Special Topic in Interactive Media Arts: Class 3

Artificial Intelligence: Marvin Minsky

• An American Cognitive scientist in the field of artificial intelligence
• Co-founder of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Born on August 9, 1927 New York City
• Awarded the Turning Award in 1969, Japan Prize in 1990, the IIJCAI Award for Research Excellence in 1991 and the Benjamin Franklin Medal in 2001

Alan Kay: 

• American Computer Scientist
• Elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Science, the National Academy of Engineering and the Royal Society of Arts.

In his video he explains how Computing Pioneer is evolving in a steady pace. It is not too advance at the moment but during the past years it has evolve in a pace where it brought people to awe. The project One Laptop Per Child is an interesting project, because it gives the advantage to kids in the 3rd world country to have an education. Not long ago they only had a small chalk board to use (from what I remember my grade 3 teacher told me) but if they have a laptop it would be much better use for them.

Ken Feingold:

• A Contemporary American conceptual artist
• Born in 1952 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
• Creates talking heads that talks back with people or machine

Martin Spanjaard:

• Invented the Adelbrecht
• Adbelbrecht is an electronic ball that can think and feel similar to a human being. When the ball can't move it will do a sad sound, when Martin hits the ball the ball will scream etc.

Myron Krueger:

• An American Computer Artist who developed early interactive works
• One of the first people to generated virtual reality and augmented reality

David Rokeby:

• An artist who makes work of electronic, video and installation art since 1982
• One of David Rokeby's pioneering interactive work is the Very Nervous System. He started to work on it in 1982 and his work has been evolving ever since.

Paul Garrin:

• Born in 1957
• One of his famous work is Man with a Video Camera
• The video is about police officers beating protesters and him being a victim as well for video recording the beating. He then made a new interactive video when one person moves a dog will bark on the screen.