Week 01 - *Wed 6 Sept*
Digital Imaging 1 - Importing
READING: Manovich, "Principles of New Media."
READING (COPY): Manovich, "Principles of New Media." - NEW VERSION
LINK: Useful Tutorials
LINK: Image Resources
LINK: Scanning Tips
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!