Nov 2 Monday 9-10: pilot scenario brainstorming with the ECS responsive media environment

Dear Cooper, Dehlia, Cynthia, Brandon, Manjana, Cooper, Josh, 

How about Monday 9 AM  Nov 2, Brickyard ?

Julian and Todd will be busy working on SERRA so can’t join us for this process, but can serve as background experts to our ECS team.   

Re ECS,  let me include Connor Rawls, Josh Stark as media programmers and Dr Brandon Mechley as scientist  / acoustic ecology researcher who should be part of this design / make conversation with Cooper.

Everyone please read Cooper’s great set of notes.   I made some observations with Dehlia and we came up with some thoughts building on Cooper’s strong starting points.   Happy to share and continue on Monday 

Fun fun fun!
Xin Wei




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Sha Xin Wei • Professor and Director • School of Arts, Media and Engineering + Synthesis
Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts + Fulton Schools of Engineering • ASU
Fellow: ASU-Santa Fe Center for Biosocial Complex Systems
Affiliate Professor: Future of Innovation in Society; Computer Science; English
Founding Director, Topological Media Lab
skype: shaxinwei • mobile: +1-650-815-9962
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On Oct 30, 2015, at 1:36 AM, Manjana Milkoreit <mmilkore@asu.edu> wrote:

Thanks Cooper for nudging the project forward - this is an exciting first outline. I would not be able to join a Skype call today, but next week Monday and Friday could work for me.

The team might be interested in this European project: http://impressions-project.eu/news/12307_The%20Bond%20You%20Hold:%20A%20new%20theatre%20performance%20embodying%20the%20dynamic%20relation%20between%20climate%20and%20humans. I know one of the core team members, and we might be able to learn a couple of things from their experience.

Manjana

On Oct 29, 2015, at 8:53 PM, Cooper Sanghyun Yoo <cooperyoo@asu.edu> wrote:

Thanks Dehlia,

Skype meeting works for me.  I can do Friday 10/30 9:00am-1:00pm (5:00pm-9:00pm in Europe), Monday 11/02 9:00am-12:00pm (5:00pm-8:00pm Europe), or Friday 11/06 9:00am-1:00pm (5:00pm-9:00pm in Europe).  

My skype id is cooper.yoo, and google hangout id is cooper.yoo@gmail.com.

Much appreciated,
Cooper

On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 2:46 PM, Dehlia Hannah <dhannah1@asu.edu> wrote:
Hi Cooper,
I'm excited to read about your thoughts and I'd be glad to chat with you via skype if we can negotiate the 8 hour time difference. Tomorrow (Oct. 30th) and Mon/Friday next week are both possibilities for me in the late afternoon here. I'll reply with further comments tomorrow.

My skype handle is dehliahannah.

Best,
Dehlia


On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 7:12 PM, Cooper Sanghyun Yoo <cooperyoo@asu.edu> wrote:
Hi everyone,

Since our second scenario brainstorming meeting was canceled last week (Wednesday Oct. 21), I would like to ask for another meeting about ECS future plans.  Do you have any availability this Friday Oct. 30 or Monday Nov. 6 next week?

I've attached a document (YearWithoutWinter-Note-1027-Yoo.pdf) with some of my notes and thoughts about applying mixed reality to ECS responsive media environment.  I would like to further discuss this topic.  Please let me know if you have any questions or suggestions.

Much appreciated,
Cooper

On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 12:30 AM, Cooper Sanghyun Yoo <cooperyoo@asu.edu> wrote:
Hi all,

Unfortunately, I will be back to Tempe tomorrow (10/13 Tuesday) late afternoon.  I will try to follow up as soon as I get back.

Much appreciated,
Cooper

On Tuesday, October 13, 2015, Dehlia Hannah <dhannah1@asu.edu> wrote:
Hi Everyone,
Great that a bunch of us can make it. Can we confirm this meeting for tomorrow morning? Sylvia, is Xin Wei available?
Best,
Dehlia

On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 3:23 PM, Christopher Roberts <Christopher.M.Roberts@asu.edu> wrote:
I don't have my calendar but I should be available then.

