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Roberts, John
February 2nd, 2007 under Grad Students, Uncategorized

Graduate student, Computer Science Dept., UC Santa Barbara
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John RobertsJohn Roberts is a doctoral student in Computer Science at UC Santa Barbara who currently holds a fellowship in the National Science Foundation IGERT (Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship program) at UCSB on Interactive Digital Media. His current research focuses on providing support for penbased interaction in video segmentation. Additional research interests include Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), especially as it intersects with Personal Information Management, and Ubiquitous Computing. Roberts took his M.S. in Computer Science from San Francisco State U. in 2005 with a thesis titled “Browsing in Large, Time-Dependent Data Set” (pdf). His co-authored papers (published or forthcoming) include: “Visualizations for Browsing in Large Datasets‿ (pdf); “Making Favorites Useful‿ (pdf); “Easy and Effective Virtual Tours on the World Wide Web‿ (The Society for Imaging Science and Technology, Internet Imaging VI. San Jose, CA, USA, January 18-20, 2005); “An Interface Markup Language for Web3D‿ (pdf); and “Histogram-Based Visualizations for Large, Time-Dependent Data Sets‿ (pdf).


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The meeting of the machine and the body is an uneasy one. In the realm of performance, this uneasiness is reflected in the fact that, as technology has grown more and more sophisticated, the successful design of “instruments” that can be manipulated during performance with anything like the fluidity and intuition of conventional musical instruments has remained elusive. This failure, however, is not due to a lack of imagination on the part of artists, but a reflection in art of the uneasiness of the meeting of machine and body throughout culture today, which can be seen in every human activity: war, work, play, reproduction, and so on. How machines and bodies will co-exist is thus not a problem to be “solved,” but the central tension of our time in human history. Thus, it is a compelling terrain in which to locate art.
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