• The Software Studies Initiative will be hosting visiting Fellow Tristan Thielmann during April and May of 2008. Tristan Thielmann is an Assistant Professor in Media Studies at the Research Center "Media Upheavals", University of Siegen, Germany. His cross-disciplinary research and practice explores the aesthetics and history of geomedia with a focus on navigation systems, geobrowsers and geosurveillance technologies. He has recently published a book on digital displays and the spatial turn in cultural & social sciences. Currently Dr Thielmann is completing three books, one on "locative media", one on "media geography" and another on "actor-media theory". While he is staying as a visiting fellow of Software Studies lab, he is doing oral history interviews with pioneers in mobile cartography and GPS technology.
• posted on: April 22, 2008
• Brazilian new media and art & technology researcher Cicero Silva will be spending Spring term (through July 31, 2008) as a visiting researcher at CRCA. His past work deals with conceptual procedures using computers, such as algorithm generated texts and user generated interfaces. Cicero will be developing projects for GPS devices (cell phones included) for exhibition at the FILE (the major Electronic Art Festival in Latin America) in Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Porto Alegre and also was submited to the MediaLabMadrid and others art & tech exhibitions in UK, Spain and Argentina.
• posted on: April 01, 2008
• Communication professor Noah Wardrip-Fruin posted the manuscript of "Expressive Processing: Digital Fictions, Computer Games and Software Studies" in daily installments, averaging 2,000 words, over a ten-week period on Grand Text Auto. The GTxA blog, hosted by CRCA, is co-authored by Wardrip-Fruin and five other artists, game designers and academics. Its blend of commentary and high-minded discussion on videogame culture and new media attracts roughly 35,000 unique visitors each month.
• posted on: March 21, 2008
• INSIDE THE WAVE, running from March 8 through June 22, 2008 at the San Diego Museum of Art, features six artists and artist collectives from the San Diego/Tijuana region working within spheres of alternative cultures to produce works that combine material culture and everyday life. Participating artists include Adriene Jenik; Tijuana-based bulbo collective; Brian Dick and Allison Wiese; Zlatan Vukosavljevic; and the *particle group*, a collective of media and performance artists, including UCSD visual arts professor Ricardo Dominguez.
• posted on: February 29, 2008
• "Music special: Five great auditory illusions" article in the New Scientist features work by CRCA researcher Diana Deutsch: "Scale illusion" and "Phantom words."
• posted on: February 29, 2008

• Wednesday, May 14, 2008
  Zachary Lieberman WORKSHOP
  Wednesday, May 14, 2-8pm @ Atkinson Hall 2006. RSVP is a must! Reply to ejankows@ucsd.edu. This workshop will provide an introduction to the openframeworks toolkit, a cross-platform C++ library for creative coding, and an opportunity to experiment with building new systems for interaction that move away from the screen and into physical space.
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• Wednesday, May 14, 2008
  Technology and Art: A tool becomes a force
  Technology and Art: A tool becomes a force Roger Reynolds and Steven Schick Atkinson Hall Auditorium Wednesday May 14 noon – 1:30pm Roger Reynolds and Steven Schick have spent years pushing boundaries, each in his own way. In their quest to convert sonic ideals into experiences for audiences, the computer has now become a factor. Technology can facilitate expression and also allow for work in new areas. Using the computer as a tool brings into reach opportunities not otherwise attainable. Over time, this tool has become an influence on the creative ideals of the music itself. It not only facilitates expression but helps to shape the outcome.
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• Tuesday, May 13, 2008
  Zachary Lieberman PERFORMANCE
  Tuesday, May 13, 5-8pm @ VAF performance space. In this mixture of talk / performance Lieberman will demo recent projects and introduce the interactivos workshops and the openframeworks toolkit, two platforms he is actively developing to help a new generation of artists create compelling works.
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• Sunday, May 11, 2008
  A wave and waves
  for 100 percussion instruments, by Michael Pisaro. Presented by Greg Stuart, percussion; and Ben Hackbarth, audio projection. Sunday May 11th, 8:00pm, Calit2 Theater, Atkinson Hall.
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• Wednesday, May 07, 2008
  Lunchtime Talk @ CRCA
  Lunchtime Talks @ CRCA Presents New Art = New Challenges Capturing and Editing Multimedia Events Wednesday, May 7 12:30pm - 1:30pm Auditorium, Atkinson Hall (Lunch 12 - 12:30 Rm 1601)
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Miller Puckette
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Miller Puckette obtained a B.S. in Mathematics from MIT (1980) and Ph. D. in Mathematics from Harvard (1986). Puckette was a member of MIT's Media Lab from its inception until 1987, and then a researcher at IRCAM (l'Institut de Recherche et de Coordination Musique/Acoustique, founded by composer and conductor Pierre Boulez). There he wrote the Max program for MacIntosh computers, which was first distributed commercially by Opcode Systems in 1990 and is now available from Cycling74.com . In 1989 Puckette joined IRCAM's "musical workstation" team and put together an enhanced version of Max, called Max/FTS, for the ISPW system, which was commercialized by Ariel, Inc. This system became a widely used platform in computer music research and production facilities. The IRCAM real-time development team has since reimplemented and extended this software under the name jMax, which is distributed free with source code. Puckette joined the Music department of the University of California, San Diego in 1994, and is now Associate Director of the Center for Research in Computing and the Arts (CRCA). He is currently working on a new real-time software system for live musical and multimedia performances called Pure Data ("Pd"), in collaboration with many other artists/researchers/programmers worldwide. Pd is free and runs on Linux, IRIX, and Windows systems. Since 1997 Puckette has also been part of the Global Visual Music project with Mark Danks, Rand Steiger, and Vibeke Sorensen, which has been generously supported by a grant from the Intel Research Council.