education

Wikiversity

2008-02-23T20:59:16+00:00

Wikiversity is an online education resource : " Wikiversity is a community for the creation of learning activities and development of free learning materials. Students and teachers are invited to join the project as collaborators in teaching, learning, and research. Wikiversity strives to be an open and vibrant community where you can explore and learn about your personal interests. Wikiversity hosts and develops free learning materials for all age groups. Please participate and help build collaborative learning projects and communities; at Wikiversity we learn by doing, we learn by editing. "

Naggar School of Photography, Media and New Music (Jerusalem)

2008-01-26T19:02:46+00:00

The Naggar School of Photography, Media and New Music is a creative institute that allows students to achieve skills artistically, creatively and professionally in the fields of photography, digital media, video and new music, with an emphasis on inter-disciplinary work. The Naggar School is located within the Morasha (Musrara) neighborhood in Jerusalem, Israel. visit http://www.naggarschool.com for more details

The Digital Artists Handbook

2008-01-26T13:25:19+00:00

The Digital Artists Handbook is an up to date, reliable and accessible source of information that introduces you to different tools, resources and ways of working related to digital art.

The goal of the Handbook is to be a signpost, a source of practical information and content that bridges the gap between new users and the platforms and resources that are available, but not always very accessible. The Handbook will be slowly filled with articles written by invited artists and specialists, talking about their tools and ways of working. Some articles are introductions to tools, others are descriptions of methodologies, concepts and technologies.

When discussing software, the focus of this Handbook is on Free/Libre Open Source Software. The Handbook aims to give artists information about the available tools but also about the practicalities related to Free Software and Open Content, such as collaborative development and licenses. All this to facilitate exchange between artists, to take away some of the fears when it comes to open content licenses, sharing code, and to give a perspective on various ways of working and collaborating.

-- info via the DAH index page

International Course - Master of Arts in MediaArtHistories (Austria)

2007-09-15T20:45:58+01:00

International Course - Master of Arts in MediaArtHistories
(Low residency; International faculty, English language)

Following the inaugual launch of the course that brought students from
4 continents to the Wachau, the program MediaArtHistories starts this
November for the second time and is currently accepting applications.
MAH conveys the most important developments of contemporary art through
a network of renowned international theorists, artists and curators
like: Steve DIETZ, Erkki HUHTAMO, Lev MANOVICH, Christiane PAUL, Paul
SERMON, Edward SHANKEN, Jens HAUSER, Christa SOMMERER; Gerfried STOCKER,
Knowbotic Research, Charlie GERE, Oliver GRAU and many others.

Artists and programmers give new insights into the latest and most
controversial software, interface developments and their
interdisciplinary and intercultural praxis.

Keywords are: Strategies of
Interaction & Interface Design, Social Software, Immersion &
Emotion and Artistic Invention. Using online databases and other modern
aids, knowledge of computer animation, net art, interactive, telematic
and genetic art as well as the most recent reflections on nano art, CAVE
installations, augmented reality and wearables are introduced.
Historical derivations that go far back into art and media history are
tied in intriguing ways to digital art. Important approaches and methods
from Image Science, Media Archaeology and the History of Science &
Technology will be discussed.

MediaArtHistories MA is also based on the international praxis and
expertise in Curation, Collecting, Preserving and Archiving and
Researching in the Media Arts. What are, for example, the conditions
necessary for a wider consideration of media art works and of new media
in these collections of the international contemporary art scene? And in
which way can new Databases and other scientific tools of structuring
and visualizing data provide new contexts and enhance our understanding
of semantics?

Further Information:
http://www.donau-uni.ac.at/dis
http://www.donau-uni.ac.at/mediaarthistories
http://www.virtualart.at
http://www.mediaarthistories.org/pub/mediaarthistories.html

DANUBE UNIVERSITY KREMS - located in the UNESCO world heritage Wachau
is the first public university in Europe which specializes in advanced
continuing education offering low-residency degree programs for working
professionals and lifelong learners. Students come for 4 x 2 week blocks
to Monastery Goettweig in Austria.

With its new modular courses starting in November 2007 the DEPARTMENT
FOR IMAGE SCIENCE at Danube University Krems offers an educational
program internationally unique. Without interrupting the career working
professionals have the opportunity to further their career through
direct, individualized hands-on experience, social learning in small
groups and contacts with labs and industry. They gain key qualifications
for the contemporary art and media marketplace.

