Media Art Group the new TAM Club
	Meetings Workshops Contacts

The following is an outline of what a "Meeting" will be like. This model will evolve with the interests of the group.

Meeting size: 20-40 students
Food: Yes
# of Meetings during the Fall Semester: 8 (every other week)
Time/Day of Meeting: 7pm, during the week (not set yet)
Length of a Meeting: 2-4 hours

Sharing your Projects

• Drawings
• Music
• Animations
• Films
• Games
• Websites

Students can sign up at the beginning of a meeting (or before) to share what they're working on. They can ask for feedback and suggestions and have the group discuss how the meaning of a piece comes across. A student can also ask for technical advice and describe their problem areas and people willing to talk to them later can speak up and let them know. (I'll try to avoid long, drawn out demo time to keep things moving

Artist Appreciation

During the weeks before the meeting, we'll collect websites of interesting net-artists (by looking ourselves, and by asking teachers and students). People can present the works of this artist and share what they enjoy and find meaning in. This helps introduce us all to professionals in the industry who are making a living doing creative media work.

Presenting on a Topic or Theme

• "Creating Art in the Style of Cyberpunk"
• "New Music Development Software"
• "A Look at Producing Multiperson Media Projects"
• "The Centers of Media Art, Where are Artists Living?"

These are a few examples of presentation ideas, to be developed and shown by a few students (or staff) during a meeting. This may come together as power-point slides with images, text, movie clips, and online material. We will stress to the presenter(s) to focus on a central idea, to make their ideas heard clearly. The TAM Club leaders will create the first few presentations, or keep a close watch on the development of a presentation to make sure things come together well, and are on time.

Hang Out and Chat Time

Yup, just like it says, this is where the organized meeting ends and mingling begins. Exchange contact information with people, talk about your projects in more detail, get advice on software, get a group together for TAM project-workin time.

Special Meeting Events

Showing movies or cartoons related to New Media Art and Technology, similar to ones studied in TAM classes. The movie will be paused in the middle for a short break, to discuss ideas, use restroom, grab food.

• Blade Runner
• Spirited Away (Japanese Animation)
• Hackers
• Hustle and Flow

Video Game demonstration nights, we'll share the new games with cutting edge graphics, to get ideas on how the industry looks (and have fun of course !)

• Nintendo Wii (motion controllers, 4 players)
• XBox 360 (awesome graphics and huge games)
• Playstation 3

Music lovin nights - Get students to perform for us live. DJs, electric guitars, keyboards. Show us different music technologies and give little demos of how they work.

Bibliography

Techno image, http://www.stanford.edu/~dgleich/demos/worldofmusic/techno.jpg
Psychedelic poster, http://www.pooterland.com/index2/art/blashfield/BG083.gif
Psychedelic image, http://www.visualbliss.co.uk/themes/images/psychedelic/BIG%20SWIRL%20+dancer%20(39-2).jpg