Today in Design Lab 1, a team of students was working on the functionality of their Collaborative Creative Project (CCP). This year-long project is part of the curriculum for Living Arts, an interdisciplinary residential community in Bursley Hall on the University of Michigan’s North Campus that brings together 80 undergraduates in the arts, architecture, engineering, and other… [read more]
What’s better than a concert? A concert in a library. The Digital Music Ensemble (DME) brought student musicians from the University of Illinois and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute to perform with them remotely in DL1, producing a concert in the three schools simultaneously. The score was composed by Carolina Heredia and the performance featured very special… [read more]
Over the past semester, I have been working on a series of week-long models with a partner from my ARCH 422 studio, Charlie Gaidica. All three of the models were inspired in some way by the goings on in Design Lab 1. Now that the series is over, we will be sharing them and showing how… [read more]
Here in DL1, Robert Alexander and Yohei Kanehara have been working together on some really interesting work about sound in space, specifically the Sun! Here are a few quick questions and answers about his research. Q: Why did you choose to work on this UROP project? A: I chose to work on this UROP… [read more]
Over the past semester, I have been working on a series of week-long models with a partner from my ARCH 422 studio, Charlie Gaidica. All three of the models were inspired in some way by the goings on in Design Lab 1. Now that the series is over, we will be sharing them and showing how… [read more]
This evening, Professor Michael Gurevich’s PAT 452 students presented their interactive design projects. The students presented the devices that they have been working on for the first half of semester. These devices were physically interactive devices that musicians could use to create music and sound experiences, beyond keyboards and mouses, and perform in front of… [read more]
Elona Van Gent’s Creative Process (UARTS 250) course is gearing up to make digital collage work with Adobe Photoshop. One of my favorite artists work fell into examples of how the human face can be broken down into something unrecognizable – American painter Chuck Close. An interesting fact I learned today was that Close has… [read more]