May 19, 2011
Thursday, 9am-5pm
CES/AIA LU 7 units
Digital media and media technology are being increasingly integrated into the built environment and public space through emerging interfaces: media facades, interactive displays, cell phone and networked applications. Digital applications in architecture have exploded, intensifying the interaction and fusion of technologies and patterns of use. The immense challenges of the contemporary city – rapid growth/contraction, traffic and migration, power supply, economic and ecological changes – are leading to alternative forms and concepts of architecture and media. Springing to existence are social environments that not only facilitate interaction between people but actively participate in their own right. This program will explore the opportunities and architectural expression that media technology offers and survey critical new exemplars at the intersection of the disciplines, from installations to smart cities. Included will be a dynamic forum in which participants in this developing field can meet and share insights with experts from a wide range of related areas: architecture, digital media, art, lighting, building industry, media design, and scientific research.
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Assistant Professor of Architecture, Cal Poly Pomona, Pomona, CA
Michael Fox is a founding partner and principal of Fox Lin in Los Angeles. Prior to Fox Lin, he served as an assistant to engineer and inventor Chuck Hoberman in New York and as a design team leader for Kitamura Associates in Tokyo, Japan. In 1998, Fox founded the Kinetic Design Group at MIT as a sponsored research group to investigate interactive architecture. Fox directed the group for three years.
His practice, teaching and research are centered on interactive architectural systems and spaces, specifically the issues of embedded computational infrastructures, human and environmental interaction, physical control mechanisms and the processes of architects designing such systems. He has published over 40 papers on the topic, and is the author of the book Interactive Architecture by Princeton Architectural Press.
Michael has lectured internationally on the subject matter of interactive, behavioral and kinetic architecture and has won several notable awards in architectural ideas competitions. Fox’s work has been featured in numerous international periodicals and books, including CNN, the New York Times and Architectural Record and he has had numerous interactive exhibits worldwide. He has taught on the subject matter of interactive, behavioral and kinetic architecture at MIT, The Hong Polytechnic University, the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, and Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI_ARC) in Los Angeles. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Architecture at Cal Poly Pomona.
Scott S. Fisher is a media artist and interaction designer, whose work focuses primarily on interactive environments and technologies of presence. Currently he is Professor and Chair of the Interactive Media Division in the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California. He is also President of Telepresence Media, a production company focusing on the art and design of virtual environment and remote presence experiences. From 1999-2004, he was Project Professor in the Graduate School of Media and Governance at Keio University at Shonan Fujisawa, Japan and Director of the Environmental Media Project funded by NTT Docomo.; From 1997 to 1999, he was Director of the Virtual Explorer Project in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of California, San Diego.
Mr. Fisher attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he held a research fellowship at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies from 1974 to 1976 and was a member of the Architecture Machine Group from 1978 to 1982. There he participated in development of the ‘Aspen Movie Map’, a surrogate travel videodisc project, and several stereoscopic display systems for teleconferencing and telepresence applications. He received the Master of Science degree in Media Technology from MIT in 1981 under thesis advisor Nicholas Negroponte. His research interests focus primarily in stereoscopic imaging, immersive display environments, and the development of interactive art installations and media technology for representing `first-person’ sensory experience.
From 1985 to 1990, Mr. Fisher was Founder and Director of the Virtual Environment Workstation Project (VIEW) at NASA’s Ames Research Center in which the objective was to develop a multisensory `virtual environment’ workstation for use in Space Station teleoperation, telepresence and automation activities. The VIEW Project developed the “goggle and glove” system most commonly associated with the term Virtual Reality (VR), and pioneered the development of many other key VR technologies including head-coupled displays, datagloves, and 3-D audio technology. In 1990, he co-founded Telepresence Research Inc. to continue research on first-person media, and to develop Virtual Environment and Remote Presence experiences, systems, and applications.
Prior to the Ames Research Center, Mr. Fisher has served as Research Scientist under Dr. Alan Kay with Atari Corporation’s Sunnyvale Research Laboratory and has provided consulting services for several other corporations in the areas of spatial imaging and interactive display technology. He has taught numerous classes and seminars on Interactive Media, Photography, and Stereoscopic Displays and has been an Artist in Residence at MIT’s Center for Advanced Visual Studies, and Visiting Professor at UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture. His work has been recognized internationally through numerous invited presentations, professional publications and in the popular media with articles in publications such as the Wall Street Journal, Time, New Media, Computerworld, Byte, Scientific American, VR World, Funworld, TDR, Liberation, Le Monde, InterCommunication, Media Report, Nikkei Entertainment, Nikkei Computer Graphics, Login, Trigger, Asahi Shimbun, Asahi Pasocom, Designer’s Workshop, Newton, Virtual, and many others. In addition, his stereoscopic imagery and artwork has been exhibited in the US, Europe and Japan. Most recently, his works have been shown in Paris at the Galeries Contemporaines of the Centre Georges Pompidou, and in the InfoArt Pavilion at the ‘95 Kwanju Biennale in Korea.
Benjamin H. Bratton is sociological, media, and design theorist. He is Associate Professor of Visual Arts at the University of California, San Diego, and Director of the Center for Design & Geopolitics at the California Institute of Telecommunications and Information Technology, one of the premier applied research institutes in the application of supercomputing and very-large scale data visualization across the sciences, humanities and social sciences.His work sits at the intersections of contemporary social and political theory, computational media & infrastructure, and architectural & urban design problems and methodologies. Current research interests include: the philosophical problematics of the interfaciality, digital urbanism & media architecture, contemporary continental philosophy & aesthetic theory, institutional technology transfer protocols and platforms, design research management & methodologies, classical and contemporary sociological theory, history of the social sciences, organizational theory, and interaction and interface design.
Bratton has lectured widely, and is the author of many articles, book chapters, in both academic and popular publications. Bratton has published widely, from AD:Architectural Design and Volume to BlackBook and Theory, Culture & Society, and has been an visiting lecturer and critic at Columbia, Pratt, Yale, Architectural Association of London, Penn, USC, UCLA, Art Center College of Design, Michigan, Brown, the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, among others. He was also co-chair of ambient:interface, the 54th (and final) International Aspen Design Conference.
He is a frequent advisor and consultant to public and private organizations. He is the former Director of the Advanced Strategies Group at Yahoo! in Sunnyvale and Burbank, CA, and former Director of Information Architecture at Razorfish in Los Angeles and New York. As principal of The Culture Industry, a strategic research and planning consultancy he has developed projects with Motorola, Microsoft, Imaginary Forces, the U.S. Conference of Mayors, among others.
He splits time between Los Angeles and La Jolla with his partner, Bruna Mori and their son, Lucien.
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Mr. Ley currently teaches design studios and material application seminars at the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc). He holds a Master of Architecture from the University of California, Los Angeles (2000) and a Bachelor of Science in Architecture from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (1996).
