Interaction Design Methods and Social Communication on the Jam-O-Drum
Speaker
Tina Blaine
Visiting Scholar and Adjunct Faculty Member, Entertainment Technology Center and Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
When
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Where
Newell-Simon Hall 1305 (Michael Mauldin Auditorium)
Description
At Interval Research, Tina Blaine led a creative team in the development of collaborative audiovisual instrument known as the Jam-O-Drum. This device allows groups of people with or without previous musical knowledge to play interactive music compositions via MIDI with real-time video and computer graphics projections in a collaborative environment. Exploring this medium as a way to achieve communal music making experiences and to encourage spontaneous, non self-conscious behavior has been a focus of her work.
The Jam-O-Drum has been exhibited at SIGGRAPH 2000 Emerging Technologies and is currently a permanent installation at the Experience Music Project in Seattle. A smaller prototype of the Jam-O-Drum has also recently become part of the Entertainment Technology Centers Curriculum. Tina will present a series of demos and interaction designs that integrate a variety of approaches to combining elements of motion in music and graphics. She will also discuss the process of learning how to facilitate real-time collective experiences and the ways in which this project addresses shared collaborative experiences as the driving force behind peoples interaction with each other.
Speaker's Bio
Tina Blaine (Bean) is a visiting scholar and adjunct faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University’s Entertainment Technology Center and Human Computer Interaction Institute, exploring new interface designs for gaming, collective music-making and interactive media. Tina has explored musical interaction for many years; starting in the mid-80s building electronic MIDI controller instruments and large-scale audience participation devices with the multimedia ensemble D'CuCKOO, and more recently, as a musical interactivist at Interval Research. Tina has been a guest artist/performer/speaker about new media and the convergence of science, art and technology at such venues as the Banff Center for the Arts, New Minds Festival, New Music Seminar, ShowBiz Expo, NAMM and Xerox Parc. As a journalist, she has reviewed and previewed new technologies for various publications, including The Net, MacUser, C/Net Central, Computer Life and Electronic Musician. Tina is currently working on a new Jam-O-Drum exhibit for Zeum, the Youth Art and Technology Center at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco in collaboration with the ETC and co-organizing a CHI 2001 workshop on “New Interfaces for Musical Expression”. In the rest of her spare time, she is lured by the call of the drum, performing and teaching with the world music percussion ensemble, RhythMix.