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Media Arts and Technology Graduate Program UC Santa Barbara MAT 256 Visual Design through Algorithms Winter 2006 MAT 256: Visual Design Through Algorithms Professor George Legrady, legrady@arts.ucsb.edulegrady@arts.ucsb.edu Professor Jerry Gibson, gibson@mat.ucsb.edugibson@mat.ucsb.edu Winter 2006, e-studio, Art 2220 Tuesday 1pm-2pm, Jerry Gibson Lecture Thursday 12pm-1pm, George Legrady Lecture Thursday 12pm-1pm, Lab TA Will Wolcott, wolcott@umail.ucsb.eduwolcott@umail.ucsb.edu Course Web Site : http://www.mat.ucsb.edu/~g.legrady/http://www.mat.ucsb.edu/~g.legrady/
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Media Arts and Technology Graduate Program UC Santa Barbara MAT 256 Visual Design through Algorithms Winter 2006 What is MAT 256? Course Definition An interdisciplinary team-taught course with goals to foster engineering-level research in conjunction with the experimental approach of the visual arts. Course consists of weekly lectures by both engineering and arts faculty
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Media Arts and Technology Graduate Program UC Santa Barbara MAT 256 Visual Design through Algorithms Winter 2006 Course Goals Engineering component: understanding of the scientific premise of the algorithms Artistic component: to aim for aesthetic richness and visual/conceptual innovation The course is meant to function as a resource and reference for future research
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Media Arts and Technology Graduate Program UC Santa Barbara MAT 256 Visual Design through Algorithms Winter 2006 Student Workload 3 multimedia projects that explore mathematical visual processes, interactivity and visual perception: 1) Visual FFT, 2) Randomness, 3) Final Project Lecture and lab attendance Directed reports on readings posted at course mailing list Projects to be documented online
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Media Arts and Technology Graduate Program UC Santa Barbara MAT 256 Visual Design through Algorithms Winter 2006 Interdisciplinarity Students will be paired based on different backgrounds (artist, engineer, social science, etc.) Goal is to hybridize, exchange problem solving methods, ideas, empirical results We will study how we work in teams, how we share knowledge, and arrive at results Comparison arts and engineering research methods
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Media Arts and Technology Graduate Program UC Santa Barbara MAT 256 Visual Design through Algorithms Winter 2006 Engineering Course Content Filtering, sampling, and reconstruction Fourier Series, Orthogonal Series, and Approximations, Randomness, Markov Chains Noise & Information Convolution and System Response Transfer functions Discrete Transforms
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Media Arts and Technology Graduate Program UC Santa Barbara MAT 256 Visual Design through Algorithms Winter 2006 Arts Course Content Discussion of what is art research overview of computational aesthetics a review of the function of images principles of visual communication chance, noise, and information art examples of the implementation of algorithmic processes in contemporary arts and architecture algorithmic visual design and iterative processes as a form of image production experimentation
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Media Arts and Technology Graduate Program UC Santa Barbara MAT 256 Visual Design through Algorithms Winter 2006 Student Projects Projects will be experimental but show an understanding of lecture material covered Flexibility in content, technologies, materials Emphasis on the visual, and possibly interactivity Driven by research methods, structures, systems, etc.
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