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Theory of Design: Collaborative Telematic
Spaces and Performance
A discussion document: Prof. Phillip Baldwin (phillip.baldwin@gmail.com). 917.385.2446
-This class is integrated with thr403 and will involve the theory of media and ‘collaborative telematic
spaces’. The graduate students will work on various media projects with combined image, moving image,
interactive, and 3d programs. The Graduate Class will work on two grant and proposal writing projects
for actually submission, and two larger prepared media pieces for performance at Monkeytown.
Theory of Design: Collaborative Telematic
Spaces and Performance
A discussion document: Prof. Phillip Baldwin (phillip.baldwin@gmail.com). 917.385.2446
Theory of Design: Collaborative Telematic
Spaces and Performance
A discussion document: Prof. Phillip Baldwin (phillip.baldwin@gmail.com). 917.385.2446
Theory of Design: Collaborative Telematic Spaces and Performance.
-Grant and proposal writing for domestic and international art and technology collaborative
projects. Learn and use Grant writing search engines such as www.COS.com
-Collaborative prepared pieces for a midterm and end of semester performance at the famous NYC
media venue ‘Monkeytown’ with a four-screen immersive media environment. Employ audience
interfaces with performance with wifi laptops and Nintendo wii. www.monkeytown.com.
-Integration of media and performance art forms.
-Integration of digital media forms, open source and standard image, film, and CG software.
-Use and light training in physical computing with ‘Max MSP’, and ‘Processing’ integrated into
sensors at Monkeytown.
-Programmers, Coders, and Engineering grad students and undergrads are invited to experiment
with physical computing, collaborative teleconferencing spaces, hybrid forms such as game space,
game theory with dramaturgy, immersive environments, and interactive film.
-Synchronist and Asynchronous collaborative performances with art and performance companies
in Seoul, Singapore, Shanghai, Berlin, Rome, Mumbai, and other venues.
-This class is integrated with thr403 and will involve the theory of media and ‘collaborative
telematic spaces’. The graduate students will work on various media projects with combined image,
moving image, interactive, and 3d programs. The Graduate Class will work on two grant and
proposal writing projects for actually submission, and two larger prepared media pieces for
performance at Monkeytown.
-The class will provide skills and knowledge in formulating, budgeting, and implementing
international teleconferenced social computing, art, performance, and design collaborations.
Possible grants such as the Fulbright, The Prix de Rome, Guggenheim, McDowell Colony, and the
Japan Foundation Award will be approached.
For further question please contact Associate Professor Phillip Baldwin. Phillip.baldwin@gmail.com
or 917 385 2446.
HOW IT FLOATS
Theory of Design: Collaborative Telematic
Spaces and Performance
A discussion document: Prof. Phillip Baldwin (phillip.baldwin@gmail.com). 917.385.2446
Genres in Virtual Space: History, Theory, Practice
Rationale for introducing this subject
This is a study of the history of Virtual Environments and the performance
environment as a building type. This is an architectural and scenographic study in
two part of the construction and social aesthetics of the stage of the virtual
experience which includes spaces of trance, religious spaces, spaces of meditation,
altered states and context, museums and amusement parks, literary spaces,
operatic spaces and the piazza, the madang and the space of shamans, amongst
many others. Using key texts such as ‘The Architecture of Intelligence’, and ‘The
Pearly Gates of Cyberspace’ (which starts at the cosmology of Dante’s inferno) we
will compare and contrast the existence and rendering of ‘virtual worlds’ along side
the history of built environments. From the movie palace and the forms of modern
display and CAVE technology we will propose the future directions of virtual space.
The student is expected to research and react to each typology in drawing, model,
and full-scale construction of each specific historical typology. Implicit in this study
is a parallel study of the attendant social, political, spectacular, and dramatic
aesthetics and necessities of each epoch and typology. From the low-tech of the
body to the high tech of modern digital imagine all aspect of the virtual world will be
explored. The ends of this studio/lecture class are to develop notions of the virtual
and real architecture of collectivity through research, design development, and
creation of full scale, low cost, temporary, spaces of performance and related media.
Aims and Objectives
The aims of this studio/lecture class are to develop notions of the virtual and real
architecture of collectivity through research, design development, and creation of
full scale, low cost, temporary, spaces of performance and related media.
Syllabus
Week 1 Introduction to class and its goals.
Week 2 The pearly gates of cyberspace. Greek drama, drug induced trance and
shamanism.
Week 3 ancient tech. Trance, tantra, and tongues.
Week 4 the structures conducive to altered states.
Week 5 tantric spaces: what are you seeing of the ground plan.
Week 6 The stage and the cathedral.
Week 7 techniques of the observer.
Week 8 panopticon prisons, operating theaters, and opera.
Week 9 IE environments. Dioramas, Worlds Fairs, freakshows.
Week 10 modernity.
Week 11 IE environments after globalism.
Week 12 Television, the bomb, and the internet.
Theory of Design: Collaborative Telematic
Spaces and Performance
A discussion document: Prof. Phillip Baldwin (phillip.baldwin@gmail.com). 917.385.2446
Graduate Reading: FROM THE NORTON ANTHOLOGY OF CRITICISM.
Week 1:
Cultural Studies
Franz Fanon
Stuart Hall
T. Adorno
Week 2:
Deconstruction
Jean Baudrillard
Deluze/Guattari
Jaques Lacan
Week 3:
Feminist Theory
Laura Mulvey
Donna Harraway
Week 4:
Marxism
Fredric Jameson
Walter Benjamin
T. Adorno
Week 5:
Phenomenology
Martin Heidegger
Week 6:
Postcolonial Theory
Edward Said
Week 7:
Psychoanalysis
Deleuze and Guattari
Carl-Gustav Jung
Sigmund freud
Week 8:
Drama
Aristotle
Friedrich Nietzsche
Graduate Reading: FROM THE NORTON ANTHOLOGY OF CRITICISM.
Week 9:
Structuralism and Semiotics
Claude Levi-Strauss
Ferdiand de Saussure
Tzvetan Todorov
Week 10:
Popular Culture
Charles Baudelaire
Donna Haraway
Week 11:
The Body
Susan Bordo
Helene Cisous
Michel Foucault
Donna Haraway
Week 12:
Enlightenment Theory and Criticism
Immanuel Kant
Giambattista Vico
Mary Wollstonecraft
Week 13:
The Post Modern
Jean-Francois Lyotard
Bell hooks
Fredric Jameson
Week 14:
The Vernacular and Nationhood
Deleuze and Guattari
Ngugi wa Thiong’o
Theory of Design: Collaborative Telematic
Spaces and Performance
A discussion document: Prof. Phillip Baldwin (phillip.baldwin@gmail.com). 917.385.2446