SCREENINGS: Students will show artists' work from text CTRL[Space].

Webcam screenings: Example: Mosquito control projects

Bureau of Inverse Technology

Reality TV: American Family (Lance Loud), Real World, American Idol, etc.

SAMPLE HTML Source to test: Webcam Slideshow with 10 images

TECHNICAL OBJECTIVES: Students will explore artistic uses of a web camera/Final project overview

AM STUDIO ASSIGNMENT: Create a short flip-book animation (either quicktime, flash, or director) using images collected (and saved locally to your hard drive) using web cam software (see links below).

USEFUL WEB CAM LINKS: Pick one or download them all...

EvoCam software-Download free 2 week trial-works on Mac OS-8-10.

ImageCaster-Download free trial for Mac OS X

Oculus-Download free trial for Mac OS X

Have an old computer? Useful and free web cam software for Mac OS 9

StripCam • http://www.pure-mac.com/webcam.html

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DISCUSSION QUESTIONS (Frohne reading)

General: What is Frohne's main argument? How is it supported in the article?

SPECIFICS:

p.257-What is Frohne's opinion on how the panoptican model is recast in the media?

p.257-Is the eye of the media a punishing or celebratory force according to the author? Do you agree or disagree with her?

p.258-What is the central problem with "authentic" self-presentation on reality shows?

p.259-How does self-staging create both the "society of the image" and simultaneously, a deep sense of loss? What is this loss that Frohne describes in Freudian terms?

p.260-What are some ways that the camera reproduces and restages everyday life as play or ritual? Examples?

p.268-According to Frohne, why is surveillance society socially acceptable?

p.271-What is "permissive voyeurism?"