Slides for the week 2 tutorial of the course "SM2702 Interdisciplinary Practices in Art, Secience and the Humanities"

1. SM2702 Tut1 (week2)
Interdisciplinary Practices
Dichotomy

2. Andy Li
● PhD Student
● Graduated in BScCM
● http://www.onthewings.net/

3. My interest
● Interactivity
● Augmented Reality
● Natural User Interface etc.
● Programming
○ Haxe, Python, JS, CoffeeScript
○ openFrameworks, Processing
● Art
○ Installation art
○ Generative art
○ Cyber art

4. I'm more science than art
comparing to other teachers in this course

5. This course is more about
art than science
but don't afraid...

7. Little exercise
1. Get a piece of paper, which is written either
"Art" or "Science".
2. Write as much words related to the topic
("Art" or "Science") as you can.

8. Little exercise
1. Get a piece of paper, which is written either
"Art" or "Science".
2. Write as much words related to the topic
("Art" or "Science") as you can.
3. Compare your paper with another one with
the same topic.

9. Little exercise
1. Get a piece of paper, which is written either
"Art" or "Science".
2. Write as much words related to the topic
("Art" or "Science") as you can.
3. Compare your paper with another one with
the same topic.
4. Compare your paper with another one with
different topic.

10. Little exercise
● Dichotomy?
● Intersections between Art and Science?
● Write it down! Publish to the blog later!

11. Interdisciplinary practice
is almost always good

12. To be really good at something,
better be good at some other thing.

13. Assignment 1
● Art-Sciences-Technologies Cross Fields presentation (WEEK 4)
● Format: Short general abstract article (Group 3-5) select a scientific field
(120-200 words)
● write about existing connections between art and that scientific field. What
can/could be the relevance of an artistic appropriation of the field?
● Describe at least 2 examples of supporting art-works illustrated with
images (don’t forget mentioning sources and references)
● post this to the course blog WWW.EXTENDEDART.NET category “Cross-
Fields” sign it with authors’ full name

14. Assignment 1
● Tips:
○ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline_of_science
○ SIGGRAPH
(2012, check "For Attendees" -> "Art Gallery" or
"Emerging Technologies")
○ Ars Electronica
(http://www.aec.at/news/en/, check "Festival" ->
"Archive")

15. The Undivided Mind
http://www.panomatics.net/theundividedmind/

16. Readings
● Invention of Morel
● Library of Babel