Creativity and Computation Lecture Notes - Akshansh Chaudhary
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This digital notebook contains the handwritten notes by Akshansh Chaudhary. The notes are a part of the course MFA Design + Technology. MFADT was taught at Parsons School of Design, New York. For more content and study material, visit https://www.akshansh.net/.
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Creativity and Computation Lecture Notes - Akshansh Chaudhary
- 2. Fatuity Gomputation CC Lecture e 8 SVEN TRAVIS LEGEND Assignments Homework StoryboardingIBiamsheiming ArtistHesigneotolookup Events prospectstoexplore
- 3. 27Aug2018 Today's Artist1Designer MakotoAzuma Botanicalfaceflight Iced flowers baththated in um Smfingffshifajaantine READING ASSIGNMENT tacks e The Maid's Eye VikramChandra Geek Subhine Nick Boston Superintelligence Charles Petzold Code IV NaomiOrestes Conway collapseofWestern Civilization Gain liu Three Body Problem Amazon haspurchased wouldmake it a TVseries IB OtherImpSources TheNewYorkTimes TheEconomist Akshansh Chaudhary 1 MFADT | Parsons School of Design
- 4. IT opics IsArduino Javascripta 2weeks heathiftillBoodshared Is UnityClast6weeks bySven OpenFrameworks 45weeks LECTURE ASSIGNMENT Ist Watchmovie CitizenFour byLauraPoitras Graduate TNS SchoolofMediaft 17 2nd9Read CollapseofWesternCivilization The Three Body Problem 3rd Waite 1500wordpaper on Technology Me Reference thebook thefilm DueSep15h 1159pm This wouldbe re written attheend ofthesemester Today's 2nd Artist 1Designer Zach lieberman founder ofOpenFrameworks Akshansh Chaudhary 2 MFADT | Parsons School of Design
- 5. 17Sept 2018 GeneralInfo lockerstobeassignedthisweek seei i CcLabTicketing StartsthisweekCD127 Adam levin flong.com IsStudied at MIT Parsons UMI Creator oflists likeslists Hiswork a hitofhisother collab onhiswebsite Untitled DigitalArtAugmentedHand Scenes Visit DigitalMediaLab Brooklyn CHara's Akshansh Chaudhary 3 MFADT | Parsons School of Design
- 6. Discussion on Citizenfour Workwith VPN eg ExpressVPN Buy one VPN 4works through ML Switchtheserver automatically when one is blocked lgeqgiefffhiao.to isblocked in Docs ofSnowden OnlineJournalism The Intercept Read Guardian Trustworthy Laura Snowdencontactedher Akshansh Chaudhary 4 MFADT | Parsons School of Design
- 7. GNetwork Suweillance A Dwight Eisenberg Supremecommander ofAlliedforces in Ww2 Built UsA interstatesystem heads Intoday's world China is bringing thatconnection I AM BellLabs Network center inJersey primary researchcenter inthe earlydays Now NokiaBellLabs Cellphoneconnections are thebasis fortacking AInternetwasintented in DARPA military In an academic setting Berkeley Messages sentthroughtheinternet goes in theformofpackets for thesepackets gothroughdifferentroutes collect at the destination Akshansh Chaudhary 5 MFADT | Parsons School of Design
- 8. HarukiMurakami Japanesewinter Nominated forNobel Rejected it IsMostdecent8 IQ84ColorlessTsukuba Tasaki Interestingfilm NorwegianWood Mostfamous Thewindupbird Chronicle Kafkaontheshore A game made on Marakami's work Memoranda Akshansh Chaudhary 6 MFADT | Parsons School of Design
- 9. 24Sept 2018 DT Motion Jam On Motion CaptureLab Newdates Oct12 14,2018 openFrameworksweekendworkshop Sign up classes on sat 1 creditcourse Talk to your FacultyAdvisor DavidCaroll GuaduateStudentTravelFund Supporttravelexpenserelatedtoresearch conferenceetc Sign upfarm willbesent Max grant 10001 EvanRoth DTgraduate Winner ofNationalDesignAward CooperHewitt check it out Akshansh Chaudhary 7 MFADT | Parsons School of Design
- 10. Doing an internettrail takingshots in 112 at the nodes 4 eg wherecableconnections join Aboutode Compiled languages Once you run itsetscompiled Youcan t b et t Java see thecode like making an app Interpreted languages Scriptinglanguages HTML Python Javascriptg Yourunthecodedirectly Clojure you don'tneedtocompile Asmachines are gettingpowerful it's easier to run thecodedirectly no compilation needed Platformindependent Charles Petzold 4WorkedinMicrosoftmostly Finish heading CODE charles Petzold Nmt Akshansh Chaudhary 8 MFADT | Parsons School of Design
