T 1/15
Introduction. What is multimedia writing?
R 1/17
Three-part homework:
- Spend some time checking out Multimedia from Wagner to Virtual
Reality (http://www.artmuseum.net/w2vr/contents.html).
- Watch Run Lola Run. There'll be a showing in White 104
on W 1/16 @530, or you can borrow it at A/V Library, Blockbuster,
and elsewhere.
- Begin thinking about the Photo/Story Project.
Topics: defining multimedia.
T 1/22
Read all of Tufte for today.
Topics: principles of information design.
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R 1/24
Short Assignment 1 due in class.
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T 1/29
Read Chapter 1 of Aarseth's Cybertext (http://www.hf.uib.no/cybertext/Ergodic.html).
Topics: linearity, ergodics, games.
Commercial sites
1
CNN, American Institute
of Graphic Arts, Getty
One, Bauhaus
Museum
2
Nokia Tyres, Nike
Women's Shoes, VW
Autoshow, MTV 2
3
Requiem
for a Dream, Donnie Darko
Ergodic Narratives/net.art
1
Carolyn
Guertin (click on the finger, then go to the map), Stuart
Moulthrop (look at Hegirascope and Reagan Library), My
Boyfriend Came Back from the War, Rice
2
Lair
of the Marrow Monkey, Sub-Method
3
SuperBad, Absurd
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R 1/31
Photo/Story 1 due in class.
Topics: granularity, narrative, observation.
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T 2/5
Read the Introduction, Chapter 1 ("Starting Points in the Internet")
and the intro to "Literature in English and Other Languages" in Condron,
Fraser, and Sutherland.
Topics: rhetoric of the link.
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R 2/7
Short Assignment 2 due in class. Continue to work on Photo/Story. Read
Chapters 1-4 in Williams & Tollett
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T 2/12
Photo/Story 2 due in class. Read Chapters 5-8 in Williams & Tollett.
Topics: diagrams, pseudo-codes, repetition.
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R 2/14
Short Assignment 3 due in class. Read Chapters 9-11 in Williams & Tollett.
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T 2/19
Complete Photo/Story. Read Chapters 12-13 in Williams & Tollett.
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R 2/21
Intro to Personal Web Space project. Read Williams & Tolllett 14-16.
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T 2/26
Personal Web Space 1 Due. Read Bolter & Grusin Intro & 1-3. Remediation page:
http://www.lcc.gatech.edu/~bolter/remediation/index.html
Topics: remediation, immediacy, hypermediacy.
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R 2/28
Short Assignment 4 due in class. Continue to work on Personal Web Space
Project.
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T 3/5
Read Bolter & Grusin 4-8.
Some cool home pages: Scott McLoud,
Nick Bantock, Ben Marcus
web graphics:
try Photoshop. Check on your computer for basic imaging software.
.html primer
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R 3/7
Personal Web Space 2 Due. Continue to work on Personal Web Space Project.
More remediation examples: NY Times,
Paradise Lost, Media and Communications Web Site,
Labyrinths and Lines,
Wurlitzer Jukebox,
Telephone Home Page, The Matrix
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T 3/12
Continue to work on Personal Web Space Project. Try to upload some version of the remediation project by today. Read Bolter & Grusin 9-14.
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R 3/14
NO CLASS. Personal Web Space 3 Due i.e. definitely upload a draft of the remediation project by today.
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T 3/19
Read Bolter & Grusin 15-18.
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R 3/21
Complete Personal Web
Space Project Due, uploaded to the AS server. Remember, this will be graded and commented on, with the understanding
that you may revise it and re-submit (by 5/2). The project include:
- Updated home page, with personal info and links to sites of interest (personal, career, etc.)
- Remediation project (linked from home page)
- Photo story project (linked from home page)
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T 3/26 Spring Break
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R 3/28 Spring Break
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T 4/2
Read Calvino. Intro to Invisible Cities Project.
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R 4/4
Brainstorm towards Invisible Cities Project.
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T 4/9
Short Assignment 5 Due. Continue to work on Invisible Cities Project.
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R 4/11
Continue to work on Invisible Cities Project.
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T 4/16
Intro to Flash. Advantages: can run in a separate window or embedded in an
html file; fast, small files, creating complex animations and cool interactions.
Downside: hard to animate bitmaps (can include them thought); need a plugin; not
controlled by the browser; not open sources.
Continue to work on Invisible Cities Project.
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R 4/18
Continue to work on Invisible Cities Project.
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T 4/23
Continue to work on Invisible Cities Project.
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W 4/24
Lecture by Richard Grusin. Highly recommended.
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R 4/25
Continue to work on Invisible Cities Project.
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T 4/30
Presentations.
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R 5/2
Presentations. Final Class.
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