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Golan Levin and Collaborators

Peer-Reviewed Publications

11 2006. The Table is The Score: An Augmented-Reality Interface for Real-Time, Tangible, Spectrographic Performance
05 2005. Sounds from Shapes: Audiovisual Performance with Hand Silhouette Contours in The Manual Input Sessions
05 2005. A Personal Chronology of Audiovisual Systems Research
06 2004. In-Situ Speech Visualization in Real-Time Interactive Installation and Performance
09 2000. Painterly Interfaces for Audiovisual Performance (MS Thesis, MIT)
06 2000. Instruments for Dynamic Abstraction
04 2000. Tagged Handles: Merging Discrete and Continuous Control
04 1999. Bringing Sketching Tools to Keychain Computers with an Acceleration-Based Interface
06 1998. Image-Based Modeling and Rendering of Architecture with Interactive Photogrammetry and View-Dependent Texture Mapping

Painterly Interfaces for Audiovisual Performance

Reference
Levin, G. "Painterly Interfaces for Audiovisual Performance". M.S. Thesis, MIT Media Laboratory, August 2000.

Abstract
This thesis presents a new computer interface metaphor for the real-time and simultaneous performance of dynamic imagery and sound. This metaphor is based on the idea of an inexhaustible, infinitely variable, time-based, audiovisual “substance” which can be gesturally created, deposited, manipulated and deleted in a free-form, non-diagrammatic image space. The interface metaphor is exemplified by five interactive audiovisual synthesis systems whose visual and aural dimensions are deeply plastic, commensurately malleable, and tightly connected by perceptually-motivated mappings. The principles, patterns and challenges which structured the design of these five software systems are extracted and discussed, after which the expressive capacities of the five systems are compared and evaluated.

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Submitted to the Program in Media Arts and Sciences, School of Architecture and Planning, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Media Arts and Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Golan Levin, September 2000

Thesis Supervisor: John Maeda
Associate Professor of Design and Computation
MIT Media Arts and Sciences

Thesis Reader: Tod Machover
Professor of Music and Media
MIT Media Arts and Sciences

Thesis Reader: Marc Davis
Chairman and Chief Technology Officer
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