CIS 4930+CIS 6930

Spring 2003

• class specifics
  • syllabus
  • news group + list and last year's (spring 2002) models
• aesthetic computing
  • brief introduction
  • general area
• perspectives
  • perceiving 2 things at once: illusion + foreground/background
  • symbol/perception tension: left/right brain
  • aesthetics/utility challenge:
    • early craft
    • duchamp's fountain
  • aesthetic twist: math as material art as cognitive
  • many ways of seeing
    • gainsborough: mr + mrs andrews multiple views
    • van gogh's bedroom: piece virtual1 virtual2
• language
  • history
    • early language: cave paintings
      • lascaux chauvet altamira
    • from language to mathematics
    • ain ghazal
    • near east history and tokens
    • writing and counting: 1 2
    • origins of writing: 1 2 3
  • signs
    • u. of colorado collection
    • semiotics for beginners, chandler sign structure paradigm and syntagm
    • intro to semiotics, dillman
    • semiotics in visual art and new media
    • biosemiotics and boysen's chimp experiment
    • numbers overview
• connections
  • definitions: analogy(B) metaphor(B) metonymy(B) synecdoche(B)
  • integration and medieval theory
  • morphisms(B)
  • semiotic morphisms and user interface
  • cognitive science of metaphor veale's page conceptual metaphor
  • burke's connections
  • creativity web
  • mnemonics: mind tools tips memory theatre
  • games: hipbone, glass bead game
  • computational methods: evan's program overview
• modeling
  • general
    • art of modeling rube Project Constrained Constructivism: part 1 part 2
  • computing
    • diagrammatic aesthetic: brandt jones visual thinking (xplane)
    • information modeling (static):
      • artists: legrady manovich
      • data modeling: entity-relationship model object role model
      • beck's data modeling resource
      • visualization: u. maryland stanford ga tech cwi
      • data sources, ontologies + lexicons: project gutenberg ontosaurus dictionary ontology wordnet (thinkmap interface) lexical freenet
      • semantic networks mind maps and concept maps: 1 2 3
      • cyberspace atlas
      • program and data structure (lisp example)
    • dynamic modeling (dynamic)
      • software visualization: uml omg languages muenchen ga tech
      • finite state automata: lecture and simulator
      • event graphs: in verilog
      • petri nets: general simulators: 1 2
      • flow charts: symbols 1 2
    • geometric modeling (static):
      • scene graphs: van Dam, 1 and 2
      • curves and surfaces
  • geography, architecture, virtual space
    • principles wayfinding and virtual cities and digital spaces
    • cyberspace mapping: cybergeography gallery antarctic.ca
    • 3D shared interactive spaces: cybertown active worlds
  • arts
    • visual benjamin st. clair
    • music theory and composition
    • dance labanotation eshkol-wachman sutton
  • literature and hypermedia: story space patterns word circuits xml linking rdf
  • film and multimedia
    • track-based interface: premiere
  • mathematics
    • set theory, relations and functions
    • equation structure: phaser (ode)
  • physics and engineering: feynman diagrams bond graphs mechatronics