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OK, great presentations, all!  A couple of links, for those who want to explore more: The documentary Transcendent Man, about Ray Kurtzweil.

 

And, for the SCMS Accreditation Assessment, there are still a couple of people who need to send me  the following:  please copy the following to a disc (CD or DVD):

1) your Site_root folder

2) your .mov or .mp4 mashup file you posted on YouTube (the actual file . . . probably around 50MB in .mp4 or up to 400-500MB for the uncompressed .mov file.  Your .fcp project file is about 200 - 400KB, and that will not work).

3) your Ubu reviews copied and pasted into a Word document (.doc) or .rtf file.

 

Finals Week:

Monday, April 30 FINALS: 10:30am - 1:15pm. Limited studio time afterwards.

 

Wednesday, May 2 - FINALS: 1pm - 4pm. ALL WORK SHOULD BE COMPLETED AND ONLINE AT THIS TIME!

 

April 25

 

Final Studio day - make sure you've worked on any of the missing reviews, broken links, etc. I noted last week (the little strip of paper listing what you're missing).

 

Also, the "official" final time is Monday, April 30, from 10:30am to 1pm. In the past, this class has usually met at the regular day and time (which would be Wednesday May 2, from 1pm until everyone's presented their work). Since some of you might be working at one time or the other, I'll give you the option to sign up to present your final project on EITHER day. Please EMAIL me your preference, or else sign up for one or the other class time this Wednesday during class. You may attend the Monday class and work on your presentation for Wednesday (after all the presentations).

 

April 18

 

Big thanks to all those who helped on the performance over the weekend!

 

April 11 - 

 

A few days left to submit your work to the Flamingo Film Festival, by April 13th. (May 3,4, and 5, FAU Broward Campuses). More info here. 

 

Reminder of the Inkub8 Performance of "Trialog" on April 14th 8pm in Miami (2021 NW 1st Place).

 

Today, we'll make a timeline/mindmap of everything we've investigated in an historical / critical / theoretical / aesthetic perspective. Really!

 

 

April 4 -

 

Today, we will be looking at ILLEGAL ART through the Mo/PoMo/PoPoMo lens. But the ultimate smackdown will be next week, so once again review this chart, and especially review the Kirby article and Ben Lewis' Art Safari. You can add rows, merge cells, etc. in the chart to reflect the article and the film. Banksy (site, excerpt from documentary, excerpt from film, and Banksy's Simpson's Opening), Todd Haynes and Brad Neely, Negativeland, Improv Everywhere, and In Bb (and this course's own videowall, from a few summers ago). 

 

 

 

Mar 28 -

 

Again, with the tweaking of the schedule! We WILL indeed do our Mo/PoMo/PoPoMo smackdown/discussion NEXT WEDNESDAY. Sorry for the inconvenience.

 

TODAY will be our "BE NOT AFRAID OF CSS" lecture, and we will dive deep into our presentation format, and how to customize it. The tutorial is here, or here in .pdf format.

 

Extra Participation Credit: Logosheet for Detainer Series. What is that?, you might ask. It's for anyone who would like to further participate in the Inkub8 Performance (April 14). Take one of the logos and turn it into a 20-30 second motion graphic, which we will use in the performance.

 

Mar 21- 

 

Just a slight tweak in the schedule: We will be doing mostly studio work this week (Mar. 21) and next week we will dive a little more deeply into the post-Post-Modern world, and the Illegal Art world. So to prepare for that, read this and this, and watch these videos: Smartmob/Improv Everywhere, Banksy (1 and 2), Todd Haynes, and Art Safari, and a few other works. Be prepared to discuss which aspects of the works are 'Modernist', 'Post-Modernist', and 'post-Post-Modernist' (or, 'pseudo-Modernist', or 'relationist') - - do this by filling in as much as you can (or dare!) from this chart. (The little section of my book that covers digital subversion - - designed for iPad).

 

Mar 10 - Welcome back from spring break. The Floss Manuals are pretty great, especially for what we're covered (Wordpress, PureData) and what may help you prepare for the final project (VLC, Audacity). Sorry, no Dreamweaver or Final Cut!

 

A few competitions you are eligible for : FAU Remarque Visual Annual and Flamingo Film Festival (deadline April 13)

 

Feb 29 - A photoshop template for the images in your final presentation.  And, a suggestion for downloading videos from the web: this plug-in for Firefox. And use the .mp4 file format, NOT the .flv format!

 

Feb 22 - A css stylesheet for you to work with, and the little tutorial that explains what's going on.

