Do the stuff listed below this week.

Useful Links     Media: McLuhan's Message--read this first, puts McLuhan in some perspective

Reading            Marshall McLuhan: Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, 1964

                          Read:  Chapter 1-The Medium is the Message, Chapter 2-Media Hot & Cold,  Chapter 4-The Gadget Lover

                          and Chapter 10-Roads and Paper Routes


Listen               Mcluhan-Marshall_On_Speaking-Freely_4_JAN_1971.mp3

View                Digital Ethnography via You Tube (55:33)   


Check course blog as there will be a response thread started. 

Responses are due before our next face to face class.

T-11/17/07-Week 11


HAND IN RESEARCH PAPERS TO ME AT THE GALLERY.  UPLOAD YOUR PDF SLIDESHOW PRESENTATIONS TO THE ART 108 SERVER..

CLASS MEETS AT THE CHESAPEAKE GALLERY AT 6PM TONIGHT FOR A SPECIAL EXHIBITION:  JOHN WEISS:  PORTRAITS OF PEOPLE WHO NEVER WERE.

THE CHESAPEAKE GALLERY IS IN THE STUDENT CENTER ON CAMPUS

T-10/30/07-Week 09

HISTORY OF DIGITAL MEDIA-The Five PERIODS of Computer Art

STAGE 1-Computer Pre-History

T-11/06/07-Week 10

HISTORY OF DIGITAL MEDIA-The Five PERIODS of Computer Art             Background Reading    Lev Manovich Language of New Media pp. 45-65.               

STAGE 2-Extending Human Vision & 3-Mechanical Age of Reproduction                                           Walter Benjamin-Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction                                                                                                                                           


View    Ballet mecanique (1924) Fernand Leger - Part 1    Ballet mecanique (1924) Fernand Leger - Part 2

Due Abstract of your Final Presentation.    Download Ideas for Presentation

Final Presentation Project Discussed     Download Final Presentation Specifications



T-11/13/07-Week 11

HISTORY OF DIGITAL MEDIA-The Five PERIODS of Computer Art            Background Reading    “As We May Think” (1946), Vannevar Bush

STAGE 4 -1950-75    STAGE 45-1976-on                                                         View/Read Multimedia – From Wagner to Virtual Reality    Understanding RSS News Feeds

Due Podcast Research Project                                                                Apple - QuickTime - Tutorials - Creating Audio Podcasts on Mac OS X               

T-11/20/07

Research Day-Lab Open-On Your Own


Thanksgiving Break, 11/21-25. Labs will reopen on Monday the 26th, 10am.

T-11/27/07-Week 13

Gallery/Lecture Review Papers Due.

In Class-  Video Podcasting:  Two Minute Interviews.  Find someone to interview.  Think up 3 questions.  Bring them to class today, we’ll be making a web page of our

2 Minute Interviews.  Making iMovieHD Podcasts.

T-12/04/07-Week 14

Evaluations Attendance Mandatory !  Grading Rubric for Presentations

Final Presentation Evaluation Form (print this out prior to class)

Final Presentations Due (Alley to Klein)

T-12/11/07-Week 15

Final Presentations Due (Lagos-Wisniewski)

Final Presentation Evaluation Form (print this out prior to class)

T-09/01/09-Week 01

Class meets in Joppa J003

Tonight........ 7-9pm  J115 Joppa Hall     Nahid Tootoonchi Lecture     International Education Week       Beneath the Surface: Iran’s Graphic Design Evolution-  BE THERE !!!!!

T-09/08/08-Week 02

Class meets in Joppa J003 

T-09/15/09-Week 03

Work Online

T-11/03/09-Week 09

Class meets in Joppa J003


Class    Social Networking / Social Media / Social Information Assignment Download PDF

Cyberduck-FTP-What is It and How to Use it.  Understanding and working with student directories on our server.  Networking in the lab.

Watch  FRONTLINE: growing up online | PBS watch the entire program, it’s divided into chapters. 

Link    http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php

Read    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_software

T-10/27/09-Week 09

Work Online



R-11/27 through SUN-11/30

THANKSGIVING BREAK

LABS CLOSED

T-03/04/08-Week 07-Class meets in Baltimore        We are travelling to MICA to see FAB LAB, an exhibition at Maryland Institute College of Arts in Baltimore.

