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UNVERSITY OF FLORIDA | ARC 3181/6912 Advanced Digital Design - Beyond Visualization
at SPOT ON SCHOOLS exhibition in Florence|July 9-17

 SPOT ON SCHOOLS

Ruth Ron | University of Florida in SOPT ON SCHOOLS | Florence 2009

UF at Beyond Media 09 on Youtube:

Beyond Media exhbition and UF installation:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WQaJHVX_OA

UF installation PROCESS:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xR4AsOxoHQg

UF installation Introduction to UF students work:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Slaeomn8rnA  

UF installation UF students work 1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DC-k4ddjUrg  

UF installation UF students work 2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exJN_7g87uY

 

UF installation UF students work 3:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-X0d4FwnJk

 

Exhibition students team: Hilary Hemstreet, Bruce Werner, Kyle Proefke, Chris Malcolm, Charles Gurrey, Simon Barrow, Justin Fong, Megan Suau, thank you Drew!
   
Spatial Installations
click on images
   
ScreenWall at 'Liquid spaces' exhibition- the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, 2004
[with Inbar Barak] >publication>1< >2< >Museum's site<
Interactive installation using live network cameras
WallFold New York, 2003 >at UbiComp conference, Seattle, 10/2003<
Dynamic architectural element, using motors and microcontrollers

Screen++ New York, 2002 [with Inbar Barak]
Interactive
installation, using sensor and live video feed

SmoothWall New York, 2002
Interactive 3D installation, using sensor and live video feed
FluxSpace Ross Gallery, New York 1999 [with R. Weissenboeck, A. Maeda, G. Riether]
Interactive 3D Virtual/Real environment
Windows 2002 [with Inbar Barak]
Interactive video installation proposal, using sensor and live video feed
Interactive Installation Proposal A projected virtual room is deforming according to the viewer's body position.
Interactive Video Installation proposal using touch screens
   
Spatial Interface
 
   
Digital Phoenix- Interactive Tactile Interface [with Dan Collins, Dianne Hansford, Yoshihiro Kobayashi, John McIntosh, Karen Bullis, Al Simmon]
presented at SIGGRAPH, Boston, 2006

Interactive Tactile Topographic Interface [with Dan Collins and Dianne Handsford]
Arizona State University, 2005

'Visible City' [with Dan Collins and Dianne Hansford] Using Augmented Reality, Mobile Computing, and 3D Simulated X Ray Models to Visualize and Navigate Downtown San Jose Proposal for ISEA conference in San Jose, 2006

Tagging the city [with Karen Bullis] A web- based urban community site proposal, 2006
   
Web-based Interface
   
Volume 2002 >second prize< La Villette Net-Art competition [with Inbar Barak]
Audio game, programmed in ActionScript-Flash >publication>1< >2< >site<
Skyylophone 2003 >'runner-up' winning entry< [with Inbar Barak]
Flash animation for Skyy-Blue competition, with sound >link to site<
Shape_it 2002
Computer game, programmed in Lingo-Director
FieldCondition 2002
Interactive interface, programmed in
ActionScript-Flash
SmallTalk 2001
Interactive interface, using lingo-Director
3D Navigation Space 2000
Navigation in virtual space using Maya, QTVR
 
Work Experience
   

University of Florida 2007 - present
Assistant Professor - digital design, School of Architecture

> ARC3181 Advanced Digital Design
> ARC2180 Introduction to Digital Design
> ARC6912 Advanced Topics in Digital Design - Animation & Dynamics in Architecture- Graduate seminar
> ARC6912 Advanced Topics in Digital Design - From Virtual to Real space
- Graduate seminar
> ARC6912 Digital Design and Visualization - Graduate seminar
> ARC4323 Architectural Design 8, 4th year Design Studio (Vicenza, Italy)
> ARC3320 Architectural Design 5, 3rd year Design Studio
> ARC3291 Analytical Sketching – Experimental Digital Video (Vicenza, Italy)
> Master Thesis advisor
> ARC 3463 Materials and Methods in Architecture (Vicenza, Italy)
> ARC 3291 Independent Studies

link to students work- Reece Skelton, touch-screen interactive space, Fall 2007

   
University of Florida 2006 - 2007
Visiting Assistant Professor, School of Architecture
 
   

Arizona State University 2005 - 2006
Clinical Assistant Professor, College of Design

> Exhibit Design and Visualization
> Innovation Space- Interdisciplinary design studio (Industrial Design, Graphic Design, Management and Engineering}
> Advanced Digital Design

 
   
Arizona State University 2004 - 2005
Visual Designer for 3D research lab PRISM and immersive visualization Decision Theater
 
   
Apartment Design and Renovation Tel Aviv, Israel, 2004
Independent project, design and construction drawings
 

Eyebeam Atelier NY, USA 2003
Assistant for the After School Education Artists-in-Residence program

 
LOT-EK Architecture: Ada Tolla & Giuseppe Lignano, NY, USA 2001-2003
>> Project Architect - design competition for a 'Telematic Table' - inetractive table interface for the Walker Art Center (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
>> Project Architect - design of a bus stop for ESPN, including 3D modeling and an interactive flash presentation
>> Project architect for 'Art Basel' video lounge at Miami Beach 2002
 
>> Developed a proposal for 'New World Trade Center' exhibition, presented as a digital animation on DVD [presented at Venice Biennial 2002]
>> Team architect for the design and 3D modeling of several domestic and International competitions and projects.
 
