Creative Computing

Joel Gethin Lewis

Week 6: Lecture 12: More Doing

What I'm going to talk about now:

Group meditation.
Questions?
Sprint and Crazy Eights.
Paper Prototyping.
Feedback.
Homework Assignment - exercises from Code as Creative Medium - Sound and Visualisation.

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0. Group Meditation

TBC.

1. Questions?

All questions allowed!
2 minutes alone on post it notes, then double group size every 1 minutes until it's the whole group.
This idea came from Zach Lieberman. He does this exercise at the start of every session of School of Poetic Computation in New York.

2. Sprint and Crazy Eights

The Sprint Book
The Design Sprint Kit.
Crazy Eights.
What do you think? Do you want to try this for your project?

3. Paper Prototyping

Paper Prototyping lets you ignore budget, ability and experience to get to the core of an idea quickly.

N.B. Technology is NOT an idea.

I want to teach you my method:

Find an interesting technology/method/approach/context.
Apply it to an experience in the real world.
Get the money/ability to make it happen.

2. is what you are going to learn today

I'll find you a technology and I'm afraid I don't have any budget. (-;

~~Find an interesting technology/method/approach/context.~~
Apply it to an experience in the real world.
~~Get the money/ability to make it happen.~~

I want elevator pitches!

Technology usually flows "downhill":

Military -> Commercial -> Art -> The street.

This is changing - see the Singularity.

You are reality hackers!

Paper prototyping time!

Brief 1: Smile

and the whole world smiles with you...

Auto Smiley

Project: Auto Smiley by Theo Watson

The Brief:

You can detect smiles. What are you going to do with that?

Where could a smile be a useful switch?
What if many smiles were collected at once?

Top tips:

Think of the setting
Sum it up in a sentence
Act the story
Write down all your ideas first - but only pick one idea - be an editor
Only one minute to present!

Demonstration

The Magic Hat.

Go!

10 minutes thinking time, one minute presentation.

Brief 2: Drones

I for one, welcome our robot overlords.

Nanocopters

Experiments performed with a team of nanocopters at the GRASP Lab, University of Pennsylvania.

Drones for Performance

Marshmallow Laser Feast installation for Advertising Director festival. Cannes, France, 2012.

Drones for delivery

Amazon Prime Air

Boston Dynamics Big Dog

The new sound of terror?

Boston Dynamics Handle

With guns?

Boston Dynamics Spot Mini

With a hand!

ETH Zurich Bridge Building

SRI Microfactory

What kind of drone would you like?

Go!

10 minutes thinking time, one minute presentation.

Brief 3: Augmented World

What would you add to reality?

WeARInMOMA

Sander Veenhof and Mark Skwarek AR show at MoMA without permission!

Project Tango from Google

First devices just on sale.

Hololens from Microsoft

Available now for £2,719.

Magic Leap

Coming soon, developer kit just announced.

What would you add to the world?

Go!

10 minutes thinking time, one minute presentation.

Brief 4: Human Hacking

How would you redesign yourself?

What if you had a tail?

New balance. Photo by Tethus925.

What if could change your sex in real time?

Male cuttlefish (right) courting a female (left), he displays a male pattern facing the female, and a female pattern facing away. Photo by Culum Brown.