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Everyone should go to the Computer History Museum asap for a PDP-1 demo. Today, I played Spacewar! on a PDP-1. This is unbelievably cool, not just because I played Spacewar, but because I got to meet two of the people who programmed PDP-1 at MIT in the 1960s, Steve Russell and Peter Samson.
From the website, but I would call to confirm, as I think today there were demos at 1:30 and 2:30: “fully restored PDP-1 computer system from Digital Equipment Corporation will now be available for public demonstrations on the first and third Saturdays of each month moving forward. Regularly scheduled demonstrations will occur at 2:00 p.m. and 2:30 p.m. on those select days by members of the museum’s restoration team.” (http://www.computerhistory.org/press/museum-new-sunday-hours-of-operation.html)
and more information: http://pdp-1.computerhistory.org/pdp-1/
I’ve stopped responding to e-mails about Spring’s 20c, due to volume, as of March 1. And I haven’t responded to any e-mail sent to ucsc.
But, please know that I am labeling and archiving your narratives about why the class is important for spring quarter, and I will consider these narratives as much as possible when deciding about who may take the class in spring.
Our show starts tomorrow. I’m so proud of everyone! Here is the title and curatorial statement I wrote for the show. I hope you like it. Everyone who was enrolled in the class has their name on the show. Tell your friends and family to dl the plugin so they can see your show!
Zombie, Koi, Rollercoaster: digital media art from the University of California Santa Cruz
Undergraduate students in “Introduction to Digital Media” at the University of California Santa Cruz created Add-Art sets from the work of colleagues and fellow students. Enjoy California landscapes, animation stills, dorm life, and zombie encounters as seen through the eyes of emerging artists. For many students, this project was their first curatorial experience and their first experience using image-editing software. Members of this class look at advertising more critically after experiencing Add-Art. Students and instructor alike appreciate how Add-Art shows art to populations who might not have access to museums and galleries.
Curator Evan Andra is currently an undergraduate Literature/Film and Digital Media student at UCSC. He also holds a work-study position on campus at the Disability Resource Center, where he instructs students on the use of various adaptive technologies and scans textbooks for digital access by students with learning impairments. Andra is originally from Healdsburg, Sonoma County, California. Of Nate Murphy’s work, Andra writes, “influenced by animations like Invader Zim and Ahh Real Monsters, Murphy focuses on creating creatures which evoke the same adolescent wonder he felt as a child watching his favorite cartoons,” while artist Luke Wilson “places recognizable figures in bizarre backdrops.” For Andra’s complete project, see http://people.ucsc.edu/~eandra/addart.html.
Curator Kelly Angeloty is a second year student at UC Santa Cruz majoring in Psychology. FDM 20C was the first digital media class she has taken giving her an opportunity to design her own website. Angeloty thoroughly enjoys going to school in Santa Cruz and living so close to the beach. Angeloty organized her add-art show as a community project, asking her friends from school to contribute work. Of her collection, Angeloty writes, “All of these artists are part of the same community and have a chance to interact on a daily basis, but rarely interact in the artistic sense. Through this project, the participants are indirectly conversing with each other, being placed side by side in this project.” For Angeloty’s complete project, see http://people.ucsc.edu/~kangelot/addart.html.
Curator Larissa Bates is a full-time student, and a tentative Film and Psych double major at UCSC. Bates grew up in a small town in the heart of Riverside County in Southern California, where it was difficult to access art via museums or shows. She loves that Add-Art makes her feel connected to art no matter where she resides. Bates plans on using her degrees to create artwork in the form of movies from a psychological viewpoint. Of Lindsay Anne Needles photography collection, titled “Burning Crosses Won’t Help Your Demon Problems,” Bates writes “the hues from all these photos seem to tell a story of their own, a story of a silent journey.” For Bates’s complete project, see http://people.ucsc.edu/~lgbates/Add%20Art%20Project/addart.html.
Curator Therese Esposo is a junior undergrad at UCSC. She is studying Computer Science and Art, and is very interested in computer animation and 3d graphics. When not focusing on computer programming, she enjoys painting, drawing, soccer, and sailing. Of Marlena McClain’s work, Esposo writes, “this show covers a broad spectrum of entertainment, place, and the people that surround the atmosphere of carnival life.” For Esposo’s complete project, see http://people.ucsc.edu/~tesposo/film20c/add-art_proj/.
Curator Andrea Miner is a biological sciences major at University of California Santa Cruz. Although she studies science, she has always been very interested in art and photography. She took photography classes in high school and she considers arts, crafts, and digital media a hobby. Miner has a great appreciation for nature, and loves to express the beauty of the world through art. Of Ben Glatt’s photography, Miner writes, “Ben is using his photography as a means to reach out to people by helping them appreciate the beauty of nature.” For Miner’s complete project, see http://people.ucsc.edu/~aminer/benglatt.html. Ben Glatt’s photography may be found in his flickr page http://www.flickr.com/photos/benglatt/ and his website http://benjaminglatt.com/.
