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- The updated schedule is on Brightspace
- Homework and readings are due on the week they are mentioned.
- Reading responses are due the day before the class. Reading responses should typically feature a couple of paragraphs for each of the readings that week, highlighting what you found most interesting (whether you agree or disagree with it!).
- 1 - Introduction - 06/09
- 2 - Augmenting Technologies - 13/09
- 3 - Cultural Artefacts - 20/09
- 4 - Interaction Design - 27/09
- 5 - Digital Writing - 04/10
- 6 - Museums, Technology and Education - 11/10
- 7 - Information Architectures - 18/10
- 8 - Copying Media - 25/10
- 9 - Mobile Computing - 01/11
- 10 - Networked Media - 08/11
- 11 - Augmenting Objects - 15/11
- 12 - Born-digital artefacts - 22/11
- 13 - Galleries and the Digital - 29/11
- 14 - Work Session - 06/12
- 15 - Final Presentations - 13/12
What is this class? What are we going to think about? What are we going to build?
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- Class Introduction
- Housekeeping
- The state of digital media in the world
- Setting up a development environment
- Writing digitally: HTML, CSS and JS
What were the visions of early computer pioneers as they developed new technologies, such as the Internet and the computer screen? How did they envision humans and computers cooperating? Did it turn out to be true or not?
- Man-Computer Symbiosis, J. C. R. Licklider, IRE Transactions on Human Factors in Electronics, volume HFE-1, 1960.
- The Computer as a Prosthetic Organ of Philosophy, D. Rokeby, 2003.
- Radical Technologies, Adam Greenfield, Verso, 2017, pp.59-76.
- Take a look at the Readings Presentation page. Write a comment with one or two choices for which week you'd like to present the readings.
- Write your reading response on the google doc.
- Create a new HTML page, including at least one heading, one link, one paragraph and one image. Check our the video tutorial if needed. Post the result here.
- Start thinking about exercise 1, and start adding some exploratory content on your website.
- Humans, technology and augmentation.
- Introduction to web development
- Introduction to Figma
What is culture? How does it circulate and how is it immobilized? How do networks of imagination get instantiated in specific artefacts? How do museums contribute to a certain conception of culture?
- Doing Cultural Studies: The Story of the Sony Walkman, Paul Du Gay and Stuart Hall, The Open University, 1997.
- In defense of the poor image, Hito Steyerl, e-flux, vol 70, 2016.
- The End of the Museum?, Nelson Goodman, Journal of Aesthetic Education, University of Illinois Press, Summer 1985, pp.53-62.
- Write your reading response on the google doc.
- Bring a wireframe (what is a wireframe?), sketching out what the layout of your first exercise will look like. You can use any tool you feel comfortable with, from Figma to a drawing app and pen and paper.
- Cultural artefacts
- Institutional and grassroots cultures
- Intro to JS
DUE - EXERCISE 1: INVISIBLE STORIES
How do we shape a dynamic system to give meaning and agency to a reader? What kinds of manipulations of possible of a digital object? How do we provide metaphors to make those manipulations understandable?
- A Cultural Approach to Interaction Design, Janet Murray, MIT Press, 2011.
- The Anti-Mac Interface, Jakob Nielsen, Nielsen Group, 1996.
- Reading Interface, J. Drucker, Cambridge University Press, 2020.
- Finish your exercise 1, submit it on the discussions page and come prepared to present it in class.
- Write your reading response on the google doc.
- Interaction design
- UI and UX
- Introduction to React
What is the difference between physical and digital writing? What are some similarities?
- The Software Arts, W. Sack, MIT PRESS, 2019, Introduction.
- Intermediation: Textuality and the Regime of Computation, N. Katherine Hayles, in My Mother Was a Computer, University of Chicago Press.
- ‘Electric Zine Maker’ Thrives as a Creative Open Source DIY Tool, N. Froio, observer.com, 2021.
- Write your reading response on the google doc.
- Read Getting Started with React
- From speech to print to web
- Information technology as memory devices
- More React
DUE - EXERCISE 2: MULTIMEDIA COMPENDIUM
Museum, technology and education: how do museums educate? How successful are they? And how are digital technologies changing those approaches?
