Sodaplay
http://www.sodaplay.com/
Floating Sushi
http://www.andrew3000.net/floatingsushi/
Modifyme
http://www.atomless.com/projects/modifyme/site/
Recube
http://mrl.nyu.edu/~dhowe/recube/
Pianographique
http://www.pianographique.net/
Starry Night
http://rhizome.org/starrynight/
They Rule
http://www.theyrule.net/
Thursday, January 25, 2007
Tuesday, January 23, 2007
BASIC Emulators
This is a link for an online emulator of the Commodore 64, one of the first home computers. I learned how to program on an earlier version fo this computer called the Vic-20.
A better emulator for BASIC is at this site, for Radio Shack's TRS-80.
A better emulator for BASIC is at this site, for Radio Shack's TRS-80.
Sunday, January 21, 2007
Associative Interfaces
Dasher
http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/dasher/
Thinkmap Visual Thesaurus
http://www.visualthesaurus.com/
Streams of Consciousness
http://acg.media.mit.edu/projects/stream/
Starry Night
http://rhizome.org/starrynight/
They Rule
http://www.theyrule.net/
http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/dasher/
Thinkmap Visual Thesaurus
http://www.visualthesaurus.com/
Streams of Consciousness
http://acg.media.mit.edu/projects/stream/
Starry Night
http://rhizome.org/starrynight/
They Rule
http://www.theyrule.net/
Saturday, January 20, 2007
Schedule
January
Wed., 17: Introduction: What is New Media Literacy?
Fri., 19: Set up blogs
Mon., 22: Vannever Bush, “As We May Think”
Wed., 24: Ben Schneiderman, “Direct Manipulation: A Step Beyond Programming Lan-guages”
Fri., 26: What is a GUI? / “The NLS demo by Douglas Engelbart” / Jeff Han demo
Mon., 29: Ted Nelson’s “Computer Lib / Dream Machines”
Wed., 31: “Ted Nelson’s Computer Lib / Dream Machines”
February
Fri., 2: Dream Machines
• “Eliza”
• Plasma Pong
• Electric Sheep Comix
Mon., 5: Robert Coover, “The End of Books” / Borges, “The Garden of Forking Paths”
Freewrite 1 on Dream Machines and GUIs due
Wed., 7: Stuart Moulthrop “You Say You Want a Revolution? Hypertext and the Laws of Media” Fri., 9: Conceptual Interactive Fiction
• Talan Memmott
• Stuart Moulthrop
• Shelly Jackson
Mon., 12: Michael Joyce “Siren Shapes: Exploratory and Constructive Hypertexts”
Wed., 14: Stephanie Strickland “Moving Through Me as I Move: A Paradigm of Interac-tion”
Fri., 16: Conceptual Interactive Poetry
• Daniel Howe, “Text Curtain”
• Juliet Martin, “oooxxxooo”
• Stephanie Strickland, “The Ballad of Sand and Harry Soot”
• Thom Swiss, “The Narrative You Anticipate You May Produce”
Mon., 19: President’s Day
Wed., 21: Viewing of Time Codes
Freewrite 2 on hypertext literature due
Fri., 23: 3 Viewing of Time Codes
Mon., 26: Lev Manovich, “New Media from Borges to HTML”
Wed., 28: Scott McCloud, “Time Frames” / Blog review
March
Fri., 2: Animated Textual Experiences
• Young Hae Chang Heavy Industries, “Dakota”
• Chris Martin, “Intimate Alice”
• William Poundstone, “Project for Tachistoscope [Bottomless Pit]”
Mon., 5: Rachel Greene, Internet Art
Wed., 7: Rachel Greene, Internet Art
Fri., 9: Rachel Greene, Internet Art
Mon., 12: Spring Break
Wed., 14: Spring Break
Fri., 16: Spring Break
Mon., 19: “Six Selections by the Oulipo”
Freewrite 3 on internet art due
Wed., 21: William Burroughs, “The Cut-Up Method of Brion Gysin”/ Writely exercise
Fri., 23: Oulipo Inspired Work
• Geoffrey Ryman, “354”
• Scott McCloud, “The Carl Comix”
• Christian Bok, “Eunoia”
• Levi Lehto, “Get a Google Poem”
• The Pornolizer
• Noah Wardrip-Fruin, David Durand et. al., “Regime Change”
Mon., 26: Chip Morningstar, et al “The Lessons of Lucasfilm's Habitat”
Wed., 28: Sherry Turkle, “Video Games and Computer Holding Power”
Fri., 30: Julian Dibbell, “A Rape in Cyberspace”
April
Mon., 2: Henry Jenkins, “Game Design as Narrative Architecture”
Freewrite 4 on internet culture due
Wed., 4: Preceptorial Advising
Fri., 6: Video Games and Literary Art
• John Cayley, Giles Perring, Douglas Cape, “What We Will”
• Andrew Stern and Michael Mateas, “Façade”
• Emily Short, “Galatea”
• Neil Hennessy, “Basho's Frogger”
• Slamdance Guerilla Games: http://www.slamdance.com/games/
Mon., 9: Espen Aarseth, Introduction to Cybertext
