| September 14 | Read linked sections from Being Digital, Nicholas Nigroponte |
| September 21 | A Brief History of Film/Video and Interactive Cinema at the Media Lab, Gloriana Davenport
Search For the Feeling of Being There, Richard Leacock
Extending the Documentary Tradition, Gloriana Davenport
Media Fabric : a process-oriented approach to media creation and exchange, Davenport G; Barry B; Kelliher A; Nemirovsky P |
September 28
| * REQUIRED
Future Opera for Robots and People Too, Tod Machover
My Cello, Tod Machover
Tod Machover and Dan Ellsey play new music (TED Talk)
Flora (Listening)
* OPTIONAL
Death and the Powers (Website)
Opera of the Future (Blog)
Project/Discussion Videos
- Toy Symphony (Discovery channel, 2003)
- Brain Opera at House of Music, Vienna (2000)
- The Hypercello with Yo-Yo Ma (1991)
Opera of the Future Group Alumni
** Contact Taya Leary (, E14-433C)
for CD's to listen to this week. Recommend VALIS, Flora, and/or Hyperstring Trilogy.
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| October 5 |
Marvin Minsky
Home Page
Music, Mind, and Meaning
Barry Vercoe
Professor of Media Arts and Sciences, Emeritus
Music, Mind, and Machine
Björk's Biophiia
VidRhythm by Harmonix
RjDj
Jay-Z
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| October 19 |
Intelligent Graphics, Henry Lieberman
Muriel Cooper's Visible Wisdom, The International Design Magazine
Muriel Cooper: The unsung heroine of on-screen style, The New York Times
The aesthetics + computation group
2004 Hall of Fame, Art Directors Club
Muriel Cooper: Information Landscapes, Inventing Interactive
This stands as a sketch for the future. MURIEL COOPER and the VISIBLE LANGUAGE WORKSHOP, David Reinfurt
Rethinking the Book, David L Small
David Small
John Maeda
Beat Dedication, Bob Sabiston
Grinning Evil Death, Bob Sabiston
Lisa Strausfeld
National Design Awards, Lisa Strausfeld
How Steve Jobs Changed The World Of Design, NPR
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| October 26 |
The Aesthetics + Computation Group (ACG)
Physical Language Workshop (PLW)
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| November 2 |
Tangible Media:
Tangible Bits: Beyond Pixels, Hiroshi Ishii
I/O Brush: Drawing with Everyday Objects as Ink, Kimiko Ryokai, Stefan Marti, and Hiroshi Ishii
Bottles: A Transparent Interface as a Tribute to Mark Weiser, Hiroshi Ishii
Intangible Media:
Foreword: Nerd Pride, Nicholas Negropnte
Benton Vision
Luminous Windows 2010
1985 MIT Media Lab Videodisc Holography Video
The Spatial Imaging Group Publications
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| November 9 |
Bill Mitchell
Bill Mitchell Obituary, Greg Frost
The Logic of Architecture: Design, Computation, and Cognition,
Bill Mitchell
The Reconfigured Eye: Visual Truth in the Post-Photographic Era,
Bill Mitchell
City of Bits: Space, Place, and the Infobahn, Bill Mitchell
World's Greatest Architect: Making, Meaning, and Network Culture,
Bill Mitchell
Imagining MIT : Designing a Campus for the Twenty-First Century,
Bill Mitchell
The Design and Construction of Frank O. Gehry's Stata Center at MIT, by Nancy Joyce: Afterword by William J. Mitchell
The Electronic Design Studio: Architectural Education in the Computer Era, Edited by Malcolm McCullough, William J. Mitchell, and Patrick Purcell
Neri Oxman and Mediated Matter Group
Material-based design computation, Neri Oxman
Mediated Matter Group
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| November 30 |
Leah Buechley
High-Low Tech Group
Pattie Maes
Fluid Interfaces Group
Cynthia Breazeal
Personal Robots Group
Blended Reality Characters, David Robert and Cynthia Breazeal
Expressive, Interactive Robots: Tools, Techniques, and Insights based on Collaborations, Jesse Gray, Guy Hoffman, Sigurdur Orn Adalgeirsson, Matt Berlin, and Cynthia Breazeal
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| December 7 |
Joseph Paradiso
FootNotes: Personal Reflections on the Development of Instrumented Dance Shoes and their Musical Applications, Joseph A. Paradiso
The Brain Opera Technology: New Instruments and Gestural Sensors for Musical Interaction and Performance, Joseph A. Paradiso
DoppelLab: Tools for Exploring and Harnessing Multimodal Sensor Network Data, Gershon Dublon, Laurel S. Pardue, Brian Mayton, Noah Swartz, Nicholas Joliat, Patrick Hurst and Joseph A. Paradiso
Electronic Controllers for Musical Performance and Interaction, Joseph A. Paradiso
American Innovations in Electronic Musical Instruments, Joseph A. Paradiso
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| December 14 |
Joe Chung
Joe Chung Says Redstar Ventures Is Creating Companies for "the TechCrunch Crowd’s Mothers", Xconomy
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