I'll be teaching again at Anderson Ranch this summer, within the summer workshops in the sculpture/digital arts areas.  Here's the low-down:

 

Workshop Title: Miniature Worlds: Movement, Light, Gesture And Electronics

When: Jul 09, 2012 - Jul 13, 2012

Where: Anderson Ranch @ Snowmass, Colorado

Media and Techniques: 

Electronics, Arduino-based micro-controllers, electromechanics (motors, solenoids and servos), dynamic lighting, software and programming (Arduino IDE, Cycling '74 real-time programming and Max/MSP/Jitter).

Concept:  

This workshop takes an interdisciplinary approach to working with live electronics, kinetics, light and imagery. Students explore the basics of electronics work with micro-controllers and strategies for using light and movement to animate a miniature space. The metaphor of a miniature world invites students to integrate their own creative practices (in two- or three-dimensional media) into mixed-media interactive installations.

Course Web-Page: here

Work samples: check out all the final project videos from last year's course blog!

 

This workshop shares much of its concept/content with a course that I teach at CMU called "Animated Theater".  Look at the blog from this course to get a better sense of the approach.

 

Here are a few of my favorite final projects from last year....

 

I joined the faculty at Carnegie Mellon University's School of Art in the Spring of 2012.

I'll be documenting all of my teaching at http://teach.alimomeni.net.  

I gave a lecture on "The Body of Iranian Contemporary Art" as a part of the "Shared Cultural Spaces" conference held at the University of Minnesota in February 2011, using the the prezi.com Prezi presentation below.  

I am indebted to the community of artists, some of whose work are included in this lecture, for providing me with the material and inspiration to pursue this research.