informal dialogue

Are you going to Index tonight? It’s the end of year show for the UTS Architecture school, with work being exhibited from all 5 years.  Go check it out!

I’m heading down to Melbourne tomorrow for the 2009 OZCHI conference with Frank Maguire, Bert Bongers and Dan Hill, to attend and present (with Frank) some research work we’ve done recently.  I’m looking forward to it, one of the add-ons for this conference is a workshop on Street Computing organised by the ubiquitous Marcus Foth.  [...]

For students in the 11217 introduction to construction class;
Here is an example of a simple metronome counter which moves a line up and down a sketch window over a period of time.  You should be able to follow the comments included to see how you might plug your sensors and motors into this sketch to [...]

In addition to my involvement with the janus project for the Smart Light Sydney Festival, Joanne Jakovich and I were invited to collaborate with the NSW Department of Planning in an ambitious short term project during the festival.  The Department of Planning, along with Metropolis and D-City had the initiative to setup a small amount [...]

Filtration Fields (Joanne Jakovich & Jason McDermott 2009)
Recently Joanne and I were given the opportunity to exhibit in the DAB Lab Research Gallery at UTS, in the Design, Architecture and Building faculty building, as an opportunity to refine and showcase our collective research into realtime responsive architectural environments.

[view from inside DAB Lab Gallery, taken [...]

Looking forward to the next SO-AD installation, Triptych 01 at the DAB LABGallery, (Level 4 DAB cafe courtyard, 702-730 Harris St Ultimo) on the 11th March 09 at 6pm.

A new feature of the DAB LAB Gallery opening will be a public lecture at 7pm by David Burns, so make sure not to miss it.

Gearing up for the first week of class for Computational Environments, the Master of Architecture design studio Joanne Jakovich, Bert Bongers and I will be teaching at UTS.
Last time round the studio culminated in the Skinform project, see below;

From tomorrow onwards we will be launching into a new semester, complete with a new brief, renewed [...]

The Street as platform – a street rendered in data.
November has been a busy month!
Along with Anthony Burke, Dan Hill and Mitchell Whitelaw, I’ve been running an intensive masterclass studio in the Master of Digital Architecture program at UTS.  The masterclass is based on one of Dan’s earlier posts called http://www.cityofsound.com/blog/2008/02/the-street-as-p.html, in which the notion [...]

By Rachael Hemmings, Jessica Marsden-Smedley and Jason McDermott.
Completed for ‘Architecture, Cinema and Representation’, Autumn Semester.

Architecture Delirium (2007) from Jason McDermott on Vimeo

The Chennai Free Information Zone project is exhibited as part of the Continuum: Tactics for Contingent Environments Exhibition in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.  The Continuum exhibition is a collaboration between Anthony Burke of UTS DAB Architecture and David Burns of Carnegie Mellon School of Architecture.

Skinform Project
The Computational Environments students created the Skinform as the major project for the studio.  It has been fully exhibited here at UTS and also as a small teaser exhibit at Customs House.
Skinform @ Customs House (6th October 2008)
As part of the Sydney Architecture Festival, the Skinform project was exhibited.  The project was initially planned [...]