MAADM: Images of 2009/2010

•July 1, 2010 • Leave a Comment

The year so far pictured through the crits of 2009/2010:
(Photographs by Antonio Passaro)


Jianghai Shen
Critics: Filip Višnjić, John Bell and Richard Difford



Odyssefs Nikolaidis



Jun Kondo
(See more of Jun’s project at creativeapplications.net)



Marina Karamali

more to be added soon…

Pictures from the exhibition

•October 6, 2009 • Leave a Comment

A collection of pictures from the recent MA Architecture and Digital Media end-of-year exhibition have been posted at the University of Westminster’s Digital Architecture Workshop blog.

Exhibition 2009

•September 15, 2009 • Leave a Comment

2009 catalogue preview:

•June 11, 2009 • Leave a Comment

As the annual department catalogue goes to press, here are some examples from this year’s MA Architecture and Digital Media pages:


Nikoletta Kostopoulou


Nikoletta Kostopoulou


Nikoletta Kostopoulou


Nikoletta Kostopoulou


Richard Almond


Alejandro Vicente Soto


Oonagh Crotty


Richard Almond, Mark Steedman and Paul Maguire


Maria Lardi, Mayank Mehta and Alejandro Vicente Soto


Maria Lardi

Movement capture devices

•May 26, 2009 • Leave a Comment

MA Architecture and Digital Media update: This year, the Applied Animation module, directed by Nick Puckett, examined the opportunities presented by making movement capture devices. Using the Arduino board and standard sensors, custom-designed analogue devices were used to drive animations in Maya. This approach allows the complex data derived from physical devices to be reflected in the animations. Also, in keeping with Nick’s wider research interests, these mechanisms suggest the possibility of employing hardware devices as design tools.


The students present their finished pieces:

Arthi Manohar and Oonagh Crotty
Arthi Manohar and Oonagh Crotty

Maria Lardi, Mayank Mehta and Alejandro Vicente Soto
Maria Lardi, Mayank Mehta and Alejandro Vicente Soto

Tom Lowndes and Anisur Rahman
Tom Lowndes and Anisur Rahman

Mark Steedman, Paul Maguire and Richard Almond
Mark Steedman, Paul Maguire and Richard Almond

Nima Vossoughi and Zahra Mohammadi Hoseinieh
Nima Vossoughi and Zahra Mohammadi Hoseinieh

Nikoletta Kostopoulou
Nikoletta Kostopoulou

A selection of animations

•May 25, 2009 • Leave a Comment

From the archive-
A selection of animations from the Applied Animation module have now been added to madam.org’s main pages:

Antonio Passaro, 2006
Antonio Passaro, 2006

SteveKarski
Steve Karski, 2003

A day of crits – projects begin to take shape

•April 8, 2009 • Leave a Comment

On Monday 23rd March 2009, students and staff of the MA Architecture and Digital Media were joined by guest critics Joel Gethin Lewis  and Yonca Ersen for a day of “crits”. Work in progress was presented and discussed. There are still several weeks of development ahead but already some exciting work is beginning to take shape:

alejandro
Alejandro Vicente Soto

oonagh
Oonagh Crotty

nikoletta
Nikoletta Kostopoulou

Featured Project: Richard Almond

•March 23, 2009 • Leave a Comment

Richard Almond - Slit-Scanning

Work under development by students of the MA Architecture and Digital Media is gradually taking shape on various blogs and flickr pages. This fascinating example is courtesy of Richard Almond:

http://rafolio.tumblr.com/page/2

Generative Components Workshop

•March 5, 2009 • 1 Comment

Last week, students from UCL, the University of Westminster and other institutions came together for a collaborative Generative Components workshop organized by Sean Hanna from the Bartlett School of Graduate Studies. The event, which was hosted by Westminster, included presentations and instruction by various contributors and explored the opportunities presented by scripting in GC. The event was a great success and was a fantastic introduction to this approach.

day2

atwork

Some links to further GC information:

www.generativecomponents.com

www.smartgeometry.org

Links from the recent lecture by Andreas Müller

•February 26, 2009 • Leave a Comment

For All Seasons:
http://www.hahakid.net/forallseasons/forallseasons.html

Hana download link:
http://flickr.com/photos/hahakid/3178763223/

OpenFrameworks download link:
http://www.openframeworks.cc/download/

The computer vision source files:
www.nanikawa.com/fotb.zip
OpenCV (included in OF though)
opencvlibrary.sourceforge.net