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Teaching I have had
the pleasure of collaborating with and mentoring/advising
students from a variety of disciplines including
design | media arts, fine art, computer science,
engineering, bioengineering and music. This work
has ranged from adivsing graduate and undergraduate
independent and thesis research to collaborative
projects and teaching. Sample student work is towards the bottom of this page. |
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| Selected Courses | |
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Genetics
and Culture: From Molecular Music to Transgenic Art Is creating a glow-in-the dark transgenic rabbit art or is it science? What is the potential impact of listenting to molecular music or creating artificial life? Have you considered your "molecular Self" lately? Are artists adding something to our understanding of life that scientists are not or possibly cannot? Is interdisciplinarity a foundational element of 21st Century culture? This course explores innovative art practices that have scientific concepts at their core. It encourages students to imagine disciplinary connections, building bridges between the arts and sciences while exploring the emerging fields of genomic arts, bioart, and new media. Visit: Genetics and Culture Course A couple of sample student projects can be viewed here. Additional projects are in the course website here. |
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Dynamic Web This studio course explores creative production through networked multimedia environments, focusing on the World-Wide-Web. It combines creative exploration with critical discussion of relvant readings and a review of work by contemporary media artists and designers. Equally important is the discussion of issues related to mediation/remediation, the phenomenology of interactivity, experience design, interface theory, usability, theories of representation and production, and virtual and mixed realities. Hands on instruction introduces students to the fundamentals of production of 2D online spaces. Interdisciplinary projects include the conceptual design and mock-up of "organo-electronic devices" which fuse characteristics of biological life forms with existing net-aware mobile devices. Visit: Dynamic Web Course A couple of student projects can be viewed here. Additional projects are in the course website here. |
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| Below are a some examples of student work. | |
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Iman Mostafavi (Computer Science and Engineering, UCSD, Masters Thesis): Remeshing Using Learned Image Boundaries. New algorithm for "upcycling" meshes of lower quality to a higher quality suitable for finite element and molecular simulations. The goal of this research is to use learned boundary information within imaging data to intelligently and automatically remove artifacts while preserving real image features in order to refine and improve the quality of existing manual segmentations and meshes. In collaboration with Dr. Matthias Zwicker (CSE Faculty, UCSD). |
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Chih Liang (Computer Science and Engineering, UCSD, Masters Thesis): Interactive Superimposition, Alignment, and Nesting of Multiple Multi-Channel Volumes. Strategies for multi-resolution, multi-scale, multi-modal data exploration play a vital role in the elucidation of structure-function relationships within biological systems. The goal of this research is to enable interactive merging and manipulating of multi-resolution correlated data and visualizing massive volumes at interactive rates. The algorithm developed allows for the superimposition of an arbitrary number of volumes, each with arbitrary number of channels and of arbitrary sizes. In collaboration with Dr. Jurgen Schulze (Calit2 Immersive Visualization Laboratoroy and Dr. Matthias Zwicker (CSE Faculty, UCSD) |
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Interdisciplinary
projects blending art and science created by students
can be viewed in the Genetics and Culture galleries.
A couple of sample student projects can be viewed here. |
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Whole
Body/Gesture-based Interaction: Several groups of students
from UCSD Electrical and Computer Engineering have worked
with the ATLAS in silico project to develop a camera
and IR based system
for optical markerless hand tracking to enable
interaction within virtual environments. Key collaborators:
Todd Margolis, Alex S. Horn, Raj Singh, and Dr. Javier
Girardo and students from the ECE 191 course. Video, description and students: Interaction |
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Multi-scale Data Exploration: Ongoing collaborative research to develop systems for real-time visualization and interaction with multi-modal data representing very large and high-dimensional datasets (2D, 3D, and 4D) within immersive environments utilizing ultra-high resolution displays connected by high-bandwidth low-latency networks to facilitate distributed collaboration. This research integrates ultra-high resolution tiled displays, computer grahics and visualization, interatctive technologies and multi-modal, multi-resolution imaging data of biological systems. Key collaborators: Iman Mostafavi, Dr. Jurgen Schulze, Raj Singh, in addition to NCMIR, Calit2 and EVL researchers. (View project page.) |
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An interdisciplinary artist-researcher working with digital media and interactive technologies.
