Our course proposal was accepted at SIGGRAPH ASIA 2014. The course will be held December 3, 2014 in Shenzhen China. More information here. It will be great to have active participation at SIGGRAPH ASIA from Ritsumeikan !
Category Archives: Events
Palle Dahlstedt & Nonoko Sato – E.A.T. 2 Performance Excerpt
Akiko Ochi – E.A.T. 2 Performance Excerpt
Stereo Bugscope (Demo) by Haco @ Lyons Zemi, June 4th, 2013
Tatsuya Nakatani Live @ Lyons Zemi
We had a really wonderful visit from percussionist Tatsuya Nakatani and artist Julie Schenkelberg. At the end of the seminar Tatsuya generously allowed us to try out his instruments. This was a really inspiring way to end the term and start the Winter/Spring break. Don’t forget Tatsuya will be performing at UrbanGuild on Friday, January 18th.
Prof. Ochi’s Visit
These are raw videos, unedited. If anyone would like to edit these please let me know and I’ll give you the original mp4 files.
John Cage 100th Anniversary Countdown Event 2012 / FINAL
Clicking on the picture will take you to the event web page.
Alan Turing Centenary
Not surprisingly, a ‘Google Doodle‘ has been created to celebrate the occasion:
The CWI (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica) in Amsterdam has unveiled a Turing Machine built from LEGO:
LEGO Turing Machine from ecalpemos on Vimeo.
For more information about Alan Turing, widely considered the father of computer science (and the modern computer), start with the Wikipedia article (but don’t stop there).
Transit
This is an admittedly impressionistic take on the Venus transit of 2012. No doubt there are already countless pristine images available all over the web, as well as live feed (while it lasts) and videos. I didn’t really make advance preparations – just piled all the filters I have onto my longest lens, stopped down, and waited for some additional light blockage by thin clouds. No tripod. So … conditions far from ‘ideal’, but for someone involved in the field of images, it would be more embarrassing not to have any picture of this at all.
Here’s a less impressionistic image made by projecting the sun onto a sheet of paper using binoculars. Again, impromptu & handheld:
Exercise for the reader: why is the above image bluish?
One final image of the transit taken at about 12:30 p.m. towards the end of the show. This was made holding the binoculars in one hand and my digital camera in the other. Hence the blur. Distortion of the shape of the suns disk in the following image (and the previous one) is a result of a non-flat projection screen, and non-orthogonal projection angle.
Next photo-op? 2117.
NIME-13 @ KAIST
Last week at NIME-12, Professor Woon Seung Yeo (aka Woony) made the official announcement that Korea will host NIME-13. The conference will be held at the “MIT of Korea”, KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) in Daejeon, with an extra day in Seoul for cultural events and club concerts.
I gave a talk at KAIST in 1998 as part of an invited trip to Korea as keynote speaker at the annual meeting of the Korean Cognitive Science Society. KAIST is about one hour from Seoul by express train.
