week 1
M Aug 31
- syllabus
- introductions by way of a collective playlist
- Q: What does it mean to make work that is "of and for" the online environment?
- read: Wikipedia entry on DuChamp's Fountain
W Sept 2
- selection as a creative act
- user-generated content as subject matter
- viral videos
- Kittens Inspired By Kittens
- David After Dentist
- Kittens Inspired By David After Dentist
- youTube "sets" (& etc.)
- early 20c. art movements responding to changes in production
- collage as technique
- Futurism
- Dadaism
- collage
- DuChamp's "Readymades"
- read: Manovich ch 1 (in packet)
- do: select 3 online video clips
- can be from youtube, vimeo or other source
- reveal a connection?
- three distinct clips that create something new when played together?
- "An image is not strong because it is brutal or fantastic--but because the association of ideas is distant and accurate." (Pierre Reverdy)
- email the links before Wednesday class
week 2
M Sept 7 - LABOR DAY - NO CLASS
W Sept 9
- discuss: Manovich ch1 (in packet)
- discuss in small groups: online video sets
- turn in your notes afterwards
- more examples:
week 3
M Sept 14
W Sept 16
- embedding videos in an html page, setting playback options, div tag
- archive.org, vimeo
- "Shut Em Down" - Public Enemy
- "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" - Gil Scott Heron
- "U2" - Negativland
- screening: Tribulation 99 - Craig Baldwin (excerpt)
- screening: Sonic Outlaws - Craig Baldwin
week 4
M Sept 21 -
W Sept 23 -
- DISCUSS: "Interactive, algorithmic, networked : aesthetics of new media art" - Johanna Drucker (in packet)
- triptychs - Work in Progress
- intro to Flash
- for next week: Explore archive.org and identify some video clips that you are interested in working with
- look for clips under a Creative Commons license that will allow you to remix the clip
- look for clips in the public domain
- for next week: read the 3rd article in the packet (see below)
- for next week: read page on importing video into Flash
week 5
M Sept 28 - YOM KIPPUR - NO CLASS
W Sept 30
week 6
M Oct 5
- DISCUSS "Quentin Tarantino's Star Wars? Grassroots Creativity Meets the Media Industry" by Henry Jenkins (third article in packet)
- FLASH DEMO:
- basic buttons and scripting
- event listener...
- play();
- stop();
- gotoAndPlay(2);
- etc...
- import video w/ Flash Media Encoder
- finding material, text and video
W Oct 7
LAB DAY
week 7
M Oct 12
Topics: Copyright, Public Domain, Creative Commons, Fair Use
Public Domain
Copyright in General
Night of the Living Dead
FW Murnau's The Last Laugh (1924)
Video: Lawrence Lessig:
How creativity is being strangled by the law
Video (Depending on time): Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video
Video (Depending on time): Let's Go Crazy
Questions/lab time relating to project 2
W Oct 14 -
assign 2 due
week 8
M Oct 19 - DISCUSS -
Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video (DOWNLOAD, PRINT OUT AND READ THE PDF)
The Home Video Prince Doesn't Want You to See: Pa. Mom Fights Back With Lawsuit Against Music Company
(PRINT OUT AND READ THE
printable version)
W Oct 21 -
TOPIC:
digital art and social spaces
AGENDA: building kites and documentation
for next Monday read:
Wikipedia entry on Relational Art
for next Monday read:
Definitions of Art-based Social Practice
for next Wednesday: read "All Aboard the Night Train" - Tricia Rose (in packet)
for next Wednesday: read "Resistance is Retro?" - Layla Gibbon (in packet)
week 9
M Oct 26 -
W Oct 28 -
week 10
M Nov 2
W Nov 4
week 11
M Nov 9
W Nov 11
week 12
M Nov 16
W Nov 18
week 13
M Nov 23
W Nov 25 - FALL RECESS - NO CLASS
week 14
M Nov 30
W Dec 2
week 15
M Dec 7
W Dec. 9 last regular class