The Center in Monastery Goettweig, where most MediaArtHistories courses
take place, is housed in a 14th century building, remodeled to fit the
needs of modern research in singular surroundings. The Goettweig
Collection holds more than 30.000 prints and 2000 incunabla and
manuscripts dating from the Middle Ages, Renaissance and Baroque era
until today. International experts analyze the image worlds of art,
science, politics and economy and elucidate how they originated, became
established and how they have stood the test of time. The innovative
approach at the Department for Image Science is reinforced by
praxis-oriented study.

Contact:
Sabine Lindner
Department for Image Science
Danube University Krems
Dr.-Karl-Dorrek-Str. 30, A-3500 Krems
Tel: +43(0)2732 893-2569
sabine.lindner@donau-uni.ac.at
http://www.donau-uni.ac.at/dis

For more information go to: www.donau-uni.ac.at/dis

teachertube.com

2007-03-24T23:53:20+00:00

teachertube is a youtube-like site for teachers to post teaching videos to help other teachers and students alike. There's lessons for primary school through to high school students as well as help on how to create a screencast or upload a video to the site. The interface is very similar to youtube and is easy to use. Visit http://www.teachertube.com for more details

Croquet Project - teaching platform for creating collaborative multi-user online applications

2006-10-21T05:51:58+01:00

The Croquet Project is an international effort to promote the continued development of Croquet, a new open source software platform for creating deeply collaborative multi-user online applications. It features a network architecture that supports communication, collaboration, resource sharing, and synchronous computation among multiple users. Using the downloadable Croquet SDK, software developers can benefit from a flexible enough framework that virtually any user interface concept could quickly and easily be prototyped and deployed to create powerful and highly collaborative multi-user 2D and 3D applications and simulations.
-- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croquet_project

Croquet is a combination of computer software and network architecture that supports deep collaboration and resource sharing among multiple users within the context of a large-scale distributed information system. Along with providing a flexible enough framework that virtually any user interface concept could quickly and easily be prototyped and deployed, Croquet can be used to deliver compelling 3D collaborative visualizations and simulations.

Croquet incorporates replication of computation (both objects and activity), and the idea of active shared subspaces in its basic interpreter model. More traditional distributed systems replicate data, but try very hard not to replicate computation. But, it is often easier and more efficient to send the computation to the data, rather than the other way round. Consequently, Croquet is defined so that replication of computations is just as easy as replication of data.

visit http://www.opencroquet.org for more details

Sarai i-Fellows 2006 Delhi

2006-08-30T19:10:10+01:00

click here or on the image to play the quicktime movie

music is Indian Summer by Big Bud

I went along to the Sarai Independent Fellows 2006 workshops last weekend (26-27/08) @ Sarai, CSDS, New Delhi. I missed the first two days sessions, but here is a slideshow video of some of the saturday & sunday sessions. it was really interesting - both the presentations and the discussions afterwards. some sessions were in Hindi so I couldn't follow as easily. there were a wide range of projects though - art, music, urban issues. hopefully they'll link to some of the full papers on the sarai.net website. it was a great way to get another insight into life and goings on in India and related places.

photos @ http://www.flickr.com/photos/aliak_com/tags/saraiifellows2006

http://ifellows2006.wordpress.com

http://www.sarai.net

EntheoGenisis Australia Conference 2006 - Experimental Shamanic Trance Dance, Sacred Plant and Sound System Workshop

2006-05-13T08:19:43+01:00

Workshop & Conference Presentation

Experimental Shamanic Trance Dance, Sacred Plant and Sound System
Workshop

Facilitator & Programmer
DJ Krusty

Please Register Your Interest :
egaexperimentaltrancedanceworkshop@hotmail.com

For All Details Check www.entheo.net (must be a Conference Delegate to
attend tickets pre sale only

Rational
Following my presentations from the EGA 2004 and 2005 and the feedback
and group discussions I feel that the next and most appropriate step
for the 2006 Conference is to present an Experimental Workshop.

Concept
Talk / Presentation / Discussion – Friday night

Workshop
Start : Sunday 3 pm
Finish : Sunday 11 pm

3.00 pm – 3.30 pm Arrival, Questions, Discussion
3.30 - 4.00 pm Preparation in the Space
4.00 - 4.30 pm Ritual & Ceremony
4.30 - 10.30 pm Trance Dance
10.30 - 11.00 pm Closure

This experimental workshop is an invitation to those individuals who
are interested in the trance dance experience as providing an
opportunity for mind/body/spirit/soul development. EGA 2006 will be a
unique opportunity for people who are experienced in the dance floor
and consciousness development approach to try something new, different,
fun and well focused, that is totally aimed at extending the boundaries
of each participants current experiential and knowledge paradigms.

