Digital Media reading for Sept 24

Respond:

• Navas, Eduardo, Remix(ing) Re/Appropriations

Digital Media reading for Sept 19

Respond:

• Baudrillard, Jean, Simulacra and Simulations

Interactive Media reading for Sept 19

Respond:

• Sigmund Freud, A Note upon the “Mystic Writing Pad” (1925)
• Philip K. Dick, The Preserving Machine (1953)

Interactive Media reading for Sept. 17

Respond:

• Jakob Nielsen, Usability 101: Introduction to Usability and Top Ten Mistakes in Web Design

Interactive Media reading for Sept 12

Respond:

• Greene, Rachel, Themes in Internet Art (ch.3) in Internet Art

Digital Media reading for Sept 12

Respond:

• Introduction to New Media Art, Mark Tribe and Reena Jana (p.9-20)

Everyone Hearts Math

Create a dynamic web page that performs a math story problem. You should use variables in the actual problem, declaring their values at the top, and using print() or echo() to reveal the final answer(s). Check to make sure you’ve got all your semicolons (;) and there are no typos or you will get errors. This is the beginning of one of many assignments where you get to flex your design muscles.

Digital Media assignment: “Program”

Using a programming tool created with artists in mind (Processing), create a program that algorithmically generates a 2-dimensional design for physical output. Begin by analyzing some complex system (a spider’s eye, a pinecone, the interstate highway system, the solar system, etc). Through research, sketches, and writing, try to come up with a simplified algorithm that describes how this system, or a part of it, is structured/constructed visually, through repetition, pattern, translation, transformation, hierarchy, symmetry, etc. This algorithm will become the basis for your program, which will in turn be able to create new 2D forms that are not random in nature, but truly evolve from your findings. The results could utilize any media or tools, possibly including large-scale color prints or a bound book.

Medium: Illustrator (vector graphics) and Processing

Interactive Media reading for Sept 10

Respond:

• Greene, Rachel, Isolating the Elements (ch.2) in Internet Art

Digital Media reading for Sept 10

Respond:

• Introduction to New Media Art, Mark Tribe and Reena Jana (p.1-8)