STREAMING CULTUREREPORT

September – April 2010The New School, NYC

Personal GoalsShape my role as Research DirectorEstablish life and work on two coasts

Institutional GoalsConnect Parsons and all faculty collaborativelyActivate global satellites for diverse contributions Create working relationships with hard sciences

MY BACKGROUNDin 3 minutes of less…

1992Assistant Professor at UC Santa Barbara in Art Studio and established working relationship with School of Engineering and Department of Physics.

Organized International Painting Interactive at SIGGRAPH (ISDN)

1993Got the first version of MOSAIC

1996 Completed PhD program @ Centre for Advanced Inquiry in Interactive Arts

Thesis, 1999Networked Public Spaces: Investigation into Virtual Embodiment

Published in 1962

FIRST ATTEMPT TO CREATE HYBRID CLASS 2001

What does all this have to do with Streaming Culture ?

1. It is almost 50 years since Education Automation – ready for realization

1. New School has a long history and is the right place, at the right time to be the leader in a new way to educate

1. Everybody agrees – so let’s DO IT!

STREAMING MOBILE CARTS:

PROOF OF CONCEPT TESTING:

-- technical set-up-- production system-- programming cross school dialogues-- multiple locations

Tested presentations formats:

Formal lectures (podium)Informal (walking around / improvising)Dialogues at podium / at tablePrompted by the host walkingInviting response from audienceConference panels

Nina Kruscheva, Associate ProfessorInternational Affairs Program + Andy Bichlbaum, Assistant ProfessorDesign & Technology program, Parsons the New School for Design

Natalie Jeremijenko, director of xdesign Environmental Health Clinic at New York University in conversation with Nigel Snoad, technical evangelist and product manager, Microsoft Public Safety Initiative

David Caroll’s class -- Room 304, 55W13Iphone App masters panel – Igor Pusenjak ‘00 of Lima Sky (DoodleJump), Zach Gage ‘10 of openFrameworks (BitPilot, Unify, synthPond), John Nowak ‘08 of ScrollMotion (Iceberg Reader) and Drew Cogbill ‘09 of Freeverse

Miodrag MitrasinovicArchitect, Author and Associate Professor at The School of Design StrategiesParsons The New School for DesignCarin Kuoni, Director of the Vera List Center for Art and Politics

PAIRING FACULTY FROM SCHOOLS + CATCHING INTERESTING TALKS – SHORT NOTICE

ORIT HALPERN: Eugene LangKATHERINE MORIWAKI: Parsons

TISHMAN AUDITORIUM

KELLEN

OROZCO ROOM

Faculty Research Brownbag Lunch SeriesA Roundtable Katayoun Chamany, Interdisciplinary Science, Lang Vyjayanthi Rao, NSSR and NSGS (GPIA) Miriam Steele, Psychology, NSSR, Carlos Teixeira, Parsons Moderated by Ron Kassimir, Associate Provost for Research and Special Projects 

Current StatusStreaming unit established / testedWebsite interface completedChecklist for pre/post production

Summer TargetDigitizing session backlogEditing high value sessionsProgrammingFall TargetAMT collab to develop, design & train.

Fall Target

Connect to Datamine projectAMT collab to develop, design & train.Test drive second mobile unit – Lang

DYNAMICS

• Connects faculty from different departments in dialogue – with each other

• Connects to the faculty in the satellite institutions

• Creates a dynamic system that feeds into curriculum / facilitates recruitment / saves $

FUNCTIONAL PROTOTYPE

MOBILE UNITS AROUND THE SCHOOL

LangParsons

Drama

NSSR

Milano

1. FACULTY overseeing + programming

2. Graduate student hired to videotape / stream / archive

3. Group of student volunteers on call

EACH SITE REQUIRES:

PROPOSED NEXT STEPS

-- central School server-- central website-- identify faculty interested to lead-- programming lectures-- web design / programming-- training team-- shared calendar-- shared email list

STREAMING

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DYNAMIC SOCIAL NETWORK ASCLASS

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PHYSICAL SATELLITES