Catalog Description: Further enhancing the skills acquired in Web Design for rich media. This course will be an advanced process in creating dynamic interactive web sites. Students will architect, design, animate and code an interface witha motion intro for the online medium. Prerequisites: DM 3115 Web Design

Goals:

  • To come to an informed understanding of the historical context within which digitally-based artworks have developed.
  • To survey the spectrum of contemporary Digital Art praxis to include:
    1. Internet Art
    2. hypertext
    3. non-linear narrative
    4. hactivism
    5. Détournement
    6. blogging
    7. Video
    8. installation
    9. et cetera
  • To examine developing curatorial practice, in the gallery and on-line.
  • To understand key theories that inform the development of digital artwork.

Objectives:

  • Students will have a demonstrable understanding of the contemporary history of digitally-based artworks.
  • Students will understand and be able to apply theoretical concepts to create new work, and analyze existing work.
  • Students will develop an historically-informed approach to the creation and curation of digitally-based artwork.

Recommended Texts:

  • The New Media Reader
    Noah Wardrip-Fruin & Nick Monfort, eds.
    MIT Press, 2003, 823 pp.
    ISBN: 0262232278

Materials:

  • For creating your work:
  • Rhizome subscription
  • USB Flash Drive
  • Digital Camera
  • Digital Video Camera
  • CD-Rs, CD-RWs, DVDs
  • Sketchbook
  • Pens, ink, pencils, etcetera...
  • For displaying your work:
  • Laptop Computer
  • Paper
  • Solid Mat Boards or Chipboard
  • Spray Mount (3M Super 77 recommended)
  • xacto knife
  • Binding Materials as needed