Penn State Art 416
Penn State University — School of Visual Arts
Fall 2011
ART 416 Advanced Web and Net Art: Multimedia Publishing
Professor: Eduardo Navas (ean13@psu.edu)
T TH 02:30P – 05:30P
Office Hours: Tuesdays 12 PM – 2 PM, by appointment
Please contact me via e-mail
| Project 1: Introduction to new media/online practice 15% Project 2: Exploring new media practice 15% Paper: Critical essay 20% Project 3: Extended New Media Project 20% Project 4: Final project 20%Note: Weekly assignments are worth an overall of 5% of your grade, and linked to attendance on Thursdays. Not turning your weekly assignments on time will also affect your attendance as it will be considered equivalent to an absence.You must download the following software to your computer before Tuesday, August 30: Video Downloader: Flash Video Downloader Image Analysis: ImageJ |
Research MethodologyHTML Lecture Notes: Lecture 1: Introduction, basic tags, tables Lecture 2: Linking pages, Tables, Introduction to Imageready and Photoshop Lecture 3: Basic CSS Style Sheets Lecture 4: File Hierarchy, Brief introduction to Flash Animation Lecture 5: Setting a rootfolderRequired Books: Net Works: Case Studies in Web Art and Design by xtine burrough, Routledge New Media Art by Reena Jana and Mark Tribe, Thames and Hudson (This content is available online: https://wiki.brown.edu/confluence/display/MarkTribe/New+Media+Art)Weekly Assignments: 8/30 to 9/1: Customized CSS Assignment 10/18 to 10/25: Flash Assignment October 27 to November 1: Video Streaming Lecture 1 and Lecture 2. |
| ASSIGNMENTS | WEEKLY SITES |
| Tuesday, November 1, 2011 Review weekly assignment due | continue with video streaming and PHP API access. Thursday, October 27, 2011 Begin weekly assignment in class, due on Tuesday, November 1, 2011: Based on the Video Streaming Lecture tutorials available above on the top right, under Weekly Assignments, make a list of three videos you have produced and emded it as an xml file ready to call up the videos to be streamed on your Flash interface. Once you have the Flash interface designed, embed it on a php page of your own design, preferably, the one you have been working from CSS Zen.
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Thursday, October 13, 2011
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Thursday, October 6, 2011
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Thursday, September 29, 2011 Weekly Assignment, due on October 4, 2011, at 12 PM: Use the php code that you learned during class session to develop two php pages which use the CSS Zen Garden design you modifed. Incorporate at least two of the features–including form information that is sent to a fictional server.
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Tuesday, September 20, 2011 Weekly Assignment: Revise your template according to the feecback received from your peers and instructor. Due at the end of class on Thursday, November 22, 2011
Thursday, September 15, 2011 Second reading assigned: see sites of the week of September 6. | Lab Time: Work on weekly Assignment due at the end of class session
Tuesday, September 13, 2011 DUE: First project | In-class Critique | Web Development Lecture | Weekly Assignment Weekly Assignment Take of a CSS design from CSS Zen, as shown during class lecture and modify the design of your choice to make it your own. Change color, size and selection of type, as well as images. You must change the dimensions of the main DiV tag as well as all other containers within the main tag. Upload to Angel on the folder titled “Weekly_Assig_9_20.” We will discuss it during class on Tuesday, September 20, 2011.
Thursday, September 8, 2011
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Thursday, September 1, 2011 Lab Time: Weekly Lab Assignment due at 5:30 PM, Thursday, September 1. Read the instructions for Customized CSS Assignment.
Tuesday, August 30, 2011 Weekly Lab Assignment (from Thursday, August 25) due at 12:00 PM, Tuesday 8/30. ———- Weekly Lab Assignment Due Thursday, September 1, 2011 For in class assignment, copy and paste the following text on the head of an html page: #mainWindow { text-align:left; background-color: #ff0000;
#content_Font { font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, AkzidenzGrotesk, Univers, Arial, sans-serif; } After lecture, begin working on Weekly assignment, due on Thursday, September 1, 2011 at 5:30 PM, (see assignment in corresponding entry above).
Thursday, August 25, 2011 Weekly Lab Assignment due at 12:00 PM, Tuesday 8/30. Choose a work from Turbulence that explores the pontential of online time-based media, and write a brief analysis no longer than 300 words that answers the following questions:
Note that the project does not need to be a video. It could be a web project that juses animation or movement of some sort. You must upload your document in word format to the corresponding folder titled “Weekly_Assig_8_25”, available on Angel. Please note that the assignment will be considered late after 12:00 PM. You will not be able to upload material to the folder after this time. However, you can upload your late assignment to the folder titled “Weekly_8_25_After_12.” You will lose the equivalent of one letter grade for late weekly assignments. Deadline for late assignments is 5/31 at 5:30 PM.
Tuesday, August 23, 2011 Reading Assignment: Read the introduction in New Media Art:
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Site for the Week of October 18, 2011Robert Niedeffer, WTF?! http://nideffer.net/promo/proj/wtf.htmlAmy Franceschi, David Liu, and Myriel Milicevic, SF Garden Registry http://gardenregistry.org/Read corresponding pages on the book Net Works, pp.25 – 46.
Sites for the Week of October 4, 2011 Hitler finds out about the Downfall Parodies Buffy vs Edward: Twilight Remixed — [original version] Donald Duck Meets Glenn Beck in Right Wing Radio Duck Donald Duck Meets Glenn Beck in Right Wing Radio Duck:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfuwNU0jsk0& Thom Yorke Remixes: Rapture Riders: Sour Glass:
Sites for the Week of September 20, 2011 Fernanda Viegas and Martin Wattenberg, Luscious Ethan Ham, Tumbarumba Read corresponding pages on the book Net Works, pp. 100 – 120.
Online resources: Personal sites by Professional artists and designers: Online sites: Sites for the Week of September 6, 2011 Michael Demers, Color Field Painting Constant Dullart, YouTube as Subject Read Corresponding chapters on Net Works, pp 3 – 24. to be discussed a week after the first project is due.
Sites for the Week of August 30, 2011 etoy Heavy Industries Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Vectorial Elevation Design resources:
Sites for the week of August 23 Read the description of these projects in the book New Media Art: 0100101110101101.org Natalie Bookchin, The Intruder Electronic Disturbance Theater Jodi Mouchette Peter Horvath Eduardo Kac, Rara Avis Gustavo Romano, IP Poetry Art Resources: Turbulence.org
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