COURSE NUMBER AND TITLE 511-211-DW Section 02, 01 (Wednesdays)
Interactive Web Art & Culture  
INSTRUCTOR Andres Manniste
INSTITUTION Dawson College
PROGRAM CALL
SEMESTER Fall 2013
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

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

PART 1: THE GRAPHIC USER INTERFACE

Week 1 (August 21):

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/ and Digital Art Museum http://www.dam.org/intro.htm
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”.

Week 2 (August 27):

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 11):

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 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 18):

Guest artist: Rachel Echenberg
Lab: Work session.
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 25):

Lab: Guest artist: Rachel Echenberg 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 2):
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 9):

Lecture: Benjamin (Benjamin slides)
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.

Thanksgiving break October 12-14

Week 8 (October 16): 

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 23):

Lecture: Copyright and plagiarism
Project 2 proposal due.
Presentation of proposals. Formation of groups. How to work in groups
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, Jesse Darling (2012), Arcades, Mall Rats, and Tumblr Thugs and Evgeny Morozov (2012), The Death of the Cyberflâneur.

Week 10 (October 30):

TEST 10% (On browsings, readings and computer knowledge to date)
Lecture: Working with things that move. The nature of the present. Discussion of interactive art.
Art in the age of digital distribution Slide Show
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 6):
Lecture: Network Art
Lab: Work session
Small animation due.

Week 12 (November 13):

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 20):           
Émilie Gervais, Visiting artist
3pm to 5pm, meet in Studio 2G4

Week 14 (November 27):
Lab: Work session

Week 15 (December 4):

Project #2 Due
Presentations and discussion.
Appreciation due.

(Please note: December 11 at 15:00, is the last time to receive all projects)

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