MAY 8-9, 2014
CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF THE ARTS
LOS ANGELES
MAY 8-9, 2014
CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF THE ARTS
LOS ANGELES

Schedule

8:30am - 9:30am

  • Breakfast
  • Introduction to the Symposium
  • Opening composition: Never Having Written a Note for Robot Percussion
  • Talks will be 15 minutes with 5 minutes of questions and answers.

9:00am - 12:00pm

  • Shawn Greenlee, Composer & Sound Artist at RISD
  • Tae Hong Park, Associate Professor of Music Technology & Composition at NYU
  • Lauren McCarthy, Artist, Designer, & Programmer at RISD and NYU
  • Douglas Repetto, Assistant Professor at Columbia University
  • Curtis Bahn, Associate Professor, Music Composition/Interactive Performance at RPI
  • Dan Truman, Professor of Music at Princeton
  • Mathew Wright, Researcher, Lecturer, Research Director, Principal Dev. Engineer at UCSB
  • Chris Chafe, Director of CCRMA at Stanford University
  • Rebecca Fiebrink, Lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London

1:30pm - 2:30pm

  • Mick Grierson, Director of Creative Computing at Goldsmiths, University of London
  • Daniel O Sullivan, Chair of Interactive Telecommunications at NYU
  • Trimpin, Kinetic Sculptor, Sound Artist, Musician

2:30pm - 3:00pm

Ajay Kapur, Associate Dean of Digital Arts and Director of MTIID at CalArts, and Perry Cook, Emeritus Professor of CS (also Music) at Princeton, visiting Lecturer/Artist, CalArts.

3:30pm – 5:00pm: Panel Discussions

Music, Sound and Computer Science

  • LEAD: Ge Wang, Assistant Professor at Stanford University and CCRMA
  • Spencer Salazar, Doctoral Student at Stanford CCRMA
  • Mathew Wright, Researcher, Lecturer, Research Director, Principal Dev. Engineer at UCSB Dan Truman, Professor of Music at Princeton

Visuals, Graphics and Computer Science

  • LEAD: Casey Reas, Professor at UCLA’s Department of Design Media Arts
  • Lauren McCarthy, Artist, Designer, & Programmer at RISD and NYU
  • Daniel O Sullivan, Chair of Interactive Telecommunications at NYU

Online Education

  • LEAD: Ajay Kapur, Associate Dean of Digital Arts and Director of MTIID at CalArts
  • Perry Cook, Emeritus Professor at Princeton
  • Mick Grierson, Director of Creative Computing at Goldsmiths, University of London

5:00pm – 5:30pm: Round Table Discussion: The Future of Computer Science in Arts Education

Topics:

  • Curriculum Design
  • Assignment Design
  • Assessment
  • Gender and Minorities
  • Retention
  • Student Projects
  • Program Design
  • Art/Music/Engineering Integration on Campus
  • Festivals/Concerts/Events/Exhibitions