Season 1
February 2003
Christine Wacta:
Christine graduated from the UM with a Masters in architecture with a focus in 3D animation and
visualization.
Christine will be presenting her Thesis project, which is a design of nomadic type of dwelling spaces for people
who nowadays have a fast changing lifestyle and whose life is about frequent dislocations and relocations. The design and modeling were all done using 3D StudioMax and Photoshop, then edited in Adobe Premiere (with sound effects) and the Green Screen for final touches.
The creativity of my work was how the architectural context was transformed and framed by the human intervention within it. The process/product of my work became radically reinvented. The work portrayed a scenario of sensibility; an architecture in a more “human” level. The “human” level was only possible because of the use of media that are generally looked as Art or filmmakers tools.
Contact Christine at: wact19@hotmail.com
Mike Zaimont:
Student of the University of Minnesota, Computer Science major.
Mike will be presenting his undergraduate research project, a Dreamcast Fighting Game Engine. It is a general engine, created to be used later in the project as part of a survey of what influences people to like or dislike a particular fighting game. Because of this, it is an open-ended engine, so players can draw and script their own characters and determine their own set of rules for how the character behaves. The engine was programmed in C++, using open-source development tools and KallistiOs, a set of useful functions for the Dreamcast console.
Gary Dahl:
Graduate Student, University of Minnesota, Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Gary is a game maker interested in leveraging the communicative abilites of interactive media. He will be presenting the puzzle game Fairy Dust, in which players interactively program nanobots. The game is an experiment
in facilitating emergent gameplay that further blurs the line
between the role of the author and the audience.
email - dahl@cs.umn.edu
fairy dust summary - http://mnartists.org/work.do?rid=27394
The Peters Map Projects - Internet Group:
Chuck Yust - CALA Computer Tech - non-degree seeking student
Cheryl Wilgren Clyne - CALA - Curitorial Assistant- non-degree seeking student
Laura Hoyt, MFA - photography student
Andrew Hennlich - art history, political science student
The Peters projection of the world map was developed in Germany in 1974 by Arno Peters to give a size accurate portrayal of the world. The problem with developing any two dimensional map is how to display the third dimension. Peters developed his map so that it accurately portrayed the size of all nations, rather than displaying their exact shape. This is in contrast to the dominant map, the Mercator projection developed in 1569 which accurately depicts the shape of the land masses, but everely enlarges the size of the northern hemisphere. Peters felt that the inimization of size distortion allows for more equal representation, helping to give a voice to the underrepresented in the southern hemisphere and developing world.
The Peters Map Project was an assignment given at the end of fall semester 2002 to the students of the course: Project One: Globalization.
Project One is a multi-disciplinary, experimental one-year course offered by the College of Liberal Arts and the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, and is instructed by the Winton Chair in the Liberal Arts, Alfredo Jaar. The Peters Map assignment consisted of dividing the class into eight different groups, each of which used a different medium to inform and enlighten the general public and campus community about the Peters Map mission and the power of political representation and perception sometimes subconsciously illustrated by maps in general. The group that utilized the Internet as their medium for this assignment will be presenting the work they have done thus far, and given the project's status as a work in progress, the work they are planning to do in the near future.
Conact Cheryl Wilgren Clyne for more information: clyne003@umn.edu and mathist23@aol.com
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