                                                                                       Pinkard Gallery, Bunting Center at 1401 Mount Royal Avenue, Baltimore, MD       Downloadable MAP IS HERE

Travel is on your own.  The gallery is about 45 minutes from Joppa Hall in Baltimore.  Carpooling is a better option. 

We will meet at 2:15 pm at the Pinkard Gallery and leave by 3:30 pm.

R-11/06/08-Week 10-    Class meets in Joppa J003

Due    The Utopian Machine Project.  Make sure to upload your sketch/drawing to the ART 108 directory.

Discuss    Final Research Project Assignments

View  The Wayback Machine http://www.archive.org/index.php   

T-04/22/08-Week 13-Class meets in Joppa J003

DISCUSSION ABOUT FINAL PRESENTATIONS

CHOOSING TOPICS

UTOPIAN MACHINE PROJECT REVISIT

T-05/06/08-Week 15-Class meets in Joppa J003 at 1:30 pm 

THIS IS AN EARLY START SO WE CAN GET THROUGH EVERYONE’S PRESENTATIONS

Hey folks...if you have not confirmed your topic with me, you must prior to starting on it.

This is what you'll do and how I will be grading.


Choose a topic related to digital arts/digital media culture

I must approve it

give a 10-15 minute presentation on it using the teacher's station in the lab

make a handout for students about your topic, hand it out prior to your presentation

presentation must include images or video/sound

do not read text from slides

attribute anything you quote/take/refer to


I will be grading you on: the relevancy of your topic; how much information and original interpretation your presentation has; your handout (how effective it is); and how organized your presentation is.


GOOD LUCK !!!!!

R-10/23/08-Week 08-Class meets in Joppa J003  (Class ends today at 2:45pm)

Deliver Presentations    Social Networking Assignment--Groupwork

Reading    Vannevar Bush, “As We May Think”, 1945    and this....   The Godfather, from Wired Magazine, 1997

View    Towards A Digital Media Timeline (Powerpoint)  and this..... Memex Slideshow The Utopian Machine (11 MB)

Watch Online  The Web That Wasn’t, by Alex Wright, 2007 (60 min)

R-10/30/08-Week 09- Class DOES NOT MEET PHYSICALLY

Assignment  The Utopian Machine


R-11/13/08-Week 11- Class DOES NOT MEET PHYSICALLY

Reading     Where Our HyperMedia Should Really Go by Ted Nelson

R-11/20/08-Week 12-    Class meets in LIBRARY ROOM L114 AT 3PM

How to use the Library and digital resources for your Research Paper.

Meeting with Librarian, Patti Pfau.  Use the early part of the class period on your own in the library for your paper

M-12/01/08    PAPERS DUE-GALLERY / LECTURE REVIEW (2)

R-12/04/08-Week 14- Class meets in Joppa J003

Final class reviews.  Research paper check ins.

R-12/11/08-Week 15-    Class DOES NOT MEET PHYSICALLY

DUE    Research Paper must be uploaded/timestamped on the server prior to 12/11/08.

Final Research Papers (Approved)

Allie Noske        Google

Aaron Ellison     How the Computer Changed Photography

Eric Hannon       Electronic Music

Darl Gnau           Electronic Music


Important Announcement

In Class    Introductions/Orientation to the Mac Lab.  Logging in.  Web Resources.  Networks.

Setting up your BLOG

In Class    Using the Mac.     Lecture  History of Digital Media 

BLOG RESPONSES Download this PDF about Blogging in this class.

Reading Weblog Ethics by Rebecca Blood

Reading    Is Google Making Us Stupid ? 

View    You Tube 1985 (comedy sketch)  

T-09/22/09-Week 04

Class meets in Joppa J003 


T-09/29/09-Week 05

Work Online

T-10/06/09-Week 06

Class meets in Joppa J003 

In Class   Presentations Part 1 

T-10/13/09-Week 07

Class meets in Joppa J003 

In Class   Presentations Part 2 

T-10/20/09-Week 08

Work Online

T-11/10/09-Week 10

Work Online

RESEARCH PAPER WORK

T-11/23/09-Week 12

Work Online

Pose and Answer questions to your Social Networking topic on your personal blogs