The Design, Art, and Technology Makerspace aims to lower the barrier for students to advance in their creative projects and to drive them to innovate. From tinkering on an old radio, to crocheting a rainbow cake, to engineering a robot that plays drums, or using M&Ms to make a portrait of your dog. We are passionate about making things, physical or virtual or interdimensional, and we want a place to kick-back and make our awesome projects with ease.

Events

LED Throwie Badge

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For ICS Day

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Thursday, May 17, 2012 at 10:00am-5:00pm

Around Computer Science building and Engineering Tower

This ICS Day, DAT Space wants to tell you what a unique individual you are. That you're special. That you are the coolest. But most of all, we want to help you tell others how wonderfully amazing you are. That's why, this ICS Day, we're holding a mini-workshop to help you to make your very own LED Badges with felt and LEDs, so your brilliance will be showing all day long. Come see exactly (+/- 5) how bright you are on Thursday, May 17th from 10am-5pm around the ICS Building and the Engineering Tower.

Art Courting in the Courtyard Bakesale

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Thursday, May 24, 2012 at 5:00pm

Claire Trevor School of the Arts

Electronic Music and Sound Design with Max

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A Hands-On Introductory Workshop by Professor Christopher Dobrian

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Thursday, May 10, 2012 from 5:00pm-8:00pm

Contemporary Arts Center, Room G012

The Max programming environment by Cycling '74 (a.k.a. Max/MSP/Jitter) has become the lingua franca among electronic musicians, VJs, and experimental media artists of all kinds. It's a full-blown programming language that incorporates visual programming with onscreen objects and a large toolkit of pre-made user interface elements, making it relatively easy to build interactive programs for sound, music, video, animation, and robotics.

This hands-on workshop will be an introductory crash course in how to synthesize and process sound and music in Max. No previous musical or programming experience is required, just an interest in coaxing interesting sounds out of a computer.

Thanks to the Gassmann Electronic Music Studio, we'll have free pizza and drinks at the event! Our seats are limited to about 22 people, though, so primary seating is going to be determined on a first-come first serve basis, while secondary seating will be determined by the fanciness of the fake mustache that you wear to the event. Be sure to come on by!

Christopher Dobrian is Professor of Music at the University of California, Irvine. He is the director of the Gassmann Electronic Music Studio and the Realtime Experimental Audio Laboratory (REALab), and is producer/director of the Gassmann Electronic Music Series. Previously he was acting director of the iEAR Studios and the graduate MFA program at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY, and executive producer of the Electronic Arts Performance Series. He holds a Ph.D. in Composition from the University of California, San Diego, and is the author of the original technical documentation and tutorials for the Max, MSP, and Jitter programming environments by Cycling '74. His work in computer music focuses on the development of "artificially intelligent" interactive systems for composition, improvisation, and cognition.

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