Year 2
Cross Lab course outline

A) The content of your class
The class will be a media art class focused on kinetic
sculpture in the 1st term and Internet based works in
the 2nd term. Both classes will be hands on with the
focus on with the actual creation of interactive
sculptures and internet based telepresence
installations as the class focus. All classes will be
taught in English.

B) The assignment
The major assignment in the 1st term will be to build
robotic sculptures that can paint, dance or Sumo
wrestle using motors and control systems provided by
the school that will be demonstrated by the students
in a public exhibition at the school Open Day November
3rd. This event will be photographed and video taped
by the class and then edited into a video and a web
site as the second stage of the assignment. As well
field trips will also take place September 19th to the
Robodock festival http://robodock.org/2007/ in
Amsterdam and to the studio of robot artist Theo
Jansen http://strandbeest.com/ in Delft November 7th.

In the 2nd term the major assignment will be to
research and then construct installations based on an
interactive Internet element (telepresence). This
project will focus on individual student research into
past work in this artistic area with a formal
presentation to the class by each student. After this
initial phase the students will develop and construct
various installations based on their research and will
work either in small groups or individually. Field
trips will be to the media art centres V2 in Rotterdam
www.v2.nl on January 9th and the WAAG in Amsterdam
www.waag.org on Feburary 20th. A special field trip
for students will also be arranged to the Transmediale
festival in Berlin http://www.transmediale.de/site/
Jan. 31 Ð Feb 2nd if funding can be arranged.

C) The goal of your assignment
The goal of the assignments is to introduce the
students to kinetic and internet based art through the
use of motors, electricity, Internet and computer
technology, give them real world experience
participating in public art exhibitions and a chance
to meet contemporary artists in their studios and at
exhibitions.

D) How you plan to evaluate this
Each student will be evaluated based on their
attendance, participation in class and the overall
quality of the produced work by themselves and/or the
group they have worked with as a team.

E) The planning (when are things finished)
Project #1 completed Oct 31st
Open Day demonstration Nov. 3rd
Documentation of project #1 in a video and website
completed Dec. 12th
Project #2 completed April 30th
Documentation of project #2 in a video and website
completed June 18th

F) The way you organize your lessons (individual
approach, classical teaching etc.)
The lessons will be hands on with a focus on the
actual construction of sculptural objects and
installations. Students will work in small groups and
will be given individual instruction in relation to
specific technical tasks. Overall class instruction
will take place at the beginning of each term to
provide a framework that the students will work
within..

G) References (books, urls, musea, excursions etc)
http://robodock.org/2007
http://strandbeest.com/
http://www.student.ocad.on.ca/~sumo/
http://www.ekac.org/Telepresence.art._94.html

Telepresence art project between Canada and The
Netherlands
http://www.interaccess.org/telekinetics
Personal background on Graham Smith
http://web.archive.org/web/20040911225237/http://johannadhondt.com/folio_smith.html
Telepresence art project between Sweden and Canada
http://www.year01.com/issue6/pandora.html
Lecture series at the WAAG by Graham Smith
http://connected.waag.org/sentient.html
Current space art project
http://www.arsastronautica.com/texts/workshop-ine_poppe_article.php
MOBI the robot
http://telemoby.hku.nl/index.php?link=informatie
DEAF 2007
http://www.deaf07.nl/index.php?option=com_program&act=project&task=show&id=20&Itemid=17