ICAM.best_of
The best of ICAM - senior project presentations
Wednesday, June 8, 6-8 PM
Warren Studio A
University of California, San Diego
Hybrid professional presentation environment and party (food/drink) celebrating the best of ICAM research by graduating seniors in Interdisciplinary Computing and the Arts

Featuring:

Monica Hui
"A Day in the Forest of"
An interactive piece created in Macromedia Director, combining computer art, color photography, black and white photography, painting, and sculpture.

Nicholas A. Zadrozny
http://zadrozny.com/nick
A data mapping and algorithmic composition piece which creates a sonification of a running computer process. Custom-written software tools collect data during a program's execution which is used to create a musical representation of the internal workings of that process.
http://zadrozny.com/nick/art/icam/senior-project

SHane Hazelton
"Improvisational Media Programming System"
IMPS is a continually developing environment constructed MAX/MSP and soon to be, Jitter. The system currently uses the commercial software Ableton Live to record in the audio and MIDI information and this data is transformed real time in MAX with algorithms I deem as being musically interesting. Ultimately Ableton is a crutch and the whole system is in the process of moving to MAX so that I have total control over the data. I am using three MIDI keyboards, about
50 knobs, faders and buttons, and a glove controller to manipulate parameters in the music. These multiple controllers and my algorithms make it possible to create a dynamic and texturally rich musical performance improvisationally. There are many more ideas yet to be implemented and I will be developing IMPS more in grad school at Cal Arts.

Kelsey Senica
"Recording and Synthesizing Binaural Datasets"
This project represents the beginning stages of a developing research project in the area of binaural technology. General concepts examined within the contexts of this research include the idea of a sound source moving around a stationary listener, as well as a listener moving around a stationary sound source. Several audio-based data sets were collected with the intent to compare the quality of binaural recordings that were implemented with varying bit depth and sample rate settings as well as two different human recording heads/pinnae sets.

Joseph Steffan
"Affiliation Visualization"
It is a collection of data visualizations relating business density to political affiliation, income, house value, and education in each of the 50 states.
http://www.josephsteffan.com/design

Aaron Blomberg - ablomber@ucsd.edu
"Untitled; Hexadecimal Miscommunication"
The past century marked a new technological peak in how we as humans live our lives. Technology and its applications have so permeated our daily lives that we no longer even recognize or realize the technologies that complement our every decision. Rather than ask the question of whether this is a positive or negative trend, I aim to point out that we are indeed trapped in the belly of the machine that we have created and by which we are changed. We no longer exist in an organic environment; we co-exist with technology as a new form of species, much like human-cyborgs in a technological landscape.
The popularity of the Internet has risen tremendously and as people populate chatrooms, message boards, and engage in instant messaging conversations with aims to connect with those surrounding them in a digital environment, I'd like to point out that there is nothing organic to these relationships. The Internet is one-dimensional and reduces us all to nothing but digitized information stripped of our organic humanity. Our core being within a digital environment is fabricated of how we wish to be viewed by others. We all boil down to a series of pixels that are described in a hexadecimal form and humanity no longer exists."

David Dedeen - ddedden@ucsd.edu
"HowStuffIsMade :: Water"
Today, with water supplies becoming more and more contaminated with human-made waste, we look to advanced filtering techniques for clear, sanitary goods. Bottled water has grown into a billion-dollar market in today’s society, but we are left to wonder if these plastic cases are any better than what comes out of our tap here in the United States. By utilizing an national collaborative database, we are able to collectively keep an active watch on the industries that produce our everyday products.

Brandon Stow
Recent Work

Carrie McLaughlin
Recent Work

Rick Hermann
Recent Work

Mike Rossmassler
Recent work

This event is generously supported by the UCSD Department of Visual Arts, UCSD Department of Music, and the Center for Research in Computing and the Arts.
Visual Arts ICAM - http://visarts.ucsd.edu/undergrad/icam.html
Music ICAM - http://music.ucsd.edu/ugrad/ugrad_icam.html
CRCA - http://crca.ucsd.edu