Mandilian.com » Thesis http://www.mandilian.com The Home of Lauren Mandilian Thu, 19 Aug 2010 23:41:03 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Information Overload Published http://www.mandilian.com/blog/information-overload-published-as-paperback http://www.mandilian.com/blog/information-overload-published-as-paperback#comments Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:25:31 +0000 lauren http://www.mandilian.com/?p=344 My thesis has been published by VDM as a paperback! You can buy the book on amazon.com.

]]> http://www.mandilian.com/blog/information-overload-published-as-paperback/feed 0 ACM Multimedia Conference http://www.mandilian.com/blog/acm-multimedia-conference-same-workshop http://www.mandilian.com/blog/acm-multimedia-conference-same-workshop#comments Thu, 06 Nov 2008 21:42:07 +0000 lauren http://www.mandilian.com/blog/acm-multimedia-conference-same-workshop This weekend, Mark and I ventured to Vancouver, Canada. My thesis was accepted as a paper presentation in the one day SAME Workshop (Semantic Ambient Media Experience) a part of the ACM Multimedia Conference. The workshop was set up a little differently as the focus wasn’t on presentations of the papers, but more so discussion of ambient media – I found it to be a pretty interesting day. Once the workshop was over, Mark and I spent the rest of the weekend exploring Vancouver. Check out the pics on flickr!

]]> http://www.mandilian.com/blog/acm-multimedia-conference-same-workshop/feed 0 Errorless Performance http://www.mandilian.com/blog/errorless-performance http://www.mandilian.com/blog/errorless-performance#comments Tue, 09 Sep 2008 21:49:56 +0000 lauren http://www.mandilian.com/blog/errorless-performance This weekend, Information Overload was back for a second showing at Drexel University’s Mandell Theater for the 2008 Philly Fringe Festival. Philadelphia Inquirer’s Merilyn Jackson wrote a review about the piece for Monday, September 9, 2008 paper saying:
Lauren Mandilian choreographed “Information Overload” to first-rate music by John Avarese and Matthew Baker. She also created splendid animation with letters falling like rain down the screen and architecturally dissecting lines. Five dancers did their turns nicely until a fatal error message appeared on the screen. In this dance there were no errors.

Manic Swell Marquee

]]> http://www.mandilian.com/blog/errorless-performance/feed 1 Information Overload at Philly Fringe http://www.mandilian.com/blog/information-overload-at-philly-fringe http://www.mandilian.com/blog/information-overload-at-philly-fringe#comments Thu, 21 Aug 2008 18:11:32 +0000 lauren http://www.mandilian.com/blog/information-overload-at-philly-fringe Manic SwellInformation Overload will be performed at Drexel University’s Mandell Theater for the 2008 Philly Fringe Festival! I will be partnering with Indigenous Pitch in the show we’ve name Manic Swell. Witness the perfect storm of Hip/Hop Theater, Motion Capture Animation, Multimedia Dance and Aerial Stuntwork. You can purchase tickets for Manic Swell on the Fringe website.



p.s. I am also designing visuals for one of the pieces in SHARP Dance Company’s Fringe performance. You can also purchase tickets for Four on 2 on the Fringe website.

]]> http://www.mandilian.com/blog/information-overload-at-philly-fringe/feed 0 Back from SIGGRAPH ’08 http://www.mandilian.com/blog/back-from-siggraph-08 http://www.mandilian.com/blog/back-from-siggraph-08#comments Mon, 18 Aug 2008 14:51:42 +0000 lauren http://www.mandilian.com/blog/back-from-siggraph-08 I just got back from the 2008 SIGGRAPH conference in Los Angeles, California. I attended this year’s conference as a Posters Contributor, presenting my thesis, Information Overload. I love my poster design- I used images from the performance to create something beautiful. I figured the other posters would be more technical looking so I wanted to design something that was ascetically pleasing to the eye and would stand out from the other posters. I think my plan succeeded because I got a lot of good feedback from conference attendees about my poster and work.
My favorite presenter at the conference was hands down Artistic Director for U23D, Catherine Owens. Her talk was not so much technical as it was artistic. She talked about what inspires her work, then showed some of her work, and concluded the presentation with U23D. It really allowed the audience to see where she was coming from when she was working on U23D. Overall her talk was really refreshing to hear at a SIGGRAPH conference just because of the fact that it wasn’t so ‘techy’.

Information Overload Poster

]]> http://www.mandilian.com/blog/back-from-siggraph-08/feed 0 Information Overload at SIGGRAPH 2008! http://www.mandilian.com/blog/information-overload-at-siggraph-2008 http://www.mandilian.com/blog/information-overload-at-siggraph-2008#comments Thu, 15 May 2008 17:38:16 +0000 lauren http://www.mandilian.com/blog/information-overload-at-siggraph-2008 My summer continues to get better and better as more and more opportunities keep popping up. I received notice today that my poster submission for the Student Research Competition at the 2008 SIGGRAPH Conference was accepted! Los Angeles, here I come (again).

]]> http://www.mandilian.com/blog/information-overload-at-siggraph-2008/feed 0 If At First You Don’t Succeed… http://www.mandilian.com/blog/if-at-first-you-dont-succeed http://www.mandilian.com/blog/if-at-first-you-dont-succeed#comments Fri, 15 Feb 2008 21:17:09 +0000 lauren http://www.mandilian.com/blog/if-at-first-you-dont-succeed Once again, I submitted my thesis to the ACM SIGGRAPH conference, which will be held in Los Angeles this summer. This time, however, I was able to submit the video of the performance along with my one-page abstract. I should hear back from the judges sometime in May so keep your fingers crossed for me.

]]> http://www.mandilian.com/blog/if-at-first-you-dont-succeed/feed 0 Information Overload at iDMA http://www.mandilian.com/blog/information-overload-at-idma http://www.mandilian.com/blog/information-overload-at-idma#comments Sat, 01 Dec 2007 00:43:14 +0000 lauren http://www.mandilian.com/blog/information-overload-at-idma Information Overload was mentioned during a presentation by Drexel’s Digital Media professor, Dr. Paul Diefenbach, at the iDMA conference in Philadelphia this past month.

]]> http://www.mandilian.com/blog/information-overload-at-idma/feed 0 Information Overload featured by ET http://www.mandilian.com/blog/information-overload-featured-by-edward-tenner http://www.mandilian.com/blog/information-overload-featured-by-edward-tenner#comments Fri, 30 Nov 2007 14:52:59 +0000 lauren http://www.mandilian.com/blog/information-overload-featured-by-edward-tenner Edward Tenner mentions Information Overload on his website. Edward’s book, Why Things Bite Back helped inspire the concept for Information Overload. After seeing the performance Edward responded with, One of the interesting positive unintended consequences of writing is how others interpret one’s ideas. Thanks for the kind words.

]]> http://www.mandilian.com/blog/information-overload-featured-by-edward-tenner/feed 0 Thesis Approved!!! http://www.mandilian.com/blog/thesis-approved http://www.mandilian.com/blog/thesis-approved#comments Wed, 13 Jun 2007 01:11:47 +0000 lauren http://www.mandilian.com/blog/thesis-approved My paper got approved by my committee and was submitted to the Drexel University Library to be bound and archived.

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