- 11. JohnPaulGrande fashion designer a Designprocess Adaptive Predictive Waterfallprocess twins Yaarelevance Hill O Goodheader gapsofdifftypesof Theideaof Paper pholohjpesfwfhohotyfpe.isPhysioal 0bokhfal getclarity Playable Implement Ideafpaofhfpes share your failures It's a prototype.Dorittylomakiet a finishedproduct Akshansh Chaudhary 9 MFADT | Parsons School of Design
- 12. 01 Oct 2018 Resourceeats ERC 9EquipmentResourceCenter frothIsth basement VRequipmentphotographyequipment Digital Cprinter butqualityprint GraphicsLab bestpaintingplace 2W Bth gothflow Stickerprinters venialcutters resourcesparsons edu Metalshop woodshop laserlab 25 EB Do 3 shop1equipmenttrainings bySemesterend Visitingprofessor fan Xiang Machine learning class Course RadicalDatavig Today at3pm D1204B Akshansh Chaudhary 10 MFADT | Parsons School of Design
- 13. GraduateStudentTravelfund Onlyofferingforthe ENTIRE year Conferences researchtravel paperpresentation anything youwanttoattend Grantupto 1000 avg soo 750 Doesnotcoverclassrelatedsubmissions Berlin Paris India etc Tech Performance Collab by EthanSilverman Donewiththedramaschool Registeralongwithspring semesterclass Week long Jan2018 Motion Jam Cancelled Akshansh Chaudhary 11 MFADT | Parsons School of Design
- 14. Openframeworks Workshop ChrisLee AndrewCartas 3 hesessioneachsaturdayfor4 weeks Is Seafnup needed Is Tinie o Sat I 4pm NY TechMeetups Greatevents projects Internshipopportunities in mytech org a A StefanSagmeister Walsh lines dm NYC Graphic Designer IsGoodat Typography PhysicalInstallation sagmeisteewalsh.com Akshansh Chaudhary 12 MFADT | Parsons School of Design
- 15. JessicaWalsh GraphicDesignerfromRISD Islikeknowslike com OliverSachs 4Neurologist Doctor Wiehe Sci Mostfamous AnAnthropologist on Mars TheAwakenings Workis a series ofessays Read Thethird's Eye OliverSachs How we seethings in our brain Akshansh Chaudhary 13 MFADT | Parsons School of Design
- 16. If Howard Gardner Theoryofmultiple intelligences workson 8primaryforms ofintelligences Works onProjectZero at Harvard I SymbioticBiologicalArts Silent Barrage Making artificialbrain for therobot In vitroculture university LEVELAustralia Is Combining Art Saina IsfoundedbyJonat2am actually making things Biodesign Bioiast Akshansh Chaudhary 14 MFADT | Parsons School of Design
- 17. localversionofsymbiotic'a Genspace puffalericate Conference Newlab BrooklynNavyYard IsDee B Experimentswithgenetics Works on Biotech Arts A Biodesign challenge DonewithGreenspace PPTat MoMA 25universities acrossthe faffedstudio Spring2019 Akshansh Chaudhary 15 MFADT | Parsons School of Design
- 18. 08 Oct 2018 SpringRegistration Nov 1stweek Infofrevieo Oct22nd DTStudyTutoring everyday on Dr Visitlearning centertotaketutorials on English Code Is66W nth 6thflood Ifyou are late at retuning stuff EquipmentResource CenterCERD you are fired nonrefundable x Talking Heads DavidBy Aband l975 1990s bBigsuitvideo BicycleDiaries BookAMusician Installation PlayingtheBuilding Akshansh Chaudhary 16 MFADT | Parsons School of Design
- 19. Brian Eno Producer forRoxyMusic WorkedwithTalkingHeads David Bowies 02 Works on VR Mylife in the BushofGhosts Laurie Anderson Musician Technologytocreatemusicin lgtdti wat.mgtapetoviolinchords playing musicthrough it Supercollider Opensourceplatformfor creating musicthrough code SonicPi o similarplatform Akshansh Chaudhary 17 MFADT | Parsons School of Design
- 20. NextAssignment Internship Create3 listsof10 10projects youlike whomadethem btheprojects Howtocontactthem2 Sixdegreesofseparation getintouch withpeoplewhere you want towork look at non profits NGOs Artsorganismsindividualartists and designers Farid10projectsthat you like Topics blockchain climatechange disability Due Oct isth ME alecture2018 gmail.com BookwrittenafterSteveJoleswas firedfromApple Inclass you wouldbeaskedto givea lotofprecedents ConsidertheworksofSteveJoles Billgatesforreference Akshansh Chaudhary 18 MFADT | Parsons School of Design
