The Gottesman Libraries is pleased to invite you to join a
A New Focus Group
PureData & Realtime Media
Introduction by Joseph Deken
Presentation by Miller Puckette
Discussion with Hans-Christoph Steiner
Wednesday, February 18, 4:00 - 6:00 pm
The Gottesman Libraries
Room 305
Teachers College, Columbia University
525 West 120th Street
Would you like to create and manipulate video, graphics, and images in real time? Explore endless possibilities for interactivity with audio, video, cameras, and other or external sensors? Collaborate live across networks or the internet to create dynamic music and performance events with fellow artists, educators, technologists, geeks? Whether a novice, an expert, or something in between, get those creative juices flowing by joining the new Pure Data (pd) Users Group.
On Wednesday, February 18th Miller Puckette, music and computing pioneer, writer, and designer of pd, will lead an introductory discussion. Puckette is Professor in the Department of Music; and Associate Director, Center for Research in Computing and the Arts, at the University of California, San Diego. He will be introduced by Joseph Deken, Director, Research Program Development at the University of California San Diego, California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology. Dr. Deken is a visiting scholar at Teachers College who participated in the Gottesman Libraries’ Subway Seminar Series. In 2008 Deken, together with a group of colleagues from across the nation, launched New Blankets, a non-profit organization chartered to develop new technologies and participation mechanisms -- reinventing the “Community Free Public Library” concept of Andrew Carnegie. Hans-Christoph Steiner, a leading Puredata developer, community leader, and Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Interactive Telecommunications, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, will join the presentation and discussion. Professor Steiner also orchestrates a "southern" puredata group in Brooklyn, having received an MPS in Interactive Technologies fromNew York University in 2004.
Persons interested in joining the Pure Data Focus Group and attending this presentation are encouraged to e-mail library@tc.edu in advance of the preliminary meeting. Please note that space is limited to members of Teachers College andColumbia University and their invited guests.
Individuals with disabilities are invited to request reasonable accommodations including, but not limited to sign language interpretation, Braille or large print materials, and a campus map of accessible features. Address these requests to the Office of Access and Services for Individuals with Disabilities at (212) 678-3689, keller@tc.edu, or Deaf and Hard of Hearing Services at (212) 678-3853 V/TTY, jaech@tc.edu.