Advanced ETB: Experimental Capture

Catalog description

Experimental Capture is an interdisciplinary research studio in expanded media practices that arise from using devices and algorithms to ""capture"" the world. We will explore experimental workflows, ranging from no-tech and low-tech to emerging and state-of-the-art techniques, in order to capture, model, and share new representations of people, objects, places and events. Through self-directed research projects, students will develop systems to capture a wide variety of phenomena, and creatively share the media they collect. We will cover a wide range of techniques and artistic practices that capture phenomena beyond the limits of human perception, such as immersive, panoramic, high-speed, multiscopic, and multispectral cameras; depth sensors and 3D scanners; motion capture systems for gestures of the face, body, hand, and eye; computer vision and machine learning techniques for detection, tracking, recognition and classification; and other unusual, forgotten, and nascent technologies for transducing the unseen, ephemeral, and otherwise undetectable.