Tuesday 12:30-3:00, Instructor: Marianne R.Petit
Other Classes' Syllabus
An introductory course designed to provide students with hands-on experience using various technologies (online communities, digital imaging, audio, video, animation, authoring environments and the World Wide Web.) The forms and uses of new communications technologies are explored in a laboratory context of experimentation and discussion. The technologies are examined as tools that can be employed in a variety of situations and experiences. Principles of interpersonal communications, media theory, and human factors are introduced.
Weekly assignments, team and independent projects, and project reports are required.
Tuesday 10/18/05
• Discussion of readings/writings
• Discussion: Digital audio: sampling and distribution
• Demonstration: Collection of sounds
• Demonstration: Basic digital audio: Audacity (http://audacity.sourceforge.net/) and ProTools
• Assignment: In teams of two create a 2 minute sound piece which will be due in two weeks. Begin collecting sounds and working now!!
Tuesday 10/11/05
• Assignment:
1. Read sequential storytelling handouts (Eisner & McCloud). In teams of two make a series of digital collaged images that tell a story.
2. Read The story of DJ Danger Mouse's "The Grey Album" (http://www.illegal-art.org/audio/grey.html) and Negativland v. U2 (www.negativland.com)
• MGM versus Grokster: Electronic Frontier Foundation's position
• Read Clay Shirky's Fame versus Fortune and Scout McCloud's response
What do you think? Post reaction to your class site. Be prepared to discuss in class.
Tuesday 10/04/05
In teams of two, create a single image which
contains 3-5 disparate elements which are
combined to create a convincing new
whole one.
Class 3:
Tuesday 9/20/05
Assignment:
1. Walter Benjamin's "Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction".
-COMMENT- I think that a work of art is still, (no matter if it gets replicated a million times), a work of art, just because whoever created it had the vision, and went through with it. And the reason why these art works get duplicated is because they cause so much conmotion that everyone wants to own a piece of it.
2. Find 3 images that have been manipulated (web/magazine/newspaper, etc.) P
Class 2:
Tuesday 9/13/05
Assignment:
1. Take your basic portfolio/journal site and redesign it using stylesheets. Consider look, functionality, usability, and expansion. Make entry that outlines your process and design decisions you made. Be prepared to show in class.
2. Read Marshall McLuhan's Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man Chapters 1 (The Medium is the Message)
-COMMENT-: I definitely think that this chapter was too hard for me to read, it had too many quotations, and some times, I lost track of what they were talking about, I know what they were trying to say "The Medium is the Message", but I didn't like this book.
Chapter 8 (The Spoken Word: Flower of Evil) and 9 (The Written Word: An Eye for an Ear).
-COMMENT-:
Class discussion on readings and reaction paper
Demonstration: More HTML & Designing through stylesheets (demonstration Photoshop/ImageReadh/BBEdit/Dreamweaver):
- file organization and naming
- Metatags
- working with colors
- working with images
- tables
- working with stylesheets.
Class 1: Tuesday 9/6/05
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Interactive Technology Master's Program _ New York University
• American Graphic Design Award - December 2004
• Alumni Art Show WCSU - 2004