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REALTIME
jonCates - Assistant Professor
Film, Video and New Media
FVNM 3812 9 AM - 4 PM T
FALL 2005
REALTIME COURSE DESCRIPTION: Realtime explores audio-visual systems and performances of live experimental new media art. Artists create, control, effect and transform digital media in realtime using systems created by and for artists. Digital and computational systems allow improvisation, live audio-video performance, and synthesis of complex works and projects. Students learn, play and perform with artware, open source tools and systems (PureData, GEM and dyne:bolic!) and commercially available software (Max/MSP and Jitter). This studio course includes a historical approach to realtime systems, and features use of the Sandin Image Processor, an analog patch programmable computer optimized for video processing from 1971 - 1973. Current praxis is discussed in relation to the earlier realtime forms from early cinema (such as Oskar Fischinger's Lumigraph), video (such as the Dan Sandin's Sandin Image Processor) and New Media.
 

   

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    # BEGIN REALTIME SYLLABUS:
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// REALTIME.DVR
we will be [discussing/developing] realtime New Media projects as hystorical rooted + socioeconomically situated screen based experimental media art. these hystories + theorypractices will be [discussed/developed] w/perspectives that include early cinema to Film Art to Video Art to New Media. these domains [+/or] fields of artistic activity will be considered as technosocial + {digital|network}-culture specific [codes/concepts/constructs] that can + will be effected by you + your work as artists.
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    // REALTIME.SYS
participants will be expected to use systems [demonstrated/discussed] in class, imagine + implement their own uses of these systems [+/or] develop their own artware applications + systems. the [technologies/systems] [demonstrated/discussed] will incl various forms of realtime New Media projects (i.e. Pixelmap), artware (i.e. os_anm), open source tools + systems (PureData, GEM + dyne:bolic!), commercially available software (Max/MSP + Jitter) + hystorical analog approaches (i.e. the Sandin Image Processor).
these [technologies/systems] + others should all be considered during the creation of work to be critiqued, performed + played during class meetings.
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    // RE: REALTIME
students will follow self directed + determined research paths, develop journals, blog, diaries, sketchbooks +/or other such self-documenting praxis during the semester. in the case of digital praxis such as blogs, vlogs, etc students will make the URIs of these sites known to the class. in the case of analog or physical practices, students will make these available to me for review @ my request.
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    // REALTIME.EVAL
we will critique, perform, play, inhabit + expand all realtime New Media projects throughout the semester. i will address projects + students individually throughout the semester. we will sustain a continued conversation about all projects, systems, artware, readings, screenings + skill sets. all participants will be constantly evaluated on their participation in these ongoing + sustained efforts.
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    // REALTIME.ATT
attendance and punctuality are required.
3 absences == NO CREDIT.
2 lates == 1 absence.
6 lates == NO CREDIT.
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    // REALTIME.CTRB
contribution by all participants to all aspects of the course is not only required but is the basis by which the development of the course as a social space of artistic experimentation, exchange + creation is made possible.
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    // REALTIME.PRM
class will meet every TUES from 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM, w/a 01 hour break for nutrients, with the exception of Graduate Critique Week.
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every day in Realtime will be divided in the following manner
// REALTIME.DAY -> AM
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// REALTIME.DAY -> AM -> ART.SYST
realtime New Media art projects + artware applications + systems will be displayed, discussed + demonstrated.
// REALTIME.DAY -> AM -> NFO.EXCH
systems [demonstrated/discussed] in class, participants imagine + implement their own uses of these systems [+/or] develop their own artware applications + systems.
// REALTIME.DAY -> PM
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// REALTIME.DAY -> PM -> NFO.EXCH
information exchange on systems continues after a midday break for nutrients.
// REALTIME.DAY -> PM -> SYS.PLAY
systems (including those [demonstrated/discussed] earlier, freely available [+/or] developed by participants) will played + critiqued by participants.
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    // REALTIME.FWX
participants in Realtime must work w/in frameworks. frameworks are not assignments. frameworks occur in the life of an artist, assignments occur in the life of a student. the following frameworks will be mapped to specific chronological events on the Realtime calendar.
collaborative efforts in the realization of REALTIME.FWX are strongly encouraged.
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0:0 (aka NONE TO NONE)
consider approaching randomness + the possibility of nonrelationality. create a realtime New Media work, project, piece, event or situation w/in the framework of a 0:0 (aka NONE TO NONE) relationship.
// REALTIME.FWX -> 1:1
1:1 (aka ONE TO ONE)
consider exchanging signals, transcoding, reinterpreting + the possibilities of basic relationships. create a realtime New Media work, project, piece, event or situation w/in the framework of a 1:1 (aka ONE TO ONE) relationship.
// REALTIME.FWX -> N:X
create a variable or shifting structure that holds data until new values are assigned or the program ends. create a relationship between a variable (N) "whose value is inherited from the current context" (* SEE JARGON FILE, URI: http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/N/N.html) + an unknown variable (X) while assigning values to these variables. sustain the effort.
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2005.09.06: begin [discussing/developing] Realtime ... compile REALTIME.CAL

2005.09.13: Old Skool Revolutionaries ... Sandin Image Procesor ... patch programming... 0:0

2005.09.20: [display/discuss] 0:0

2005.09.27: Expanded Cinema ... Lumigraph ... PureData ... OpenSource systems + free cultures

2005.10.04: Pixelmap ... PureData ... GEM ... Busker visit ... 1:1

2005.10.11: [display/discuss] 1:1

2005.10.18: GEM ... Framestein ... [input/output] systems ... N:X

2005.10.25: Max/MSP ... Jitter ... commercial software ... N:X

2005.11.01: Jitter ... Josh Kit Clayton ... visual music ... N:X

2005.11.08: VJ culture ... Hourglass Dolphins ... dyne:bolic! ... N:X

2005.11.15: remixological styles ... Scratch Video ... EBN ... N:X

2005.11.22: lo-rez ... os_anm ... Simon Yuill ... no-rez ... documentation vs disappearance ... N:X

2005.11.29: [display/discuss] N:X

2005.12.06: no REALTIME ... CRIT WEEK

2005.12.13: [display/discuss] N:X
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    // REALTIME.WWW
the complete + updated courseware will exist online + all students will be responsible for keeping themselves informed of changes. dotVideo will utilize the School of the Art Institute's portal:
URI: http://go.artic.edu
as well as:
URI: http://www.artic.edu/~jcates
CONTACT: jcates@artic.edu
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    // REALTIME.CCL
this syllabus is protected by the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License:
URI: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/
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    # END dotVideo SYLLABUS