Spring 2006

Professor: Jeff Knowlton
e-mail: eeeeeee(-#-) 34n118w.net
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phone: 661-555-1212 (but Skype is better)
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Office Hours: Thurday, 11:00 - 12:00 PM
(e-mailing ahead is a good idea.)

Text: Texts will be available online and in print form. There are both required and optional readings for the course. You will want to purchase a Director/Lingo book such as "Macromedia Director MX 2004 Bible" or "Macromedia Director MX and Lingo: Training from the Source". We will look at a variety of media, including traditional and digital work, throughout the class.

Prerequisites: VIS 40 and 140. NOTE: Materials fee required

Requirements:

Readings, class participation, projects, a short final paper.
When a reading is due, please come to class with at least three questions/arguments you'd like to pose about each reading.

Grading is based on:

1) Attendance + participation - 20%

3) Your final paper, which will be based on readings and class discussions - 30%

You are permitted one unexcused absence from a lecture and one from a lab.
Beyond that, you are required to provide a doctor's note or other acceptable written excuse.
If you don't provide such documentation, your grade will be reduced.
Your projects must be turned in on time. A late project will result in grade reduction by one letter grade for that project.
Projects and papers should be emailed to jknowlton@gmail.com as well as your TA and presented in class.

Back up numbered versions of your work! Lost data is not an excuse for missing work.

Standard Content Disclaimer:
Some of the material we will cover may push some boundaries. Art is supposed to do that. If you feel that your boundaries have been breached, try to stick it out and see where things are going. If you need to leave the room, please write a one page paper explaining your reaction to the material.

This class will advance the concept of computer, internet and computation as medium rather than computer or software as tool or playback and delivery system. We will examine traditional and digital work.

Note - The syllabus is just a trajectory and always up for change. Some elements will mesh together better than others. Yeah I know it needs to be filled out.

Wks. 1 (1/09) The Medium is the Medium (and class intro)
How does technology effect our lives? What is art?

Reading (due in section for week 2): " Look Who's Talking" Wired Issue 7.01 | Jan 1999

Some other stuff:)

Wk 2 (1/16) HyperText & Completion vs. Clicking

We will examin Mark Amerika, Eric Loyer Lair of the Marrow Monkey & Chroma and others.
Reading (due this class): " Look Who's Talking" Wired Issue 7.01 | Jan 1999. Be prepared to talk about the reading.

Wk 4 (1/30)Networks, Systems and Structures
Notation systems, Structure of information
Anthony Braxton, Sol Lewitt, Josh On & Future Farmers

Wk 6 (2/13) Visualization
Something will happen this week, but your guess is as good as mine.