MediaShed - Bath House Project

Self directed learning form - Iker Olabarria

ikerolaba — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 10:23:43 +0000

Student name: Iker Olabarria Larizgoitia
Date: October 13th 2007.

Objectives:

Analyze relations between subjective and objective data.
Observe the results of obtaining data from unusual reference points.
Research the possibility to (un) distinguish data obtained from alive/dead “items”.
Compare real data to processed or unreal data.
Des-optimize data collection process
Use the data extracted from reality to draw an apparently distorted reality.

Resources and strategies

1) Choose subjective and objective variables to define the way to track each item.
2) Break some data consistency rules linking subjective variables between each other even if they refer to different “properties” in items.

Self Learning - Joao Wilbert

jhwilbert — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 10:01:47 +0000

MA Interactive Media - Joao Wilbert

My objectives:
Map relevant sounds produced by the building on its interior/exterior (pipelines, electrical systems, doors and windows opening/closing) and by human presence inside the Laurie Grove Baths
Learn about acoustics
Learn how to work with contact microphones and capture sound
Learn how to create mySQL databases with a good level of normalization
Complete the research within the deadline

The resources and strategies I will use are:
Carefully listen sounds in different times (day and night)
Observe what sounds could be relevant to recreate the environment

Self-directed Learning Agreement

holga — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 09:17:16 +0000

Olga Panadés Massanet
October 22nd 2007.

My objectives:
o Learn more about the variables that influence how we physically experience a particular space. (For instance: amounts of light, electricity, shape of the room and the building, sound, route to access, privacy/publicity, radiation, temperature, cleanness, subjectivity, presences, height and width of walls, size of the room and shape, colour of walls, sounds, etc.)
o Map two or three of the variables that influence the energy of the different spaces in the building and cross them.
o For example take ROUTE TO ACCESS and PRESENCES. My hypothesis about the ‘route to access’ is that depending on the length, difficulty, cleanness, light of the route, number of bifurcations and therefore decisions, the space is perceived in a different way. So we could use all these information to describe a particular room.

SDL Form

Bea — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 08:28:33 +0000

My objectives:

• Analyse Laurie Grove Baths in terms of “ACCESS”

• Two paradigms for analysing “ACCESS”

1. Analogic Era: presence/absence (Victorian Age)
2. Information Era : pattern/randomness (Present)

1. Presence/Absence  Private/Public
2. Pattern/Randomness  Right/No Right to Enter

• Understand what is meant by “access” : social/ economic/ cultural/ political access, a way of entering, a right to use etc…
• Track any kind of access to the building (then and now)
• Research how access has changed, also in relationship to the two communities that in different times made use of the building (Local Community – Goldsmiths Community)

Monique's SDL Form

moniquenw — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 04:55:14 +0000

Learning Activity: Research the Laurie Grove Baths
Media Use and Communication Flow

Student Name: Monique Natalia Wiradisastra

My objectives:
• Think of a project to represent the use of official and unofficial media in the building
• Find a way to map the official and unofficial media usage of the building
• Find out what official and unofficial media are used
• Find a way to measure the flow of communication through official and unofficial media in the building
• To learn a data base program to organize all the data

The resources and strategies I will use are:

Information and Self-Critique

jonathan fletcher — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 01:22:24 +0000

NOTE: This is a collection of information I have gathered and an informal critique of my progress so far regarding the Bath House Data Jam. All the results and information I have will be made available in a more utile form should anybody want or need them.

My objectives:

Think of a project to do with current and past acoustic information relating to both the building and its various occupants over time.

After gathering statistics and doing extensive research of the history of the bath house (largely through the incredibly detailed weekly minutes from the bath house committee from 1890 to the 1960’s) I found myself wanting to construct a sound piece reflecting the uses of the building with audio sources representing the various activities that took place over its history. All the statistics relating to the different activities and their respective people flows would be collated and averaged so as to provide each sound source with a volume level indicative of its usage by ‘customers’ over Laurie Grove’s history. For example, a far greater proportion of people used the building to swim in than to study so the sound source representing the former would be louder than the latter.

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Bath Sounds

jhwilbert — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 00:03:15 +0000

During our sound research on the baths we recorded 21 different sounds using ambient or contact microphones. We're still trying to find access to the large bath (the limbo) and do some recording from the inside. The other possibility would be to find a hole to get install a microphone.

There's excel version of our database available for download on the following link.

Download Sound Database

Vincent's Research Results

novazembla — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 21:09:11 +0000

Vincent’s Laurie Grove Bath Data Jam Research Results

Introduction

I’ve chosen to gather data on consumption of material and immaterial things by the Laurie Grove Bath and to try to give all other group members the easiest access to it. Consumption comprises in this case material things like water and immaterial things like electricity or FM radio signals. As I’m already well introduced into the concept of relational databases (and also the MySQL database management system) I tried to explore other ways to store the data and hope that others will feel incited to make use of it

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Network questions

2mars — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 14:35:20 +0000

Here are the questions/answers for/from Network:

Hi,
thanks for your message.
I'll answer what I can however there are some points that I'm not able to answer as
they either relate to our security or to another group.
Hope this is OK.

> 1. How is the network secured from inside/outside intrusions,
> i.e. ports?
> firewalls? anti-virus? fixed IP? DHCP? etc...

We use firewalls and other applications and devices for security. These work on port
numbers, traffic content and other traffic/port behaviour.
We used both fixed IP and DHCP across the wired and wireless networks.
Anti-Virus software is on all College supplied computers.

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Security questions

2mars — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 10:37:14 +0000

Here is the email I got from Security:

I attach a list which provides the number of swipes through the card reader
at Laurie Grove Baths since January 2005. It has been broken down to
monthly reports as it would be too time consuming to produce weekly
records. Please bear in mind that the numbers are not necessarily the
actual number of people using the building as some may use their card
several times a day whilst others do not use it at all by tailgating
through behind other users.

The current system was introduced towards the end of 2002 and replaced an
extremely old card reader system. I have no record of what was used

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