Project 1: Analysis of new media art/design project 25%
Project 2: Analysis of second new media art/design project 30%
Project 3:Production of new media art/design project (by students) 35%

Research Methodology

Week 17

December 16, 2015
Due: Final Project.

Week 16
Wednesday, December 9, 2015
Project 3 in class presentation, Part 2 | Make adjustments to final project and prepare for final submission, due on December 16.

Monday, December 7, 2015
Due: Project 3, Production of new media art/design project (by students), 35% | In class Presentation, part 1

Week 15

Wednesday, December 2, 2015
Lab day work on final project

Monday, November 30, 2015
Read and be ready to discuss:
Special Talk by Joseph Julian | Eduardo Navas, "The New Aesthetic and The Framework of Culture," Media N Journal, http://median.s151960.gridserver.com/?page_id=93

Wednesday, November 25, 2015
Thanksgiving

Monday, November 23 2015
Thanksgiving

Week 13

Wednesday, November 18, 2015
Due: Proposal for Final project
Lab day work on Project 3 | Post comments on Angel forums

Monday, November 16, 2015
Due: Third Weekly Assignment | In class critique of Assignment

Week 12

Wednesday, November 11, 2015
Lab day, work on Third Weekly Assignment due on Monday, November 16 | Post on Angel forums.

Monday, November 9, 2015

Read and be ready to discuss:
Raymond Williams, "Isms," pp.125, "Liberal," pp. 130 -132, "Materialism," pp. 146 - 149, "Media," 151 - 152 | Eduardo Navas, "Electronic Literature and the Mashup of Analog and Digital Code," Dichtung Digital: http://www.dichtung-digital.org/2010/navas/navas.htm | Go over selected works of media art and design.

Week 11

Wednesday, November 4, 2015
Read and be ready to discuss:
Raymond Williams, "Hegemony," pp. 99 - 100, "History," pp. 101 - 102, "Individual," pp. 114 - 118, "Industry," 118 - 120 | Roland Barthes, "The Third Meaning" (PDF) | Go over selected works of media art and design.

Monday, November 2, 2015
Guidelines for Project 3 released: Production of new media art/design project (by students) In class discussion of material from October 28 | Lab day, work on Third Weekly Assignment due on Monday, November 16 | Giorgio Agamben, "What is an Apparatus," (PDF) | Post on Angel forums.

Week 10

Wednesday, October 28, 2015
Third Weekly Assignment released, due on Monday, November 16
Read and be ready to discuss:
Discussion for this session to take place online. Questions on the material will be posted on a forum before class begins. You can then take the class time to respond to the questions.
Raymond Williams, "Expert," pp. 86 "Exploitation," pp. 86 - 87, "Fiction" pp. 90 - 92, "Genius," pp. 98 - 99, "Labour," pp. 127 - 130 | Go over selected works of media art and design.

Weekly Project 3, due November 16, 2015
Develop a concept for a project on which you would like to work under an ideal situation. The project is open to your interest. It can be a story, a game, a website, a film, a video, an art performance, etc. For ideas on different subjects, you can consult the online resources listed on the syllabus and on the webpage resource. There are three parts for this assignment.

Part one:
Your basic concept should initially be written in under 150 characters (similar to Twitter--but you don't have to upload it to Twitter).

Part two:
Develop your concept at length in no more than 250 words.

Part Three: Develop an image/design that represents your idea to the best of your abilities. (The image/design could be a collage of preexisting images, if so, you need to provide a list of sources.)

Upload to the corresponding Angel forum for discussion.

Monday, October 26, 2015
Due: Project 2, Analysis of second new media art/design project, 25% | Class Critique

Week 9

Wednesday, October 21, 2015
Lab day, work on Second new media art/design project due on Monday, October 26 | Post on Angel forums

Monday, October 19, 2015
Read and be ready to discuss:
Raymond Williams, "Culture," pp. 49 - 54, "Elite," pp.72 - 74, "Ethnic," pp. 78
Roland Barthes, "The Rhetoric of the Image," (PDF) | Go over selected works of media art and design.

