Haig Armen

Category: Education

  • So You’re Going To Make A Game For The Very First Time?

    So You’re Going To Make A Game For The Very First Time?

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    You’ve thought about making games for a long time, but you haven’t seriously pursued it. Until you get serious about it, you’ve accomplished nothing, you’re a mere dilettante. So today you’ve decided to make a game. How are you going to go about it? First, unless you have well-developed programming skills you’re going to have…

  • Algorithmic Composition

    Algorithmic Composition

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    Teaching a workshop on Algorithmic Composition at an amazing school in Yerevan, Armenia called Tumo – Centre for Creative Technologies. As a person with equal parts enthusiasm for music, design and code, I’ve always been intrigued by the idea of using technology to enhance and propel our experiences with music, both creating and enjoying. I…

  • MetaCube Paper

    MetaCube Paper

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    MetaCube: Using Tangible Interactions to Shift Between Divergent & Convergent Thinking A research Paper submission By Haig Armen, 2015 ABSTRACTFor many decades, we have observed and studied how people create, what the characteristics of creative people are and what the process of creativity is. Many of these studies have focused on the cognitive abilities of…

  • Where the Wild Things Are: Research Paper

    Where the Wild Things Are: Research Paper

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    Seeking Improvisation on the Open Web Platform Haig Armen – Emily Carr University of Art & DesignJohn Maxwell – Simon Fraser UniversityKate Pullinger – Bath Spa University AbstractTeaching creativity in digital media comes with its challenges. Obvious questions arise: what is the most effective creative process? what tools should be used? what is the right…

  • SOLID Notes

    SOLID Notes

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    Last week O’Reilly Media hosted the Solid Conference in San Francisco I thought I’d post a quick summary of the high level themes that I heard talked about. I know what you’re thinking, another conference where speakers spit out buzzwords like 3D printing, internet of things, drones, crowd-funding, and so on but I was utterly…

  • Speaking at mPub: future of Publishing

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    I’d like to express my gratitude to John Maxwell for extending an invitation to speak at SFU’s Masters of Publishing program about Interaction Design and its relevance to publishing. It was great to meet the mPUB cohort and we had a great time discussing the user experience of a digital/print hybrid user experience. Here is…

  • Daily Data Visualization

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    After attending the EYEO conference this year and hanging out with Fire Friends I was inspired to challenge myself to creating a daily data visualization during the month of July. As it happens, I’m in the south of France & London for most of the month and I’d like the visualizations to center around our…

  • EYEO 2013

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    This past week Minneapolis’ Walker Art Center has been filled with artists, coders, and interactive intelligentsia from around the world for the Eyeo Festival. What is Eyeo? a media art, interaction and information conference? Is it creative coding? Is it a data visualization conference? Is it design? Storytelling? “Yeah,” said festival co-founder Dave Schroeder, addressing…

  • Minecraft on Raspberry Pi

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    After a few attempts I was able to install a Minecraft server on one of my Raspberry Pi. I don’t want to sugarcoat it but it wasn’t too difficult thanks to this shell script from kraftyhosting.eu. Thanks KM_James! The initial minecraft tests were decent and I was able to have others log in from remote…

  • Designing in a Post Digital Era

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    To understand the notion of ‘Post-Digital’ I have written this short formal essay to represent my perspective on a conceptual exploration I have been on with a few fellow professors over the past year. This is strickly my position in a mental exercise that Vjeko Sager, Duane Elverum and I agreed to participate in and…