Sensor Technology Workshop
This workshop provides an introduction to modern sensory systems and microcontroller technology. In recent years, media artists and designers have been using microcontrollers to enable communication between sensors and computers in their works, enabling users to interact with their creations. This workshop focuses on the use, the functioning and the programming of microcontroller interfaces. The workshop will introduce simple programming techniques in C throughout the use of various sensors and actuators. All the necessary equipment will be provided on site for a maximum of 10 students but working in team is also possible. This course will enable students to do experiments with sensors (position, distance, heat, magnetic, light, accelerometers, ...), and actuators (servo motors, stepper motors, displays, ...) as well as building a custom made touch sensor from scratch. This workshop is an introduction to the technology and does not require previous knowledge in electronics nor in programming, it is targeted towards students from the art field and designers.
our biography is as follows
Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau are internationally renowned media artists working in the field of interactive computer installation. They are Professors at the University of Art and Design in Linz Austria where they head the Department for Interface Culture at the Institute for Media. Sommerer and Mignonneau previously held positions as Professors at the IAMAS International Academy of Media Arts and Sciences in Gifu, Japan and as Researchers and Artistic Directors at the ATR Media Integration and Communications Research Lab in Kyoto Japan. They also were Visiting Researchers at the MIT CAVS in Cambridge US, the Beckmann Institute in Champaign Urbana, IL, USA and the NTT-InterCommunication Center in Tokyo.
Laurent Mignonneau studied modern Art and Video Art at the “Ecole des Beaux Arts” in Angouleme, France where he received his masters degree.
Christa Sommerer originally studied biology (botany) at the University of Vienna and modern sculpture and art education at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna (masters degree) .
Sommerer and Mignonneau completed their PhD degrees from CAiiA-STAR, University of Wales College of Art, Newport, UK and the University of Kobe Japan, respectively.
In 1992 Mignonneau and Sommerer met at the Institute for New Media at the Staedelschule in Frankfurt where they teamed up and started their collaboration in the area of interactive computer installations. Mignonneau and Sommerer artworks have been called "epoch making" (Toshiharu Itoh, NTT-ICC museum) for developing natural and intuitive interfaces and for often applying scientific principles such as artificial life, complexity and generative systems to their innovative interface designs. Mignonneau and Sommerer created pioneering interactive computer installations (http://www.interface.ufg.ac.at/christa-laurent
These works have been shown world-wide and are permanently installed in media museums and media collections around the world, including the Media Museum of the ZKM in Karlsruhe, Germany, the NTT-ICC InterCommunication Center in Tokyo, the Cartier Foundation in Paris, the Millennium Dome in London, the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography in Japan, the AEC Ars Electronica Center in Linz, Austria, the NTT Plan-Net in Nagoya, Japan, Shiroishi Multimedia Art Center in Shiroishi, Japan and the HOUSE-OF-SHISEIDO in Tokyo.
Sommerer and Mignonneau have won mayor international media awards, for example the "Golden Nica" Ars Electronica Award for Interactive Art 1994 (Linz, Austria), the "Ovation Award" of the Interactive Media Festival 1995 (Los Angeles, USA), the "Multi Media Award '95" of the Multimedia Association Japan and the” World Technology Award” in London (2001), Innovation Prize for their Solar Display project (2008)
Mignonneau and Sommerer have published numerous research papers on Artificial Life, interactivity and interface design and they lectured extensively at universities, international conferences, and symposia as well as books; "Interactive Art Research" in 2009, "The Art and Science of Interface and Interaction Design"in 2008, "Interface Cultures" in "2008 and "Art @ Science" in 1998.
Arbeidsform:
workshop
Krav til forkunnskaper:
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Kurset starter 11.11.2009 / Uke 46, og varer til 13.11.2009 / Uke 46
Sted: akademiet
Tilbyder: Akademiet
Målgruppe: Akademiet
MA Kunst
Årstrinn: Alle årstrinn
Antall plasser: 10
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