- 21. Afashion styleinspired byCharles CBabbage's Abook difference discussing engine AdaLovelace Babbage's Firstknowncomputeo Difference programmer Engine weaving machines were thestartofcomputers HermanHollerith's keypunchingmachine Setup a company now called IBM MannixDe Nip Projects Speaker detecting people throughsonar RMR Akshansh Chaudhary 19 MFADT | Parsons School of Design
- 22. 15Oct 2018 MS2 FacultySessions startingnextweek shortcourses12weeklong open Frameworks Maya 3D AfterEffects Startingthis Saturday Upload a picture ofyour ID cardninth stickers Googleform RaspberryPi Stdplatform fordoing IoT projects wouldbecovered in classlaterthis sun workshop Runs on Linux Nextseem IoT electrics Go 70 Akshansh Chaudhary 20 MFADT | Parsons School of Design
- 23. x Edward Burtynsky Photographer Comesfrom a mine area A book a filmonhis miningshot Anothermovie on theshotsof water One more movie on a Anthropocene howhumans haveenipactedtheenvironment permanently x Akshansh Chaudhary 21 MFADT | Parsons School of Design
- 24. Javascript mostwidelyusedscriptinglanguage Primarylanguage aroundthe world Ux 01 Used forrealtime dataprocessing Created by BrendanEich in 1995 Netscape thojdla.iswhatisleftofNetscape Javascriptgotits name fromJava Theyhave no relationtoeach other Takea Javascriptelectric nextsemester v Imp open Frameworks Christine Sugrue Developedcontributed maintainedopenframeworks ParsonsPainsFaculty Tempt another open frameworks project Making a graffitiartistpaintagain TheEyewitew Akshansh Chaudhary 22 MFADT | Parsons School of Design
- 25. 0Otherplatforms similarto openFrameworks CINDER 8 openFrameworks Unity are difftoolswith diffpowers Otherprojects Akshansh Chaudhary 23 MFADT | Parsons School of Design
- 26. 22Oct 2018 A Halloween Parade Oct31 7pm o Nextweek JohnSharp's lecture Creativity Technology Sven exitingas program deridiwthissemester JohnSharp takes up as director MFADT fromnextsemester Spring Semester Course Registration You need2academic begins Nov 1stweek 2collates attheend of2 yrsSo take 1 hydpplyfor waithits nextsom I Suggestedcoursedistribution if forregistration Takeone If notfromDT take fromotherdepartments workload wouldbehigher internships inns2 thesisfocus You can doparttimein the final4thsemester Notrecommended Akshansh Chaudhary 24 MFADT | Parsons School of Design
- 27. SPRING CLASSES 2019 Registration Top 4choices aslasttime opens2faculties 9 fee fulltime studgiqmg.sefstfudents per class Discusswith 2nd years toknowaboutthefaculty Electives TakeJavascriptforsure Gamerelated DataVig classes kindofDataVig related Akshansh Chaudhary 25 MFADT | Parsons School of Design
- 28. Popular Intense URrelated Specificto MFADT Ifyou areinterestedinteaching educt linecoding performance Harpreet Chen t thFA TextileDesign John taelsa weekbeforespringclass Is Maybea currentelective check Max8people Runningsince3yrs SDMStudents BioDesignBioart Take at least 1 academic 1 collab forSpring semester Akshansh Chaudhary 26 MFADT | Parsons School of Design
- 29. Dunne Raley GreatfacultiesforspeculativeDesign Offera collabkindofcourse nextsom CURRENTS f COLLABS INDEPENDENT STUDY Monscheduledcoursewitha fulltimefacultymember with a faculty on atopicthat isn'tbeingoffered with fulltimefacultyonly Ifwetake morethan I collab its considered a studio elective But takepermissionfromQuigayra If wetake morethan 2 academicelectives it'sconsidered a normal elective A SeminarClass is a Studio Class Not an Academiccollab checkdetails on TNSwebsite Akshansh Chaudhary 27 MFADT | Parsons School of Design
- 30. Xu Bing MacarthurGeniusAward Artist GraphicDesigner IsPresently in Beijing calligrapher LaurenRedness Benwocnat.chd.ee have linux Rashian powersRasleevyPie MostofIBM Watsonruns on Linux LinusTorvalds wrotelinux Akshansh Chaudhary 28 MFADT | Parsons School of Design
