MA Architecture and Digital Media

Pictures from the exhibition

rdifford — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 16:46:17 +0000

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

rdifford — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 12:28:38 +0000

2009 catalogue preview:

rdifford — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 10:00:52 +0000

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

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

rdifford — Tue, 26 May 2009 18:16:05 +0000

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

Maria Lardi, Mayank Mehta and Alejandro Vicente Soto

Tom Lowndes and Anisur Rahman

Mark Steedman, Paul Maguire and Richard Almond

Nima Vossoughi and Zahra Mohammadi Hoseinieh

Nikoletta Kostopoulou

A selection of animations

rdifford — Mon, 25 May 2009 15:53:22 +0000

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

Steve Karski, 2003

A day of crits – projects begin to take shape

rdifford — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 17:47:47 +0000

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 Vicente Soto

Oonagh Crotty

Nikoletta Kostopoulou

Featured Project: Richard Almond

rdifford — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 10:40:20 +0000

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

rdifford — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 19:27:56 +0000

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.

Some links to further GC information:

www.generativecomponents.com

www.smartgeometry.org

Links from the recent lecture by Andreas Müller

Filip — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 14:50:54 +0000

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

Exhibition 2008

rdifford — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:00:52 +0000

MA Architecture and Digital Media Exhibition Preview

6.30pm to 9pm: Friday 29th August 2008

University of Westminster: Marylebone Campus

35 Marylebone Road

London NW1 5LS