Thursday, January 12th, 2006 at 7 p.m.
Georgia Tech Music Department (Couch Building)
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Greg Kellum
will discuss how to use Max to control lights and create moving light
environments. A brief description of the hardware with which one can control
lights using software as well as an overview of useful objects in Max for
conceptualizing and controlling movements of light. Plus, an introduction to
one such system developed in Max by Greg Kellum for controlling matrices of
light bulbs with a p5 virtual reality glove. Greg Kellum (born 1977) began learning about electronic
music while working on a play whose last two acts he wanted to set to music.
He studied music (among other things) at Columbia University, and since then,
he has created music and/or electronic instruments for a number of music
theater productions including Schiller's Mary Stuart and Artaud's Letter from
Rodez (1945). He is currently working on a full length album, but when he is
avoiding working on music, he also writes music software and develops ideas
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Craig
Dongoski will present Drawing Voices, which provides an
exploratory site as an approach to drawing and art making by using technology
as a means to develop new models to produce art by. I begin with the attitude
that drawing is a biological function of human beings, and the most
rudimentary form of visual expression. The audio recording represents a shadow
realm of mark-making. It reveals a previously unconsidered aspect of the
drawing activity. It demonstrates that an individual’s drawing voice is as
unique as its visual counterpart. One of the research heuristics Drawing
Voices provides is an enunciated language that is produced when one is
drawing or writing. (continued as PDF) Craig Dongoski is an artist
living and working in Atlanta since 1999. In 2000 he presented a fragment of
a film and soundtrack he is currently involved with titled ‘FROZEN WISDOM’
which was displayed at the Raymond Lawrence Gallery for the month of August
2001 in Atlanta. He recently completed a film and sound project where CNN
footage from the 9-11 tragedy is merged with Orson Welles’ 1939 broadcast of
‘ War of the Worlds’ to produce a new fiction. Prior to teaching at GSU in
the School of Art & Design last semester, he had been living and working
in Boston since 1991. He has been active in exhibiting in the United States,
Europe, and Japan. Further involvements include organizing collaborations
such as the International Print Symposium in Boston and co-curating a major
exhibition and print exchange for the First Africus Biennial in Johannesburg,
South Africa. Dongoski’s work is a continuous and ongoing exploration
into the potential of new models in art making. Dongoski was a 2004
Rockefeller Fellow nominee and his project Drawing Voices will be featured in
the February 2005 issue of ‘Art & Antiques’. |
Keith Rowell will present -Knewt-, a
biped robot project. Phase one of the -Knewt- project attempts to use servos
and microcontrollers and machined parts to make a biped walking robot.
Walking is achieved at this stage using "canned" animatronic
routines resulting in a "dumb" device. Phase two will incorporate
sensors that sense balance and detect obstacles, and will incorporate code
that produces "dynamic" motion. i.e. the ability to respond to its
environment.
There is a natural divide between art and engineering. These
two camps of creative people applying their skills to make "things"
seem like similar persuits. But they are comming from opposite ends of
the field philosophically. Rowell finds the ground in between to be the
most fertile.
Keith Rowell is a designer living in Eatonton Georgia.
Knewt
Team members: Keith Rowell, Bob Baxter, Stuart Rolf.
Sponsors; Brian
Dean: BDMicro, Kevin Devol: IronCAD, Barry Smith: Draftech |
Dorkbot is free and open to the public.