Re: practicum work (was Re: cafe (was: Portals / Table of Content, and boundary objects))


On Sat, Sep 14, 2019 at 9:24 AM Yanjun Lyu <ylyu16@asu.edu> wrote:
I am interested in the practicum work, please let me know when is good for everyone to meet with Brandon. 

On Sat, Sep 14, 2019 at 9:11 AM sxw asu <shaxinwei@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Shomit,

Let’s kick off the practicum part of your semester by familiarizing with Max8 + the commonly used patchers from the  sc system …  in the context of creating scenarios for responsive environments  experimenting with Brandon’s state methods.   Do can set up a time with Brandon to learn his methods.

food
metaphorical ecologies 
ceremony
theater of things / ecology of things /
mobile trucks

Let’s capture good ideas the Google drive that Yanjun established (thanks!)
Xin Wei


On Sep 13, 2019, at 6:15 PM, Yanjun Lyu <ylyu16@asu.edu> wrote:

Follow up Xin Wei and Christy,

I think the Global Cafe Team should receive the notification of a shared Google "Cafe Project" folder.  If you are not, please remind me. 
I built a Google Project folder in which I uploaded all files, clips, a poster and a note(DRAFT) from my understanding and a summary based on Xin Wei and Christy's emails during these days for this project. I hope this is helpful for our Monday meeting (9/16, 3-4) and future communication. The Note named "notes for TEAM to edit" is a mutual place for us to share thoughts, suggestions, resources, even an online discussion space. I hope this helpful for teamwork and also for Xinwei, Christy, Lauren to edit any suggestion on here to us. 

Best,
y 




On Fri, Sep 13, 2019 at 1:10 PM sxw asu <shaxinwei@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Everyone, 

To follow up Christy –

Christy Spackman, Lauren Hayes and I think the social form of the meal / cafe gives a concrete “boundary object” in which to try out speculative, experimental artistic / computational techniques, as well as  conceptual questions.  It is rich enough to be a site for individual special research work, and simultaneously meaningful to people from any walk of life.  So let’s make the meal / cafe social form one of Synthesis focal research platforms.  (The other remains improvisatory events and participatory steering of complex systems in responsive environments.)

I’m hoping that this term, with Shomit, Yanjun, Ri, and Andrew R, Garrett, and 
supported by key Synthesis researchers, we can build a new generation of experiments that will lead to publications and internationally exhibitable work that can attract support from outside ASU, even outside the academy.

We’re very lucky to have faculty like Lauren and Christy interested in advising us in this work.
We are interested in helping focus the really exciting explorations into tangible iterations.

Yanjun, Shomit, Ri, Garrett, 
In order to make progress let’s propel this with the initial constraints and questions that Christy and I pose.  To repeat:

Imagine you are at a cafe. Three people are there. 
1) who are the three people whose interaction you want to prototype?
2) what might a "normal" script be for those interactions?
3) what new script(s) are you hoping to inspire?

In order to have impact, we’ll need to have an adequate production level : I will take responsibility for this — with Connor and Pete as “goto” experts, as well as Todd, Lauren, Brandon, and the Tech Team (Pete, Luke, Ozzie).   Remember the Tech Team are advisors but they have very limited time to actually fabricate solutions.   So it will be important to collanorate, recruit students, and pool skills.

Let’s talk today if we can .

I’ll Zoom in in about 15’ as soon as I get to a quite spot  and hang out near my zoom for a couple of hours as long as I can today.

Xin Wei

PS  Thanks Garrett, Shomit, Yanjun Andrew’s for earlier ideas…
Can someone — Yanjun? — start a a Google project folder + notes doc for the “cafe” ? 
We may want a more inclusive name for the social form / genre of collective meal / refreshment in common space 


On Sep 13, 2019, at 6:00 AM, Christy Spackman <Christy.Spackman@asu.edu> wrote:

Yanjun, Shomit, Ri (and Garrett),

I met with Xin Wei yesterday, and we wanted to add on one additional task for all of you. We think that the possible interactions you could explore are quite large, so we invite you to constrain it in the following way:

Imagine you are at a cafe. Three people are there. 
1) who are the three people whose interaction you want to prototype?
2) what might a "normal" script be for those interactions?
3) what new script(s) are you hoping to inspire?

Please plan on being able to present this information to us in person during Synthesis lab's open work hours in a week. Please let us know which of the drop in hours you will make.

