Fri 07/16 23:00 Interaction with Sensors, Receivers, Haptics, and Augmented Reality

Interaction with Sensors, Receivers, Haptics, and Augmented Reality

The Next Hope

Presented by: Micha Cardenas (Azdel Slade), TradeMark G., Elle Mehrmand, Ryan O'Horo, Pan
Date: Friday July 16, 2010
Time: 23:00 - 00:30
Location: Lovelace

Electronic sensor technology has been increasing in resolution while decreasing in cost. The ubiquity of GPS receivers has created the ability to obtain location-based information on demand. At the same time, Augmented Reality interfaces are becoming more popular in the consumer market. From the micro-level of delicate touch sensors in haptic interfaces to the macro-level of GPS positioning, these trends make physically interactive computing more and more accessible. This session will provide an overview of motion/light/heat sensors, GPS receivers, haptic interfaces, and other interactive electronics. Along with an explanation of how they work, several projects that utilize these technologies in the consumer, creative, and social realms will be covered. There will be an audience participation section where users will get a chance to explore sensors and electronics themselves.

Elle Mehrmand

Elle Mehrmand is a performance/new media artist and musician who uses the body, electronics, video, sound, and installation within her work. She is the singer and trombone player of Assembly of Mazes, a music collective who create dark, electronic, Middle Eastern, rhythmic jazz rock. Elle is currently an MFA candidate at UCSD, and received her BFA in art photography with a minor in music at CSULB. Elle has received grants from UCIRA, the Russell Foundation, and Fine Arts Affiliates. She is a researcher at CRCA and the b.a.n.g. lab at UCSD. Her performances have been shown in Long Beach, Los Angeles, Tijuana, Montreal, Dublin, San Diego and Bogota. Her work has been discussed in Art21, the Los Angeles Times, Furtherfield.org, Reno News and Review and the OC Weekly.

Micha Cardenas

Micha Cardenas / Azdel Slade (http://transreal.org) is an artist/theorist whose transreal work mixes physical and networked spaces in order to explore emerging forms of queer relationality, biopolitics and DIY horizontal knowledge production. She is a lecturer in the visual arts department at UCSD. She is an artist/researcher with UCSD Medical Education and the b.a.n.g. lab at Calit2. Her forthcoming publications include “Becoming Dragon: A Transversal Technology Study” in the book Code Drift from CTheory, “I am Transreal” in Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation from Seal Press and Trans Desire from Atropos Press. Her current collaboration with Elle Mehrmand, “Mixed Relations,” was the recipient of the UCIRA Emerging Fields Award for 2009.

Pan

Pan is the founder of Sensory Research, an organization of engineers, designers, and artists dedicated to providing useful tools, services, and ideas to augment human interaction. Most recently, his work has focused on developing interactive software for Android and iPhone, as well as for the P5 virtual reality glove. Sensory Research is also host to the various projects of the Snuggles Collective and the audio archive for the Church of the Subgenius Hour of Slack. Pan is the creator and host of the long running technology radio show Interactive Technologies. Under the moniker Paradox Explorer, Pan (and associates) organize live performances that incorporate music, video, and interactive technology. He has been participating in technology and culture jamming in various forms since the 1980s.

Ryan O'Horo

Ryan O’Horo is a security consultant with a large professional services company and has designed several car PCs and runs the DIY group Make:NYC.

TradeMark G.

TradeMark G. is a musician and artist, perhaps best known as founder of the band The Evolution Control Committee in 1986. He is also a culture jammer, equipment designer, software designer, and organizer. The Evolution Control Committee is best known for its copyright-challenging stance, using found sounds to create new musical works at the risk of copyright violation. This made the ECC the target of a cease and desist order from CBS for sampling newscaster Dan Rather, but also earned them credit for creating the “mash-up” genre of music (also called bastard pop). TradeMark can take credit for those and all other ECC projects, including the development and construction of the Thimbletron, a live sampling performance instrument that utilizes hand gestures.