Curator Amy Roseberry is an undergraduate student at UCSC. Of animator Sam Debey’s work, Roseberry writes, “the progression for this show was taken from one of his many short animations, this one entitled ‘Powered By Beans.’ …One little sketch, one thought, one idea can spring to life in the hands of an animator. I also found it interesting to see some of the original art that goes into Sam’s animations and to watch him as he literally sketched figures to life.” For Roseberry’s complete project, see http://people.ucsc.edu/~aroseber/addart.html.
Curator Jadelyn San Juan was born in September in 1990. Jadelyn is currently a second year student at UC Santa Cruz, majoring in Global Economics. Sean Doll’s practice stands out for San Juan because “he was always carrying around either a photograph or a camera.” For San Juan’s complete project, see http://people.ucsc.edu/~jsanjuan/Add-Art%20Project.html.
“Introduction to Digital Media” was taught by Lindsay Kelley in Fall 2009. Teaching assistants were Elaine Gan, Christopher Maraffi, Aaron Reed, and Elizabeth Travelslight. All 20c students contributed to this project through production, discussion and critique: Isabella Albert, Amina Alvear, Ryan Anderson, Nicholas Andreetta, Johnathan Becker, Patrick Bertsch, Andrew Blazensky, David Burns, Christopher Burris, Jason Burstein, Marie Byrnes, Christian Calderon, Travis Carlson, Margaret Carpenter, Elias Carrillo, George Chadwick, Darren Chandler, Jing Han Chen, Brandon Choi, Teresa Chu, Stella-Terra Clemens, Dustin Conlon, Ashley Costa, Anthony Cote, David Cottle, Samuel Cowan, Kyle Craw, Christian Cuadrado, Kevin Davidson, Albert De Guzman, Gina Dematteo, Amy Donis, Matthew Drake, Richard Du, Gabriel Edelsohn, Steven Ekejiuba, Chelsea Enslow, Michael Estioko, Ivan Evert-Burks, Matthew Feaver, Anthony Ferreira, Nicholas Ferro, Ellen Fitzgerald, Kendal Fong, Linus Foster, Thomas Freeman, Logan Freesh, Joel Fricker, Jordan Galdo, Dustin Gay, Rene Gomez, Raul Gonzalez, Allen Goolsby, Morgan Grana, April Grow, Brittany Guillou, Jennifer Gunnell, Jamus Hain, Scott Hanshew, Spencer Haran, William Hare, Adam Hawley, Lynn He, Seth Helm-Burger, James Herbold, Timothy Hewitt, The-An Hoang-Nguyen, Michael Hollander, Joseph Hsieh, Wilson Hu, Nicholas Irizary, Timothy Irvine, Aria Jacobsen, Joshua Jacobson, Jeremiah Jimeno, Nicholas Jones, Hugh Katzenbach, Amanda Kimball, Austin Kovacs, Vladimir Kozyrev, Hannah Kreiger, Julia Lan, Lance Leahy, Calvin Lee, Simon Lee, Carlos Leyva, William Long, Charlie Lui, Priya Mapara, Jameka March, Zachary Markman, Ashley Masters, Isaiah Masters, Vadim Maximov, Ryan McDonald, Adam Mieuli, Joshua Mitchell, Bradley Monajjemi, Megan Moore, Abigail Newman, Victor Nguyen, Warren-Tri Nguyen, Laura Nichol, Adriaan Noordzij, Jensen Novak, Adam O’Donnell, Evan Ohara, Thomas Osborne, Neel Patel, Nicholas Patti, Christa Pedersen, Nicole Pena, Jacob Pernell, Justin Pinili, Kyle Placet, Kimberly Powell, Rohan Prabhakar, Sean Pritchett, Steve Ramirez, Jose Rangel, Sarah Rasmusson, Julie Rej, Alexander Rovira, John Salvador, Jadelyn San Juan, Alejandra Sanchez, Joseph Sanfilippo, Ariel Savage, George Scherer, Jordan Schmidt, Quinn Schreiner, Evgeni Selkov, David Shadrake, Zakary Sheridan, Elijah Sickel, Tessa Sicotte-Kelly, Sean Slattery, Nicholas So, Luis Solano, Scott Spitz, Alexa Stenabaugh, Thomas Stephens, Marcus Strehlke, Anthony Suschil, Sharon Tam, Lee Thomason, Loren Tihanyi, Sajeev Toprani, Samuel Trillo, Douglas Tsui, Veronica Tsuji, Kristen Vasilev, Nicholas Vezmar, Erik Vieyra, Lindsey Wachs, Kyle Walker, Jason Walters, Charles Watson, Samuel Wolpert, Wai Son Wong, Thomas Wunsch, Jerry Yao, Bridget Yount, Benjamin Zhang, Rachel Zhang.
here is the form letter I am sending you in response to your e-mails. Perhaps reading this here will prevent further e-mails.
I understand your situation, but I cannot start a waitlist until the
first day of class. Permission codes usually happen on the second or
third class meeting. The film department has a formula for
prioritizing the waitlist that often undermines chronological
waitlists, so it’s more fair to everyone to just show up and go from
there.