DC Talk Today: architect Diego Garcia-Setién

Please come to meet a dynamic new faculty colleague in Design, 
architect Diego Garcia-Setién from Madrid.

Today 3:00 PM, Stauffer B125

Garcia-Setién will talk about some urban architectural projects that I hope 
will inspire collaboration with our responsive environments work.



[bio]

Diego García-Setién [ Madrid, 1974 ]

Architect by the ETSA Madrid-UPM [2000], Garcia-Setién is an Assistant professor in Architectural Design at The Design School (ASU  2014).

Since 2000 he has been TEACHING and lecturing across several European universities.

He was a founding partner and principal of ecosistema urbano [2004-07] and is currently the principal at GaSSz architects [2007] a contemporary PRACTICE, 

focused on an innovative and sustainable approach towards Architectural design. His work has been acknowledged locally and internationally and published worldwide. 

He is currently a Phd candidate in ‘Theory and Practice of Architectural Design’ program at ETSAM, and his RESEARCH is focused on ‘Architecture as Technical Object’.  




________________________________________________________________________________________
Sha Xin Wei • Professor and Director • School of Arts, Media and Engineering + Synthesis
Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts + Fulton Schools of Engineering • ASU
Fellow: ASU-Santa Fe Center for Biosocial Complex Systems
Affiliate Professor: Future of Innovation in Society; Computer Science; English
Founding Director, Topological Media Lab
skype: shaxinwei • mobile: +1-650-815-9962
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Stuart Kauffman: Poised Realm, potential + actual, non-algorithmic thought

Finally had a chance to have long conversations with a remarkable scientist and bon vivant Stuart Kauffman, — one of the most prominent and acute anglo scientists coming around to process philosophy.  (Interesting parallel to Rene Thom discovering Aristotle’s Physics late in his life.)
 
“Res Extensa, Res Potentia and the Poised Realm”

NPR: http://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2010/08/17/129250892/res-extensa-res-potentia-and-the-poised-realm#more


Kauffman writes:
We have lived with scientific “monism” since Newton. Monism is the view, shared by virtually all scientists, that the world is made of one kind of “stuff,” the Actual world of matter and energy and with some question marks, space and time and information.
There are very good grounds to accept monism, and it has an ancient history. No less an ancient philosopher Empedocles said, “What is real in the universe is what is actual.”
Aristotle was less sure, he toyed with the idea that both the Actual and the Possible were “Real.” He called the Possible “potentia” and meant a variety of things by Potentia. And no less a mathematician and philosopher than Alfred North Whitehead, he of Principia Mathematica in the early 20th Century, written with Bertrand Russell, moved on to think of both Actuals and Possibles as “real”, or “ontologically real”, meaning two kinds of “stuff,” Actuals and Possibles in the universe.

I’m beginning, to my surprise to think Aristotle and Whitehead may have been right.
If so, the implications are radical.



In his article “ Free Will: There Are No Easy Answers”  Kauffman argues cogently from quantum mechanics that the human mind cannot be algorithmic:

example of synthesis research: Naccarato and MacCallum, "From Representation to Relationality: Bodies, Biosensors, and Mediated Environments" JDSP 8.1 (2015)

Here’s a journal article published by a couple of researchers hosted at Synthesis last year that may be interesting to folks working on movement and responsive media, somatic experience, experimental dance and experimental technology, critical studies of technoscience, or philosophy of movement:

Teoma Naccarato, John MacCallum, “From Representation to Relationality: Bodies, Biosensors, and Mediated Environments,”  in Embodiment, Interactivity and Digital Performance, Journal of Dance and Somatic Practices, 8.1, 2015.

Teoma is starting a PhD with the Centre for Dance Research (C-DaRE), Coventry University UK
and John is a postdoc at the Centre for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT) Department of Music, University of California at Berkeley. 

