New Media 01
jonCates
# New Media 01
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# [I/O] SYSTEM:
# IN:
Input systems: readings, screenings + [aesthetic/technosocial/conceptual/art-historical] skills
+ toolSets to be determined + distributed by jonCates Assistant Professor in the department of
Film, Video and New Media.
# OUT:
Output systems: 01 completed New Media work in a fully realized state as to be defined by the
terms + parameters set by the participants. standard of completion to be arbitrated by
particpants.
# REFERENCE:
Reference signals are intended to help articulate the basis + influences which impact New Media
as a [concept/construct], art as a system + New Media 01 as a course.
# MEDIA:
we will be [discussing/developing] New Media as an art hystorical framework in relation to
{screen|time|code}-based experimental media art (from Cinema + Film Art to Video Art + Digital
Art) + as social technological concept/construct.
# NEW:
New Media's new-ness will be [discussed/developed] in relation to artistic innovations,
utopian hopes + technopositivist promises, faded glories + various futurisms.
# I/0:
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# INPUT:
students will be expected to use [technologies/systems] which are [demonstrated/discussed] in
class. these [technologies/systems] will incl object oriented programming for developing media
files using ActionScript + Flash, transcoding using QuickTime, remixing using AMG Strain by
Barbara Lattanzi, etc....
# OUTPUT:
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# UPDATES:
students will keep blogs, livejournals, or vlogs during the semester. students will make the
uri's of these known to the class.
# OUTPUT:
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# VARIABLE:
students will individually author metadata + reformat media to create a VARIABLE New Media work.
# FRAMEWORK:
students will individually or collaboratively develop a New Media project within the framework
of the concerns, concepts + systems presented in New Media 01.
# EXCLUDE:
there will not be any tests or any assigned technical excercises.
# EVALUATE:
we will critique all student projects twice (as a class) + i will address projects + students
individually throughout the semester.
# PARAMETERS
class will meet every THURS from 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 PM, with a one-hour break for nutrients, with
the exception of Graduate Critique Week.
attendance + punctuality are required. 3 absences == NO CREDIT. 2 lates == 1 absence.
# GRAPH:
classTime will be divided in the following manner:
90% Input
10% Output
Inputs will be divided in the following manner:
30% techno-social skillset development
30% readings + discussions
30% screenings of relevent works
10% critiques of student projects
# RUN:
// begin classTimes
//
// cT# 00:
//
// DISC:
var begin_Array:Array = new Array("hello", "ntro", "nfo", "bckgrd", "courseware", "VARIABLE");
// READ:
title: Remix and Remixability thread
dvr: Lev Manovich + Rhizome.org
date: 2005.11.15
uri: http://rhizome.org/thread.rhiz?thread=19303&page=1#36752
// cT# 01:
//
// DISC:
New Media as VARIABLE
// SCR:
title: La Jetée
dvr: Chris Marker
date: 1962
title: Flickr.mov
dvr: jonathan coulton
date: 2005
uri: http://www.jonathancoulton.com/video/Flickr.mov
title: Flickeur
dvr: Mario Klingemann
date: 2006
uri: http://incubator.quasimondo.com/flash/flickeur.php
// cT# 02:
//
// SCR:
VARIABLE
// cT# 03:
// DEV:
reformat VARIABLE media using:
QuickTime
Soundhack
Photoshop
Audacity
// SCR:
title: data diaries
dvr: cory arcangel
date: 2003
uri: http://www.turbulence.org/Works/arcangel
// READ:
title: "Data Diaries" thread
dvr: Rhizome.org
date: 2003.02.18
uri: http://rhizome.org/thread.rhiz?thread=7480&page=1
// cT# 04:
//
// DISC:
VIEW.SRC + EMBED
// DEV:
browsers, i.e. FireFox
markup languages, i.e. HTML
authoring apps, i.e. Dreamweaver
archiving, i.e. spidering
offline browsing, i.e. robots.txt + WebDevil
// READ:
title: Digital Art
dvr: Christiane Paul
date: 2004
// cT# 05:
//
// DISC:
var NewMedia-NetworkCulture_Array:Array = new Array("Rhizome.org", "nettime", "_K F O R \\",
"NetBehaviour", "BLIT:SCREEN", "bicycling");
// SCR:
title: Learning to Love You More
dvr: Miranda July
date: 2002
uri: http://learningtoloveyoumore.com
title: AFK
dvr: michelle teran + isabelle jenniches
date: 2002 - 2003
uri: http://www.9nerds.com/isabelle/AFK
// DEV:
scripting w/Dreamweaver + Flash + ActionScript
// READ:
title: Academy Leader
dvr: William Gibson
date: 1991
// cT# 06:
//
// SCR:
FRAMEWORKS in progress
// cT# 07:
//
// DISC:
hyper{Media|Text|Activity}
// SCR:
title: FLMTXT 2.0
dvr: mark amerika
date: 2002
uri: http://www.markamerika.com/filmtext
title: Art of Noise Version 01
dvr: devico
date: 2003
uri: http://devico.us/Felinia/experiments.html
// DEV:
Flash + ActionScript
// READ
title: Futurist Cinema
dvr: F.T. Marinetti, Bruno Corra, Emilio Settimelli, Arnaldo Ginna, Giacomo Balla, + Remo Chiti
date: 1916.12.15
// cT# 08:
//
// SCR:
title: Ballet Mecanique
dvr: Fernand Leger
date: 1923 - 1924
title: Inflat-o-scape
dvr: Jessica Irish
date: 2001
uri: http://www.inflatoscape.com
// DEV:
ActionScript + Flash
// READ:
title: Contested Zones: Futurity + Technological Art
dvr: Zoe Sofia
date: 1996
// cT# 09:
//
// SCR:
title: The Andromeda Strain
dvr: Robert Wise
date: 1971
title: Strain Andromeda, The
dvr: Anne McGuire
date: 1992
title: AMG Strain
dvr: Barbara Lattanzi
date: 2002
uri: http://www.wildernesspuppets.net/yarns/amgstrain
// DEV:
ActionScript + Flash
// READ:
title: As We May Think
dvr: Vannevar Bush
date: 1945
uri: http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/194507/bush
// cT# 10:
//
// SCR:
title: The Memex Engine or Laura Croft stripped bare by her Bachelors, Even
dvr: Marc Lafia
date: 1998
uri: http://www.memexengine.com
// DEV:
review WWW hosting options + solutions, uploading + exchanging
// cT# 11:
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// DEV:
FRAMEWORKS
// cT# 12:
CRIT WEEK == NO CLASS
// cT# 13:
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// SCR:
FRAMEWORKS
// cT# 14:
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// SCR:
FRAMEWORKS
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