NMDA
461
Advanced New Media Projects
8:00AM to 3:00PM
Room 405
SYLLABUS
1. JAN 18 AN INTRODUCTION
Readings: Lenny Zeltser's "The World Wide Web: Origins and Beyond"
http://www.zeltser.com/WWW/
SITES: OVERVIEW
http://download.theforce.net/theater/gangsta/starwarz.html
http://www.agar-agar.net/stuff/index.html
http://www.deconcept.com/v2/mainmenu.html
http://www.grammatron.com
http://www.rhizome.com
http://download.theforce.net/theater/gangsta/starwarz.html
http://vv.arts.ucla.edu/
http://www.y2khai.com/
Project1: Subscribe to a server and format an introduction page with one image
and someintroductory text.
WEEK 2
Hypertopia: Memex and Transclusion, machines that don't forget
SITES: Historical
Reading: "The Curse of Xanadu" (http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/3.06/xanadu.html)
Project2: Add a gallery and a link list to your own website.
WEEK 3
60’s to 90’s Commodity Critique/Simulation to Digital Reality
Reading: Baudrillard “Simulations” (handout)
SITES: VRML, Michael Heim, The Essence of VR, Char Davies,
Project 3: My Avatar
WEEK 4
Gilles Deleuze & Felix Guattari: The Rhizome
Reading: D&G, "On the Line: Rhizome"
SITES: Rhizomatics
Project 4: Rhizomatic Lumping
WEEK 5
The Dematerializtion of Information and Cybernetics
Reading: Kathryn Hayles: “How We Became Posthuman” (handout)
SITES: Donna Haraway, Cuborg Manifesto, Orlan, Augmented Reality. Stelarc, evasys.bodyscan
Project 5: Dematerialized Vision
WEEK 6
Telepresence and Telematics:
Reading: Virilio “Open Sky” (handout)
Sites: Ken Goldberg, Telepresence Research, Inc., The Telegarden,
Teleporting an Unknown State, Survival Research Laboratories
Project 5: continued
WEEK 7
Group crit of recent project. 8. MAR 8
WEEK 8
Database Logic, Algorhithm, Narrative.
Reading: Lev Manovich “Language of New Media”
Sites: Interactive Flash Sites
Project 6: Montage Sequence
WEEK 9
Gaming, Addiction, and the Interface
Readings: Lev Manovich “Language of New Media”
SITES ONLINE GAMING
WEEK 10
FIELD TRIP TBA
WEEK 11
Artificial Intellegence/Nueral Networks
Reading: The Mind Within The Net
Sites: Nueral Net Applications
FINAL PROJECT HANDOUT
WEEK 12
Transhumanism
Reading: Hans Moravec http://www.transhumanist.com/volume1/moravec.htm
Project: Final project continued
WEEK 13
Visiting Web Artist (TBA)
Project: Final project continued
WEEK 14
Final Project Review 1
WEEK 15
Final Project Review 2