===== Men & Machines =====
Engineering Design Studio (A5, 015)\\
Sunday, October 16, 2016, 9:00 am – 11:40 am 

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=== Foreword ===
  * Today visit of Nic Collins (artist talk at ±11am)
  * Attendance

=== Presentation of Essay 1 ===
| Student 9  | Yousra | Intelligent Fridges: Both Dumber and Smarter Than You Think  |
| Student 10 | Janar | Perspective on Robotic Surgery   | 

=> discussion

=== Project Colloquium ===
Short overview by students about their machine project state.

=== Artist Talk Nic Collins ===

New York born and raised, Nicolas Collins ([[http://www.nicolascollins.com|www.nicolascollins.com]]) spent most of the 1990s in Europe, where he was Visiting Artistic Director of Stichting STEIM (Amsterdam), and a DAAD composer-in-residence in Berlin. An early adopter of microcomputers for live performance, Collins also makes use of homemade electronic circuitry and conventional acoustic instruments. He is editor-in-chief of the Leonardo Music Journal, and a Professor in the Department of Sound at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His book, Handmade Electronic Music – The Art of Hardware Hacking (Routledge), has influenced emerging electronic music worldwide. Collins’ indecisive career trajectory is reflected in his having played at both CBGB and the Concertgebouw.\\

=== Links ===
A [[https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/oct/11/crash-how-computers-are-setting-us-up-disaster|great article]] about what happens to human skill/emergency situations with the coming age of automation. Interesting solutions offered at the end. (thx to Pierre Depaz, Lecturer of Interactive Media, NYUAD)


=== Homework ===
Work on your machine prototype. Bring it to the next stage!