- Museums in the Digital Age, Susanna Bautista, AltaMira Press, 2013, Framing A Changing Museology In The Digital Age, pp.7-30.
- BBC Series on the contemporary challenges of museums
- The Ignorant Art Museum: Beyond Meaning Making, Emilie Sitzia, in Journal of Lifelong Education, 2018, pp. 73-87.
- Finish your exercise 2 and submit it on the discussions post.
- Write your reading response on the google doc.
- Museum education
- Interactivity, culture and collecting
- Introduction to React-Native
How does space organize knowledge? How does it differ between physical space and virtual space?
What is information architecture? How can different pieces of content can be connected, both conceptually and practically? How do some of the actions that we take for granted are actually affordances for a particular worldview?
- The Poetics of Augmented Space, Lev Manovich, Journal of Visual Communication, 2006. (You can skip the "Electronic Vernacular" and "Learning from Prada" sections).
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- Write your reading response on the google doc.
- Augmented reality
- Information spaces
- Geolocation and Compass
DUE - EXERCISE 3: FIELD GUIDE
How does technological improvements affect the creation and archival of culture? How does infinite perfect reproducibility affect the status of the artwork? How can under-represented communities and narratives use those technologies to sustain their social and cultural histories at various scales?
- The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, Walter Benjamin, in Illuminations, edited by Hannah Arendt, 1969.
- In Our Glory: Photography and Black life, bell hooks, W.W. Norton, NY, 1995.
- Submit your assignment 3 on the discussions page.
- Write your reading response on the google doc.
- Finish your exercise 3.
- Originals and reproduction
- Dominant media and underdog media
- Discussing the final project.
What changes when we can move around with a computer? What are the pros and cons of portable devices? How do they integrate into the world, and with our bodies?
- Personal Dynamic Media, Alan Kay and Adele Goldberg, Computer, 1977.
- Mobile Computing, Interaction Design Foundation.
- Write your reading response on the google doc.
- Post three ideas for your final project on the discussion topic. Come prepared to discuss them in class.
- The turn to mobile
- User interactivity.
How does our constant access to everything across the globe change the concept of information? of communication? of community?
- Hypertext as Subversive?, David Kolb, 1997.
- Literary Machines, chap. 2. T. Nelson, 1981, Eastgate Systems.
- Objects of Intense Feeling: The Case of the Twitter API, T. Bucher, 2013.
- Write your reading response on the google doc.
- Write up a description of the field that you will be representing on your website (one per group). Post in on the discussions page.
- Hypertextuality
- Networked reading
- interactive wireframing with Figma
- using APIs in React
What are objects? What stories do they hold?
- Artefacts and the Meaning of Things, Daniel Miller, Routledge, 1994, pp.396-147.
- A history of amulets in ten objects, Annie Thwaite, Science Museum Group Journal, 2019.
- Write your reading response on the google doc.
- Make an interactive prototype (what is a wireframe?), sketching out what your final project will look like. Post your Figma link on the discussions page.
- Objects and artefacts
- Photogrammetry
- 3D objects with React-Fiber
What about born-digital art?
- Re-collecting the Museum, A. Dekker, Computational Culture, 2014.
- Presenting and Preserving New Media, Christiane Paul in Digital Art, Thames and Hudson, 2007.
- The Challenges of Preserving Digital Art, V. Cerf, Google Arts & Culture, 2019. and The Role of Archives in Digital Preservation, V. Cerf, Communications of the ACM, 2018.
- Write your reading response on the google doc.
- born-digital art
- Audio in React-Native
What about art galleries?
- Politics of Art: Contemporary Art and the Transition to Post-Democracy, H. Steyerl, e-flux, 2010.
- Make progress on your final project and come ready to discuss it in class.
- Write your reading response on the google doc.
- The history of the art gallery
- Modern vs. Contemporary
- The curator
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Work session.
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- Make progress on your final project.
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DUE - FINAL PROJECT: FIELD GUIDE
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- Finish your final project, and submit it here
- Final project presentations
- End of semester reflection
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