SCREENINGS

Ivan Smith • home in a gallery
Jonas Dahlberg
Frank Thiel • City TV at CTRL[Space]
Biosphere II
Tree sitter and Earth First activist,
Julia Butterfly • cut to Luna, home tree
Tiffany Holmes • Follow the Mouse
Surveillance Camera Players
Yukinori Yanagi

TECHNICAL OBJECTIVES: TECHNICAL OBJECTIVES: Students will manipulate data in fields, use global variables to store data, and grab streaming video and individual frames in Macromedia Director using Xtra "TrackThemColors." See Class 2 Technical Exercises page 1 and page 2

Students will complete exercises using repeat loops to gain understanding of property scripting in Director. Also see handout for class.

EXTRA: Students will track one color in Macromedia Director using Xtra "TrackThemColors".

QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION: Based on reading, Druckery and Foucault

1) According to TD, how did the events of 9/11 devastate the media industry? p.150-151

2) Describe "panoptic" vs "post-optic" culture. p.151

3) How might identity act as an interface? p.151

4) What solution was offered to solve the privacy/ID issue in the Netherlands? p 152

5) What is Larry Ellison's argument FOR national identiy cards? Is there a hidden agenda? p.153

6) What is "agentless perception" and give an example of it. p.153

7) According to Virilio, what is the "art of remote control"? p.153

8) What is Druckery talking about when he discusses the "terror of agents"? How might "bio-technics" alleviate this terror? p.154

9) What are some of the cultural effects of genetic research? p.154-155 (Vlacovsky + Mayfield court marshall-Iceland database organised by "decode" 112 year rights)

HOMEWORK

See syllabus. Consider also reading through these links about National ID cards.

ACLU's take on National Identity Cards

http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/press/speech/id-card.html

http://www.mapleleafweb.com/features/privacy/id_cards/