due
• Research Paper, Documentation Video pdf

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Week 11 (Apr. 3, Wednesday) 

• Movement Session

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Week 10 (Mar. 27, Wednesday) 

• Department Meetings

Week 10 (Mar. 25, Monday) 

• Final Proposal Presentations

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Week 9 (Mar. 18, Monday) 

Intro of Final Project pdf
Reading assignment pdf
Jinxiang’s Lecture

• OpenCV library download, OpenCV Intro 1 2 3, Camera Calibration 1 2, Video Analysis 
• Optical flow tracking: [ppt]Meanshift traacking: [ppt] Bayesian tracking: [ppt]camera calibration:[ppt]

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Spring Break

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Week 8 (Mar. 6, Wednesday) Department meetings

VIZ (ARCC207) Lecture about dissemination pdf, Reading assignment

CS (Mocap Lab)

DANCE -ACDFA

Week 8 (Mar. 4, Monday) Sketch Two Show

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Week 7 (Feb. 27, Wednesday) Tech Rehearsahl

Week 7 (Feb. 25, Monday) Workday

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Week 6 (Feb. 20, Wednesday) Concept development for Sketch Two

Week 6 (Feb. 18, Monday)

Laban’s A scale – Dance studio (video)

Sketch Two (Interactive Projection mapping) Intro and Examples of projection mapping pdf

Mocap history pdf

Schedule for Sketch Two

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Week 5 (Feb. 13, Wednesday)

Sketch One show

Week 5 (Feb. 11, Monday)

Technical Rehearsal

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Week 4 (Feb. 6, Wednesday)

Please reserver your work session through Peizhao (stzpz@neo.tamu.edu)

Prepare Tech rehearsal on Monday (25mins per team)

Week 4 (Feb. 4, Monday)

Department meeting

MAX 6 Tutorial with VIZ students in ETB 2005

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Week 3 (Jan.30, Wednesday)

Team Proposals

1. Kaitlyn, Trisha, Cindy, Jessica pdf

2. Thomas, Federico, Jonathan, Andrea pdf

3. April, Andy, Michael, Sarah pdf

4. Catherine, Rhema, Alex, Fuhao, Yen-Lin, Megan ppt

5. Doug, Kathy, Andrea, Jianjie, Van pdf

 

Week 3 (Jan.28, Monday)

Inspirations by students

Sketch One Requirements

Possible Technical Environment

Assignment – Project Proposal

Teams

1. Kaitlyn, Trisha, Cindy, Jessica

2. Thomas, Federico, Jonathan, Andrea

3. April, Andy, Michael, Sarah

4. Catherine, Rhema, Alex, Fuhao, Yen-Lin, Megan

5. Doug, Kathy, Andrea, Jianjie, Van

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Week 2 (Jan.23, Wednesday)

Mocap Lab(HRBB505) Tour: Demos of Kinect system and Vicon system
Inspirational Projects pdf

Assignment: Create 1page pdf slide with your project research

• Contents of slide: image, name of piece (year created), name of artist(s), 1 sentence summary description of piece, technology, video link, your name
• Example

Next class will be in ETB2005

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Week 1 (Jan.16, Wednesday)

Laban Exercise in READ261 (Dance Studio) videos
Review of Dance performance research

Technical overview pdf

1. Assignment: Select one project from your portfolio and prepare 1 min presentation with image or video.

• Post it on your blog (Due: Jan.23, 1pm)
• After presentations, we will form teams.

2. Reading Assignment: Live Media: Interactive Technology and Theatre by David Z. Saltz. pdf

• Please summarize the paper and post it on your blog (Due: Jan.23, 1pm)
• Additional Reading for GRADs: The Art of Interaction: Interactivity, Performativity, and Computers by David Z. Saltz. pdf

Next class will be in HRBB505.

Week 1 (Jan.14, Monday)

Welcome!!!

Course Introduction pdf
Laban Movement Analysis pdf

Next class will be in READ261.

Students’ Blogs

Project One

Project Two

Resource

Photos