IAT 380 / FPA 387 Digital Art

Please check the readings often - they may change up to one week before the classes

Week One Lab Homework

1. • 5 minute presentation on your own work/interests
   

2. 
   

Week Two Digital Art as Medium

1. John Maeda's TedTalk On Simplicity
   

2. John Maeda, The Laws of Simplicity
   

3. John Simon’s Colour Panel
   

4. youTube interview with Simon
   

5. youTube video on Charles Csuri
   

Week Two Lab

        Max patches

        Introduction to Quartz Composer

1. 
   

Week Three (Generative Art )

1. Harold Cohen, The Further Exploits of Aaron, Painter
   

2. Philip Galanter, What is Generative Art?
   

3. Pascal Dombis, Irrational Environments
   

4. Manfred Mohr, Research in the Aesthetic Universe of the Cube
   

5. • Your own definitions for the following terms:
   

6. ★Generative Art
   

7. ★Process Art
   

8. ★Algorithmic Art
   

9. ★Interactive Art
   

Week Three Lab

1. More Quartz Composer
   

2. 
   

Week Four (Generative Music)

1. G. M. Koenig, Aesthetic Integration of Computer-Composed Scores
   

2. George Lewis, Too Many Notes: Computers, Complexity and Culture in Voyager
   

Week Four Lab

1. Introduction to ArtMatic
   

2. Notes (including how to make audio control parameters)
   

3. Artwork Comparisons due: February 3
   

4. 
   

Week Five NetArt

1. Interview with Jodi
   

2. Jim Andrews, Asteroids
   

Week Five lab

1. More ArtMatic
   

2. 
   

Week Six Hypermedia

1. Mark Amerika, Expanding the Concept of Writing
   

2. Natalie Bookchin, The Intruder
   

3. Han Hoogerbrugge, Flow
   

4. Han Hoogerbrugge, Hotel
   

Week Six Lab

1. Quartz Composer : Working with text
   

2. 
   

Week Seven Games / Installation

1. Rebecca Cannon, Meltdown
   

2. Anne-Marie Schleiner, Velvet Strike
   

3. Illuminating Embodiment: Rafael Lazano-Hemmer’s Relational Architectures
   

Week Seven Lab

1. Quartz Composer: image and video mixing
   

2. Max patches
   

3.    Generative Image Mixing
       Web Image Grabber
       Poetry Scroller
   

4. Applied Exercise due: March 2
   

5. 
   

Week Eight Evolutionary Art

1. Karl Sims, Genetic Images
   

2. Jon McCormack, Open Problems in Evolutionary Music and Art
   

Week Eight Lab

1. Student presentations of Applied Exercises
   

2. 
   

Week Nine Guest : Jim Andrews

           Jim’s Andrew’s website

Week Nine Lab

1. Input in Quartz Composer
   

2. 
   

Week Ten Databases

1. Luke Dubois, Hard Data
   

Week Ten Lab

        TBA

1. Research Paper due: March 23
   

2. 
   

Week Eleven Intelligent Systems

1. David Rokeby, The Giver of Names
   

2. Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Hypermedia, Eternal Life, and the Impermanence Agent
   

3. Stephen Wilson, Artificial Intelligence Research as Art
   

Week Eleven Lab

1. 3-D mapping
   

2. 
   

Week Twelve Virtual Reality

1. Michael Heim, The Feng Shui of Virtual Worlds
   

Week Twelve Lab

1. Discussion of final projects
   

2. Final Project Description due: April 6
   

3. 
   

Week Thirteen The Body

1. Eduardo Kac, GFP Bunny
   

2. Boston Globe story in reaction to GFP Bunny
   

Week Thirteen Lab

1. Kinect
   

2. Applied Exercise due: week of April 16