Basic Digital Arts - DMS 121
Department of Media Study, SUNY at Buffalo
SUMMER 2007
Class: MTWR 11:00 - 1:00
Instructor: Al Larsen
Office Hour: Tuesdays 1:00 - 2:00 (CFA 244 &/or CFA 271)
alarsen * at * buffalo * dot * edu

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Links

  • Imaging
    • planet photoshop - tutorials
    • graphic design dictionary
    • properties of circles - very cool site!
    • excellent page of (pre-digital) collage
    • Gimp - free graphics software with much of the functionality of Photoshop (it is installed on the lab computers in CFA 244 do that you can investigate it)
    • DIGITAL IMAGING NUTS AND BOLTS (PDF).

  • Audio
    • Audacity download
      - Audacity is a free audio editing software package for Mac and PC
    • CCMixter
      - a good source for creative-commons licensed sounds
    • Freesound
      - collaborative database of creative-commons licensed sound for musicians and sound lovers.
    • Justin Katko
    • Film Sound History
    • Find Sounds - audio search

  • Motion
    • 12 Principles of Animation
    • * www.semihemisphere.com
    • * orisinal morning sunshine - flash games/animation
    • * Yugop interactive
    • * Quasimondo
    • FLASH TUTORIALS here
    • text and motion Young Hae Chang - Heavy Industries
      • interview w Y H Chang
    • * Interactive Salaryman Q: would you hire them?
    • Octopus Drop Kick - blog of flash sites
    • Camille Utterback
    • Levitated
    • * Poems That Go
    • copyleft movies
    • * Imaginary Forces commercial moption graphics studio - including title sequences to movies
    • Saul Bass titles

  • Programming Concepts
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  • Creativity in the (Digital) Arts
    • Bruce Mau - An Incomplete Manifesto
    • Eames - Fifteen Things

  • Off the Screen
    • Properties of the New Media
      • Nonlinear History of New Media
      • Lev Manovich
      • Rhizome

    • authorship/ownership issues in the digital age
      • Creative Commons
        - a spectrum of rights (comic)
        - how licenses work (comic)
      • Lawrence Lessig
      • GNU - copyleft
      • Richard Stallman
      • Archive.org
      • Negativland

    • Social Vectors in Internet Art
      • post secret
      • Wooster Collective - street art
      • learning to love you more
      • Chris Barr is available on thursday

    • media literacy & introductions to cultural studies
      • http://www.cultsock.ndirect.co.uk/
      • Semiotics of New Media Literacy

  • More Links - contributed by class members
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