Asymptote Architecture: Hani Rashid & Lise Anne Couture, NY, USA
2000-2001
>> Project architect on creation of virtual TV studio for broadcasting from 3D model of the NY Stock Exchange. The set design included scale, color, texture, information and interaction with human reporter/guest
>> Team architect on 'Guggenheim Virtual Museum' creating 3D exhibition space for traditional and digital art, part of a web-based 3D virtual museum. Creating 3D models and animation using 'Maya'.
 
A.Gottesman Architecture, Rishpon, Israel
>> Team architect for a residential house, design and working drawings.
>> Team architect for Kabri Museum of Contemporary Israeli Art.
>> Served as chief modelist for firm
1997-1998

Public Housing Authorities, Belfast, Northern Ireland
>> Intern - students internship exchange program

1997
Shamai Assif, Architecture and Urban Designers, Ramat-Gan, Israel
>> Developed general plan for government office complex in Tel-Aviv
>> Assisted developing a master plan for the city of Ramat-Gan, Israel
1996-1997
 
Education
   

Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design
Columbia University- New York - Post Professional Degree in Architectural Design

2000
>> Participated in paper-less studios: theoretical and conceptual design of virtual spaces and computer-generated dynamic design process.
>> Focus on 3D and interactive design software.
 
MPS in Interactive Telecommunications
New York University - Professional Degree in Interactive New Media
2003
>> Focusing on Physical Computing using sensors and chips to encourage human interaction with the computer.
>> Experience with programing in Director and Flash ,editing of Digital Video and Web 3D software
 
Bachelor in Architecture
Technion- Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
>> 1997 - Professional work exchange program in Belfast; design of housing projects in Northern Ireland.
>> 1995 - Served in an affiliation task force, as a delegate of the Technion to the Bauhaus Institute in Dassau, Germany.
>> Final project - a model for an ecologically sustainable neighborhood in Jaffa.
1998
 
Lectures and Reviews
 
>> VDC- Virtual Design and Construction Conference, paper presentation
2008
>> ACSA Architecture in the age of Digital Reproduction Urbana,IL, session moderation+ 2 papers presentation
2008
>> ACSA National conference, Huston,TX
Paper presentation
2008
>> Architecture- Students Final Reviews
Georgia Tech - school of architecture
2007

>> ACSA 'City/Campus' conference, Canada
Paper presentation - 'The Phoenix Tactile Interface System'

2007
>> 'HYPERPOLIS really useful media' conference - Polytechnic University, NY
Paper presentation - 'The Architecture of Information'
2006
>> SIGGRAPH (computer graphics) conference, Boston Presentation of 'Tactile Urban Interface', Guerilla Studio
2006

>> 'the upgrade', Lecture about recent work,
'Minshar' school of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel

2006
>> Architecture- Students Final Reviews, 4th year
Technion, Israel institute of technology, Israel
2006
>> Architecture- Students Final Reviews, 4th year
Bezalel, school of architecture, Israel
2006
>> Architecture- Students Final Reviews
M. Arch Arizona State University
2006

>> Arizona State University - School of Design
Guest seminar – Interactive Media and Web- Art

2004
>> Bezalel Academy of Art, Israel- presentation to the student body following the exhibition 'Liquid Spaces'.
2003
>> Parsons School of Design - Architecture Department
Guest seminar - 'American Suburbia' in contemporary art and architectural theory
2002
>> Columbia University- Teaching Assistant
2000
>> Technion - Teaching assistant for a summer design studio in New York, Professor Raphael Segal
2000
>> National Science Museum- Israel
served as a guide for school students in scientific exhibition
1995-1996
 
Writings
Work in progress

Three Dimensional Discharging Structure of a Mountain Thunderstorm, William W. Hager, Beyza Caliskan Aslan, Richard G. Sonnenfeld, John D. Battles, Michael T. Holborn, and Ruth Ron,
submitted to Journal of Geophysical Research

2008

>> Digital Murals- spatial manipulation from the Renaissance to New Media - expanded research       

2009

>> An interactive wall installation with biofeedback sensors input, Submitted to CADDRIA 2009 Taiwan, pending

2008

>> Introducing dynamic scale in virtual space [with Gernot Riether] Submitted to IADIS e- Society 2008

2007
Published

>> 2008 Digital landscapes- explorations of the interface between data and nature, presented at VDC- Virtual Design and Construction Conference

2008

>> Digital Murals- spatial manipulation from the Renaissance to New Media [with Or Ettlinger]       
Submitted to ACSA 2008 Fall Conference, presented

2008
>> Digital Analysis of classical Architecture       
Submitted to ACSA 2008 Fall Conference, presented
2008

>> 'The Phoenix Tactile Interface System' [with Yoshihiro Kobayashi], Presented at the ACSA Cantral 'Campus/City' conference, 2006 and ACSA National Conference

2007

>> 'The Architecture of Information'
4 case studies: Architecture as an interface for local information, Presented at 'Hyperpolis' conference, NY

2006
>> 'Wall_Fold- The space between 0 & 1'
UbiComp conference Proceedings, Seattle, Washington
2003
>> Reaction of the Architecture scene for 9/11 events in New York
STUDIO Art and Architecture Magazine, Israel
2002

>> Architecture in constant flux: an interview with Hani Rashid [with Roy Kozlovsky]
STUDIO Art and Architecture Magazine, Israel

2000
Press
>> ARCHISTORM magazin, Paris, France
article: "archi exp : l’archi-navigation de ruth ron"
April 2007
>> Ynet.com - Yediot Aharonot, Israel
article: "çîùú äîåôìàéí"
2003
>> http://www.ilmuseums.com/
article: "Liquid Spaces: Digital Works by Five Israelis"
2003
>> Paris, France
article:
"Tranches de Net-art a La Villette"
2002
>> http://www.wired.com/
article: "Digital Art With Je Ne Sais Quoi"
2002