2009 Spring: ART 3350/5350 Kinetic Sculpture tag:blog.lib.umn.edu,2009:/ali/2009arts3305//9673 2009-05-11T15:16:49Z Movable Type 4.25 End Of Semester Clean Up tag:blog.lib.umn.edu,2009:/ali/2009arts3305//9673.179903 2009-05-11T15:13:54Z 2009-05-11T15:16:49Z Hello, Thank you all for a wonderful semester. It was a treat to work with you all. As you may have noticed from the signs around Regis, you have until May 15 to get all of your stuff out of... Ali Momeni Hello,
Thank you all for a wonderful semester. It was a treat to work with you all.

As you may have noticed from the signs around Regis, you have until May 15 to get all of your stuff out of the building; on that date, all that is left will be recycled/trashed.

Please make sure to come by Regis and
1) clean up the shelves the metal shop
2) take apart and clean up the final installation in the sky way
3) set aside all motors, all solenoids, and all wires that are not yours. Most of that material is my personal belongings, and the rest will be recycled to be used again in future Kinetics courses.
Please leave all the motors/solenoids/wires on the shelves in the metal shop.

Thanks and enjoy your summer,

a

]]> Preparation for Tuesday's Crit tag:blog.lib.umn.edu,2009:/ali/2009arts3305//9673.175846 2009-04-11T04:51:45Z 2009-04-11T04:57:32Z Hello, Due to unforeseen events, only Monday and Tuesday are possible for extra prep-time. Chris and/or I will be in Regis E134, our installation room, on Monday: 10am-12pm Tuesday: 11am-1.30pm Please be sure to join us during those time (or... Ali Momeni Hello,
Due to unforeseen events, only Monday and Tuesday are possible for extra prep-time.

Chris and/or I will be in Regis E134, our installation room, on

Monday: 10am-12pm
Tuesday: 11am-1.30pm

Please be sure to join us during those time (or at least one if that's the only possibility) to get ready for our critique on Tuesday.

Ali

]]> Kinetic Installation Part 1 tag:blog.lib.umn.edu,2009:/ali/2009arts3305//9673.188253 2009-03-19T02:35:38Z 2009-08-19T02:35:58Z Ali Momeni

]]> More Kinetic Artists tag:blog.lib.umn.edu,2009:/ali/2009arts3305//9673.170994 2009-03-12T18:00:03Z 2009-03-12T18:27:32Z Theo Jansen: walking beasts Ned Kahn: Large scale architectural/wind driven Godfried-Willem Raes: Musical Automatons Adriana Salazar: small scale kinetics Daniel Rozin: Mirrors! David Byrne: Playing the Building Robin Mandel: kinetic domestics Ali Momeni: Smoke and Hot Air... Ali Momeni Theo Jansen: walking beasts
Ned Kahn: Large scale architectural/wind driven
Godfried-Willem Raes: Musical Automatons
Adriana Salazar: small scale kinetics
Daniel Rozin: Mirrors!
David Byrne: Playing the Building
Robin Mandel: kinetic domestics
Ali Momeni: Smoke and Hot Air

]]> Mechanical Orchestra Part 2 tag:blog.lib.umn.edu,2009:/ali/2009arts3305//9673.170732 2009-03-11T09:44:53Z 2009-03-11T09:44:53Z Media Mill Video... Ali Momeni Media Mill Video

]]> Mechanical Orchestra tag:blog.lib.umn.edu,2009:/ali/2009arts3305//9673.169909 2009-03-06T04:54:55Z 2009-03-06T17:30:20Z Yes mon.... Ali Momeni Yes mon.


]]> Spark Festival 2009 tag:blog.lib.umn.edu,2009:/ali/2009arts3305//9673.166625 2009-02-15T15:55:11Z 2009-03-02T19:55:48Z Spark is upon us! Full info here: www.sparkfestival.org... Ali Momeni Spark is upon us!