 

Feb 19 - Glad you all enjoyed making synthesizers, samplers, and sequencers! Main resource page for PureData, and my outline with

               day-by-day lessons and examples here.

 

Feb 15 - Your Final Presentation Template. And here is an overview of how to work with it, but remember, we have a few more tasks to

               accomplish before we start working on the template!

 

Feb 8 -   Stop Making Sense: Silence, Sound, Noise, and Music. Chants.

 

Feb 5 -   Thanks for All the Flarf! This spring's crop was particularly flarfy!

               But, check if your name is red on Your Pages — that means I don't know where your Wordpress site is located,

               so please send me that address!

 

Feb 1 - Contemporary Text Instability, Today! Text-Flarfing. Your collection.

 Getting an ISP account (don't need to set up a domain). Hosting your website. 

 

Jan 21. The three tutorials for Vocabulary Expansion (image, text, and sound). 

 

Jan 17. Some interesting links:

•  GML- the Graffiti Markup Language.

•  An open-source DIY 3D Laserprinter, developed by a former student of mine! (also an article in Forbes).

 

Housekeeping:

•  Lab Hours

 

 

Jan 15:

I've cleaned up the Wiki a little more, so it should be easier to navigate around the material. Also, the tutorials are getting a make-over, so your patience please!

 

Jan 11:

 

For Wednesday: Read the Manovich article, and be prepared to discuss several examples (Whitney, Eminem, Hoggebrugge, etc., under 'DATABASE DESIGN')

• here's your nav bar 

• here's a zipped up version of the site_root you should have built in class: day1_site_root.zip .

• and here are some tutorials to help get you up to speed (some use an earlier version of Dreamweaver, so it might look slightly different): Your Site Root (previously, Building a site root), and Making Links with Image Maps (and don't freak out about the code, we will go over this in class).

 

• SOPA video 

 

 

Welcome to VIC4943 - Multimedia Practicum

 

The objective of this course is to make disciplined, imaginative and expressive connections between the historical, critical, and technical aspects of digital media and culture.

  

This is a capstone course. As the pinnacle or culminating course in your undergraduate career, I would like you to be able to articulate your view of digital culture through the role or roles in which you participate in this culture (creator/producer, audience/consumer, gamer, commenter, part of a smart mob or Mechanical Turk, hacker, etc.), or specific aspects of the culture which you are interested in critically investigating, and with which you find particularly resonance. This articulation will be expressed as:

  

• A web presence that contains all your work for the course. The web presence will include your own hosted home page with links to your blog, your essay (in its text form and as an embedded video of the part of the voice-over film you made). It may be further written in the voice of a persona you create exclusively for this course. (IDENTITY)

 

• A set of three (3) reviews of media objects, most of which can be found on www.ubu.com or will be shown in class. Many of these works are still challenging to contemporary perceptions and sensibilities (HISTORY).

 

• Three in-class exercises expanding your text, sound, and visual vocabularies using digital technologies (VOCABULARIES, PROCESSES)

 

 • A Final project made up of two parts: 1) A web-based PRESENTATION/essay that imagines a possible aspect of future digital culture (SPECULATION) plus, 2) a re-imagination (The MASH-UP)  of the essay in the form of a dialog or narrative that can be grafted, as voice-over or soundtrack, onto a 3-4 minute machinima from a number of online resources (SUBVERSION).

 

Applications: While we will integrate theory and practice in this course, we will be using Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Illustrator, Audacity and Final Cut Pro to do the work. There will be review lectures on each of these application, but we will also explore more advanced features, and by the end of the course you should have an understanding of how these apps can be used to create an integrated digital media experience.

 

Helpful Material For First Few Classes

 

The Lab - Not Used to a Mac - what do I do? and also these videos

Extremely Basic HTML Overview

Review: Making the Site Root

Tutorial for Background Images and Navigation Bar

 

A Background for Exploring Experimental Media in this Course

 

My Little Multimedia Chart (Flash-based, does not work on iPad, iPhone)

Projeck Iaght - What's the 'idea' behind this short film?

 

 

 

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TECHNICAL CHALLENGES (Technique and Design Self-Assessment—how you say it)

Which have you already mastered? Which open the door to further subversions/explorations?

 

• Create Your Blog 

 

• Design Your HTML Site and Host it

 

• Using Photoshop and Illustrator to Design Background and Navigation Elements

 

• Using Digital Tools to Explore Text and Sound Vocabularies

 

• Repurposing (populating/adapting) Dreamweaver widgets for presentations, slideshows, and navigation.

 

• Scripting and Creating the Media Mashup (Final Cut Pro, iMovie, etc.)