COURSE NUMBER AND TITLE 511-211-DW Section 01 (Wednesdays)
Interactive Web Art & Culture  
INSTRUCTOR Andres Manniste
INSTITUTION Dawson College
PROGRAM Creative Arts
SEMESTER Fall 2009
OBJECTIVE AND COMPETENCY 01D5 To discuss elements of culture and civilization in artistic or literary works.

OFFICE & TELEPHONE Office: 2G6-3 Telephone: 931-8731, ext. 3203
amanniste@dawsoncollege.qc.ca

SYLLABUS

Week 1 (August 26):

Lecture: Introduction to course.
Lab: Introduction to Macintosh Operating system. Working with programs, entering and exiting files, portable memory, saving work.
Browsing: Digital Art Museum http://www.dam.org/intro.htm
Digital Art Source http://www.digitalartsource.com/index2.shtml
Larin, Lise-Helene (2002) Paint by Numbers III, Bondir http://www.siggraph.org/artdesign/gallery/S02/onreel/Larin/1reelpreview.html
Reading: William J. Mitchell (1994) “Intention and Artifice” in The Reconfigured Eye: Visual Truth in the Post-Photographic Era, Cambridge: MIT Press, pp.23-57.
Homework: Written inventory of resources. Gathering resources for “My last self portrait in cegep”.

Week 2 (September 2):

Lecture: Intention and Artifice; the GUI and working with digital images.
Lab: Project #1, “My last self portrait in cegep” (painting and drawing with the computer and working with photographic images, 20%)
Browsing: Shelley Jackson (1997) My Body, Dan McCormack (1998) Bodyscan, Stellarc (1996) Ping Body, Olia Lialina (1996) My Boyfriend Came Back From the War
Readings: Walter Benjamin (1992, c.1936) "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction", extracts from Illuminations, trans. Harry Zohn, London, Fontana, 1992 pp. 211-244 and Tribe, Jana (2007) New Media Art, "Olia Lialina", p. 60-61.

Week 3 (September 9):

Lab: Work session: Introduction to image manipulation programs.
Browsing: Napier, Mark (1998) The Digital Landfill http://www.potatoland.org/landfill/, Bookchin, Natalie, Shulgin, Alexei (2000) Universal Page http://www.walkerart.org/archive/7/BA7395F874CFCB696167.htm, Mattes, Eva and Franco (1998) Vaticano.org  http://www.0100101110101101.org/home/vaticano.org/index.html
Readings: How to write a Project (link) and Mark Amerika (1997) “Surf-Sample-Manipulate: Playgiarism on the Net”, Telopolis, Munich: Heise Zeitschriften Verlag GmbH & Co., and Walker, John A. (2006) “Copy This! A Historical Perspective On the Use of the Photocopier in Art”. Plagiary: Cross-Disciplinary Studies in Plagiarism, Fabrication, and Falsification, 1 (3): 1-3 and Tribe, Jana (2007) New Media Art, "Mark Napier", p. 70-71.

Week 4 (September 16):

Lecture: Benjamin
Lab: Work session, network printers and printing.
Browsing: Bookchin, Nathalie (1999) Intruder  http://bookchin.net/intruder/, Jodi www.jodi.org, Heemskerk, Joan and Paesmans, Dirk (2006) Max Payne cheats only  http://maxpaynecheatsonly.jodi.org/
Readings: Erkki Huhtamo (1995) ”Seven Ways of Misunderstanding Interactive Art” Digital Mediations, Pasadena: Williamson Gallery of the Art Center College of Design, and Tribe, Jana (2007) New Media Art, "Natalie Bookchin", p. 31-31.

PART 2: PROGRAMS AND APPLICATIONS

Week 5 (September 23):

Lecture: Mark Amerika and copyrights.
Lab: Simple animations, gifs.
Browsing: Cosic, Vuk (1999) Deep ascii http://www1.zkm.de/~wvdc/ascii/java/ ,Young-Hae Chang Heavy industries (2005) Super Smile. http://www.yhchang.com/SUPER_SMILE.html
Press, and  Tribe, Jana (2007) New Media Art, "Vuk Cosic", p. 38-39 and "Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries", p. 94-95.          

