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DXARTS 202: FUNDAMENTALS OF DIGITAL AND EXPERIMENTAL ART

WEEK 1 - The Brainstorm

March 29

• Course Introduction
• Introduction to Assignment 1: Light Site
• Climb the Wall

March 31

• Readings due: "The History of the Interface in Interactive Art", Söke Dinkla (WWW site)
• Light Art link
• Reading discussion
• Hunt for raw materials

WEEK 2 - Situating

April 5

• Readings due: "Art Objects", Jeanette Winterson (pdf in course reserves)
• Reading discussion
• Setup at Fremont

April 7

• Installation documentation and experience (Light Site phase 1)

WEEK 3 - Contextualizing

April 12

• Readings due: "The Art of Interaction: Interactivity, Performativity, and Computers", David Z. Saltz (pdf in course reserves)
• Reading discussion
• Paul Garrin
• Michael Joyce, afternoon:
• Luc Courchesne
• George Lewis 1
• George Lewis 2
• Flash web tools
• General Link
• Video Link

April 14

• Flash continued
• Lab time

WEEK 4 - Investigating the Pixel

April 19

• Assignment 1 due : Light Site
• Formal critique

April 21

• Introduction to Assignment 2 : The Proof is in the Process
• Intro to Processing http://processing.org/reference/environment/index.html
• Readings due: excerpt from Visual Intelligence on eReserve. The Aesthetics of Generative Code (WWW site) Code -In Conversation with Casey Reas (WWW site)

WEEK 5 - Branching Out

April 26

• Processing continued
• window.jpg
• pineneedles.pde
• _line_scatter.pde
• _image_load.pde
• _conditionals.pde
• _array1.pde

April 28

• Individual review of Assignment 2 : The Proof is in the Process, phase 1 (still)
• Lab time

WEEK 6 - Evolutionary Processes

May 3

• Theory of complexity, emergent properties, A-life and other complex systems
• Processing continued (advanced tools)

May 5

• Readings due: "The Darwin Machine: Artificial Life and Interactive Art", Simon Penny (WWW site)
• Reading discussion
• Lab