In groups of 2 students, choose one:
- Give a 20 minute presentation to the class case studying 2-3 projects that use software to make art, architecture or design works.
- Give a 20-minute demo/workshop of a particular software technology and develop a participatory activity so that the class can learn how to use
Schedule
Week 8 - November 16 - Interactions
- Student Presentation v0.1 - Meagan, Hope, Matt - Yoko Ono
- Student Presentation v0.2 - Owen, Lindsey, Myles - Thomas Briggs
- Student Presentation v0.3 - Alyssa, Adriana - Datum
Week 9 - November 23 - Data
- Student Presentation v0.3 - Eric, Heather A, Allison - MIDI
- Student Presentation v0.4 - Sam Caitlin, Danielle - Brooke Singer
- Student Presentation v0.5 -
Week 10 - November 30 - Project Proposal
- Student Presentation v0.6 - Nicole, Heather B
- Student Presentation v0.7 - Noah, Heather G - Video Game Design
- Student Presentation v0.8 - Sarah
Possible topics:
- Scratch - a programming language designed for young people
- Games for Change - games that engage contemporary social issues in meaningful ways to foster a more just, equitable and/or tolerant society
- Arduino - Arduino is an open-source electronics prototyping platform based on flexible, easy-to-use hardware and software. It's intended for artists, designers, hobbyists, and anyone interested in creating interactive objects or environments.
- Pipes - Pipes is a powerful composition tool to aggregate, manipulate, and mashup content from around the web.
- Drupal - Drupal is a free software package that allows an individual or a community of users to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website
- Brooke Singer - Media artist and Associate Professor of New Media at Purchase College
- Processing Exhibition - extensive archive of projects created in processing
- Casey Reas - Software artist and creator of processing
- Ben Fry - Software artist and creator of processing
- Thomas Briggs - Software artist
- Carnivore - a surveillance tool for data networks
- runme.org - archive of software art
- Bicycle Built for 2,000 - audio artwork made with Amazon's Mechanical Turk web service
- Mint.com - online money management software
- MAPLight - public database that illuminates the connection between campaign donations and legislative votes
- mycrocosm - a web service that allows you to share snippets of information from the minutiae of daily life in the form of simple statistical graph
- Daytum - counts and communicates the personal statistics generated by each of us every day
