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Jeff Watson is an artist, designer, and Assistant Professor of Interactive Media and Games at the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts.
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Monthly Archives: December 2015
Wikipedia Method #1
Think of a known idea, person, place, or thing you care about and/or want to learn more about. Ideally, this whatever-it-is should have its own Wikipedia article. For example, “Love,” or “Austre Moland.” Now go to Wikipedia and click on … Continue reading
Haptoclone
High-fives at a distance: The [Haptoclone] system concentrates ultrasound energy at the intersections of the real and clone objects, which creates pressure to the real objects. If the “real object” is your finger, you feel contact force from the 3D … Continue reading
Reality is an Emergency
The following is an edited version of my remarks delivered to close the Fall 2015 run of “Reality Starts Here” (CNTV-101), a foundational class attended by all first-year students at the USC School of Cinematic Arts. Designed as both a … Continue reading
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Tagged art, cntv-101, death, empathy, reality ends here, reality starts here, teaching, time
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@sitlab projects old and new at USC MEML
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Distant Early Warning
In 1969, Marshall McLuhan published Distant Early Warning, a playing card deck his estate describes as “a problem-solving device.” The deck was a part of the DEW Line Newsletter project (a “startling, shocking Early Warning System for our era of … Continue reading