Penn State University -- School of Visual Arts
Spring 2014
ART 411 IDS Capstone II
Professor: Eduardo Navas (ean13@psu.edu)
M & W 2:30 - 5:30 PM

Office Hours: Mondays 11 - 2 PM, Visual Arts 207A
Please contact me at: ean13@psu.edu

Syllabus:
PDF

Midterm Presentation Guidelines

Final Exhibition Set Up and Guidelines

Final Project Presentation Guidelines

ASSIGNMENTS

WEEKLY SITES

Week 15:
Monday, April 21, 2014

Lecture | Prepare for final thesis presentation | Individual Meetings

Wednesday, April 23, 2014
Lab Day

 


Week 14:
Monday, April 14, 2014

Lecture | Prepare for final thesis presentation | Individual Meetings: 10 minutes each be prepared to make the most of meeting

Wednesday, April 16, 2014
Lab Day

 


Week 13:
Monday, April 7, 2014

Lecture | Individual Meetings

Wednesday, April 9, 2014
Lab Day

 


Week 12:
Monday, March 31, 2014

Lecture | Go over adjustment to Thesis based on Presentation Feedback | Individual Meetings

Wednesday, April 2, 2014
Lab Day

 


Week 11:
Monday, March 24, 2014

Midterm Presentation to Faculty (May
change to next week, depending on faculty
schedule)

 


Week 10:
Monday, March 17, 2014

Lecture | Prepare for midterm presentation | Individual Meetings

 


Week 9:
Monday, March 10, 2014
Spring Break

 


Week 8:
Monday, March 3, 2014

Second Group presents for general critique
Wednesday, March 5, 2014
Lab Day

 


 

Week 7:
Monday, February 24, 2014

First Group presents for general critique
Wednesday, February 26, 2014
Lab Day

 


Week 6:
Monday, February 17, 2014
Lecture | Individual Meetings
Wednesday, February 19, 2014
Lab Day

 


Week 5:
Monday, February 10, 2014

Lecture | Individual Meetings
Wednesday, February 12, 2014
Lab Day

 


Week 4:
Monday, February 3, 2014

Second Group presents for general in-class critique
Wednesday, February 5, 2014
Lab Day

 


Week 3:
Monday, January 27, 2014

First group presents for general in-class critique
Wednesday, January 29, 2014
Lab Day

 


Week 2:
Monday, January 20, 2014

Martin Luther King Day, No Classes
Wednesday, January 22, 2014
Lab Day


Week 1:
Monday, January 13, 2014

Introduction | Go over schedule for the Spring semester | Develop order of presentation
for the coming weeks | Short Individual meetings as necessary

 

Week of March 3, 2014

Selections in Modular Architecture:
http://inhabitat.com/tag/modular-architecture/

Architecture and Environments:
http://www.robotecture.com/

Collaboration as Process in the Exhibiting and Public Space
http://remixtheory.net/?p=571

TED Talk, David McCandless: The beauty of data visualizationhttp://www.ted.com/talks/david_mccandless_
the_beauty_of_data_visualization.html

Presentation: Interactive Narrative Design in Mass Effect 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-opEshcecMY

Bioware's Mike Laidlaw talks narrative and games as art
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/gamesblog/2011/feb
/22/gamesblog-live-mike-laidlaw-dragon-age-2

 


Week of February 17, 2014

Projects and Design Productions:

Resources

Neural.it
http://neural.it/
Digicult
http://www.digicult.it/en

 

Projects

Olympic event explainer videos
http://flowingdata.com/2014/02/10/olympic-event-explainer-videos/
Olympic events placed in New York for scale
http://flowingdata.com/2014/02/05/olympic-events-placed-in-new-york-for-scale/

Quotes Poster
http://flowingdata.com/2014/01/29/last-day-to-pre-order-quotes-poster/

10 Sculptures That'll Make You Think Twice About Your Trash
http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/blog/10-sculptures-thatll-make-
you-think-twice-about-your-trash

Reviving Classic Masterpieces Via 3D Scanning
http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/blog/reviving-classic-masterpieces-
via-3d-scanning

Psychographics
http://turbulence.org/Works/psychographics/sewing-machine/

iSkyTV
http://turbulence.org/Works/iSkyTV/

 


Weeks of January 13 to February 10

Online resources Resources:

Design

Bruce Mau Design
http://www.brucemaudesign.com/
Design Observer
http://designobserver.com/
Audi Urban Initiative
http://audi-urban-future-initiative.com/

James Bridle and The New Aesthetic:
http://booktwo.org/notebook/waving-at-machines/
Benjamin Bratton's Ted Talk:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yo5cKRmJaf0

 

Media Design Studios

Brand New School
http://brandnewschool.com/
Imaginary Forces
http://www.imaginaryforces.com/
Meta-design
http://www.metadesign.com/san-francisco
Passmore Lab
http://passmorelab.com/
ADJ
http://www.agencydjs.com/

 

Media Resources

Flowing Data
http://flowingdata.com/
Flow Magazine:
http://flowtv.org/
Pixelache
http://www.pixelache.ac/
Turbulence
http://turbulence.org/
Furtherfield
http://furtherfield.org/
Rhizome.org
http://rhizome.org/
Creators Project
http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/en_us

Material to look at for PDF design ideas

Errata Magazine
http://issuu.com/search?q=revistaerrata
Three Junctures of Remix Catalog
http://gallery.calit2.net/portal/catalog/2013-2014-REMIX-Catalog.pdf
Refunct, Exhibition Catalog
http://ruared.ie/Documents/defunct_refunct_catalogue_web.pdf