John and Teoma’s extended journal article is a good example of a durable outcome from the research cluster hosted by Synthesis in the Heartbeat Residency: Choreography and Composition of Internal Time.  This was a residency on temporality — sense of dynamic, change, rhythm — held February 15- 20, 2015. AME iStage, Matthews Center, ASU.




Ambient color changes according to whether dancer’s heart is faster or slower than some rate in the rhythm accompaniment software.  Synthesis Residency Jan 2015.   (The overhead tube lamps from Ziegler’s “forest2" were not used in this particular experiment.)


Improvisation with dancer Naccarato, composer / system creator MacCallum, Synthesis team and members of ASU laptop orchestra (Lorkas). Synthesis Residency Jan 2015.


________________________________________________________________________________________
Sha Xin Wei • Professor and Director • School of Arts, Media and Engineering + Synthesis
Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts + Fulton Schools of Engineering • ASU
Fellow: ASU-Santa Fe Center for Biosocial Complex Systems
Affiliate Professor: Future of Innovation in Society; Computer Science; English
Founding Director, Topological Media Lab
skype: shaxinwei • mobile: +1-650-815-9962
_________________________________________________________________________________________________

example of synthesis research: Naccarato and MacCallum, "From Representation to Relationality: Bodies, Biosensors, and Mediated Environments" JDSP 8.1 (2015)

Here’s a journal article published by a couple of researchers hosted at Synthesis last year that may be interesting to folks working on movement and responsive media, somatic experience, experimental dance and experimental technology, critical studies of technoscience, or philosophy of movement:

Teoma Naccarato, John MacCallum, “From Representation to Relationality: Bodies, Biosensors, and Mediated Environments,”  in Embodiment, Interactivity and Digital Performance, Journal of Dance and Somatic Practices, 8.1, 2015.

Teoma is starting a PhD with the Centre for Dance Research (C-DaRE), Coventry University UK
and John is a postdoc at the Centre for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT) Department of Music, University of California at Berkeley. 

John and Teoma’s extended journal article is a good example of a durable outcome from the research cluster hosted by Synthesis in the Heartbeat Residency: Choreography and Composition of Internal Time.  This was a residency on temporality — sense of dynamic, change, rhythm — held February 15- 20, 2015. AME iStage, Matthews Center, ASU.




Ambient color changes according to whether dancer’s heart is faster or slower than some rate in the rhythm accompaniment software.  Synthesis Residency Jan 2015.   (The overhead tube lamps from Ziegler’s “forest2" were not used in this particular experiment.)


Improvisation with dancer Naccarato, composer / system creator MacCallum, Synthesis team and members of ASU laptop orchestra (Lorkas). Synthesis Residency Jan 2015.


________________________________________________________________________________________
Sha Xin Wei • Professor and Director • School of Arts, Media and Engineering + Synthesis
Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts + Fulton Schools of Engineering • ASU
Fellow: ASU-Santa Fe Center for Biosocial Complex Systems
Affiliate Professor: Future of Innovation in Society; Computer Science; English
Founding Director, Topological Media Lab
skype: shaxinwei • mobile: +1-650-815-9962
_________________________________________________________________________________________________

Einsiedeln poles, "sketching" and collective planning buildings in situ

In the Swiss town of Einsiedeln, city planners put up poles marking the actual volume that would be occupied by a proposed building.   This way all the townspeople form their judgments of how this building would fit into the neighbourhood in situ.





See also, Christopher Alexander’s description of his method starting from the lived experience of the site, and refining concept in moving between multiple representations —sketching, modeling in clay / paper / balsa,  finite element computer modeling, drawing, punctuated throughout by mock-ups on site, in situ with successively more and more convergent materials.

A Small Example of a Living Process (the design and construction of the Upham house in Berkeley):

and the much larger project: the design and construction of the Eishin campus in Japan,
and a hospital in Oregon.