{"id":2558,"date":"2018-02-25T20:30:35","date_gmt":"2018-02-26T01:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ccsmfa.wordpress.com\/?p=2558"},"modified":"2021-01-18T18:59:41","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T23:59:41","slug":"remaking-colloquy-progress-update-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pangaro.com\/designconversation\/2018\/02\/remaking-colloquy-progress-update-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Remaking COLLOQUY \u2013 Progress Update #1"},"content":{"rendered":"

No, our replica of The Colloquy of Mobiles<\/a> is not yet real\u2014this is only a photoshopped image of how it will look in our staging space in May at College for Creative Studies<\/a>\u00a0in Detroit (CCS). But the photo speaks our intention and hints at our progress.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0CCS MFA Interaction Design (IxD)<\/a>‘s Colloquy 2018 Project<\/a>\u2014 to remake Gordon Pask<\/a>‘s original installation at London’s Institute for Contemporary Arts in 1968<\/a>\u2014is well under way.<\/p>\n

CCS students\u00a0have been mining the historical materials on The Colloquy<\/a>\u00a0and building a repository of understanding to share with the world.\u00a0Students in IxD Studio IV: Immersive Interactive Experiences\u00a0have created a detailed script of how the mobiles interact, a necessary step before coding the Colloquy’s 1968 interactions. In IxD Studio II: IoT & Prototyping, students are constructing a 1\/6-scale model of the original (see images below). With student work as foundation, our Master Fabricator\u00a0TJ McLeish<\/a>\u00a0is specifying and building the full-scale replica. This massive effort involves 3D CAD models of all the components, tech specs of motors and lights and electronics, and management of the fabrication and assembly of the whole installation.\u00a0Opening night will sync with the Student Exhibition on May 11, 2018.<\/p>\n

Very exciting news and an measure of the significance of the project: we’ve been invited to move the installation to venues in downtown Detroit and to Ann Arbor, San Francisco, London, Liverpool, and Germany (where the prestigious and amazing ZKM Museum of Contemporary Art<\/a> would host it). Moving The Colloquy would require substantially more donations. We have raised $27K of the $34K needed just to complete the full-scale replica at CCS. We want to do so much more: share the full documentation as open-source; prepare for shipping and installing in other locations; and\u00a0bring the conversation about conversational machines in our society to high schools and colleges.<\/p>\n

Please get in touch if you want to be on our contact list, have questions, want to spread the word, or have ideas for funding: colloquy2018@gmail.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Click here to donate.<\/a><\/p>\n

See next update here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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No, our replica of The Colloquy of Mobiles is not yet real\u2014this is only a photoshopped image of how it will look in our staging space in May at College for Creative Studies\u00a0in Detroit (CCS). But the photo speaks our intention and hints at our progress. The\u00a0CCS MFA Interaction Design (IxD)‘s Colloquy 2018 Project\u2014 to … <\/p>\n

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