Best,
Christy and Xin Wei

Christy Spackman, PhD
Assistant Professor
School for the Future of Innovation in Society
School of Arts, Media, and Engineering
Arizona State University

@christyspackman



_________________________________________________
Sha Xin Wei • Professor and Director • School of Arts, Media and Engineering + Synthesis
skype: shaxinwei • mobile: +1-650-815-9962
_______________________________________________________





From: Xin Wei Sha <Xinwei.Sha@asu.edu>
Subject: FW: You’ve been added to the shared drive Global Cafe
Date: September 13, 2019 at 5:49:42 PM PDT
To: sxw asu <sxwasu@gmail.com>

 
 From: Yanjun Lyu (via Google Drive)
Sent: Friday, September 13, 2019 5:49:37 PM (UTC-07:00) Arizona
To: xsha1@asu.edu
Subject: You’ve been added to the shared drive Global Cafe

Global Cafe 

Yanjun Lyu has added you to Global Cafe.
You can add, edit, move, and delete files in this drive.

Shared drives is a space where teams can easily store, collaborate on, and access their files anywhere, from any device.

Folder for Global Cafe Team

Open shared drive
Google Drive: Have all your files within reach from any device.

Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043
You received this email because you were invited to a shared drive.





--
Garrett Laroy Johnson 

PhD Candidate in Media Arts in Sciences, School of Arts Media and Engineering, Arizona State University 
Synthesis Center, research assistant 
Center for Philosophical Techniques, experimental fellow 
Post-Human Network (PHuN), founding co-director 

practicum work (was Re: cafe (was: Portals / Table of Content, and boundary objects))

Hi Shomit,

Let’s kick off the practicum part of your semester by familiarizing with Max8 + the commonly used patchers from the  sc system …  in the context of creating scenarios for responsive environments  experimenting with Brandon’s state methods.   Do can set up a time with Brandon to learn his methods.

food
metaphorical ecologies 
ceremony
theater of things / ecology of things /
mobile trucks

Let’s capture good ideas the Google drive that Yanjun established (thanks!)
Xin Wei


On Sep 13, 2019, at 6:15 PM, Yanjun Lyu <ylyu16@asu.edu> wrote:

Follow up Xin Wei and Christy,

I think the Global Cafe Team should receive the notification of a shared Google "Cafe Project" folder.  If you are not, please remind me. 
I built a Google Project folder in which I uploaded all files, clips, a poster and a note(DRAFT) from my understanding and a summary based on Xin Wei and Christy's emails during these days for this project. I hope this is helpful for our Monday meeting (9/16, 3-4) and future communication. The Note named "notes for TEAM to edit" is a mutual place for us to share thoughts, suggestions, resources, even an online discussion space. I hope this helpful for teamwork and also for Xinwei, Christy, Lauren to edit any suggestion on here to us. 

Best,
y 




On Fri, Sep 13, 2019 at 1:10 PM sxw asu <shaxinwei@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Everyone, 

To follow up Christy –

Christy Spackman, Lauren Hayes and I think the social form of the meal / cafe gives a concrete “boundary object” in which to try out speculative, experimental artistic / computational techniques, as well as  conceptual questions.  It is rich enough to be a site for individual special research work, and simultaneously meaningful to people from any walk of life.  So let’s make the meal / cafe social form one of Synthesis focal research platforms.  (The other remains improvisatory events and participatory steering of complex systems in responsive environments.)

I’m hoping that this term, with Shomit, Yanjun, Ri, and Andrew R, Garrett, and 
supported by key Synthesis researchers, we can build a new generation of experiments that will lead to publications and internationally exhibitable work that can attract support from outside ASU, even outside the academy.

We’re very lucky to have faculty like Lauren and Christy interested in advising us in this work.
We are interested in helping focus the really exciting explorations into tangible iterations.

Yanjun, Shomit, Ri, Garrett, 
In order to make progress let’s propel this with the initial constraints and questions that Christy and I pose.  To repeat:

Imagine you are at a cafe. Three people are there. 
1) who are the three people whose interaction you want to prototype?
2) what might a "normal" script be for those interactions?
3) what new script(s) are you hoping to inspire?

In order to have impact, we’ll need to have an adequate production level : I will take responsibility for this — with Connor and Pete as “goto” experts, as well as Todd, Lauren, Brandon, and the Tech Team (Pete, Luke, Ozzie).   Remember the Tech Team are advisors but they have very limited time to actually fabricate solutions.   So it will be important to collanorate, recruit students, and pool skills.

Let’s talk today if we can .

I’ll Zoom in in about 15’ as soon as I get to a quite spot  and hang out near my zoom for a couple of hours as long as I can today.

