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ABOUT LAPTOP LITERACY AND DIGITAL IMAGING
Learn intermediate imaging
techniques! This
fourteen-week course introduces the basic strategies and techniques associated
with using the laptop computer as a tool for creating images, archiving
images, and exhibiting static images on a simple web site. The course
will also present a very basic history of the WWW as well as analyze
and test contemporary tools for research, collaboration, and production
online.
CURRICULUM CONTACT: SAIC WIRED
Tiffany Holmes, Associate Professor
Chair, Department of Art and Technology Studies
Email: tholme (at) saic (dot) edu
ABOUT SAIC WIRED
This 1.5 credit hour course is intended to enhance the first year program
curriculum by providing structured, targeted tutorials that introduce
students to basic and advanced imaging and web authoring techniques
in an academic context that is both critical and celebratory of the
new media tools —both proprietary and open-source—to facilitate
art production. The tutorials are also designed to assist first
year core faculty in encouraging students to document and share their
research and studio projects online with their peers. The web
is a medium that now must be understood and managed by artists from
any field; for this reason, the curriculum is focused on imaging for
the web, and authoring (HTML) for the web. The course also
provides a survey of new online collaborative research tools.
REQUIREMENTS
- 10 electronic sketchbook assignments
- Website project: Documents 10 sketchbook assignments around a particular
Chicago-specific subject that the individual artist selects
- Weekly readings
- Electronic post-survey with ungraded final examination
ATTENDANCE
3 or more unexcused absences will result in an incomplete or a grade
of “no credit.” Students may choose to make up 1
class in another instructor’s classroom at the MINIMUM.
OTHER USEFUL TEXTS
SAIC
WIRED Flaxman Library Resources
Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Nick Montforts (eds.) New Media Reader (NMR),
MIT Press, 2003.
Elizabeth Castro, HTML, XHTML, and CSS, Sixth Edition (Visual Quickstart
Guide), 2006. |