Special Topics in CS

Alice Aycock is a leading sculptor and an inspiration for this summer's interdisciplinary project course in the Cultural Computing Program. The course offers students the opportunity to work with cutting edge technology and a visionary artist whose “sculpture has had a transformative effect on the contemporary art experience [1]”.

Alice builds "large semi-architectural projects which deal with the interaction of structure, site, materials, and the psychophysical responses of the viewer; for instance claustrophobia, claustrophilia and vertigo. They are involved with both experimental and remembered time [2]”.

sculpture

The course will examine the concept of a virtual sculpture park set in the environment of industrial New York. Students will study the motivation, artistic, and historic background for the concept, and consider technical and artistic approaches to accomplish the goal. Working in interdisciplinary teams, the students will have the opportunity to contribute in a variety of ways to the project. These tasks will involve creative input from a range of disciplines including human-computer interaction, web design, graphic design, art criticism and text based commentary, computer programming, interactive network communication, and hardware design.

References

1. Robert Hobbs: http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=10455].

2. TandemPress: http://www.tandempress.wisc.edu/tandem/gallery/aycock/aycock.htm].

Registration. Open to all University students Summer 2006, Urbana-Champaign only. Registration Starts Apr 03, 2006. Contact the instructors for more information.

Timetable 1^st day of Class June 12, Last day August 3rd. Wed-Fri 1:00-3:00 pm Siebel Center

Levels: Undergrad CS498 3 hour Section CC3 CRN 31261 or 4 hour Section CC4 CRN 31262 or Art 391 3 hour CRN 31259.

Graduate CS498 Section CR4 CRN 31262 or Art 591 CRN 31260 Summer 2006.

Instructors: Karrie Karahalios, Jonathan D Fineberg, Roy H Campbell