Xin Wei

PS  Thanks Garrett, Shomit, Yanjun Andrew’s for earlier ideas…
Can someone — Yanjun? — start a a Google project folder + notes doc for the “cafe” ? 
We may want a more inclusive name for the social form / genre of collective meal / refreshment in common space 


On Sep 13, 2019, at 6:00 AM, Christy Spackman <Christy.Spackman@asu.edu> wrote:

Yanjun, Shomit, Ri (and Garrett),

I met with Xin Wei yesterday, and we wanted to add on one additional task for all of you. We think that the possible interactions you could explore are quite large, so we invite you to constrain it in the following way:

Imagine you are at a cafe. Three people are there. 
1) who are the three people whose interaction you want to prototype?
2) what might a "normal" script be for those interactions?
3) what new script(s) are you hoping to inspire?

Please plan on being able to present this information to us in person during Synthesis lab's open work hours in a week. Please let us know which of the drop in hours you will make.

Best,
Christy and Xin Wei

Christy Spackman, PhD
Assistant Professor
School for the Future of Innovation in Society
School of Arts, Media, and Engineering
Arizona State University

@christyspackman



_________________________________________________
Sha Xin Wei • Professor and Director • School of Arts, Media and Engineering + Synthesis
skype: shaxinwei • mobile: +1-650-815-9962
_______________________________________________________





From: Xin Wei Sha <Xinwei.Sha@asu.edu>
Subject: FW: You’ve been added to the shared drive Global Cafe
Date: September 13, 2019 at 5:49:42 PM PDT
To: sxw asu <sxwasu@gmail.com>

 
 From: Yanjun Lyu (via Google Drive)
Sent: Friday, September 13, 2019 5:49:37 PM (UTC-07:00) Arizona
To: xsha1@asu.edu
Subject: You’ve been added to the shared drive Global Cafe

Global Cafe 

Yanjun Lyu has added you to Global Cafe.
You can add, edit, move, and delete files in this drive.

Shared drives is a space where teams can easily store, collaborate on, and access their files anywhere, from any device.

Folder for Global Cafe Team

Open shared drive
Google Drive: Have all your files within reach from any device.

Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043
You received this email because you were invited to a shared drive.

cafe (was: Portals / Table of Content, and boundary objects)

Hi Everyone, 

To follow up Christy –

Christy Spackman, Lauren Hayes and I think the social form of the meal / cafe gives a concrete “boundary object” in which to try out speculative, experimental artistic / computational techniques, as well as  conceptual questions.  It is rich enough to be a site for individual special research work, and simultaneously meaningful to people from any walk of life.  So let’s make the meal / cafe social form one of Synthesis focal research platforms.  (The other remains improvisatory events and participatory steering of complex systems in responsive environments.)

I’m hoping that this term, with Shomit, Yanjun, Ri, and Andrew R, Garrett, and 
supported by key Synthesis researchers, we can build a new generation of experiments that will lead to publications and internationally exhibitable work that can attract support from outside ASU, even outside the academy.

We’re very lucky to have faculty like Lauren and Christy interested in advising us in this work.
We are interested in helping focus the really exciting explorations into tangible iterations.

Yanjun, Shomit, Ri, Garrett, 
In order to make progress let’s propel this with the initial constraints and questions that Christy and I pose.  To repeat:

Imagine you are at a cafe. Three people are there. 
1) who are the three people whose interaction you want to prototype?
2) what might a "normal" script be for those interactions?
3) what new script(s) are you hoping to inspire?

In order to have impact, we’ll need to have an adequate production level : I will take responsibility for this — with Connor and Pete as “goto” experts, as well as Todd, Lauren, Brandon, and the Tech Team (Pete, Luke, Ozzie).   Remember the Tech Team are advisors but they have very limited time to actually fabricate solutions.   So it will be important to collanorate, recruit students, and pool skills.

Let’s talk today if we can .

I’ll Zoom in in about 15’ as soon as I get to a quite spot  and hang out near my zoom for a couple of hours as long as I can today.

Xin Wei

PS  Thanks Garrett, Shomit, Yanjun Andrew’s for earlier ideas…
Can someone — Yanjun? — start a a Google project folder + notes doc for the “cafe” ? 
We may want a more inclusive name for the social form / genre of collective meal / refreshment in common space 


On Sep 13, 2019, at 6:00 AM, Christy Spackman <Christy.Spackman@asu.edu> wrote:

Yanjun, Shomit, Ri (and Garrett),

I met with Xin Wei yesterday, and we wanted to add on one additional task for all of you. We think that the possible interactions you could explore are quite large, so we invite you to constrain it in the following way:

Imagine you are at a cafe. Three people are there. 
1) who are the three people whose interaction you want to prototype?
2) what might a "normal" script be for those interactions?
3) what new script(s) are you hoping to inspire?

