push_push

Jeff Bryant The push_push sensors were made on a circular knitting machine. While knitting regular yarn, conductive thread is tied to the yarn and pulled through the machine with it. The first strips contained isolated patches of conductive thread, with power and ground connected to each, and were connected to a microcontroller with circuits suited for variable resistors. To reduce …

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Introduction to Programming for Musicians and Digital Artists

Digital Arts Minor

Artists in the age of digital media require new approaches to design and implementation using emerging technology. At California Institute of the Arts, we believe that every artist needs to be offered training on how to invent creative new possibilities for interaction with their performers, audiences and supporters, whether through the custom fabrication of technological objects and interfaces or web-based …

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SCHOOLS / INSTITUTES NYU Interactive Telecommunications Program -- New York, NY CalArts Music Technology: Intelligence, Interaction and Design (MTIID) -- Valencia, CA NYU Steinhardt + ITP -- New York, NY Stanford Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) -- Palo Alto, CA UC Santa Barbara Media Arts and Technology -- Santa Barbara, CA UC Berkeley The Center for ...

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Example of career paths of a selected set of our Alumni 2019 | 2018OWEN VALLISBFA 2008 – Went on to Ph.D. in Sonic Arts Engineering at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. He also worked as an Engineer for Nokia Research, Twitter, and MZ. Currently Senior Software Engineer for Machine Learning at Google owenvallis.com MATTHEW HETTICHBFA 2008 – Went …

CalArts Expo

Reflecting California Institute of the Arts’ experimental ethos, the CalArts Expo rolls out its latest projects integrating cutting-edge engineering and computer science with visual and performing arts. Highlighting new student and faculty projects made over this last academic year, the Expo exhibitions and performances run from early afternoon to late evening in the ROD Music Hall, MOD Theater, Main Gallery, ...

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