Wed., 11: Eric Zimmerman “Narrative, Interactivity, Play and Games: Four Naughty Con-cepts in Need of Discipline”
Fri., 13: New Media for Educators
• Vicq de Cumptich, “Bembo's Zoo”
• Camille Utterbeck, “Text Rain”
• Jeffrey Shaw, “Legible City”
Mon., 16: Detournement and Appropriation readings
Freewrite 5 on video games due
Wed., 18: UBUweb and concrete poetry
Fri., 20: Web Parody
• Shawn Rider, “myBALL”
• Machinima
• “All Your Base Are Belong to Us”
Mon., 23: Final Presentations
Wed., 25: Final Presentations
Fri., 27: Final Presentations
Mon., 30: Wrap-up
Wed., 17: Introduction: What is New Media Literacy?
Fri., 19: Set up blogs
Mon., 22: Vannever Bush, “As We May Think”
Wed., 24: Ben Schneiderman, “Direct Manipulation: A Step Beyond Programming Lan-guages”
Fri., 26: What is a GUI? / “The NLS demo by Douglas Engelbart” / Jeff Han demo
Mon., 29: Ted Nelson’s “Computer Lib / Dream Machines”
Wed., 31: “Ted Nelson’s Computer Lib / Dream Machines”
February
Fri., 2: Dream Machines
• “Eliza”
• Plasma Pong
• Electric Sheep Comix
Mon., 5: Robert Coover, “The End of Books” / Borges, “The Garden of Forking Paths”
Freewrite 1 on Dream Machines and GUIs due
Wed., 7: Stuart Moulthrop “You Say You Want a Revolution? Hypertext and the Laws of Media” Fri., 9: Conceptual Interactive Fiction
• Talan Memmott
• Stuart Moulthrop
• Shelly Jackson
Mon., 12: Michael Joyce “Siren Shapes: Exploratory and Constructive Hypertexts”
Wed., 14: Stephanie Strickland “Moving Through Me as I Move: A Paradigm of Interac-tion”
Fri., 16: Conceptual Interactive Poetry
• Daniel Howe, “Text Curtain”
• Juliet Martin, “oooxxxooo”
• Stephanie Strickland, “The Ballad of Sand and Harry Soot”
• Thom Swiss, “The Narrative You Anticipate You May Produce”
Mon., 19: President’s Day
Wed., 21: Viewing of Time Codes
Freewrite 2 on hypertext literature due
Fri., 23: 3 Viewing of Time Codes
Mon., 26: Lev Manovich, “New Media from Borges to HTML”
Wed., 28: Scott McCloud, “Time Frames” / Blog review
March
Fri., 2: Animated Textual Experiences
• Young Hae Chang Heavy Industries, “Dakota”
• Chris Martin, “Intimate Alice”
• William Poundstone, “Project for Tachistoscope [Bottomless Pit]”
Mon., 5: Rachel Greene, Internet Art
Wed., 7: Rachel Greene, Internet Art
Fri., 9: Rachel Greene, Internet Art
Mon., 12: Spring Break
Wed., 14: Spring Break
Fri., 16: Spring Break
Mon., 19: “Six Selections by the Oulipo”
Freewrite 3 on internet art due
Wed., 21: William Burroughs, “The Cut-Up Method of Brion Gysin”/ Writely exercise
Fri., 23: Oulipo Inspired Work
• Geoffrey Ryman, “354”
• Scott McCloud, “The Carl Comix”
• Christian Bok, “Eunoia”
• Levi Lehto, “Get a Google Poem”
• The Pornolizer
• Noah Wardrip-Fruin, David Durand et. al., “Regime Change”
Mon., 26: Chip Morningstar, et al “The Lessons of Lucasfilm's Habitat”
Wed., 28: Sherry Turkle, “Video Games and Computer Holding Power”
Fri., 30: Julian Dibbell, “A Rape in Cyberspace”
April
Mon., 2: Henry Jenkins, “Game Design as Narrative Architecture”
Freewrite 4 on internet culture due
Wed., 4: Preceptorial Advising
Fri., 6: Video Games and Literary Art
• John Cayley, Giles Perring, Douglas Cape, “What We Will”
• Andrew Stern and Michael Mateas, “Façade”
• Emily Short, “Galatea”
• Neil Hennessy, “Basho's Frogger”
• Slamdance Guerilla Games: http://www.slamdance.com/games/
Mon., 9: Espen Aarseth, Introduction to Cybertext
Wed., 11: Eric Zimmerman “Narrative, Interactivity, Play and Games: Four Naughty Con-cepts in Need of Discipline”
Fri., 13: New Media for Educators
• Vicq de Cumptich, “Bembo's Zoo”
• Camille Utterbeck, “Text Rain”
• Jeffrey Shaw, “Legible City”
Mon., 16: Detournement and Appropriation readings
Freewrite 5 on video games due
Wed., 18: UBUweb and concrete poetry
Fri., 20: Web Parody
• Shawn Rider, “myBALL”
• Machinima
• “All Your Base Are Belong to Us”
Mon., 23: Final Presentations
Wed., 25: Final Presentations
Fri., 27: Final Presentations
Mon., 30: Wrap-up
Required Books
Internet Art (World Of Art)
Rachel Greene
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
ISBN: 0500203768
New Media Reader
Noah Wardrip Fruin and Nick Montfort, editors
Publisher: The MIT Press; Bk&CD-Rom edition
ISBN: 0262232278
