January 30, 2007

To Do List:

• Moving the Faraday Cage
• Getting a G5 Computer for video editing.
• Contact Naranjan about use of the rooms in the hallway and control room

computer.

• Switching Lab to old colloquium room. Is this possible? What are the

benefits?

• Contact Margaret Dolinsky about Virtools
• Have Ryan do a one page meatbook webpage/Postcards?
• Aaron: Design a way to track student progress in the lab

Discussion

Lab Space:

• Everyone has a space except Jack Sam.
• The Faraday Cage will be removed from the smaller room.
• Can put 3 people into that
• Aaron: Bring Windchime into small room
• Gordon has 2 G4s to use

Visiting Faculty: Martin

• Settled into his room
• Art Background and Graphic Design

Missing Computer:

• Seems not to be a problem .
• Probably is somewhere in the research area. Don't need to worry about it according to Gordon.

Acccess to computers:

• Denise's old computer by Gordon's office for video editing
• Diane will get a G5 Computer for video editing.
• Meehae will get a G4.

Faculty Collaboration:

• Can we find ways to work with Naranjan?
• Who else can we work with? Existing and new faculty.

Individual Topics

Diane:

• Diane is getting her dissertation done. This is her biggest priority right now.

Jack Sam:

• Get Ethics Approval

Aaron:

• MeatBook
• Meehae has face masks to use for the meatbook.
• Photo Store: Look for hard case suitcase to ship things in.
• Get laptop from Gordon.
• Order 2 LCD Screens
• Keep costs under $500 (not including shipping)
• Ryan will do visuals
• Diane will do storyboard for LCD screens

Jinsil

• Working on project for NIME
• Chapter for book
• Big Conferences to apply to:
• ISEA
• Ars Electronica
• SIGGRAPH

Meehae:

• Meehae and Steven in VR Reading Group
• Will be trying to develop a system for research use
• Getting Virtools Running
• Diane will help get things going by writing letters
• Contact Mona with thought technologies
• Diane will email Margaret Dolinsky about Virtools
• Other VR Artists: Yacov and Sharir (UT)
• Stephen Wilson @ ucsf - Listing of interactive art projects. EEG one of particular interest

Kirsten

• Making a demo of a system that generates Narratives from a database and utilizes film footage. Wants to use Max/MSP
• Look at Repentance (Soviet) and Like Water For Chocolate for uses of Magical Realism in film.
• Contact Penny Simpson (SFU Burnaby Library) about copyright info for fair use of the film Shortcuts

At end of February going to the HIT Lab.

• Add to wiki.