Tuesday, January 30, 2007

In Class Wed Jan 31st

Everyone go to the class squidoo and rank it!

Virtual Interactive experiences
Subservient Chicken
AOLiza
SearchMash
Ms Dewey
Don't Click
Odd Cast
Screenfull
Intentionallies


Project 3 The Interactive tin
Each of you will be given 2 Altoids tins. It is your task to create an interactive experience out of the tins. Consider the experience of the viewer, when the art moment happens and the context of the tin as the vehicle for the experience.



Sunday, January 28, 2007

In Class Mon Jan 29th

Google Earth and Sketch-Up (links up on the class Squidoo lens)



An interactive art experience?


Game of LIFE round 2

Blog about the experience. How was the game interactive? How was the experience different then the version you played the other day? What roll does nostalgia play in the experience?


Assignment: play with Sketch-Up, get used to the controls

Thursday, January 25, 2007

In Class Fri Jan 26th

Remember class starts at 10:30am today!

LIFE round 2
OLD vs NEW



Can you survive this DVD adventure? In what way is it interactive? What is the experience like? How can this format be transformed into an interactive art piece?

also

Google Sketch-up and Google Earth. Lets check it out and do some research. (links are on the FA435 class squidoo lens)




Weekend Assignment: Read a Choose your own adventure 3 times taking different paths. Blog about the experience. How can it be turned into an interctive art project?

and

Find out something interesting about Google Earth or Google Sketch Up and blog about it.

Tuesday, January 23, 2007

In Class Wed Jan 24th

Interactive Experiences, A day of Play!


Assignment: You are required to go to the Artist Lecture by Rick Lowe in the Fine Arts Auditorium at 7:30pm on thursday JAN 25th! (I will be there) To reward you for your attendance, Fridays class will start at 10:30am.

Sunday, January 21, 2007

In Class Mon Jan 22nd

Lets list the different forms of media we have at our disposal?

Lets Map out our web of connections.

Whats good about this?



what you should have so far?

an account (username and password) and a basic understanding of how to use the following web sites:
Blogger.com --- Your Text
Flickr.com --- Your Images
Youtube.com --- Your Videos
Del.icio.us --- Your Links
Ziki.com --- Your Profile
digg.com --- Your Vote

you should have all the class RSS feeds hooked up to either Flock or Bloglines.com including:
Student Blog feeds
FA435 Class Blog
Interactive Media Squidoo Lens
FA435 Class Writeboard


you should have links on your sketch blog to:
your Ziki profile
Interactive Media Squidoo Lens
FA435 Class Blog
FA435 Class Ziki


you should have all the students in the class hooked up on your network on your Ziki profile


you should have the following RSS feeds hooked up to your Ziki:
your Blog
your Flickr.com
your Youtube.com
your Del.icio.us


you should have Flock hooked up to your Flickr account and your Blog(or have your blog hooked up to Flickr)


You should have at least four blog post on your blog by now


You should have dugg at least one article from a student in the class


You should be actively reading and looking at your fellow students blogs and making comments

Thursday, January 18, 2007

In Class Fri Jan 19th

are you del.icio.us?

do you digg?

where is that youtube RSS feed?

make links on your Blog to your Ziki and the class Squidoo lens

get connected and familur with the following web sites:
Bloglines.com - one site to rule them all

connect your RSS feeds to Bloglines & Flock:
Blogger.com
Flicker.com
YouTube.com
Class Squidoo
Class Writeboard
Students Art Blogs


fun?


asignment: 4 blogs this week. also digg one classmate's blog

Tuesday, January 16, 2007

In Class Wed Jan 17th

Class Cancelled on Wed.

see you on friday. (look for the fri post)

Thursday, January 11, 2007

In Class Fri Jan 12th

Thoughts on the History of musical performance and interaction

Get connected and hook up a Ziki profile
possible hookups: Google Calender
Blog
Flickr
Youtube

Make Links on your Blog to the class Squidoo, class Blog, your Ziki and anything else you find interesting.

*Hook up student Blog RSS feeds to a Ziki Profile


Assignment: email me your Ziki RSS feed

Tuesday, January 9, 2007

In Class Wed Jan 10th

Lets create a list of possible devices/technology we can use to create an interactive media art project.

Download the and become familiar with the Flock Web Browser
where and what is an RSS feed?

Get connected and familiar with the following web sites:
Blogger.com - your art blog
Flicker.com - upload your images here
YouTube.com - upload your video here

Due by Friday Jan 12th: email me your Blog RSS feed

Project 1: Artist Sketch Blog

For the next 14 weeks you are required to 'fill space' on your blog at least 4 times a week. You must stay with in the topics of art, technology and culture with an emphasis on interactive art. Use your Sketch Blog to experiment, create and interact. How can the blog shed its context of information dissemination and become a piece of art?

Sunday, January 7, 2007

Welcome to Interactive Media

Hello and welecome to FA435 Interactive Media.

In this class we will be exploring the world of Interactative Media through the filter of Art. This class centers around a network of web sites that you will need to check often and interact with on a regular basis. This is the Blog where you can get information on what will happen daily in class or read about important news items pertaining to Interactive Media.

Lets get ready to rumbelllllllllllllllll