I am very excited to be presenting this workshop along with other
co-facilitators
1. Robin Cooke - Mutoid Waste – Flame Powered Quad Rotary Strobe
2. Sil Ianello - Geni Flip – Sacred Space Installation
3. Kundalini - Space Between the Gaps – Sacred Space Installation
- Music Programming
4. Glen Armstrong - Vesuvius – Lighting and Fire Keeper

Please Register Your Interest!! – Very Important so we have an accurate
idea of numbers who wish to attend this workshop!!
If you are interested please send an email and stating you are
interested in attending or feel free to ask any question –
egaexperimentaltrancedanceworkshop@hotmail.com

The Workshop Explanation
Participants are asked to be prepared for a full consciousness 6 hour
trance dance. For the purposes of this workshop participants will be
asked to bring a focused mindful spiritual dimension to the event on
all levels.

An earth based ritual will be conducted to create a sacred dance floor
space whereby all workshop participants become co-creators in this
ceremony. The elements of fire, water, earth and air with be invoked
and acknowledged.

The 6 hour trance dance ritual will be loosely based on Joseph
Campbells ‘Mythos’ of the Hero’s Journey in such that the trance dance
shamanic journey consciousness workshop we will all be taking is not
something new but is essentially the same story told throughout
millennia by all cultures at all times. The space will be set up so
that focus is towards the centre of the dance floor where there will be
a ‘sacred’ fire. This moves the focus from the proscenium arch
performance construct and brings the event further forward for the
individuals as a co-creators.

The experimental dimension of the workshop comes as an opportunity for
participants to try and create a new direction and also creates an
opportunity for people who have been participants in the outdoor bush
doof psy trance global dance floor culture to activate within
themselves and their cultural ‘scene’ some new insights and paradigm
possibilities.

This experiment will be conducted within a shamanic sacrament paradigm,
in that it might be very challenging physically, mentally, emotionally
and spiritually. Participants will journey deep within themselves
through the trance dance with the aim of finding new insights and a
deeper understanding of self from the experience. The overall intention
is for participants to gain something positive and potentially a
profound healing from the workshop as well as some new insights into
the dance floor experience that can later be documented and discussed.

Participants are asked to:

• Acknowledge the experience a sacred experience and to connect with
the spirit of the earth, plants and the indigenous and non-indigenous
shamanic communities that have worked in such ways throughout
millennia.

• To co-create and acknowledge the dance floor as a sacred and divine
space during the workshop. This means a few guidelines such as no
talking unless needed, no spitting, no gear or things in the dance
space, bringing a positive intention to the experiment, supporting and
holding the space with a pure heart, being mindful of others and not
interrupt their journey, to have as much enjoyment as possible, to
engage with others in the dance as it happens.

Tools For The Journey

- Water container
- Costumes or layers of cloths as it may rain and it may be very cold
- Blanket & Towel
- An open mind and an open heart
- Anything else that may support you in your journey

Feedback mechanism and Reporting

It is the vision of EGA 2006 for participants of this workshop to
provide feedback and discussions via the EGA web site in the weeks and
months following the Conference.

Trance Dance Journey Diagram

Start 1 2 3 4 5 Finish
Hours

Gentle Tribal Activate Hard Trance Lift Confrontation Easy Flow
Chakra Spiral

Call to Adventure Threshold Test, Allies Inmost Cave Death
Ordeal Road Back Return with Elixir

**loosely developed from Joseph Campbell – The Hero with a Thousand
Faces

Dance Floor Space

• Surround Sound System
• Sacred Fire in Centre
• Flame Powered Rotary Strobe Towers – 4 Cardinal Points
• Sacred Space Installation

citeulike - academic papers link system

2005-10-21T12:35:07+01:00

All about CiteULike

Read all about it

CiteULike is a free service to help academics to share, store, and organise the academic papers they are reading. When you see a paper on the web that interests you, you can click one button and have it added to your personal library. CiteULike automatically extracts the citation details, so there's no need to type them in yourself. It all works from within your web browser. There's no need to install any special software.

