MEFT3102

The Course Outline for 2010 can be downloaded from the “Course Outline and Readings’ page—link is at the top of this page. There is also a full course outline online here—with all links live. This will prove useful for your class preparation.
We’re very excited to announce that the course will be taught this year by [...]

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For those who might be interested, here is the Podcast in which neuropsychologist Chris Frith talks about the extent to which we model or simulate reality as part or our most basic experience. So when we enter a virtual environment, it’s simulation vs simulation.

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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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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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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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Here is a great and short summary of some of the issues from Franciso Varela’s perspective - “Why the mind is not in the head”.
And for those interested there are some great blogs/podcasts out there on the mind, the brain, psychology and technology. I think the best podcast is Australia’s own All in the Mind. [...]

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