Week 6 (September 30):

Lab: Work session. Working on simple animations, gifs. Make a small animation. 5%
Readings: Jean-François Lyotard (1984,c.1979) “The Field: Knowledge in Computerised Societies” from The Postmodern Condition Manchester: Manchester University

Week 7 (October 7, Mid term assessment):

Project 1 Due

Presentation of projects
Introduction to Project #2: Option #1, Group project , “Is technology moral?” (15%) or
Option #2, A written synthesis of the readings and browsings (1500-2000 word term paper, 15%)
Homework: Write a proposal for Project #2, 5%
Assignment: Write an appreciation of your completed project 1 or 2, taking into consideration the readings that have been assigned. (500 words maximum, due week 15) 5%
Surfing: Gary Hill (2000) Remembering Paralinguay, Takeo Yamaguchi (2006) Candy Factory Projects , Tokyo Rose Advertising: http://artonline.jp/tokyorose.html

Thanksgiving break October 10-13

Week 8 (October 21):           

TEST 10% (On browsings, readings and computer knowledge to date) Project 2 proposal due.
Readings on line: Lialina, Olia (2005) A Vernacular Web, The Indigenous and The Barbarians http://art.teleportacia.org/observation/vernacular/  Lialina, Olia (2007) Vernacular web 2 http://www.contemporary-home-computing.org/vernacular-web-2/          
Class evaluation of project #1.
Lecture: Lyotard, Working with things that move. The nature of the present. Discussion of interactive art.
Presentation of proposals. Formation of groups. How to work in groups
Internet link: Apple i-movie tutorial (i-movie HD) i-movie O9

PART 3: INTERNET ART

Week 9 (October 28):

Lecture: Introduction to webpage architecture.
Lab: Working on simple webpage.
Browsing: Wattenberg, Martin (1997) Bewitched.com http://www.bewitched.com/bewitched, Ebaum’s world  http://www.ebaumsworld.com/flash.html
Readings: Natalie Bookchin and Alexei Shulgin (1999) Introduction to net. art and Bolter, Jay David (1997) “Digital Media and Cinematic Point of View”, Telopolis, Munich: Heise Zeitschriften Verlag GmbH & Co.

Week 10 (November 4):           

Small animation due.
Lab: Work session on webpages.
Assignment: Simple webpage. 5%
Browsing: Alexei Shulgin (1998) 386DX Cyberpunk rock band, Mouchette (Avatar, 1996-present)
http://www.mouchette.org/ . 0100101110101101.org, Andres Manniste (2003) La Corne, (2005) Cacophonie
Readings: Tribe, Jana (2007) New Media Art, "Alexei Shulgin", p. 84-85 and "Mouchette", p. 66-67.

Week 11 (November 11):

Lab: Work session
Reading: Andreas Broeckmann (1997) “Net.Art, Machines, and Parasites”. On Line: Nettime, http://amsterdam.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-9703/msg00038.html

Week 12 (November 18):

Simple webpage due.
Lecture: Network Art
Lab: Work session
Readings: Tilman Baumgärtel (1997) “Interview with Jodi” Telopolis, Munich: Heise Zeitschriften Verlag GmbH & Co. , and Mattes, Eva and Franco (2000) “life-sharing” Emergent Medium 02 Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, gallery 9, and Tribe, Jana (2007) New Media Art, "0100101110101101.org", p. 26-27, "Jodi", p. 50-51.

Week 13 (November 25):           
Lecture: Art making in the post industrial.
Lab: Work session

Week 14 (December 2):

TEST 10% (On browsings, readings and computer knowledge to date)
First Presentations and discussion

Week 15 (December 9):

Presentations and discussion.
Appreciation due.
Term paper (if approved) due.

(December 14, 2009 at 15:00, last time to receive all projects)

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