brysonian.com » news http://brysonian.com chandler b. mcwilliams Fri, 01 Jan 2010 10:50:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Open Up at Medialab Prado http://brysonian.com/2009/12/31/open-up-at-medialab-prado/ http://brysonian.com/2009/12/31/open-up-at-medialab-prado/#comments Thu, 31 Dec 2009 13:09:31 +0000 chandler http://brysonian.com/?p=112 I’m very excited to be one of the tutors for Medialab Prado’s Open Up Workshop the February in Madrid. The plan for the workshop is to develop projects for the digital façade of Medialab-Prado’s building. Jordi Claramont, Casey Reas, and Víctor Viña are also participating as tutors.

The program itself is really fascinating, bringing together ideas about art, publics, politics, and platforms. I’m looking forward to analyzing the process in terms of platform studies but from the perspective of active creation of an platform rather than through the analysis of a pre-existing system.

And really, who doesn’t like the prospect of creating something for a huge LED façade?

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I’ll be leading the first session on January 24 with Sarah Kessler trying to lay a foundation and find some orientation for the class for other folks to pick up going forward.

More info and sign-up here.

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Just got back from presenting my paper The Other Software at DAC09 as part of the Software / Platform Studies Track. This was my first presentation of a peer-reviewed paper at an academic conference and it was somewhat of a trial by fire, but I think it went well and at least there were some positive tweets in response. The paper is a criticism of the materialist approach taken by Friedrich Kittler in his famous essay There is No Software. I believe all the papers from the conference (and there are many wonderful ones) are going to be posted at escholarship.org and I’ll post a link once they’re up.

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]]> http://brysonian.com/2009/10/25/boards-summit-2009/feed/ 0 iPhone Workshop at Machine Project, Redux http://brysonian.com/2009/10/15/iphone-workshop-at-machine-project-redux/ http://brysonian.com/2009/10/15/iphone-workshop-at-machine-project-redux/#comments Thu, 15 Oct 2009 11:40:58 +0000 chandler http://brysonian.com/?p=87 Once again i’m teaching a workshop on programming for the iPhone using the iPhone SDK at Machine Project. The course is designed to be a good introduction to Xcode, Objective-C and making real-world applications for the AppStore. We won’t cover the basics of programming, so some programming experience is required.

The workshop starts July 5th and meets 4 times. For more info check out the course page.

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]]> http://brysonian.com/2009/09/10/regular-expressions-at-the-public-school/feed/ 0 “Silent” in the HECUBA curated film night http://brysonian.com/2009/07/27/silent-in-the-hecuba-curated-film-night/ http://brysonian.com/2009/07/27/silent-in-the-hecuba-curated-film-night/#comments Mon, 27 Jul 2009 21:21:09 +0000 chandler http://brysonian.com/?p=71 My new video Silent will be shown in the Hecuba curated film Screening tonight @ space 15 twenty. The screening features works by:

Lucky Dragons
Mecca Vazie Andrews
Melina Ausikatis
Diaz
We Are The World
Rainbow Arabia (directed by Keith Musil)
Leyna Marika Papach
Nina McNeely
Renata Raksha
Peter Moran
Chandler McWilliams
High Places (Rob Barber)
Molly Shiot
Hawnay Troof (directed by Joseph Whitt)

Silent was created algorithmically using silent films and audio processing. More about the piece coming soon.

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The class will have three meetings on July 12, 26, and August 9.

You can find more info here.

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I’ll be performing my piece John Henry von Neumann at Machine Project from 10-6 on Sunday June 28th. Come watch me compete against a computer to complete a drawing in an eight-hour workday. I will use pen and paper while the computer uses a plotter. More info on the Machine Project site.

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