High Performance Narrative
Indpenedent Study Proposal
John Rothenberg
SMArchS MIT School of Architecture
Professor Chris Csikszentmihalyi
Computing Culture Group
MIT Media Lab
"Perhaps the immobility of the things that surround us is forced upon them by our conviction that they are themselves, and not anything else, and by the immobility of our conceptions of them." Proust, Swann's Way
I'm interested in exploring the three themes of narrative, performance, and memory and specifically how they could be addressed in the form of mobile communication devices. I think these designs could either become performance tools or autonomous performers, and I am interested in building at least one of each type. I am also interested in mobility and exploring mobile, remote, or unusual settings for these devices. If I can sucessfully collect the electronics and power within a mobile package, I think I'll be able to place these designs in more unexpected settings. This is the secondary goal of the semester.
I have the following technical goals:
-Build projects with SMD Atmega and ISP header for reprogramming
-Take advantage of EEPROM to allow the devices to develope a memory
-Learn more about power consumption, and decrease the power needs of the devices
-Use Li-Pol batteries
-Explore wireless connectivity and remotely accessing large data sets
Reading List
Calvino - If On A Winter's Night A Traveler
Henri Bergson - Matter and Memory
Marcel Proust - Swann's Way
Robert Smithson - The Collected Writings
Lygia Clark -- Brazillian artist (writings?)
Jack Burhham -- systems art & beyond modern sculpture
Bruce Nauman
Paul Ricouer (Time & Narrative)
Sergei Eisenstein -- narrative, emotion
George Legrady (postcards and pockets)
Foucault - Discpline and Punish
Hales - How We Became Posthuman
Schedule
week 1-3: Project 1: Remembrance of Things Past
device: Autonomus Performer
reading: Bergson, Proust, Smithson
week 4-7: Project 2: Narrative
device: Performance Tool
reading: Calvino, Clark, Eisenstein
week 8: Documenting p1+p2
week 9-11: Project 3: Performance
device: either
reading: Nauman, Ricoeur, Legrady
week 12-15:
Rethinking and refining one project as a Final Project
Preparation of materials for publication
* Depending on the output of the first half of the semester, I might want to focus on a single, larger project for weeks 9-15.
John Rothenberg
SMArchS MIT School of Architecture
Professor Chris Csikszentmihalyi
Computing Culture Group
MIT Media Lab
"Perhaps the immobility of the things that surround us is forced upon them by our conviction that they are themselves, and not anything else, and by the immobility of our conceptions of them." Proust, Swann's Way
I'm interested in exploring the three themes of narrative, performance, and memory and specifically how they could be addressed in the form of mobile communication devices. I think these designs could either become performance tools or autonomous performers, and I am interested in building at least one of each type. I am also interested in mobility and exploring mobile, remote, or unusual settings for these devices. If I can sucessfully collect the electronics and power within a mobile package, I think I'll be able to place these designs in more unexpected settings. This is the secondary goal of the semester.
I have the following technical goals:
-Build projects with SMD Atmega and ISP header for reprogramming
-Take advantage of EEPROM to allow the devices to develope a memory
-Learn more about power consumption, and decrease the power needs of the devices
-Use Li-Pol batteries
-Explore wireless connectivity and remotely accessing large data sets
Calvino - If On A Winter's Night A Traveler
Henri Bergson - Matter and Memory
Marcel Proust - Swann's Way
Robert Smithson - The Collected Writings
Lygia Clark -- Brazillian artist (writings?)
Jack Burhham -- systems art & beyond modern sculpture
Bruce Nauman
Paul Ricouer (Time & Narrative)
Sergei Eisenstein -- narrative, emotion
George Legrady (postcards and pockets)
Foucault - Discpline and Punish
Hales - How We Became Posthuman
week 1-3: Project 1: Remembrance of Things Past
device: Autonomus Performer
reading: Bergson, Proust, Smithson
week 4-7: Project 2: Narrative
device: Performance Tool
reading: Calvino, Clark, Eisenstein
week 8: Documenting p1+p2
week 9-11: Project 3: Performance
device: either
reading: Nauman, Ricoeur, Legrady
week 12-15:
Rethinking and refining one project as a Final Project
Preparation of materials for publication
* Depending on the output of the first half of the semester, I might want to focus on a single, larger project for weeks 9-15.
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