Evolutionary Digital Art

Evolutionary Digital Art: A review of the Vietnam 120 study tour

James Harland, Vic Ciesielski, Karen Trist

Schools of CS&IT and Creative Media

{james.harland,vic.ciesielski,karen.trist}@rmit.edu.au

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Which RMIT Building is this?

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What is this?

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Vietnam 120 project• Part of RMIT’s 120th Birthday

celebrations

• 120 students to Vietnam for two-week study tour

• June 2007 – May 2008

• Nurses, geospatial science, business, …

• Often 7-10 students per tour

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Evolutionary Digital Art• Combined tour from CS & CM

• Nominally 8 from SET, 5 from DSC

• 12 students selected overall

• Based on work of Evolved Art group

• 9 “techies”, 3 “creatives”

• 11 ugrads (1 now in Hons), 1 pgrad

• Credit for COSC2408 Programming Project 1

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In review•Travel in November (eg Nov 17-28, 2008)

•Focus on specific student cohorts

•Team up with Geospatial study tour

•VN students to Melbourne in February?

•VN students get credit as well??

•Karen & Vic keen to repeat …