Rachel Greene
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
ISBN: 0500203768
New Media Reader
Noah Wardrip Fruin and Nick Montfort, editors
Publisher: The MIT Press; Bk&CD-Rom edition
ISBN: 0262232278
Class Policies
Grading
Grading will primarily be based on your writing, but with much consideration given to class-room participation, presentations and in-class assignments.
• 50% short papers (5)
• 30% final paper and blog
• 20% responses and classroom participation/in-class assignments etc.
Attendance
If you are more than ten minutes late, you will be considered late. Two lates equal an absence. Four absences result in a full letter reduction in your grade. More than that and you could be considered for a failing grade. For excused absences, I would like print documentation that I can keep (xerox of doctor report, etc). You are expected to be quiet and attentive in class. If you are sleeping, typing on your cell phone, giggling and chatting, etc. this will count against you in the final grade.
Plagiarism
You will fail if caught plagiarizing. Once you have settled on a final paper, you are not allowed to change your topic unless you revise your entire blog.
Late papers and assignments
For every week a paper is late, it is worth a full grade less.
Assignments
There will be two primary writing assignments in this class:
• Freewriting Response: These are short, 2-3 page responses to the work that we have read for the week. These papers will be graded on grammar, spelling and style, and should give me a sense of your prose writing at its best. In general, they do not require additional research though should be researched enough to bring your level of understanding higher than a first impression. (I.e. do a Google search on the topic, and reread parts of text that confuse you). These must be handed in hard copy but also posted on your blog so that others can read them. I won’t read them unless you give me a hard copy.
• Research Papers: These papers should be well researched and constructed like a proper paper, with an introductory and concluding paragraph, etc. We will review the possible subjects for your final papers, but in general they must involve some issue regarding the uses of new media in art and culture (a list of general topics will be posted). The style need not be aca-demic or dry, but should be thoughtful and coherent. These papers should be from 6-8 pages long (visual supplements do not count in the page count). Please don't use any filler; stick to your points and keep it lean.
Format style: All papers should be in 12 point type (in Times Roman or similar font with serifs) with 1.5 spacing and 1 inch margins. They will be marked down if not in this format. Research papers should have the proper biography and footnotes where applicable.
Blogs
You will be required to create and maintain a blog for this class. The blog should be used to col-lect material on what will be your final paper assignment. The blog must include multimedia elements, some of your own editorial writing, an RSS feed to someone else’s blog in the class and to other websites, images, and links to stories of interest to you. You will be graded on this blog during the course of the semester. The blog should also include your freewriting assignments.
Short Presentations
Throughout the semester students will be asked to give short presentations on new media art works. These presentations can be quite short, but the student must be prepared to answer ques-tions and conduct that portion of the class on his/her own. Presentations should include the fol-lowing:
• a brief synopsis of what the piece is/does
• a brief description of the creators of the piece and its history
• choice excerpts from text where that is applicable
• a “demo” of the piece if it is a piece of interactive software
• an evaluation of the success of the piece taking in consideration all of the above
Vocabulary Notebooks
You should keep a notebook of important vocabulary as it is introduced throughout the semester. I will be evaluating you for your understanding of basic vocabulary at certain moments through-out the semester.