Full info here:
www.sparkfestival.org

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Full schedule, with Ali's recommendations in italix, below:

Tuesday, Feb. 17th

Twin Cities Showcase
7pm, The Whole Music Club

* Josh Musikantow: "Canvases"
* Brett Wartchow: "Rocks & Bottles"
* Scott Keever
* Schuyler Tsuda: "Edification"
* Pat O'Keefe / Scott Miller

Nightlife: Twin Cities Showcase
10pm, Catepillar Lounge (back room of Azia)

Wednesday, Feb. 18th

Concert 1
10:45am, The Whole Music Club

* Featuring the Avatar Orchestra: A Second Life Orchestra


Concert 2
2:00pm, Cedar Cultural Center

* Eric Nathan: "Cantus"
* Matt Diamond: "Errata"
* Hubert Howe: "Timbre Study No. 7"
* U.S.O. Project - Unidentified Sound Object (aka Matteo Milani and Federico Placidi): "Girl Running"
* Mara Helmuth: "Butterfly Within"


Concert 3
7pm, Barker Center for Dance

* Maja Cerar: "Catharsis"
* Peter Lane: "Aeromancer"
* Elika Hedayat: "TIZTAN (Thorny Man)"
* Kanta Horio: "Mysterious Computing 0.1"
Spark is upon us!

Full info here:
www.sparkfestival.org


Nightlife Ambient 1
9pm, Bedlam Theater

* Michael Croswell
* Charles Lindstrom
* PGT


Nightlife 1
10:30pm, Bedlam Theater

* Caly McMorrow
* Hay
* Rossum
* Nobot

Thursday, Feb. 19th

Talks 1
9am, Weisman Art Museum

* Josh Musikantow: "The Marriage of Futurism and Naturalism in the Music of Jean François Laporte
* Gregory Taylor: "Max for Abelton Live"


Concert 4
10:45am, The Whole Music Club

* Cathy van Eck: "Groene Ruis"
* Jake Rundall: "Silica"
* Mike Olson: "Incidental No. 3"
* Richard Johnson: "The Loves of Zero"
* Asha Srinivasan: "Bapu"


Keynote Presentation: David Wessel and Joel Ryan
12pm, Hanson Hall Room 1-108

Concert 5
2:00pm, Cedar Cultural Center

* Clifton Callender: "Metamorphoses"
* Jay Batzner: "Carnival Daring-Do"
* Philip Blackburn: "Car Squawk"
* Olga Mink: "Reis door Brabant-stad"
* John Gibson: "Slumber"


Concert 6: Ray Lee
5pm, Walker

* "Siren" Immersive multimedia performance


Concert 7: STEIM
7:00pm, Bedlam

* Robert van Heumen
* Joel Ryan
* dj sniff


Nightlife Ambient 2
9pm, Bedlam Theater

* Noah Keesecker
* Krzysztof Wolek


Nightlife 2
10:30pm, Bedlam Theater

* Taylor/Hamer/Henrikson
* Masa Fujita
* Jeff Lubow
* Tarleton
* Keston & Westdal

Friday, Feb. 20th

Talks 2
9am, Weisman Art Museum

* Megan England
* Norbert Herber
* Xenia Pestova


Concert 8
10:45am, Ultan Recital Hall

* Scott Miller: "Lovely Little Monster"
* Steve Kornicki: "Tempo Distortion 4"
* Kala Pierson: "Chilling Effects"
* Matt Malsky: "Thirteen Ways of Listening to a Loudspeaker"
* P. Hunter McCurry: "Violin House"
* Juraj Kojs: "At and Across"


Keynote Presentation: Ray Lee
12pm, Hanson Hall Room 1-106

Concert 9
2:00pm, Cedar Cultural Center

* Jason Bolte: "And Death..."
* Doug Geers: "Sweep"
* David Bithell and Ali Momeni: "Liminal Surface"
* Patrick Holbrook: "Some Things About My Body And Moving Large Piles of Sand"
* Zachary Crockett: "Ritual #2"


Keynote Presentation: Wafaa Bilal
3:30pm, Hanson Hall Room 1-106

Concert 10
8pm, Ultan Recital Hall

* David Wessel
* Douglas Ewart
* Guerino Mazzola


Nightlife Ambient 3
9pm, Bedlam Theater

* Andrew Weathers


Nightlife 3
9:30pm, Bedlam Theater
Planet 9

* Alex Kotch
* Jon Margulies
* Joshua Fried's RADIO WONDERLAND
* Kendall Station
* Puzzleweasel

