Thurs. Feb 11, 2021, 10:30AM to 12:20PM (Zoom)

Today’s class is primarily devoted to discussion.

Warm-up

  1. Brief check-in.
  2. Warm-up exercise: Follow My Instructions
  3. Any questions?

Administrative

  1. Please plan to pick up a course kit from the campus store later this week.
  2. Please plan to pick up a Bluefruit microcontroller from Hunt A9 later this week. It’s the anteroom to the IDeATe offices, lower level of Hunt library. Your ID will let you in.
  3. It would be helpful for you to install the mu Python editor software in advance of Tuesday’s class. If you have any trouble, we can solve individual problems during class. Adafruit also has a tutorial page on the installation.

Discussion

Today we’ll close out our main discussion of research and artistic questions related to telematic experiences before we move on to practical techniques next week. We’ll start by reviewing your results from assignment 3.

  1. We’ll go pair by pair, taking turns presenting comments and observations on each.
  2. General prompts:
    1. Tell us descriptively what you did.
    2. Then describe your experience during the project.
    3. Reflect upon what you would take with you from this project into future projects.

Examples

Part of the discipline of programming an artwork is identifying with precision the decisions made and steps taken by the computational process, along with the available information and exact possible outputs. The next exercise will explore this discipline using human actors. As a prelude, we’ll take a look at aleatoric scores in dance which describe algorithmic performances.

Slideshow: Scores

Assignment

  1. Pick up your Materials Kit from the CMU bookstore and pick up your Adafruit Circuit Playground Blue Fruit from room A9 in the basement of Hunt Library. Your student ID will open A9.
  2. The fourth assignment is due before the next class.
  3. We’ll quickly assign pairings before the end of class.