Please plan on being able to present this information to us in person during Synthesis lab's open work hours in a week. Please let us know which of the drop in hours you will make.

Best,
Christy and Xin Wei

Christy Spackman, PhD
Assistant Professor
School for the Future of Innovation in Society
School of Arts, Media, and Engineering
Arizona State University

@christyspackman



_________________________________________________
Sha Xin Wei • Professor and Director • School of Arts, Media and Engineering + Synthesis
skype: shaxinwei • mobile: +1-650-815-9962
_______________________________________________________

Re: Portals / Table of Content, and boundary objects

I'm happy to consult on the Connectivity Cafe as it continues! Let me know what I can do. 

On Mon, Sep 9, 2019 at 1:37 AM sxw asu <shaxinwei@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Yanjun, Shomit, Ri, 

Yanjun’s already seen this table portal project.
Here’s the video of a Portals  project called Table of Content
collaboration between TML and Synthesis  2014-15

The key is that we focus on mating furniture and objects on the table and stay away from video-conferencing.   It’s hard, but how about we try to avoid representing people telematically, at least not use video.    Suren, Seth and I are pursuing a stream on alternatives to ocularcentric thought and technology.  A profound reason is that the heavier the tech we throw into representing people telematically, the more people tend to be glassed-off from one another, resorting to cliche expressions.   Less can be more.

So, let's focus on objects that "exist in two places at once" serving as boundary objects* between not only locations but cultures.

Garrett was a principal member of the team on the Synthesis side, with Evan Montpellier in TML / Montreal.  ( Byron was one of the heroic fellow travellers :)

In this light, Yanjun’ss work with the cafe and our sociological study with Christy take on extra significance.    With Ri and Shomit, let’s strongly pursue the enchantment and theater of objects, with the added dimension of telematic mates, remote doppelgänger glasses, plates, foods and flavors and aromas.

There were many directions and questions left unexplored.   It’d be nice to build "on the shoulders of giants” and get a bit further with present techniques.

Xin We

*   Susan Leigh Star famously introduced this as a more subtle and supple concept in
"The Structure of Ill-Structured Solutions: Boundary Objects and Heterogeneous Distributed Problem Solving", in M. Hubs and L. Gasser (eds), Readings in Distributed Artificial Intelligence 3 (Morgan Kaufmann, 1989).





Xin Wei

_________________________________________________
Sha Xin Wei • Professor and Director • School of Arts, Media and Engineering + Synthesis
skype: shaxinwei • mobile: +1-650-815-9962
Founding Director, Topological Media Lab
_______________________________________________________



--
Garrett Laroy Johnson 

PhD Candidate in Media Arts in Sciences, School of Arts Media and Engineering, Arizona State University 
Synthesis Center, research assistant 
Center for Philosophical Techniques, experimental fellow 
Post-Human Network (PHuN), founding co-director 

Portals / Table of Content, and boundary objects

Hi Yanjun, Shomit, Ri, 

Yanjun’s already seen this table portal project.
Here’s the video of a Portals  project called Table of Content
collaboration between TML and Synthesis  2014-15

The key is that we focus on mating furniture and objects on the table and stay away from video-conferencing.   It’s hard, but how about we try to avoid representing people telematically, at least not use video.    Suren, Seth and I are pursuing a stream on alternatives to ocularcentric thought and technology.  A profound reason is that the heavier the tech we throw into representing people telematically, the more people tend to be glassed-off from one another, resorting to cliche expressions.   Less can be more.

So, let's focus on objects that "exist in two places at once" serving as boundary objects* between not only locations but cultures.

Garrett was a principal member of the team on the Synthesis side, with Evan Montpellier in TML / Montreal.  ( Byron was one of the heroic fellow travellers :)

In this light, Yanjun’ss work with the cafe and our sociological study with Christy take on extra significance.    With Ri and Shomit, let’s strongly pursue the enchantment and theater of objects, with the added dimension of telematic mates, remote doppelgänger glasses, plates, foods and flavors and aromas.

There were many directions and questions left unexplored.   It’d be nice to build "on the shoulders of giants” and get a bit further with present techniques.