Because your library is stored on the server, you can access it from any computer. You can share your library with others, and find out who is reading the same papers as you. In turn, this can help you discover literature which is relevant to your field but you may not have known about.

visit http://www.citeulike.org/ for more details

workshop : max/msp course @ Goldsmiths College, London

2005-03-26T12:44:00+00:00

http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/departments/music/ems/index.html

max/msp course notes
day 1
19 March 2005
Goldsmiths College, London

bang & toggle -> easy way to see what's going on in the patch; test; use it to print values

apple m = status window
number box passes on info when it receives the bang

toggle
- off when 0 (int)
- on for any other int value
- if it gets a float, it truncates the decimal to give 0 or 1 eg 1.57 would give 1; 0.73 would give 0

give arguments labels if multiple elemnts are used
eg print A, print B

prepend set - message -> monitoring data; to preview data
timings are in milliseconds

metro 1000-34 -> 1000 is the start value; 34 will override 1000 (right input)

help metro -> to show help pages (patches); or check help menus; also check status bar

1. what numbers do we use to control the object
2. what numbers do we need
3. how do we convert 1. to 2.

gui:
- toggle
- int number
- float number
- sliders
- radio buttons x/y
- dial
- keyboard
-- polyphonic (multiple select/toggle keys) or monophonic (single select keys)
- apple i shows inspector eg uslider inspector

fatal loops = endless loop; stack overflow

right to left rule of calculation
- patch values are calculated from top to bottom and right to left

maths expressions

select object
- if then else

midi - can use virtual midi if no midi device connected

midi objects
- don't use midi in/out much as this will include all the sync/clock/timing midi commands
- use note in/out or bend in/out (pitch bend) etc instead
- ctrl in -> fader control

16channel = 1 channel for each device
- this is right most number (A)
note in
(C) (B) (A)

(A) who do you speak to (channel)
(B) what do you tell it (velocity)
(C) what value (value)

need to send note off also to stop notes. use makenote instead to manage this for you.
makenote 67 1000 will turn off the note after 1 sec (1000)
if musician plays notes on keyboard they decide when the note offs are sent so you don't need to send them for live players; only for virtual midi

trigger ff
trigger ii (int)
trigger (bb (bang)
- avoids the right-left problems for cases i++ or ++i

----

first audio / msp

audio in (mic icon) / adc (sound cards with multiple inputs)
audio out (speaker icon) / dac

option - dsp status
- double click on objects
- select sound card / audio driver options

adc input I/O mappings
- you could setup 5.1. or 8ch audio here or best to do it using dac options

dsp status:
latency
- more response, smaller the number
- tradeoff is that audio might drop out
- if you set signal overdrive = on this guarantees continuous audio stream
- you may get timing issues as max struggles to keep up with the processing required withe overdrive=on
- overdrive=off, max performs better but audio may drop

sampling rate 44100
i/p ch
o/p ch
i/o vector size 512
sig vector size 64

msp patch leads are yellow
gain faders are striped

max objects -> calculates 1msec
msp objects - calculate according to the sampling rate eg 44k

dsp status:
cpu utilisation -> this is % cpu max/msp needs to do audio
- @ 70% mouse movements are degraded
- max/msp doesn't support dual processors for msp/dsp audio but you could assign one processor to max and the other to msp/dsp
- another way round this is to use keystroke commands instead of mouse during performance

calculator:
route - send error messages
#
itoa (int to ascii)
prepend set
(value)

open
sfplay (play loaded sound files)
simple audio chains

max/msp doesn't like the laptop going into standby

lists
unpack
- to unpack a list of numbers into a list of inputs
unpack 0 0 0 0 0 0 -> 0 is initial value also

makenote does the unpack internally

pack 0 0
- 2 inputs -> 1
47 57
pack 0 0
prepend set
47 57

name of ch (this can be something else)
send notes
receive notes
- these two: pack the list first to send to sendnotes

* scale is pc bandwidth processor power intensive
so you use scale to invert the volume on freeform input square
so volume decreases as cursor decreases
default is volume increases as cursor decreases which is opposite to how we visually see it to what we hear

scale 0 127 127 0
scalle 0 127 127 0
the fifth argument is for exponential scale value

send maximum
- right click to see if this name 'maximum' has been used before in the patch

send, receive or s, r (shortcut names)
trigger t
p double_click - patch "double_click" -> a patch within a patch
counter - can have multiple values and also multiple variables

set $1
jam $1
max $1

object ~ is msp object not max object

---

for next session, do up to tutorial 20 - max tutorials, + up to tutorial 10 msp tutorials

refernce manual - max object thesaurus

cycling74 alias folder -> contains external patches library
extras folder -> contains tools which appear in tools menu

examples -> these are patches

next session is April 9th

Diploma in CCD (online) 2005

2005-03-15T21:42:00+00:00

Diploma in CCD (online) 2005

CCDNSW's Diploma in Community Cultural Development (online) provides
participants with the competencies needed to work in community cultural
development at a project and program management level.

