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This piece has it all …. For the geekier among us, this is a great project by the international group Aetherbits. It’s well worth while watching this short video, which covers a very wide range of topics, from datamining to synthesis, with some interesting software and operations to back it up. They’re also interested in [...]

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Video: Bruce Sterling’s Keynote - At the Dawn of the Augmented Reality Industry from Maarten Lens-FitzGerald on Vimeo.

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Via Mitchell Whitelaw, very interesting artwork involving “relief projection and multichannel sequencing”.

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After a long wait, we can now see what James Cameron’s latest work is looking like. The trailer (or teaser) for Avatar is available here. See for yourself if it’s an improvement on Final Fantasy.

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Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist is one of the world’s leading video artists. This video is about the largest video installation I’ve ever seen

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Augmented reality is all the go this year! Lots of interesting applications.

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There’s a new—and better—room for the Monday 3-5 tutorial. It’s the West Wing of the Red Centre building, room M010. I’ll lead people there after the lecture as it’s a little hard to find. You go in to the West Wing, head straight toward the stairs, then up one level, then turn towards the narrow [...]

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For those of you who like reading good, higher level material—here’s a beautiful article (you will need library access online) on Étienne-Jules Marey, one of the pioneers of the study of movement(and the imperceptible) through photography. The full reference is:
Manning, Erin (2008) ‘Grace Taking Form: Marey’s Movement Machines’, Parallax, 14:1, 82 — 91

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For our initial discussion of traditional aesthetics and art, here’s a good video in which painter Peter Doig talks about his art and his process. YouTube will have lots of good things like this of course! Following this are some videos of some work by Rebecca Horn.

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