Category: Inspiration

Interactivity 

The ability of the viewer to directly manipulate and influence his/her experience of media.

 

Use in — Games, sports, arcade games, Video Games.

 

The Internet – Various links. Browsers. All Interactive.

 

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“The Avant Garde” – People began thinking of things in terms of movement and being able to touch them, utilise them, making them move, etc.

 

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Norbert Weiner – coined “Cybernetics”

Messages from Humans to Machine, and machine to machine.

 

J C R Licklider: researched Man-Computer symbiosis. Creating networks that would be safe from nuclear attack.

 

Douglas Engelbart – Human Augmentation

Developed the mouse, word processor. Helped develop the personal computer.

 

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“Art should embrace the technologies of technological society.”

 

Examples of responsive environments – Presented as the basis of a new aesthetic medium.

Look at: (Myron Krueger – Video Place – 1989)

 

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Alan Kay – Interface

Interactive game of ‘Pong’

Just some notes from the lectures we’ve had the past 3 weeks.

2D animation – 19/09/14

History has several stories:

– Of Representations
– Of Stylizations
– Realisms
– Surrealisms
– Expressionisms
– Anthropomorphisms
– Idealisms/Romanticisms.

Pre-animation
– Cave paintings
– Greek Vase W/ decorative paintings on the side
– Far-east puppetry
– The Bayeux Tapestry
– Lucretius’ “On the Nature of Things”.
– Book of Kells
– Voynich Manuscript.
– Flip books in 16th century Europe
– Zoetrope, 1934
– 1890s; comic books
– 19th century optical + kinetic toys

James Stuart Blackton, 1875-1941. “The father of American animation”
– https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dRe85cNXwg
(Humorous phases of funny faces – 1906)

(Emile Cohl – Fantasmagorie – 1908)

(Winsor McCay – Gertie the Dinosaur – 1914)

In 1914, J. R. Bray patented celluloid sheets.

Disney’s Snow White was the first full-colour feature-length animated feature. (1937)

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2D Animation, form and technology – 06/10/14

Notable names:
– Oscar Fischinger
– Walt Disney
– Robert Clampett
– Yuri Norstein
– Mary Blair
– Caroline Leaf

During the early years around the 40s and 50s, as animation was becoming increasingly popular – two dominant animation studios held sides of the US. Disney dominated the mid-west USA, while Warner Brothers held the north-east.

in 1941, Disney animators went on strike, wanting more recognition for their work.

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13/10/14

“Equipment just gets better”

Motion Sensory input devices:
– Infrared
– Optics
– Radio Frequency
– Sound
– Vibration
– Magnetism

“analogue meets digital”

I was advised to watch the program “How it’s made”.

D.I.Y. Projects: http://www.instructables.com/