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Intermediate - Autumn 2009


 

All Second Year students are required to undertake TWO Media Studies Courses (one from the Autumn Term and one from the Spring Term). The courses result in practical submissions both of which must be passed in order to complete the Media Studies submission requirement (MS2). 

 

Second Year students will meet with the Media Studies Course Tutors on Friday 2nd October at 4.00pm to discuss the courses on offer.  Registration for courses will take place afterwards online on the Media Studies website (www.aa-mediastudies.net) and the classes will commence on Monday 5th October for seven to eight consecutive weeks exclusive of Week 6.  Attendance to all classes is compulsory.

 

Registration for Spring Term Courses will take place at the beginning of the Spring Term and students will be reminded of the process via the Events List.

 

3rd Year students with an outstanding Media Studies submission (M2) must select course/s from the AUTUMN Term 2nd Year courses in order to complete their Media Studies requirement for AA Intermediate (ARB/RIBA) Part 1/Entry to 4th Year.

 

  • Shajay Bhooshan
  • Open Room 2 - 36.G06

  • Mondays 10am-1pm

As 'creative' code-writing and computational tools become an increasing part of the architectural repertoire, the seminar will provide, over two terms, a sound conceptual footing into the world of computation and design. The seminar will use proce55ing as an easy-to-use software platform to make this foray.

  • Valentin Bontjes Van Beek
  • Open Room 39.103

  • Mondays 2-5pm

In this course we will animate ideas by creating and erasing drawings analogue and digitally. We will explore animation technique through capture and erasure of drawings on a single canvas. Animation is that what gives life to the static. This distance between drawings and animations is that what we wish to explore, manipulate and convey simultaneously. The course will culminate with a short animated filmic clip.

  • Monia De Marchi
  • 16.B01

  • Mondays 2-5pm

This year investigation will be how to juxtapose streams of figures on a formulated context. We will define an organization method and with the use of the CNC machine we will scratch out material to allow distant figures and objects to be positioned. With the use of specific toolpaths and method of manufacturing, you will investigate way of tagging contours between different figures, which will goes from a seamless and homogenous to a lush and distinct outcome. The final output will be a relief investigating a systematic objectification of contours between incongruent figures and operations.

  • Eugene Han
  • Open Room 6 - 36.214

  • Mondays 2-5pm

This course will focus on the manipulation of digital geometry using scripted techniques within a NURBS modelling environment. We will cover the basics of scripted logic to customise geometry using iterative logic. Students will also be introduced to the basics behind the theory of computation and processing as a means to establish intelligent geometrical systems, and its application to their ongoing unit projects.

  • Matej Hosek
  • Open Room 2 - 36.G06

  • Mondays 2-5pm

Experimenting with the genius loci phenomena using both 2D digital collage and 3D renderings. The aim will be to achieve seamless manipulation of the mainly photographic environment.

  • Alex Kaiser
  • 39.101

  • Mondays 2-5pm

Whatever happened to painting? No, not painting as in writing computer scripts to manipulate pixels in an automatic, generative fashion, or connecting mathematical software applications to CAD packages, but real painting, as in the creation of well-balanced, well-proportioned lines and curves and fields that represent actual or dreamt-up scenarios, compositions that are printed out as plates that you can keep in a portfolio and take out whenever you feel like tracing one of those lines or curves with your finger?...

  • Tobias Klein
  • Open Room 5 - 36.211

  • Mondays 10am-1pm

This course seeks to cross medical voxel based software, used for Magnetic Resonance Imaging and representational mesh based 3d packages. In particular we will use Osirix and 3dmax to manipulate voxel body data and create/render hybrid embodied landscape models. (3d-scanning sessions are planned-TBC)

  • Toni Kotnik
  • 16.B01

  • Mondays 10am-1pm

The course is engaged with the question of permeability of the threshold between the physical and the digital realm through an investigation into patterns of movement of bodies in space and the architectural utilization of these patterns by means of parametric and geometric variation. Grasshopper will be the major tool in the exploration of themes like parametric control, material behavior, structural integrity, tessellations and component systems, or spatial organization.

  • Zak Kyes
  • Open Room 1 - 36.G04

  • Mondays 10am-1pm

What happens when the designer assumes the role of editor, publisher and distributor? This course will provide an introduction to the history, graphics and production of architectural publica­tions. Each student will edit/publish/distribute a small publication printed on Bedford Press, a private press recently established at the AA.

  • Anne Save de Beaurecueil
  • Morwell 1.01

  • Mondays 2-5pm

Digital fabrication course developing variable algorithmic organizations and their translation into ornamental structural physical models using Rhino, in combination with laser cutting and rapid prototyping technologies.

  • Goswin Schwendinger
  • Open Room 1 - 36.G04

  • Mondays 2-5pm

Colour Photo, investigating the fake as a substitution for the real. Photography , a tool of private investigation as well as an instigator, an orchestrator for a rehearsed drama. Usage of a personal camera to alter one's own life towards a false identity through repetitive recordings. A lifeline of fiction weaves through daily routines, freezes moments of deception and specifies a precise layout for fraud. Altering the real, not through digital means but exclusively through desire. a sequence of a falsified existence emerges to be rightful. The notions of space of identity and identity of space addressed and scrutinised. The term's investigation, a culmination in an all encompassing image, constructed according to all things fake. The course, breaking down into themed sessions The Movie, Private Doings, What's Wrong?, Dummies, Dress Rehearsal, More Fake Please, The Fake Gun.

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