Introduction:

• Course overview
• Introductions (research interests/production experience)
• Discussion of projects, proposals, and production groups
• Lab, server, and equipment access

Demo/Lab:

• Some basics
  

Browse:

• Termite TV, Life Stories http://www.termite.org/LS/htm/ls_start.html
• Culture Map:A visualization of proportion, disproportion, direction, and indirection in the content and no content of the World Wide Web.http://www.turbulence.org/Works/cultmap/index.html
• The Payphone Project http://www.payphone-project.com/
• Warren Sack "Conversation Map"
• Alison Cornyn and Sue Johnson 360 degrees: the American criminal justice system http://www.360degrees.org/
• Random Walk through the Twentieth Century, http://ic.media.mit.edu/projects/JBW/JBWJava.html
• Digital Divorce photos http://www.nilsson.olm.net/DigitalDivorce/divinfo.htm
• Harry Gamboa, Photonovella http://www.oversight.com/chicanoville/text/fotonov/index.html
• John Tonkin, Elective Physiognomies, Meniscus http://www.johnt.org/meniscus/
• Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries Presents (Bust down the Doors) http://www.yhchang.com/
• Nancy Burson, The Human Race Machine :http://www.nancyburson.com/human1.html http://www.geneart.org/burson.htm
• John Osh's They Rule http://www.theyrule.net/
• Curtis Nishimura, Tastey Smoke http://www.theremediproject.com/projects/issue12/wagonsmoke/tastysmoke.swf
• Digital documentary online exhibit: http://www.partsphoto.org/content/digidoc/
• Margot Lovejoy parthenia http://www.parthenia.com/ and Turning Point http://www.myturningpoint.com/FlashSite.html
• Action Tank and Cathy Davies and Mark Allen, Metapet. http://metapet.net/
• Beurau of Inverse Technology http://bureauit.org/
• Internet moving Image Archives http://www.archive.org/movies/
  

  
  

Discussion: Images of the Internet. Network space and Multimedia forms

Read:

• The Living Internet: http://livinginternet.com/

Demo/Lab:

• Project proposal sketches
• Input options
• Bitmap and Beziers (Photoshop, Flash, Illustrator)

Discussion: Realities and representations. Photography as document

Read:

•       Ilisa Barbash, and Lucien Taylor, Cross-Cultural Filmmaking (University of California Press, 1997), "Chapter 1: Documentary Styles," 15-33.
•      Trinh T Minh-ha, "the Totalizing Quest of Meaning," in Theorizing Documentary, ed Michael Renov, 90-107
•       Bill Nichols "Documentary Modes of Representation" in Representing Reality,  (Indiana University Press, 1991) 32-75
•      Documentary in the Age of Digital Reproduction: http://www.city.yamagata.yamagata.jp/yidff/docbox/15/box15-2-1-e.html

Demo/Lab:

• HTML basics, Dreamweaver

Discussion: Nonlinear

Read:

•       Zoe Beloff, “ An Erzatz of Life: The Dream Life of Technology” in New Screen Media: Cinema/Art/Narrative, ed, Rieser and Zapp (London: BFI,2001)287-296

Demo/Lab:

• Timelines and non-linear structures (Director, Flash)

Discussion: Circulation of images. Image rights and fair-use doctrine.
Read:

•       John David Viera, "Images as Property" in Image Ethics, Larry Gross et al (Oxford University Press, 1988) 135-162
•       Alyson Lewis “Playing Around with Barbie¨ Expanding Fair Use for Cultural Icons” http://www.kentlaw.edu/student_orgs/jip/volume1/barbie.htm
•       Lisa Gitelman, “Media Materiality, and the Measure of the Digital, or, the Case of Sheet Music and the Problem of Piano Rolls” (manuscript)

Demo/Lab:

• Scripting and interactivity

Discussion: Playful interactives. Forms drawn from games.

Read:

•       Replay-- Eyebeam forum http://www.eyebeam.org/replay/index.html
•       Entertainment in the Interactive Agehttp://www.annenberg.edu/interactive-age/program.html

Demo/Lab:

• Final projects

Discussion: The Web as database. Search engines and browsers.

Read:

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Demo/Lab:

• Final projects

Discussion:

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Demo/Lab:

• Final projects

Discussion:

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• TBA

Demo/Lab:

• Final projects