See you then!
Professor Kelley
Announcing: gg hootenanny: gandhi’s release party and global gaming singalong!
January 26th, in Second Life and beyond…
http://www.gghootenanny.blogspot.com/
Call for Participation!
Media Artist Joseph DeLappe presents the first ever internet-wide global gaming voicechat singalong, the “gg hootenanny!”, a day long festival featuring songs of freedom and protest in celebration of the release of his avatar, MGandhi Chakrabarti, from his nine-month imprisonment/durational reenactment in Second Life. This is a call for participation for all gamers and residents of online communities to come together and sing!
1) Three Live Performances! Second Life: 10am, 6pm and 11pm.
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Odyssey/75/24/23
Live streaming link TBA:
Join MGandhi Chakrabarti in Second Life on Odyssey Art and Performance Island at 10am, 6pm and 11pm, SLT (Pacific daylight) on January 26th, for the “gg hootenanny”, voice chat performances of songs of freedom and protest. Special appearance by Second Front! Or join us at the Digital Media Studio of the University of Nevada, Reno on January 26th at 10am, 6pm and 11pm, bring your instruments and/or voices and come prepared to play and sing! We are presently arranging for live streaming of the performances in Second Life, visit the blog for further information as the event nears…
Scheduled performers in Second Life include: The Beatles, Amy Winehouse, Pope Benedict XVI, Hello Kitty, Jim Morrison, Prince Charles, Spongebob Squarepants, Marilyn Monroe, Robert Smith (of the Cure), Wonder Woman and many, many more!
2) Global Gaming Singalong!
Log on to your favorite online game or community any time on January 26th and sing songs of freedom and protest! Solo and group performances are encouraged! A list of recommended songs will be posted soon on the event blog! Please video document your performances! Post your videos to youtube or vimeo and I will embed your videos on the blog for this project.
About the Gandhi work in Second Life:
In the Spring of 2008, Joseph DeLappe/MGandhi Chakrabarti reenacted Gandhi’s famous 1930 Salt March using a treadmill converted for use in cyberspace to walk 240 miles guiding his Gandhi avatar throughout the online community of Second Life. For the past 9 months, DeLappe has continued the reenactment by imprisoning MGandhi in a virtual recreation of Mahatma Gandhi’s 1930, post-Salt March jail cell where he was held by the British from May 5, 1930 to January 26, 1931. MGandhi has sat in his virtual cell at Yeravda Prison, 24 hours a day on Odyssey Contemporary Art and Performance island in Second Life, greeting visitors and engaging in daily “readings” from the infamous Bush era “torture memos”. These performative readings, entitled “Twitter Torture” have been fed, live, from the local text chat in Second Life to DeLappe’s Twitter and Facebook updates.
For further information: http://www.saltmarchsecondlife.wordpress.com
Contact: Joseph DeLappe aka MGandhi Chakrabarti
Digital Media Studio
Department of Art/224
University of Nevada, Reno
Reno, Nevada 89557
http://www.delappe.net
Dear artists,
I’m slowly entering your narratives into our leviathan-like peoplesoft system. After I save each eval, you might have access to it, but I might also still be editing it. I’ll post again here when I’m all done. In this little window of editing time (~48 hours starting now), please be in touch (via e-mail) if there is something special that you feel you accomplished in 20c and that you would like highlighted in your evaluation. I’ll do my best to sync that with the eval info I already have from your TA. This has to be something done for a grade for the class, but could include things like learning new technologies, understanding a difficult text in new ways, etc.
Cheers from Oz!
eta: can you believe I’m still not done with this? I can’t. But I’m not.
haven’t got time for the spam!
thanks for a great class, everyone! I will be in touch re Add-Art show soon, & have a lovely break.
We did choose the 4 most popular questions based on your responses to the survey. Luckily, your preferences aligned with ours.
http://www.performative.com/fdm20c/?p=181
fyi re my approval of new posts & my schedule in general, in the event of urgent questions, I will be quasi-available for answering posted questions about the final exam until 8 am tomorrow.
I encourage those of you already approved for posting comments to post your ideas about answers if I leave anyone hanging. The approval process only exists to block spam; I have about 100 spam msgs in the blog queue right now.
Another must-attend event on Friday afternoon–hopefully you can make it to both this and the open studios event in Baskin Fine Arts/the CAVE.
I would encourage everyone who supports anti-racist politics to attend this event, even if you do not identify as a student of color. Allies are very important.
(via Ashley)
The Student of Color Collective invites you to…
“Where My People At?”
Student Of Color Call to Action
Budget Cut Information & Forum
Friday, December 4
3-5pm Stevenson Event Center
Join us for a forum of education and dialogue where we can collectively address how we are DIRECTLY IMPACTED as INDIVIDUALS AND AS A COMMUNITY by budget cuts.
There will be speakers, education, and discussion!!
We want your voice, ideas, and knowledge to move forward and take action as a community.
In solidarity,
UCSC Student of Color Collective
For questions/comments/concerns E-MAIL: ucsc.soc.collective@gmail.com
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