Week 8

Wednesday, October 13, 2015
Second Weekly Assignment on Data Analytics due | Online critique of weekly assignment | Go over selected works of media art and design

Monday, October 11, 2015
Finish Lecture on Myth and Postructuralism | Lab day, work on Weekly Analytics Project | Go over selected works of media art and design.

Week 7

NOTE: The order of activities for this week have been switched. You are not expected to have read the material assigned for this week by Monday, October 5. However, you should read it by Wednesday, October 7 in order to contribute to the weekly forum on time.

Wednesday, October 7, 2015
Lab day work on Weekly Analytics Project | Post comments on Angel forums

Monday, October 5, 2015
Read and be ready to discuss:
Raymond Williams, "Career," pp. 19 - 20, "Class," pp. 26 - 34 | Roland Barthes, "The Tour de France as Epic," pp. 122 - 133, "Electoral Photogeny," pp. 181 - 183

Week 6

Wednesday, September 30, 2015
Guidelines for Project 2 released, due on October 26
Release of second weekly project on Data Analytics due October 13
Read and be ready to discuss:
Roland Barthes, "Myth Today," pp. 215 - 274 | Introduction to Data Analytics and Data Visualization | Go over selected works of media art and design

Monday, September 28, 2015
Due: Project 1, Analysis of new media art/design project 20%
Discussed In class

Week 5

Wednesday, September 23, 2015
Lab day | work on Analysis of new media art/design project due on September 28

Monday, September 21, 2015
In class discussion of material from September 16, 2015 | Go over selected works of media art and design

Wednesday, September 16, 2015
Read and be ready to discuss:
Discussion for this session to take place online. Questions on the material will be posted on a forum before class begins. You can then take the class time to respond to the questions.
Raymond Williams, "Communication," pp. 34 - 35 "Consumer," pp. 42 - 43, "Communism," pp. 37 - 39, "Socialist," 223 - 228
Roland Barthes, "Toys," pp. 59 - 61, "Wine and Milk," pp. 79 - 82. "Steak-Frites," 83 - 85.

Monday, September 14, 2015
First Weekly Assignment due | online critique of weekly assignment |
Go over selected works of media art and design | Lab day: post comments on Angel forums.

Wednesday, September 9, 2015
Read and be ready to discuss:
Raymond Williams, "Bourgeois," pp. 14 - 16, "Capitalism," pp. 17 - 19, "Commercialism," 34 - 35 | Roland Barthes, "Criticism Blind and Dumb," pp. 29 - 31, "Operation Astra," pp. 41 - 43 | Go over selected works of media art and design.

Monday, September 7, 2015
Labor Day, no class

Week 2

Wednesday, September 2, 2015
Go over selected works of media art and design | Lab day: post comments on Angel forums | Work on weekly assignment.

Monday, August 31, 2015
Guidelines for Project 1 released, due on September 28

First Weekly Assignment due on, Monday, September 14, 2015:
Choose any of the short essays by Roland Barthes, or one of the entries by Raymond Williams so far discussed, and write a 500 word critical reflection in which you go over the main points, then focus on one point of interest to you and discuss how it may be at play in current times. You may choose an essay or entry that has not been discussed, but you need to notify the instructor of your selection. You will share your brief analysis on Angel and other participants will provide critical feedback.

Read and be ready to discuss:
Raymond Williams, "Introduction" in Keywords, pp. xxiii - xxxvii, "Aesthetic," pp. 1- 2, "Art," pp. 9 - 11 | Roland Barthes"s "In the Ring," pp. 3 - 14, "The Writer on Vacation," 22 - 25

Week 1

Wednesday, August 26, 2015
Lecture on History of Art, Media and Design, Part 2: Discussion of semiotics, structuralism, post-structuralism in relation to art and design | Go over selected works of media art and design | Begin online discussion on Angel.

Monday, August 24, 2015
Introduction to Class | Lecture on History of Art, Media, and Design