NI-CCC
nic: [in czech meaning nothing] a notion so simple, thus with an unlimited meaning [x]
NICCC is a study course organized at Faculty of Information Technology, Czech Technical University in Prague in cooperation with other institutions and individuals. The course is an open space for people from different fields - a merge of IT, architecture, urbanism, or simply any research field or art of any format. The goal is to support the creation of interdisciplinary projects - big screen visualization, physical installations, multimedial projects, etc. The main focus is to connect students and mentors with various sets of knowledge, skills, and fields of interest. The individuality of both students and the mentors is the foundation for unique projects, which are being developed throughout the semester.
- I want to change something / collaborate
- List of current projects
- Faculty web pages
- Faculty course pages (Courses)
Meetings
21.9.2020 - Course introduction, topic choice
Breaking the ice, getting the students to know each other, forming teams and first project topic brainstorming.
See also list
- Aaron Koblin: Visualizing ourselves … with crowd-sourced data
- John Maeda: How art, technology and design inform creative leaders
- David McCandless: The beauty of data visualization
- Why you should make useless things
For the next lesson
- Come up with a concept of a project you would like to work on either as an individual or a team, there is no thing such as stupid idea
- Come up with a visual identity for this course. Something that would make it to a poster, shirt, hat, totebag, badge, sticker... who are we?
5.10.2020 - National Museum, Prague
Visiting the National Museum. What goes into producing an exhibition, what's the technical background of the installations. Forming the semestral project topics.
See also list
- DMX/ DMX lights (google DMX lights)
- Install QGIS on your computer and try to run the file that you are all going to obtain via mai
- Let Pepa know via mail or MSTeams if you are interested in lidar
- LEARNING WHILE MAKING P5 JS Lauren McCarthy
For the next lesson
- Next lesson on the 12th October takes place in CAMP (50° 4' 22.674'' N, 14° 25' 4.7028'' E, 211 m.n.m) at 12:45-14:15 anyone interested may come sooner. We are gonna be there at 11 the latest.
- Bring your personal computer with QGIS installed
12.10.2020 - Live from CAMP
The lesson took place in CAMP. In a matter of 1 hour, we'vs built an imporvised streaming studio. Alžbeta Gardoňová introduced the topic of open data (geoportal), analysis and visualization of data in context of the human perception etc.
See also list
For the next lesson
- Quarantine, the lesson will be on MSTeams at 11:00.
19.10.2020 - Dávid Sivý and GRID.cz
Lecture by Dávid Sivý (davidsivy.com, Ateliér Karel), he introduced some of his projects (e.g., Laboratory of Silence). If you are interested, you can cooperate with him on a reboot of educubes - more HW focused project.
Zbyněk Kugler (GRID.cz) gave a talk about lidar data, it is possible to arrange a cooperation on pointcloud data processing.
See also list
For the next lesson
- Quarantine, the lesson will be on MSTeams at 12:45.
26.10.2020 - Andrej Boleslavský
The lesson was led by Andrej Boleslavský, a freelance artist. The topic was use of point clouds, volumetric records, workflow of selected works, use of kinect, the merging of VR and dance its recording / even underwater/, art residencies, etc.
You can cooperate with him on a storytelling project focused on the migration crysis, used technologies would include Oculus Quest + Unity (HLSL + C#), you would primarely help with the technical aspects of the project.
See also list
- https://www.dotdotdot.it
- Projekt DUST + something about th project + enviroment model in sketchfab
- Oliver Kreylos - vr + projection + volumetric recording
For the next lesson
- Quarantine, the lesson will be on MSTeams at 11:00.
- Install vvvv beta + addonpack /linked/ there will be an interactive demo of creative workflow in vvvv (visual programming).
2.11.2020 - Daniel Burda and Andrej Boleslavský
Lecture of Daniel Burda, who presented his selected works followed by a lecture about Benjamin H. Bratton, with the focus on what The Stack is.
Seminar was organised as a vvvv workshop with Andrej Boleslavsky
See also list
For the next lesson
- Quarantine, the lesson will be on MSTeams at 12:45.
9.11.2020 - INITI
Pepa Kortan and Ondrej Prucha from INITI presented some of their projects - see the videos. We talked about web vs game engine environments, information anxiety, and please read the article by Mark Weiser - The Computer for the 21st Century.
See also list
For the next lesson
- Quarantine, the lesson will be on Zoom at 12:45.
19.11.2020 - Ira Winder
Ira Winder (MIT, The University of Tokyo) talked about his experience as a researcher in the area of city planning, the topic of the lecture was Sketching with Code: Case Studies and Workshop.
See also list
For the next lesson
- Quarantine, the lesson will be on MSTeams at 12:45.
23.11.2020 - Jan Kaňka and Adam Sporka
Jan Kaňka (Audified, CAS) talked about signal processing and analysis, some visualizations, and existing applications (see links bellow).
Adam Sporka (freelancer, Warhorse, CUNI) introduced concepts of sound synthesis, audio mix, sonification and spatialization, and limits of audio perception. Go to the discord group if you are interested, the link is in the msteams group.
See also list
- Fire Table
- Tesla Coils
- Texalive
- Songle.jp
- Dr. Masataka Goto
- Hatsune Miku
- Adam Sporka
- Frequency Modulation Synthesis Demo
- GDS 2020
For the next lesson
- Quarantine, the lesson will be on MSTeams at 11:00.
30.11.2020 - Jiří Zemánek, Jan Netušil, and Jan Petýrek
Jiří Zemánek is a postdoctoral researcher at FEE CTU, he spent part of the postdoctoral studies at MIT at the Center for Bits and Atoms. His main research interests are intelligent materials and micromanipulation of objects by shaping physical force fields.
Jan Netušil is a graduate of the Academy of Arts, Architecture, and Design. Since 2012 he has been a member of Oficina and is a co-founder and technical director of the Mouvo festival.
Jan Petýrek is a graduate of the Academy of Arts, program MA Information Experience Design. He is a video artist with particular interest in perception of space and spatial narratives. His work explores virtual and physical experiences with an aim to create immersive installations.
See also list
- Oficina Design
- Pře(d)stav si Prahu
- Jan Petyrek vimeo
- The Theory of Affordances
- Laura Bridgman
- Helen Keller
For the next lesson
- Quarantine, the lesson will be on MSTeams at 12:45.
- Perpare a short presentation of your semestral project.
7.12.2020 - Jakub Pollág and Miroslav Kukrál
Jakub Pollág is a creative individual specializing in the strategy and manufacturing side of product design and development. He is the founder of zeitgeist.limited and co-founder of studio deFORM.
Miroslav Kukrál is an architect; his professional interests range from building concept design, over the design of building structures, technological solutions, and 3d models, over to game design.
The guests presented their current and past projects and talked about the encountered obstacles and strategies used through project development.
See also list
For the next lesson
- Quarantine, the lesson will be on MSTeams at 11:00.
- Again, perpare a short presentation of your semestral project :)
Partners
The list of main collaborators and partners
Study materials
Web pages of NI-CCC are hosted as GitHub Pages, anyone can contribute, see Contributions (in czech).
Organisation
NICCC is a course organised at FIT CTU in cooperation with other institutions and individuals since 2020. Rules for subject evaluation and other terms are to be found on the faculty course pages. For more info, contact us via mail.