COURSE NUMBER AND TITLE 511-211-DW Section 01 (Wednesdays)
Interactive Web Art & Culture  
INSTRUCTOR Andres Manniste
INSTITUTION Dawson College
PROGRAM CALL
SEMESTER Autumn 2014
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

TEXTBOOK: New Media Art: http://wiki.brown.edu/confluence/display/MarkTribe/New+Media+Art

(New readings and browsing may be added in the course of the semester)

PART 1: THE GRAPHIC USER INTERFACE

Week 1 (August 27):

Lecture: Introduction to course: New Media Art Powerpoint Presentation
Lab: Introduction to Macintosh lab. Logon, working with programs, entering and exiting files, portable memory, network.
Browsing: Rhizome Artbase, http://rhizome.org/artbase/ , Digital Art Museum http://www.dam.org/intro.htm and Newhive.com
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: Gathering resources for “My last self portrait in cegep”.

Labour Day, September 1

Week 2 (September 3):

Lecture: Intention and Artifice (powerpoint); 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: Stellarc (1996) Ping Body (Google it!) , Olia Lialina (1996) My Boyfriend Came Back From the War , Shelley Jackson (1997) My Body, Petra Cortright (2007) vvebcam and Kaja Andersen (2012) cxzy's photostream.
Readings: Mark and Jana, Reena (2007) New Media Art, "Art in the age of digital distribution", pp.6-9 9 ("Defining New Media art" to "Themes/tendencies") and "Olia Lialina", p. 60-61.

Week 3 (September 10):

Lab: Work session: Introduction to image manipulation programs.
Browsing: Napier, Mark (1998) The Digital Landfill http://www.potatoland.org/landfill/, Mattes, Eva and Franco (1998) Vaticano.org  http://www.0100101110101101.org/home/vaticano.org/index.html ; John F. Simon, Jr. (1997) Every Icon (.gif version) and Erin Baillie-Rutter (2012) how to live 4 ever
Readings: How to write a Project (link .pdf file) , Tribe, Mark and Jana, Reena (2007) New Media Art, "Art in the age of digital distribution", pp.10-13 ("Themes/tendencies" to end of article), "0100101110101101.org", p. 26-27 and "Mark Napier", p. 70-71.

Week 4 (September 17):

Lab: Work session. Network printers and printing.
Browsing: Eva and Franco Mattes (2008) It's always six o'clock, and Mu Gallery, Eindhoven, NL (2008) It's always six o'clock; Heemskerk, Joan and Paesmans, Dirk (2006) Max Payne cheats only  http://maxpaynecheatsonly.jodi.org/
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. 211-24.4

PART 2: PROGRAMS AND APPLICATIONS

Week 5 (September 24):

Lab: Working with Quicktime and iMovie
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 and Kim Jong-il Looking At Things.
Readings: Tribe, Jana (2007) New Media Art, "Vuk Cosic", p. 38-39 and "Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries", p. 94-95.  Mark Amerika (1997), “Surf-Sample-Manipulate: Playgiarism on the Net”, Telopolis, Munich: Heise Zeitschriften Verlag GmbH & Co. and Joy Garnett (2004) Steal this look.        

Week 6 (October 1):
Lecture: Benjamin (Benjamin slides)
Project 1 Due
Presentation of projects, class evaluation of project #1.
Tilman Baumgärtel (1997) “Interview with Jodi” Telopolis, Munich: Heise Zeitschriften Verlag GmbH & Co.

Week 7 (October 8, mid-term assessment):

Lecture: Copyright and plagiarism
Lab: Work session. Working on simple animations, gifs. Make a small animation. 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%
Browsing: Gary Hill (2000) Remembering Paralinguay, Takeo Yamaguchi (2006) Candy Factory Projects,Tokyo Rose Advertising: http://artonline.jp/tokyorose.htm, Joy Garnett (2003), The Bomb Project.

Week 8 (October 15): 

TEST 10% (On browsings, readings and computer knowledge to date)
Video presentation by Yn Hsien Chen and Angellque Padua based on the 'Vernacular Web' essays by Olia Lialina.
Introduction to Project #2: Group project , “Is technology moral?” (20%)
Homework: Write a proposal for Project #2, 5%
Lecture: Introduction to webpage architecture. Simple webpage mini-tutorial
Lab: Working on simple webpage.
Readings on line: Lialina, Olia (2005) A Vernacular Web, The Indigenous and The Barbarians http://art.teleportacia.org/observation/vernacular/ and Vernacular web 2 http://www.contemporary-home-computing.org/vernacular-web-2/          

PART 3: INTERNET ART

Week 9 (October 22):

(Group 1) Project 2 proposal due.
Presentation of proposals. Formation of groups. How to work in groups
Group 2: More html
Browsing: Wattenberg, Martin (1997) Bewitched.com, http://www.bewitched.com/bewitched , Rafael Rozendaal (2010) http://www.towardsandbeyond.com/ and http://crazyimages.com/
Readings: Natalie Bookchin and Alexei Shulgin (1999) Introduction to net. art, Émilie Gervais, Webpage (2014) http://emiliegervais.co

Week 10 (October 29):

(Group 2) Project 2 proposal due.
Presentation of proposals. Formation of groups. How to work in groups Lecture: Working with things that move. The nature of the present. Discussion of interactive art.
Group 1: More html
Assignment: Simple webpage. 5%
Browsing: Alexei Shulgin (1998) 386DX Cyberpunk rock band, Mouchette (Avatar, 1996-2010, Martine Neddam)
http://www.mouchette.org/, Andres Manniste (2003) La Corne, (2005) Cacophonie, Jodi www.jodi.org.
Readings: Tribe, Jana (2007) New Media Art, "Jodi", p. 50-51 and "Mouchette", p. 66-67 and "Alexei Shulgin", p. 84-85.

Week 11 (November 5):

Art in the age of digital distribution Slide Show
Lecture: Network Art
Lab: Work session
Small animation due.

Week 12 (November 12):

Project 3: Option #1 Group project (Culture) 20%  or Option #2
A written synthesis of the readings and browsings (1500-2000 word term paper, 20%)
Simple webpage due
Readings: Mattes, Eva and Franco (2000) “life-sharing” Emergent Medium 02 Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, gallery 9 .
Eugenio Tisselli (2009) We are the facebots! We are delighted to be your friends, Computers Club Computers Club Drawing Society and Jon Rafman (2010) Nine Eyes (Google Street Views)

Week 13 (November 19):           
Project #2 Due
Lecture: Art making in the post industrial.
Lab: Work session

Week 14 (November 26):
TEST 10% (On browsings, readings and computer knowledge to date)
Lab: Work session

Week 15 (December 3):
Project #3 Due
Presentations and discussion.
Appreciation due.
Term paper (if approved) due.

(Please note: December 12 at 15:00, is the last time to receive all projects)

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