Database Systems

2004/2005, term 1, lecturer: Marian Ursu

Timetable

Day	Time	Type	Venue
Friday	14:00 - 16:00	Seminar	Hatcham House

Week	Responsible	Topic	Details	Notes
1	all	Discussion of general topics
2	all	Discussion of existing works	Each student selects a series of works of art related to databases and gives a brief overview	KesterSheridan MarieClaire PatrickTresset GopanIyadurai
3	all	Discussion of own ideas and/or possible extensions to existing works	Each student selects a topic that they may pursue in the coursework and present it to the class. This may be a 'novel' idea or an extension to an existing work.
4	MarianUrsu	Overview of Database Systems	Marian gives a quick overview of database systems to achieve a common platform, among students, in the understanding of the topic	presentation
5	MarianUrsu	The Tate Intelligent Archive Project	Marian explains a project done in collaboration with the Tate as an application of database technologies	presentation
6		Reading week
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11

General Topics

visualisation of large collections of data (including making art from databases)

web interfaces to databases

ontologies, meta-data and standards for the cultural sector (including dealing with large media objects)

data representations: what can be represented and at what cost?

databases and user profiles

temporal databases

uncertain and/or vague information and databases

from databases to knowledge bases

museum/collection databases/archives

databases and ethics

databases and the future: radio object identification, participative media, personal information and smart cards, automatic surveillance, etc.

Works, projects, people, sites, references (proposed by Marian)

V2_Orgaanisation Institute for the Unstable Media, Rotterdam, http://www.v2.nl/index.php

Lev Manovich, "'Metadating' the image", Making Art of Databases, V2_Publishing, NAi Publishers, Rotterdam, 2003

The HUMO (HUge and MObile) Project, described in Making Art of Databases, V2_Publishing, NAi Publishers, Rotterdam, 2003. Artists: Julie Andreyev, Noel Douglas, Rainder Eisch, Johanne Gees, John Gerrard, Peter Grunheid, Martin Honzik, Maya Kalogera, Anya Lewin, Stefan Mittlbock-Jungwirt, Harald Schumtzhard, Flavia Sparacino, Lorenzo Tripodi

Music Visualisation, presented in Making Art of Databases, V2_Publishing, NAi Publishers, Rotterdam, 2003, by Joel Ryan. Artists: Newton Armstrong, Adam Buttler, Alberto de Campo, Shintaro Imai, jan-Kees van Kempen, Jin Hyun Kim, Ivan Monroy Lopez, Michael Menkens, Christoph Pingel, Eva Sjuve, Henry H. Vogel

Collaborative Culture, presented in Making Art of Databases, V2_Publishing, NAi Publishers, Rotterdam, 2003, by Sher Doruff. Artists: Daniel Arce, Ruud Bakker, Allesandra Blasi, Thomas Boonstoppel, Alejandro Duque, Ursula Faix, Matjolein Kasenaar, Dirk van Oosterbosch, Lisa Sewert, Marion Wigand

VIPER – Visual Information Processing for Enhanced Retrieval, http://viper.unige.ch/index.html

MIT, Media Lab, Fry, B., Genomic Cartography, http://acg.media.mit.edu/people/fry/

University of Cambridge, Opera, Object Database Visualisation, http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/opera/projects/visualisation.html

University of Stanford, Polaris, Databases and Data Cube Visualisation, http://graphics.stanford.edu/projects/polaris/

MIT, Centre For Educational Computing Initiatives, Database Visualisation in 3D, http://ceci.mit.edu/research/database_visualization/

University of Northumbria, Image database Visualisation, http://www.unn.ac.uk/iidr/research/visual/