"This is a required core studio for junior AMT majors that provides a hands-on support lab to introduce the basic technologies, concepts, practices and workflows of interaction, sensorial design, art performance and participatory media. Structured to complement and assist the projects of the Core Studio, students evolve their understanding of production and troubleshooting and develop their own skills within contemporary and professional standards. Students will be working iteratively along a variety of assigned projects. Each student will identify two specific fluencies they wish to develop; one familiar, the second new and/or unfamiliar. Students will evolve their understanding of production and prototyping and develop their own approaches within contemporary and professional standards. They will be expected to apply techniques learned in this lab to projects being executed in the affiliated Core Studio 3: RESPONSE. Guest specialist advisors will contribute throughout the semester according to the scope of student projects and areas of concentration. Students will journal their technical progress throughout the semester via online blogging, and will be required to host at least one demo-style “Technical Workshop” during the semester for the whole group, illuminating a topic discovered through their investigations. Co-requisite: Core Studio 3: RESPONSE APAM 3004 "