Final Presentation
During the last weeks of the semester you will give a final presentation of your research work. This presentation must include your blog in it. You will be expected to employ elements of mul-timedia in your presentation. The presentation will be roughly 15-20 minutes in length including whatever multimedia elements you choose to employ.
Grading will primarily be based on your writing, but with much consideration given to class-room participation, presentations and in-class assignments.
• 50% short papers (5)
• 30% final paper and blog
• 20% responses and classroom participation/in-class assignments etc.
Attendance
If you are more than ten minutes late, you will be considered late. Two lates equal an absence. Four absences result in a full letter reduction in your grade. More than that and you could be considered for a failing grade. For excused absences, I would like print documentation that I can keep (xerox of doctor report, etc). You are expected to be quiet and attentive in class. If you are sleeping, typing on your cell phone, giggling and chatting, etc. this will count against you in the final grade.
Plagiarism
You will fail if caught plagiarizing. Once you have settled on a final paper, you are not allowed to change your topic unless you revise your entire blog.
Late papers and assignments
For every week a paper is late, it is worth a full grade less.
Assignments
There will be two primary writing assignments in this class:
• Freewriting Response: These are short, 2-3 page responses to the work that we have read for the week. These papers will be graded on grammar, spelling and style, and should give me a sense of your prose writing at its best. In general, they do not require additional research though should be researched enough to bring your level of understanding higher than a first impression. (I.e. do a Google search on the topic, and reread parts of text that confuse you). These must be handed in hard copy but also posted on your blog so that others can read them. I won’t read them unless you give me a hard copy.
• Research Papers: These papers should be well researched and constructed like a proper paper, with an introductory and concluding paragraph, etc. We will review the possible subjects for your final papers, but in general they must involve some issue regarding the uses of new media in art and culture (a list of general topics will be posted). The style need not be aca-demic or dry, but should be thoughtful and coherent. These papers should be from 6-8 pages long (visual supplements do not count in the page count). Please don't use any filler; stick to your points and keep it lean.
Format style: All papers should be in 12 point type (in Times Roman or similar font with serifs) with 1.5 spacing and 1 inch margins. They will be marked down if not in this format. Research papers should have the proper biography and footnotes where applicable.
Blogs
You will be required to create and maintain a blog for this class. The blog should be used to col-lect material on what will be your final paper assignment. The blog must include multimedia elements, some of your own editorial writing, an RSS feed to someone else’s blog in the class and to other websites, images, and links to stories of interest to you. You will be graded on this blog during the course of the semester. The blog should also include your freewriting assignments.
Short Presentations
Throughout the semester students will be asked to give short presentations on new media art works. These presentations can be quite short, but the student must be prepared to answer ques-tions and conduct that portion of the class on his/her own. Presentations should include the fol-lowing:
• a brief synopsis of what the piece is/does
• a brief description of the creators of the piece and its history
• choice excerpts from text where that is applicable
• a “demo” of the piece if it is a piece of interactive software
• an evaluation of the success of the piece taking in consideration all of the above
Vocabulary Notebooks
You should keep a notebook of important vocabulary as it is introduced throughout the semester. I will be evaluating you for your understanding of basic vocabulary at certain moments through-out the semester.
Final Presentation
During the last weeks of the semester you will give a final presentation of your research work. This presentation must include your blog in it. You will be expected to employ elements of mul-timedia in your presentation. The presentation will be roughly 15-20 minutes in length including whatever multimedia elements you choose to employ.
Friday, January 12, 2007
Introduction
The goal of this course is to introduce students to the rudiments of New Media “literacy.” Unlike what the word connotes, “literacy” in new media involves not just text but images and computer interfaces. Students will build rudimentary blogs and learn to appreciate internet culture and the web’s use as a research tool. Students will also learn about the creative uses of the computer in creating textual works as well as other forms of art, and will also consider the uses of technology in educational settings, for children and for adults. Basic readings in theory and the history of new media will be assigned, as will creative assignments. A major portion of the grade will be based on the blog and the final paper.
By the end of this class, students should be able to:
• maintain a basic blog and use it as a research and presentation tool
• understand concepts of digital art/textuality and how it differs from analog culture
• have a sense of the history of computers
• understand how computer technology has impacted community
By the end of this class, students should be able to:
• maintain a basic blog and use it as a research and presentation tool
• understand concepts of digital art/textuality and how it differs from analog culture
• have a sense of the history of computers
• understand how computer technology has impacted community
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