Media Arts and Technology

Sid& Jae AAAAA.jpg Last week I looked into the world of eye tracking, through the perspective of someone who is disabled and has no use of their body beyond the movement of his eyes. The innovative measure to help this man regain his ability to draw was breath-taking as it was configured using a Pla...

Jae Hak and Sid: Eye Tracking In life there are no guarantees, it is important to do what you love to do and enjoy the time you have. People who celebrate their creativity and like to construct art works, need the function of their body to do such things. What happens if it were to be all taken away...

the Computer Vision Research Laboratory at UCSB http://excelsior.cs.ucsb.edu/lab.htm Here at UCSB the Computer Vision Research Laboratory is using a combination of novel optics and computational programs to produce final images that consist of multiple images integrated into one. This is the goal of...

-Sid Right off the bat when I entered the MAT labs I walked towards a calling melody in the air, like a drunken sailor to a siren. Around the corner, down a small hallway, there was a calming tune played through the acoustics of a flute. Inside the room straight ahead was where the music was coming ...

-Sid Using the system conjured in “Rhetoric of the Image” by Roland Barthes I have decided to compare two photographs similar in regards to the references to sports. The first photograph I am going to start with is my old high school football photo. In my photo you can see nine players standing on a...

Sid Miramontes Art 130 Prof. Legrady October 7, 2012 Photography in Cinema As time goes by and photography evolves into motion pictures, so does the level of skill and intellect. What many do not realize is that photographs represent more than a trivial snapshot on facebook, it is a summation of cre...

Sid Miramontes Art 130 Prof. Legrady October 7, 2012 Camera Obscura The difficulties with finding the absolute origin of photography would be excruciating, not to mention near impossible because no single answer to the question how and when photography began can be answered. There were many individu...