- 31. 29Oct 2018 A BriefHistoryofTechnology byJohnSharp Bc BeforeComputation B c Y Ac Ac AfterComputation Technologyis just afancyword fortool Computers are just anotherkindoftool Mathis a technologyoftaking measure oftheworld Dice Gooo gu tech A deviceusedto createrandomness Nevertechnologydoesn'talways mean bettertechnology ego cardstacksearch removestheformofdiscoverythat weusedtohavedaringsearchdirectory Adalovelace AlanTuring workedwithCharlesBabbage WanabeerBush of GraceHopper thought Irealizedthepotentialofcomputing a techlikea Peoplewhotransformed DouglasEngelbart Google.com theuseoftech 4Inventedmouse Gui KNEE was consideredthemostflexiblefast to use as a mouse not thehand Akshansh Chaudhary 29 MFADT | Parsons School of Design
- 32. JacksonPollock's oilfainting HipHop was thefine art ofkeepingthepartygoing Youlearn a lot oftechnology 4It's knowingwhyyou are using it in thefirstplace JaaGlass F gap what we can do what we want to do Akshansh Chaudhary 30 MFADT | Parsons School of Design
- 33. About Spingsom Registration Check yourAle noholds mynewschool.edu Registonperiod Nov5 Dec21 sois Seminar f Academicelective Ceginereseminar Academic reading lecture writing Auditcourses 4Process TI Quigayra shine www.a.im 2 Jan2 Waithotclears it If a course says Degreestudents lwithRestrictions youmust fill afoam to register PrimarySource forreference Courses newschooledu ClassFinderCalvinnewschooledu check NssR MediaStudyPrograms forAcademicelectives Akshansh Chaudhary 31 MFADT | Parsons School of Design
- 34. 05Nov 2018 knezveilgai.net Ray Kurzweil Directorof Inventorof engineering atGoogle Kurzweilsynthesizer at Google knownforhis work in Al Worked on texttospeechsynthesis Wrote a lot ofbooks The ageofSpiritualMachines Facialrecognition patternrecognition takesmimensebrain powertodo Ourbrains are not logical theyoperate think differentlyHallowingfromtheassignment InstructionSets forStangas A recentgoodbook by Ray Kurzweil TheSingularity is Near Started a cinneisdig KurzweilUniversity SanFrancisco Goodmagazineto read MIT Technology Review HBR fortech Akshansh Chaudhary 32 MFADT | Parsons School of Design
- 35. JCR Licklider Wrotepieces onthefutureofcomputers in theearly1950s Man computerSymbiosis Intergalactic Network At tweak strong its dea whetherthealgorithm I capableofdoingsth Giving a consciousness a machine AlanTuring Isknown as thefather ofAl Turing Test Tuning machines HerbertSession FamousA1researcher at CMU Book TheSciences ofthe Artificial logic Theorist famous AI article Akshansh Chaudhary 33 MFADT | Parsons School of Design
- 36. Amputation Algorithms vs Patton Recognition d EasyforComputers Hand for homputers Marvin Minsky MIT Veryfamous AI researcher Book TheSociety ofMind JohnMcCarthy Atresearcher atStanford Cheated LISP 4ModernVersion Clojure James Barrat Book Ourfinalinvention Pedro Domingos Book The MasterAlgorithm Criticalthought on Al NickBostrom Book Superintelligence Akshansh Chaudhary 34 MFADT | Parsons School of Design
- 37. Final Assignment Code At You Applications ofAI Csomeofthem FaceRecognition Readarticle byTSA SpeechRecognition GoogleTranslate Hit otherproducts Chinais leading wot languagetranslation Google Maps her Nest 2Bth Watson Work on healthcare ego insurancedecisionmade byA l As DTstudents we have access to Watson API 0 O Akshansh Chaudhary 35 MFADT | Parsons School of Design
- 38. 12Nov 2018 Class cancelled Nov 19 2018 Thanksgiving Last ccLectureclass Mon DeelOth 2018 FINAL ASSIGNMENT Due E Dec19g2018 RevisedversionofTechnology the Code Al the 11500 w Applytobe a UniversityTeachingfellow Toteach in Bootcamp Applicationcomes inJan2019 15seats Extremely competitive Deadline Nov 19,2018 Apply theycheck foracademicstanding list ofappliescomes out in Dec2018 HOLIDAYPARTY Dec14 2018 D12 faiday Parsons is opening a newcampus inSchengen China Akshansh Chaudhary 36 MFADT | Parsons School of Design
