Tactical Robotics Symposium: Oct 1

Meaningful Gamification, Nov 21 @ 5:30p

November 21, 2013 | Discovery Park B155 | Reception 5:30 | Lecture 6:00

Dr. Scott Nicholson

Meaningful Gamification:

Motivating Through Play

Instead of Manipulating Through Rewards

Please join Dr. Scott Nicholson as he explains the use of game design concepts to create a layer on a real world setting. Typically, gamification focuses on the use of rewards like points and badges to change the behavior of users. Rewards can cause long-term damage to intrinsic motivation, however, so Dr. Nicholson has focused on developing the concept of meaningful gamification as a way to build intrinsic motivation.

Dr. Nicholson is an Associate Professor at Syracuse University’s School of Information Studies and Director of the Because Play Matters game lab and the Game Designers' Guild of Syracuse. He is an alumnus of the Interdisciplinary PhD program in Information Science at UNT. During 2011-2012, he was a visiting professor at MIT in Comparative Media Studies and the GAMBIT game lab. Dr. Nicholson is a published board game designer, wrote the book Everyone Plays at the Library, and was an academic reference librarian at Texas Christian University. He hosts a research blog at http://becauseplaymatters.com.

The College of Information sponsors a Colloquium Series at which renowned researchers and professionals address topics of interest to students and faculty. The goal of the series is to nurture the community of scholars and provide opportunities for faculty and students to engage in the scholarly and research life of the College and the University.

"Moebius" logo contest hosted by iArta

The iARTA Research Cluster is sponsoring a $300 Logo Contest for Moebius, a new journal of the convergence of practice and theory in the electronic arts.

Win $300!

The iARTA research cluster (Initiative for Advanced Research in Technology and the Arts) is founding a new journal at UNT—Moebius. We are announcing a prize of $300 for the design of a logo that will appear on the journal.

We are looking for a visual representation of a Moebius strip (Google this for some crude examples) in addition to the text “a journal of the convergence of theory and practice in the electronic arts.”

Please send submissions as electronic attachments to an email message to dschwarz@music.unt.edu; please write CONTEST in the subject heading; the judges will be UNT faculty members Jenny Vogel, Shane Mecklenberger, David Stout, and David Schwarz.

Submissions must be received by April 15, 2011.
Winners will be notified by May 1, 2011.

The Moebius strip is the founding premise of the journal, representing the convergence of the practice on one side and theory on the other: composition and discourse, making and reflecting.

Moebius is an effort of iARTA - the Initiative for Advanced Research in Technology and the Arts. More information at http://iarta.unt.edu/moebius.html

Shane Mecklenburger
Assistant Professor of New Media Art
University of North Texas

ART-TEC lecture series at UNT

Hello,

My colleagues and I would like to invite you to attend our upcoming ART-TEC lecture series at the University of North Texas. Norah Zuniga Shaw (Director for dance & technology at the Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design at Ohio State University) and Paul Kaiser (artist, writer and member of the OpenEnded Group) will join professor David Bithell for a conversation in Recital Hall, College of Music on the UNT campus on Thursday, Feb 17th at 8:00PM.

I look forward to seeing you there.

Sincerely,

David Stout
iARTA Coordinator

NoiseFold (and Guests) at UNT College of Music

Merrill Ellis Intermedia Theater Feb. 14/15 8PM

Whether seen simply as a work of art or encountered as an intellectual and spiritual event, the loss of self that occurs during a NoiseFold performance is balanced by a gain of understanding.

–The End of Being

Melding real-time animation and generative electronic sound within the legacy of cybernetics, NoiseFold unleashes a suite of selected movements from its live cinema works ALCHIMIA, and nFold 2.0. Using sensor-activated computer systems and complex audiovisual feedback models, the NoiseFold performers synthesize a mesmerizing array of bio-mimetic visual forms that generate sound, celebrating the evolution of visual music as a form of instrumental play with semiautonomous systems. From subtle lifelike emanations to roiling upheavals of sound and light, their audiovisual events are at once familiar, mysterious, and strange. The result is a powerful synaesthetic experience where noise, music and image interact on a symphonic scale.

NoiseFold make their second appearance at the Merrill Ellis Intermedia Theater in the UNT College of Music for two consecutive evenings, Feb. 14 & 15 at 8:00pm. NoiseFold founded by UNT iARTA professor David Stout and iARTA research associate, Cory Metcalf, will be joined by UNT faculty composers, David Bithell (trumpet / electronics) and Andrew May (violin / electronics).

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ART-TEC lecture series sponsered by iARTA

You are invited you to attend the upcoming ART-TEC lecture series sponsored by the interdisciplinary art and technology cluster, iARTA. Featuring leading national and international figures exploring new and emergent practices across the arts, the ART-TEC series introduces the UNT community to the recently formed (iARTA) Advisory Board. Our first guests, curator, Steve Dietz and Eyebeam Director, Amanda McDonald Crowley will join new media artist Shane Mecklenberger for a conversation in Recital Hall at College of Music on the UNT campus on Thursday, Feb. 3rd at 8:00PM.

The full details can be found at here.

I look forward to seeing you there.

David Stout
iARTA Coordinator
Initiative for Advanced Research in Technology and the Arts