[Artful-Design] mega update

[Ge Wang]

Dear friends,

I hope this finds you well. Instead of sending incremental emails, here 
is one "mega update" for the community!

Low tech, high life on the John Muir Trail. Motivated to escape the 
sedentary pandemic lifestyle of 2020, I took to the High Sierra and 
backpacked the 210-mile John Muir Trail last summer. Made a film about 
our misadventures:

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVqDJ34HnYE

DSN100 returns. I will be teaching this 6-week Stanford Continuing 
Studies course on "Artful Design: How We Shape Technology and How 
Technology Shapes Us" this Spring Quarter, starting 4/21.
(Course enrollment is open!)

   https://artful.design/dsn100/

After three years, the Stanford Laptop Orchestra is back! We have 
concerts schedule for May 5th (CCRMA Stage) and June 4th (Bing Concert 
Hall), both of which will also be live-streamed. To learn of upcoming 
events, join the mailing list.

   https://slork.stanford.edu/
   mailing list:
   https://cm-mail.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/slork-announce

Welcome to the Reality Room. Artful tool-building research continues at 
the Stanford VR Design Lab @ CCRMA. We are planning another open house 
in May (on Friday the 13th).

   https://xr.stanford.edu/
   mailing list:
   https://cm-mail.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/vr-community

Humans in the Loop. I recently gave a talk at Stanford Human-Centered 
Artificial Intelligence weekly series, where I presented about "Humans 
in the Loop: the Artful Design of Interactive AI Systems". Recording here:

   https://hai.stanford.edu/events/hai-weekly-seminar-ge-wang

Teaching artful design. Music 256a / CS 476a wrapped up in December 
after 11 weeks of intense thinking, coding, critiquing. Check out the 
final projects and homework gallery:

   https://ccrma.stanford.edu/courses/256a-fall-2021/projects/
   https://ccrma.stanford.edu/courses/256a-fall-2021/gallery/

In other news, this will my last year teaching Think66 "Design That 
Understands Us", as part of Stanford's Liberal, Civic, and Global 
Education program for first-year undergraduates. It has been an honor 
(this year we have 150 students) and I've learned so much designing and 
teaching this course. Thanks to everyone who helped make this happen -- 
especially my fellow instructors, wonderful guest lecturers, students, 
and the folks at Stanford Introductory Studies.

   https://artful.design/think66/

Here's to the Pi-Shaped Person in all of us.

   https://artful.design/pi/

Stay safe, artful, free,
Ge!

~~~
Ge Wang
Associate Professor
Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA)
Department of Music (also Computer Science, by Courtesy)
Stanford University
https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~ge/
~
Artful Design: Technology in Search of the Sublime!
-- what we make, makes us --
https://artful.design/
~~~