Saturday, Feb. 21th

Keynote Presentation: Guerino Mazzola
9:30am, Ferguson Hall Room 225

Concert 11
10:45am, The Whole Music Club

* Luke Polipnick: "Descriptive Data"
* Allison Ogden: "Attabi"
* Lawrence Fritts: "Life-Drawing"
* Ted Coffey: "Blue Cycle: Noise"


Keynote Presentation: STEIM - 40 years in live electronic arts by Takuro Lippit Mizuta
12pm, Ferguson Room 225

Concert 12
2:00pm, Cedar Cultural Center

* Christopher Biggs: "MHCHAOS"
* Parag Chordia: "Slow Theka"
* Matthew Burtner: "(dis)Locations"
* Steve Everett: "Opaque Silhouette"
* Daniel Morse: "Klangmasse I"


Installation Tour
4:00pm, Meet in Regis East Lobby

SPARK PARTY!
6:00pm, Regis Center for Art
Featuring:

* Danceband
* Beatrix*JAR


Concert 13
8pm, Ted Mann Concert Hall

* Jacob Gotlib: "The Slow Splintering"
* Bryan Jacobs: "Song from the Moment"
* Peter Swendsen: "a sudden change in the consistency of snow"
* Peter Hulen: "Les Baptistes englouties"
* Josh Clausen: "She Quietly Enters and Leaves the Fray"
* Lorenzo Bianchi and MK: "Comfort"
-intermission-
* Joel Ryan and Keir Neuringer


Nightlife 4
10:30pm, Bedlam Theater

* Alex Rae
* Live electronic music by Dreamlogicc, Live video by Gravitymax
* Cepia
* Pole
* Umfeld

Sunday, Feb. 22th

Symposium Fast Forward
11am, Ferguson Room 225

* Juraj Kojs: "Cyberactions and Cyberinstruments via Physical Modeling: Extending Physical Realities"
* Joshua Fried: "Wheel and Shoes"
* Charles Smith: "Laurie Lee Moses: A Brief Comparison of Some of Her Acoustic and Electroacoustic COmpositions"
* Henry Gwiazda: "THe Audio Video Symbiosis"
* Kala Pierson: "Singing Stones"
* Alex Kotch: "Remixers Online Collaborative"
* CJ Lindstrom: "Social Class and Creativity"


Spark Film Festival
3:00 to 8:00 pm, Coffman Theater

* Featuring films from the Beijing Film Academy

Installations by Venue

Regis Center for Art East Building

* Lanier Sammons: "Panta Rhei"
Regis E136
* Robin Meier/Ali Momeni: "Strategies for Post-Apocalyptic Computation"
Regis E138
* Jeldrik Schmuch: "Memento"
Regis E134


Regis Center for Art West Building

* Play the Magic (Julio Obelleiro, Alberto García, Jorge Cano, Pedro Enriquez): "Building Music"
Regis West Façade, Sat 2/21 4-8pm
* Jakub Nepras: "Babylon Plant"
Regis W130
* David Morneau: "60x365"
Regis West Projection Area
* David Bithell: "The Traveller"
* Norbert Herber: "Sound Garden"
* Wafaa Bilal: "Virtual Jihad"


Ted Mann Concert Hall

* Cathy Vasn Eck: "Hearing Sirens"
Ted Mann lobby, Sat 2/21 8pm
* Todd Polenburg: "Monster/Identity Prosthetic"
Ted Mann lobby, Sat 2/21 8pm

]]> Where to buy supplies in MPLS tag:blog.lib.umn.edu,2009:/ali/2009arts3305//9673.164738 2009-02-03T22:37:59Z 2009-02-03T22:38:14Z View Larger Map... Ali Momeni
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]]> Making Things Move tag:blog.lib.umn.edu,2009:/ali/2009arts3305//9673.164691 2009-02-03T19:38:07Z 2009-02-03T19:47:46Z Flying Pig Movements and Mechanics: Animated index of motions and translations of motions Cornell Kmoddl library Movies of many kinetic mechanisms that produce more sophisticated, gestural motions... Ali Momeni
Flying Pig Movements and Mechanics:
Animated index of motions and translations of motions

