Introduction to Digital Media
Film and Media Studies Department | Hunter College | Fall 2006

MEDIA 161 00 002 | M 3:10 PM - 6:00 PM | Room: HN 432

Instructor: Katherine Behar | Email: kb [at] katherinebehar.com | Office: HN 515
Office hours: M 6 PM -7 PM in Lab HN 432

documents

meetings

Week 01 - *Wed 6 Sept*

Digital Imaging 1 - Importing

READING: Manovich, "Principles of New Media."

READING (COPY): Manovich, "Principles of New Media." - NEW VERSION

Week 02 - Mon 11 Sept

Digital Imaging 2 - Processing

READING: Spiekermann, "Looking at Type."

SPECIAL HOMEWORK: Typography Exercise

Week 03 - Mon 18 Sept

Digital Imaging 3 - Exporting

READING: Paul, "Digital Technologies as a Tool."

Week 04 - Mon 25 Sept

Digital Imaging Critique

READING: Lucier, "Every Room Has Its Melody."

READING: Russolo, "The Art of Noises" (1913)

LISTENING: UBUWEB
Spend some time listening to sound art and pick 2 compositions to write about. Compare and contrast what you hear.

Week 05 - *Tues 3 Oct*

Sound 1 / 2 - Importing / Processing

READING: Toop, "The Generation Game: Experimental Music and Digital Culture"

Week 06 - Mon 9 Oct

NO CLASS!

Sound 2 - Processing

Week 07 - Mon 16 Oct

Sound 2 / 3 - Processing / Exporting

READING: Howard-Spink, "Grey Tuesday: online cultural activism and the mash-up of music and politics."

Week 08 - Mon 23 Oct

Sound Critique

READING: Lunenfeld, "Hypertext: The Alphanumeric Phoenix"

READING: Lialina, "My Boyfriend Came Back From the War" and remixes from "The Last Real Net Art Museum."

Week 09 - Mon 30 Oct

Associative Media 1 - Syntax

READING: Burroughs, "The Cut-Up Method of Byron Gysin."

READING: … Matthews & Brotchie, eds.: "Introduction," "N+7," "Definitional Literature," "Eye-Rhyme," "Lipogram," "Univocalism," "Larding," "Slenderizing," and "Poetic Redundancy," from The Oulipo Compendium. (Follow "Introduction" and "Excerpts" links from main page.)

Week 10 - Mon 6 Nov

Associative Media 2 - Relations

SPECIAL HOMEWORK: HTML Exercise: Fix This Broken Site!

READING: Borges, "The Garden of Forking Paths."

READING: Bush, "As We May Think."

Week 11 - Mon 13 Nov

Associative Media 3 - Distribution

READING: Nelson, "Computer Lib / Dream Machines" (excerpt)

READING: Brecht, "The Radio as an Apparatus of Communication."

Week 12 - Mon 20 Nov

Associative Media Critique

NO READING! Instead, return to your sound projects...

Week 13 - Mon 27 Nov

Time-based Media 1 - Syntax

READING: McCloud, "Time Frames."

Week 14 - Mon 4 Dec

Time-based Media 2 - Relations

READING: Manovich, "Generation Flash."

Week 15 - Mon 11 Dec

Time-based Media 3 - Distribution

READING: Rokeby, "Transforming Mirrors."

Week 16 - Mon 18 Dec

Last Class - Time-based Media Final Critique

ALL WORK DUE ON CD!
Please submit all of the work that you've done this semester on a Mac-readable CD.
You are responsible for checking this CD on one of the computers in the lab to make sure that it works!

    Your CD should contain 5 folders:
  1. A folder named "imaging" containing 3 digital images from critique #1. Your images should be saved as .tif or .jpg files with NO LAYERS. Do NOT submit .psd files!
  2. A folder named "sound" containing your sound compostion from critique #2. The sound file can be in .mp3, .wav, or .ogg format.
  3. A folder named "hypertext" containing your website from critique #3. Copy over all of the files that are in your "Sites" folder, including .html files, image files, and any subfolders.
  4. A folder named "flash" that contains your flash project from critique #4. This should include a .swf file (your flash movie) and a .html file (the webpage that embeds the flash movie.
  5. A folder named "homework" that contains:
    • your reading response papers,
    • your "Dinner" typography assignment,
    • and your HTML files from the "fix a broken website" assignment.