Thursday, September 03, 2015
IDeATe Media Lab Lighting
Ben Peoples Industries: Last year, Carnegie Mellon University renovated the basement of Hunt Library into the new home of their Integrative Design, Arts and Technology Network (IDeATe). IDeATe is an interdisciplinary program that integrates computer science, engineering and the arts, and we had the pleasure of consulting with Campus Planning on the design and construction of the new facilities.
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This looks like a really neat set up, so much of what we do here in the SoD is planned and fine tuned to the second, so I’m interested in the interactive component of the rig. As a person who views lights as a tool for creation in worlds other than theatre, I’m very glad to see this course offered in Hunt, to a multitude of students from many different backgrounds. Sometimes it can feel like all that we do in Purnell is so isolated from the rest of the university, and I’m glad that the concepts of art we learn here are views as applicable to people who aren’t particularly interested in theatre as the path for their life. Currently I am enrolled in the course that lights the Randy Pausch bridge, and I view that course as being similar, in that it offers similar opportunities to those who want to get their foot in the door of using light for art.
Wow! I had no idea that the IDeATe program had such an extensive lighting setup in the basement of Hunt. Sometimes a think that the IDeAte program is just a less intense version of the HCI department in what I have seen them do. The IDeATe program as a whole seems to be a very broad umbrella under which its not very hard for a student to work on the kind of work they want to do. This has its pros and cons. On the up side there is much greater possibility that some really creative and original work might come out of such a program than in a normal single course. However, I worry that that kind of department lacks the depth and rigor in any field to really allow someone to straddle the line between industries, and that under the current mentality, there is not really the drive or impetus for students to produce work that is above and beyond, only what they want to work on, rather than what they are pushed to do.
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