Xin We

*   Susan Leigh Star famously introduced this as a more subtle and supple concept in
"The Structure of Ill-Structured Solutions: Boundary Objects and Heterogeneous Distributed Problem Solving", in M. Hubs and L. Gasser (eds), Readings in Distributed Artificial Intelligence 3 (Morgan Kaufmann, 1989).





Xin Wei

_________________________________________________
Sha Xin Wei • Professor and Director • School of Arts, Media and Engineering + Synthesis
skype: shaxinwei • mobile: +1-650-815-9962
Founding Director, Topological Media Lab
_______________________________________________________

NYTimes: Restoring Forests Could Help Put a Brake on Global Warming

NYTimes: Restoring Forests Could Help Put a Brake on Global Warming

[A study led by researchers at ETH Zurich, suggests that] … the planet could support nearly 2.5 billion additional acres of forest without shrinking our cities and farms, and that those additional trees, when they mature, could store a whole lot of the extra carbon — 200 gigatons of carbon, to be precise — generated by industrial activity over the last 150 years.

A handful of countries could make a very big difference. The researchers found that Russia could restore 373 million acres, or 151 million hectares, of forest. That was followed by the United States, with 255 million acres and Canada with 193 million acres.Other large countries like Australia, Brazil and China also have large areas suitable for forest restoration.

Michel Serres (1 September 1930 – 1 June 2019)


Michel Serres (1 September 1930 – 1 June 2019) was a French philosopher, theorist and writer. His works are notable for, while discussing subjects like death, angels and time, incorporating prose and multifaceted perspectives, as well as his unique approach to translating his works from accounts rather than authoritative singular translation,

The son of a barge man, Serres entered France's naval academy, the École Navale, in 1949 and the École Normale Supérieure [the most select university in the francophone world] in 1952. He aggregated in 1955, having studied philosophy. He spent the next few years as a naval officer before finally receiving his doctorate in 1968, and began teaching in Paris.

Over the next twenty years, Serres earned a reputation as a spell-binding lecturer and as the author of remarkably beautiful and enigmatic prose so reliant on the sonorities of French that it is considered practically untranslatable. He took as his subjects such diverse topics as the mythical Northwest Passage, the concept of the parasite, and the explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger. More generally Serres was interested in developing a philosophy of science which does not rely on a metalanguage in which a single account of science is privileged and regarded as accurate. To do this he relied on the concept of translation between accounts rather than settling on one as authoritative. For this reason Serres has relied on the figure of Hermes (in his earlier works) and angels (in more recent studies) as messengers who translate (or map) back and forth between domains (i.e., between maps).

In 1990, Serres was elected to the Académie française [the most elite cultural / intellectual body in the francophone world], in recognition of his position as one of France's most prominent intellectuals.…

In an interview with Hans Ulrich Obrist, Serres expressed interest in the emergence of a new political philosophy that addresses the digital context of the 21st century, "I think that out of this place of no law that is the Internet there will soon emerge a new law, completely different from that which organized our old metric space.”*

…He died 1 June 2019 at the age of 88.

( from European Graduate School )

Michel Serres, Ph.D., is a philosopher specialized in epistemology, a professor as well as a writer. He was born on September 1st 1930 in Agen, in the Lot-et-Garonne region in France. Son of a farmer, he first studied at a naval school in 1949. He studied at the prestigious École normale supérieure, starting in 1952 where he also passed in aggregation in philosophy 1955 in Paris. However, from 1956 to 1958 her served in the French navy, even participating in the re-opening of the Suez canal as well as in the Algerian war. Serres is not only an elected member of the prestigious French Academy (March 29th 1990) but he has also received France’s highest decoration, the National Order of the Legion of Honour.

In 1968 Serres defended his dissertation and was granted his doctorate as a result. He went on to teach University-level philosophy in Clermont-Ferrand where he became a friend of Michel Foucault and Jules Vuillemin.

At that time Foucault and him regularly work together on problems that would result in Foucault’s master piece The Order of Things : An Archaeology of the Human Sciences.

After that, he also taught at Vincennes, Paris I (from 1969 on) and Stanford University (from 1984 on) as professor of the history of science. His research not only focuses on the history of science but he is particularly interested in the possible links and interdisciplinarity between so-called hard sciences and social sciences. In fact, he has been instrumental in the popularization of scientific knowledge.

In his book The Parasite (1980 ; Eng. Trans. 2007) Serres wants to remind us how human relations are to society the same as that of the parasite to the host body. The point is that by being a parasite even minority groups can become play a big role in public dialogue.

