Please complete the following:

• Add a comment to the blog post assigning “On Longing”, that includes: 1) Three ideas, responses, or questions about the assigned ready; each of the three should include at least two sentences (more is better), each should describe a reaction or thought to something in the text; note quotations from the text explicitly with page numbers.
• Download the in-class max patches from Jan. 30, 2012, open the patch named “04. max and our miniaturs.maxpat” which lists the list of applications of Max to the miniatures project.  Apply each list item to something(s) in your collection of miniatures by describing what you’d like to add movement to, what thoughts you have on controlled lighting, what sensors you wish to use and why, etc.
• Review the other Max patches from  in-class max patches from Jan. 30, 2012

Patches made in class are here.

8 Amazing Works of Art You Need a Microscope to Appreciate

Below, the list of necessary software for getting started with Max and the Arduino platform:

Please refer to this document for hours and policies for the 2012 CMU Doherty Hall lasercutter: hours & policies.

DISCUSSION OF FREUDS UNCANNY (1:30pm-2.15pm)

The big questions/the big map

• Why is the notion of uncanny important to us as artists?
• Why read Freud?

• language
• Hoffman’s sand man
• the eye and the male organ (p. 8, left, bottom)
• automata, the uncanny valley (p. 7 left)
• the double (p. 10, right, middle)
• repetition: groundhog day (p. 11, left, top)
• repetition: coincidence  (p. 11, left, bottom)
• repetition: neurosis (p. 11, right bottom)
• the evil eye (pp. 12, right, middle)
• the omnipotence of thought
• epilepsy and disease (p. 14, right, bottom)
• imagination meeting reality (p. 15, left)
• surmounted feelings (p. 15, left and p. 17 left)

ASSIGNMENT SHOW AND TELL (two miniatures) (2.15pm-3pm)

LASER CUTTER DEMONSTRATION (3pm-3:45pm)

LECTURE BY SCOTT DRAVES (4pm-5pm)

1. Read the Prologue and first chapter On longing by Susan Stewart (1984)
2. Conceive, collect and curate two miniature collections

1. Read Freud’s Uncanny
2. Compose, Stage and Photograph two miniature scenarios that are in conversation with one another; upload final images to Blackboard in jpg format, at or above 1024 x 768 resolution.

MINIATURE

• National Geographic on the Flea Circus or this Flea Circus

SHADOW

• Indonesian Warang
• Lotte Reiniger
• Kumi Yamashita
• Tim Noble and Sue Webster

MOVEMENT

• John Kessler
• Jennifer and Kevin McCoy
• Jeff Shore and Jon Fisher

OBSESSIONS

• Miniature Wunderland
• Tilt Shifting: Keith Loulit’s Metal Heart Bathtub or Hulkamania,
• Slinkachu’s Little People

AUTOMATA

• Jasper’s 100 Favorite Automata Videos

Student Works

• Anderson Ranch Workshop

Hello and welcome to 3D Media Studio II (Animated Theater).

Links to relevant resources for the course as well as student contributions and discussions will be posted on this blog.

Please begin by viewing the syllabus page.