Ira Greenberg Lecture

Syllabus review

What is New Media Art?

Introduction to HTML - structure, tags, and hyperlinks

Directory structures, relative addressing, web servers, local development, and transporting files between the two(ftp).

Algorithmic art. Historical basis in the work of Sol Lewitt, Frank Stella, and Fluxus. Examples of current work (Ira Greenberg).

CSS-Cascading Style Sheets: separating content from presentation.

Database and data-driven art. Lev Manovich and soft cinema. Data mapping and visualization.

Javascript: the event model (window events, mouse events), functions, video embedding.

A very brief look at AJAX

Timelines and animation: frames, keyframes, movieclips.

Electronic Literature and New Media Poetics.

Actionscript

The open source paradigm: ramifications for the authorial function in art.

Collaboration Workshop

Artificial Intelligence. "Eliza," "Alice," "The Giver of Names" and others.

PHP-what is it and what is it used for? PHP basics: structure, syntax, functions.

Collaborative Project presentations

Agents, Avatars, Cyborgs. Donna Harraway, "The Cyborg Manifesto." William Gibson, "Neuromancer."

Accessing a Database: MySQL, structured query language,

Telepresence, telematics, telerobotics

Accessing a Database: PHP data access functions.

Artificial Life. Second Life. The port.

Discussion of Final Proposal development: samples.

Group or user-generated content, the conceptual framework of Web Two Point Oh.

NOTE: At this point you have been introduced to all of the technologies that we will be looking at in this class. The remainder of the class will be spent in putting it all together into the final project.

Proposal Development Workshop - proof of concept

Tactical media, activism, hactivism. Videogame modifications and interventions.

Proposal Development Workshop - final packaging

Networked Performance, Ubiquitous Computing, Locative art, Nomadic Networks.

No lab section. Presentation of project proposals