For example, they can bring the kind of diversity and complexity essential to human life and thought.

Genesis (1982 ; Eng. Trans. 1997) is Michel Serres’s attempt to think outside metaphysical categories such as unity and rational order. He wants to make us hear the « noise, » the « sound and the fury, » that actually are in the background of life and thought. The argument is that although philosophy has been essential to the conception of laws of logic and reason, which themselves have been key to our understanding of ourselves and our universe, one of the most pressing tasks of thought today is to acknowledge that multiplicity and not unity is the order of the day.

Such plurality cannot really be thought, but perhaps it can still be sensed, felt, and heard beneath the illusion of rational order imposed by civilization. Serres gives us here a critique of traditional and contemporary models in social theory as a call for the rebirth of philosophy as the art of thinking the unthinkable.

In Five Senses : A Philosophy of Mingled Bodies (1985 ; Eng. Trans. 2009) Professor Serres warns us that the fundamental lessons we must learn from the senses have been marginalized by the scientific age. Indeed, the metaphysical and philosophical systems of the latter have taken over our five senses through the domination of language and the information revolution.

This book is an exploration of the detrimental consequences of such powerful downplaying of the five senses in the history of philosophy of the West. By doing a history of human perceptions he writes in favor of empiricism and against the Cartesian tradition.

He does this by demonstrating the sterility of systems of knowledge separated from the body. Yet data today is more important than sense perception.

Serres makes the point even more strongly by asking the rhetorical question : “What are we, and what do we really know, when we have forgotten that our senses can describe a taste more accurately than language ever could ?”


[* yes, however not the internet per se but something perhaps more heraclitian and 道]

place, narrative, mobile technologies, background for

Dear folks interested in place, narrative, mobile technologies,
(who may be interested in working with Robert Brandon and me on an NSF SCC pitch,
or with me and Canadian allies toward the large Canada Infrastructure Ecosystems competition)

Steven Tepper sent this article:

Experiential Data for Urban Planning
Federico Casalegno, Amar Boghani, Catherine Winfield
Innovative Technologies in Urban Mapping pp 73-80

This raises in turn the deep question of how narrative structures work to condition experience.
One way to think about "narrative structure”in a way that is more ample and futile for our research-creation is a configuration of marks or signifiers that condition the experience of the visitor.  These can be not just words on a printed page, but the arrangement of objects in space, or of gestures in an event, 

Of course, Stacey M can expand on this a lot more deeply and broadly than I can, but as a starting point, some resources could include:

Paul Ricoeur
The Human Experience of Time and Narrative

Mikhail Bakhtin
The Dialogic Imagination: chronotope and heteroglossia
Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics: polyphony and unfinalizability (and carnivalization)

Aporetic experiences of time in anti-narrative art†

The Narrative Reconfiguration of Time beyond Ricoeur
Jonas Grethlein Heidelberg University

Mneme, Anamnesis and Mimesis: The Function of Narrative in Paul Ricoeur’s Theory of Memory
Ridvan Askin

And in a lighter vein:

Beyond the Narrative Arc
By Jane Alison March 27, 2019

Mobile Technologies and Changing Spaces of Reading
Brian Greenspan, DH Quarterly


At the least, if we can think of narrative structures as more than a unidimensional “story” arc this may open up richer dialogue with experimental architecture, dance, performed music, post-dramatic theater, responsive environments, mobile technologies.


Contact me if you’re interested — I have a window now till June 18.
Xin Wei

iStage

More detailed overview  of iStage attached and in Dropbox.


The School of AME’s Motion Analysis Lab / Intelligent Stage is a research lab and performance space + theater-grade hardware + custom software dedicated to responsive immersive environments and studies of whole experience.  This blackbox space has multiple infra-red and visible light tracking cameras; microphone array; standard, short throw and floor-scale projectors; 8.2 Meyer speaker system, hardware matrix for video and sound (Dante).  We optionally use integrated Optitrack motion-capture system and custom wearable sensors. The blackbox is equipped with a 32’x 48’ AeroDeck Harlequin sprung floor.  The grid, 14’ above the floor, allows for easy access to the equipment for quick changes for a collaborative environment.

The computing platform consists of 4 Macintosh workstations and a suite of Mac laptops and minis for standalone installations, plus the SC software framework (based on Max/MSP/Jitter/GL+Javascript and OSC) that allows researchers to build a wide variety of experiments that can map to a variable configuration of hardware.


Also in
Dropbox\ \(ASU\)/Synthesis/Synthesis-Operations/equipment/iStage.pages