- 39. teamLab DMMPlanets Aet Transcening Boundaries teamtale Planets Toyasu Tokyo teamtaleMassless Finland Wed Nov14g3pm KellenAuditorium Go froth INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITY Google Interactive INTERNSHIPOpportunity Fei Deo 7 3pm KellenAuditorium It wouldbeeitherbootcamp teaching oe internship Applyforboth choose carefullylater IoT INTERNET OF THINGS Smarthome Eldercare Healthcare Transportation Automation Urban Environment Energy Eg Sonos earlyadopter of IoTa Nest Visuallight DTgraduate CArduino basedlightbulb Akshansh Chaudhary 37 MFADT | Parsons School of Design
- 40. mode is Usedto connect a browsew A Arduino 1any hardware usedbyPayPal Uber Works with RaspberryPie Arduino Nano Uses JavaScript hasbecome an industrystandard FinalReadingAssignment basedon hisbooks Questionasked Is Computer Programming Art whatare coolers exactlymaking Poetry logiclinein diffplaces Akshansh Chaudhary 38 MFADT | Parsons School of Design
- 41. 26 Nov 2018 MFADT ThesisPopupShow Dec02 Sunday Google Interactive Applicationsbegin in January Final CC lecture 9Dec10 Displayofthebestwork ofthestudent Nominate 12 15 projects finial cc Paper Code Al and the 4Due Wed Dec19 1500words Dt2HolidayParty Fri Dec14 7 pm Takean appointment with StudentFinancialServices office to askforScholarships Chinatripcollab June2019 Co 10people 10Days Akshansh Chaudhary 39 MFADT | Parsons School of Design
- 42. oManuelLima 4DTgradWorked on InfantDesign IsTED Talker Inspirationforgivingpresentations Edward Tufte knownfewdataVigl dayworkshop Oneofthebestbooks DavidMcCandless AnotherData Nigartist TEDTalker Akshansh Chaudhary 40 MFADT | Parsons School of Design
- 43. JacobNielsen Usabilityexpert Focused on theweb I workedwith DonNorman Consultancy firm DonNorman DesignfewEverydayThings Director ofdesignforApple earlydays A CINDER Alternative to open Frameworks Industry Standard Is Originallycreatedby The BarbarianGroup 4BigAdagency OpenSource 4 Not as large a community Akshansh Chaudhary 41 MFADT | Parsons School of Design
- 44. Used bya Potion localProjects INTERSECTION COwnedbyGoogle Oneofthelargestdesignfirms in thecity company behind link NYC Greatplacefor an internship Akshansh Chaudhary 42 MFADT | Parsons School of Design
- 45. 03Dec 2018 Finalprojectdisplayinthenext colecture Deal0 Monday Onlythe nominatedones min 2 nominations needed Submitnominations on bit.ly CCprojects2018 Submit finalpaper Due wed Dec19 Topic Code Al the whatdo you thinkaboutit1500words TI cclecture2oi8 gmail.com GoogleInternship Opportunity About cc Grades Lecture 20 attendance 2 waitingassignment listassign Lab so Aboutgrades in general DTfacultyarelenient Min gradeis usually B1Bt Akshansh Chaudhary 43 MFADT | Parsons School of Design
- 46. y Toparticipate in supporting thisparty No cc lecture Latein Dec3rdweek Dec17 I8 Mostoftheclasses end in Dec2ndweek fillthetamidinterested Starthere Beijing LJune 3 insoin People 10 youcan go on thetripforzerocredits There willbe an infosession forselectedstudents x o flow Masterwork ofmodern psychology Usedtobe a CClecture compulsory Mihaly linee hi Csikszentmihalgi Chik Sen mee hi Akshansh Chaudhary 44 MFADT | Parsons School of Design
- 47. other good books by csikszentmihaly.ie e DT program started in the2000s with a focus ontheweb C F comboom As you write your final Mslproject thinkaboutwhich projectsthroughthis semester helped you achieve a flow state Thoseare the areas you want to focus on forthe future Flow stale hadthebesttime BillJoy Knownfew BSDUnix founder SunMuoiosystems founded JavaLanguage Akshansh Chaudhary 45 MFADT | Parsons School of Design
- 48. Thinkaboutwhat you wantto do Nextsemester inform your MS2facultynextsemester oDo a project onJavaScript Processing Unity anything you want to use nextsemester END OF COURSE Akshansh Chaudhary 46 MFADT | Parsons School of Design