SPEAKER: Wesley Smith TITLE: Realtime 3D Computational Art Performance with LUA scripting
LOCATION: 624 Agua Fria TIME: Thursday April 3 12:30p Lunch will be available for purchase for $5 ABSTRACT: Wesley Smith, realtime 3D performer and LUA programmer will give a lunchtime talk at the new Santa Fe Complex. Wesley is a PHD student at the University of California at Santa Barbara where the media program is building a 360 degree audio visual projection environment called the Allosphere <http://www.mat.ucsb.edu/allosphere>. Wesley has been one of the key 3D developers for MAX/MSP/Jitter and is working with Cory Metcalf and David Stout to develop an interactive particle system as part of their ongoing project to create a multi-site series of synthetic eco-systems. BIO Wesley Smith is a practitioner of computational aesthetics focused on audiovisual performance. He develops for both commercial and open-source audiovisual performance platforms, which he uses to produce performance works and installations. Wesley graduated from Johns Hopkins University in 2002 with degrees in Electrical Engineering and French and was awarded the John Boswell Whitehead Award for distinction in his undergraduate Electrical Engineering studies. After graduation, Wesley completed a Post-Baccalaureate degree at the Maryland Institute College of art as well as an internship at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, which culminated in the interactive installation Narcissus Well. Wesley is currently at the University of California, Santa Barbara in the Media Arts and Technology PhD program working toward his M.S. and PhD degrees in Visual and Spatial Arts where his research is focused on real-time computer graphics and multimedia systems for audiovisual performance based on algorithmic spaces. While enrolled at UCSB, Wesley is also a lead 3D graphics developer for Cycling '74's widely used Max/Jitter software. ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
