• Project 1: Analysis of new media art/design project, 20%
• Project 2: Analysis of second new media art/design project, 25%
• Project 3: Production of new media art/design project, 35%
  

Research Methodology

Resources used throughout the semester

http://digicult.it
http://eliterature.org/
http://www.electronicbookreview.com/
http://furtherfield.org
http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/mediaartnet/
http://netartreview.net
http://netart.org.uy/latino/
http://netescopio.meiac.es/en/index.php
http://neural.it/
http://newmediafix.net
http://norient.com/en/
http://rhizome.org
http://turbulence.org
http://whitney.org/Exhibitions/Artport

Week 17:
December 12, 2016

• Due: Revisions of Final Project

Week 16:

Wednesday, December 7, 2016

• Project 3 in class presentation, Part 2
• Make adjustments to final project and prepare for final submission, due on December 12.

Monday, December 5, 2016

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

Week 15:

Wednesday, November 30, 2016

• Lab day work on final project
• In class discussion on details for final project

Monday, November 28, 2016

• Special Presentation by Kenan Zekic on Critical Practice
• Discussion forum on Kenan's presentation

Week 14:

Wednesday, November 23, 2016

• Thanksgiving

Monday, November 21 2016

• Thanksgiving

Week 13:

Wednesday, November 16, 2016

• Due: Third Weekly Assignment
• Online critique of weekly assignment

Monday, November 14, 2016

• Lab day work on Project 3
• Post comments on Canvas forum
• Guidelines for Final Project released

Week 12:

Wednesday, November 9, 2016

• Read and be ready to discuss:
  Raymond Williams, "Isms," pp.125, "Liberal," pp. 130 - 132, "Materialism," pp. 146 -149, "Media," 151 -152
• Go over selected works of media art and design.

Monday, November 7, 2016

• "Making Studies in New Media Art Critical," Timothy Lenoir in Media Art Histories, pp. 355 - 380
• Week Project released, due on November 16, 2016

Weekly Project 3, due November 16, 2016
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 Canvas forum for discussion.

Week 11:

Wednesday, November 2, 2016

• Due: Project 2, Analysis of second new media art/design project, 25%

Monday, October 31, 2016

• Lab day: work on Project 2 due on November 2

Week 10:

Wednesday, October 26, 2016

• Read and be ready to discuss: "Image, Process, Performance, Machine Aspects of an Aesthetics of the Machinic," Andreas Broeckmann, in Media Art Histories, pp. 193 - 206
• Go over selected works of media art and design.
  

Monday, October 24, 2016

• Read and be ready to discuss: Raymond Williams, "Culture," pp. 49 - 54, "Elite," 72 - 74, "Ethnic," pp. 78 "Expert," pp. 86
  "Exploitation," pp. 86 - 87, "Fiction," pp. 90 - 92, "Genius," pp. 98 - 99, "Labour," pp. 127 - 130

Week 9:

Wednesday, October 19, 2016

• Read and be ready to discuss:
  "It is Forbidden Not To Touch," Peter Weibel, in Media Art Histories, pp. 21 - 42
• Go over selected works of media art and design.

Monday, October 17, 2016

• Go over image-mining tutorial.
• Post on Angel forums.

Week 8:

Wednesday, October 12, 2016

• Second Weekly Assignment on Data Analytics due
• Online and in class critique of weekly assignment

Monday, October 10, 2016

• Lab day, work on Weekly Analytics Project
• Individual meetings as needed
• Guidelines for Project 2 released, due on November 2

Week 7:

Wednesday, October 5, 2016

• Read and be ready to discuss:
• Raymond Williams, "Career," pp. 19 - 20, "Class," pp. 26 - 34
• "Historizing Art and Technology," Edward A. Shanken, in Media Art Histories, 43 - 70

Monday, October 3, 2016

• Read and be ready to discuss:
• "Introduction," Oliver Grau, "The Coming and Going of Images," Rudolf Arnheim, in Media Art Histories, 1 - 18
• Lab day work on Weekly Analytics Project

Week 6:

Wednesday, September 28, 2016

• Release of second weekly project on Data Analytics due October 12 (Download the document from Canvas under Files )
• Introduction to Data Analytics and Data Visualization
• Go over selected works of media art and design

Monday, September 26, 2016

• Due: Project 1, Analysis of new media art/design project 20%
• In class project critique

Week 5:

Wednesday, September 21, 2016

• Lab day
• Work on analysis of new media art/design project due on September 26.

Monday, September 19, 2016

• In class discussion of material from September 14, 2016
• Go over selected works of media art and design
• Lab day: post comments on Canvas forums
  
  

Week 4:

Wednesday, September 14, 2016

• First Weekly Assignment due
• Read and be ready to discuss:
• Raymond Williams, "Communication," pp. 34 - 35 "Consumer," pp. 42 = 43, "Communism," pp. 37 - 39, "Socialist," 223 - 228
  "Postulates of Linguistics," excerpt from Deleuze and Guatarris A Thousand Plateaus, PDF.

Monday, September 12, 2016

• Continue discussion of Barthes's "Myth Today"
• online critique of weekly assignment
• Go over selected works of media art and design
• Lab day: post comments on Canvas forums.

Week 3:

Wednesday, September 7, 2016

• Read and be ready to discuss:
  Raymond Williams, "Bourgeois, pp. 14 - 16, "Capitalism," pp. 17 - 19, "Commercialism," 34 - 35
  Roland Barthes, "Myth Today," pp. 215 - 274
• Go over selected works of media art and design

Monday, September 5, 2016

• Labor Day, no class

Week 2:

Wednesday, August 31, 2016

• Go over selected works of media art and design
• Lab day: post comments on Canvas weekly forums | Work on weekly assignment.

Monday, August 29, 2016

• Guidelines for Project 1 released, due on September 26
• Release of First Weekly Assignment due on September 14 in preparation for Project 1
• Read and be ready to discuss:
  1) Raymond Williams, "Introduction" in Keywords, pp. xxiii - xxxvii, "Aesthetic," pp. 1 - 2, "Art," pp. 9 - 11
  2) Roland Barthes's "In the Ring," pp. 3 - 14, "The Writer on Vacation," 22 - 25

First Weekly Assignment due on, Monday, September 12, 2016:
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 Canvas and other participants will provide critical feedback.

Week 1:

Wednesday, August 24, 2016

• 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 Canvas forums

Monday, August 22, 2016

• Introduction to Class
• Lecture on History of Art, Media, and Design