My collaborator Robin Meier and I are at it again, this time with leafcutter ants.  Robin's been experimenting with the ants in a lab outside paris, while I explore how to build our colony of small friends a welcoming foraging scenario.  Below, a prezi of some notes we're taking.

This work will be presented at Palais de Tokyo in July of 2011.

Ray Kampmeier (undergraduate EECS student at UMN) and I are working on a robust and complete solution for working with Digi's Xbee modules and Max.

Working with 2.5 Series radios, the present pre-alpha version allows for sending remote messages to a remote-wireless xbee (configured as AT Router/Endpoint) and local-USB-connected xbee  (configured as API coordinator).  

My XBee Playground Blog shows a record of our progress, while this post includes links to the necessary Max patches and XBee profiles.  

More coming soon.....

Fall 2019: Art 5490: Make Anything Talk to Anything

Professor: Ali Momeni

This course is intended for visual artists, musicians, designers, computer scientists, engineers and architects (among others) interested in exploring real-time interactive software applications. Such applications allow translations/interactions among various media; examples include sound to video (e.g. music visualizers), gesture to sound (e.g. the theramin, Wii controllers as musical instruments), gesture to video (e.g. motion tracking for interactive visualizations, interactive architecture), interactive sculptures (e.g. sensor controlled mechanics, robotics, lights, LEDs). The Max/MSP/Jitter new media programming environment will be the primary instrument of the course. Max/MSP/Jitter is a graphical programming environment that provides user interface, timing, communication with electronics, communications with the web, MIDI support, real-time audio and video synthesis and processing.

For more information see the class blog and the course syllabus.

Fall 2010: ART 8410: Studio Critique

Professor: Ali Momeni

The topic for the semester is "Practice, Research and Teaching". We explore the subtleties of how creative research intersects with making and teaching through studio based critiques, iterative refinements of personal research and teaching narratives, analysis of local arts organizations/institutions/collectives, stabs at grant-writing strategies, and round table discussions with invited guests.

For more information see the class blog and the course syllabus.