Cornell Kmoddl library
Movies of many kinetic mechanisms that produce more sophisticated, gestural motions

]]> Peter Fischli and David Weiss: The Way Things Go tag:blog.lib.umn.edu,2009:/ali/2009arts3305//9673.164141 2009-01-31T23:34:05Z 2009-02-03T20:14:47Z "Der Lauf Der Dinge (The Way Things Go)" by Peter Fischli and David Weiss (Matthew Marks Gallery, Wikipedia, Tate Modern (2006)): a masterful example of how to translate various forms of energy (potential/gravity, chemical, heat...) to various forms of movement... Ali Momeni "Der Lauf Der Dinge (The Way Things Go)" by Peter Fischli and David Weiss (Matthew Marks Gallery, Wikipedia, Tate Modern (2006)): a masterful example of how to translate various forms of energy (potential/gravity, chemical, heat...) to various forms of movement (slide, turn, walk, rise, launch, ...).

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]]> "Der Lauf Der Dinge (The Way Things Go)" by Peter Fischli and David Weiss (Matthew Marks Gallery, Wikipedia, Tate Modern (2006)): a masterful example of how to translate various forms of energy (potential/gravity, chemical, heat...) to various forms of movement (slide, turn, walk, rise, launch, ...).

Part 1 of 3:

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And let's not forget the Honda rip-off...

]]> Arthur Ganson: Kinetic Sculptures tag:blog.lib.umn.edu,2009:/ali/2009arts3305//9673.164139 2009-01-31T22:42:09Z 2009-01-31T23:44:26Z Arthur Ganson's work regardless of what you may think of its aesthetic value, is an exceptional reference for making things move. more inside...... Ali Momeni Arthur Ganson's work regardless of what you may think of its aesthetic value, is an exceptional reference for making things move.

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]]> Laban Movement Analysis tag:blog.lib.umn.edu,2009:/ali/2009arts3305//9673.163532 2009-01-28T18:53:05Z 2009-01-28T19:01:47Z Laban Movement Analysis, named after French/Hungarian dance artist and theorist Rudolf Laban. The diagram below outlines the Laban categorizations of movement analysis.... Ali Momeni Laban Movement Analysis, named after French/Hungarian dance artist and theorist Rudolf Laban.

The diagram below outlines the Laban categorizations of movement analysis.


]]> Syllabus tag:blog.lib.umn.edu,2009:/ali/2009arts3305//9673.162249 2009-01-19T20:21:17Z 2009-01-19T20:54:34Z Description This class introduces students to the diverse practices of movement and rhythm applied to sculpture. Instead of a literal translation of kinetic sculpture as sculpture that moves, we seek to deconstruct presuppostions about the limits of this practice and... Ali Momeni Description
This class introduces students to the diverse practices of movement and rhythm applied to sculpture. Instead of a literal translation of kinetic sculpture as sculpture that moves, we seek to deconstruct presuppostions about the limits of this practice and its history. By exploring notions of the body, movement, function, gesture and the relationship between objects in motion we will find expansive ways to collaboratively redefine this medium.

As an advanced class, the class will be primarily fueled by the personal artistic interests and directions of the participants. Evaluated projects will be mostly very free in their constraints and are geared towards helping each student develop his/her personal voice.

Schedule
Throughout the semester, we will review and analyze contemporary works of sculpture and installation. In addition to this regular practice, we will consider three different genres of theoretical work with movement and rhythm:

1) Body in Motion: styles of gesture, from modern dance and hip-hop, to table tennis and sumo, and the movement in the animal kingdom
2) The Jungle: inspired by the work Rain Forrest by David Tudor, we will collaboratively work on a large scale kinetic sound installation
3) Musical Time and Rhythm: we will do close listening and analysis of music from the east and the west that gives particular attention to its treatment of time and rhythm


Grading
There will be three evaluated and equally weighted projects. At the completion of each project, we will conduct critiques in order to give each student critical feedback. One of these three projects will be our collaboration on the Jungle. Grades will thus be calculated as follows:

%25: Project 1
%25: Project 2
%25: Project 3
%25: Participation and Attendance

Attendance
Attendance is mandatory. Missing more than 2 classes without formal and serious notification and justification will lead to failure of the course.

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