In particular this flexible diploma course is designed for cultural
workers, organisers, artists,
as well as people working in fields allied to community cultural
development, including: environment, health,
youth work, social work, Indigenous, and cultural diversity.

This Diploma is offered online. Full internet delivery is offered for
four modules, with the fifth module
offered through a combination of online and work-based project activity.

The course can be undertaken either fulltime in one year, or part-time
over a longer period.
The combination and order of modules undertaken is up to you.

Diploma Modules
D1: Identifying Needs in CCD
D2: Obtaining Funding for CCD Projects
D3: Marketing & Promotion of CCD
D4: Working With Groups Within a Community Network
D8-11: Manage a CCD Project

Enrolment
Enrolments close Friday 8 April 2005.

Orientation
A compulsory orientation session will be held in Sydney on Monday 18
April 2005. Venue TBC.

Completion
Modules should be completed by 31 October 2005.

Cost
Modules D1-D4 $325 each
Module D8-11 $420
Total cost of Diploma $1,720 (no GST). Cost of each module includes
online registration fee.

Contact: CCDNSW on 02 9764 6588 ext.1 or info@ccdnsw.org
Go to: http://www.ccdnsw.org/ccdnsw/training/405_dip.php

________________________________

What our students from 2004 have said about the Diploma course...

"For the last two years i have been engaged in the Diploma in Community
Cultural Development on-line course offered by CCDNSW.

I found the Course content relevant and challenging and thouraghly
enjoyed it, the diploma has not only broadened my understanding of CCD
practice
but has also broadened my career prospects.

the modules are practical and cover the essentials as well as allow you
to 'think outside the square' of conventional community development
work,
it opens a door to creative alternatives to engage young people, groups,
and people of all walks of life and gives CALD communities in particular
access
to develop and execute projects based on their own needs analysis.

This course is ideal for someone new to the field and equally as good
for those who wish to further their proffesional development.

In a country as culturally dynamic and unique as Australia, Community
Cultural Development is our future."

Thomas Scire
Youth Arts and CCD Worker

"CCD Online Diploma is an excellent way to learn more about your own
community and everyone else's."

Christine Judd
Cultural Development & Events
Port Stephens Council

"Validate the CDD skills you've gained over the years... or learn some
new ones! With CCDNSW's Online Diploma you can work at your own pace to
achieve an accredited qualification to give you that edge in today's
competitive job market.

Delivery via the net is a perfect solution for those of us with
'interesting' work hours, and the course content is stimulating and
relevant to artsworkers and anyone working in associated fields."

Lisa Irving
Artsworker, Shellharbour NSW

"I thoroughly enjoyed the flexibility of completing the CCD Diploma
online. The online format allows students the freedom to make comments
that they perhaps would not otherwise feel comfortable in making. I
found the content of the course to be comprehensive, interesting and
extremely relevent to my employment in Local Government."

Carol Roberts
Administration Officer Cultural Services

"The CCDNSW online diploma is a great 'how to ccd' resource.

It covers all the basics of community development, how to fund and
resource your project from diverse funding sources, to marketing your
project.

It is mostly useful for its great approach to the differing discourses
around ccd, the different methods of community and leadership capacity
Building, and the diversity of theories in practical application.

The fact that it can be done in your own time on the net means that it's
totally accessible. This factor also makes it excellent as a networking
tool in itself.

I highly recomend this course not only for young artsworkers but also
for people that need to update their skills for the current context."

Peter Polites
Multicultural Artsworker Intern

Contact CCDNSW
Phone: 02 9764 6588 ext.1
Email: info@ccdnsw.org
Go to: http://www.ccdnsw.org/ccdnsw/training/405_dip.php for further
details and enrolment form

Questia - online library

2005-01-29T05:25:00+00:00

Questia is an online library of books and journals. Some free books are available whilst others are accessible via subscription. visit http://www.questia.com/ for more details