Delve into HTML and the vast possibilities that online media tools offer artists!  This fourteen-week course introduces the basic strategies and techniques associated with using the World Wide Web as a tool for creating art, documenting artistic research and practice, and online collaboration. This course assumes an intermediate knowledge of digital imaging and Photoshop expertise—SAIC WIRED: LAPTOP LITERACY AND IMAGING covers basic imaging and web page design.  The course begins by introducing the basic syntax (HTML) for publishing word and image on the World Wide Web.  Advanced programming techniques in javascript and java will be introduced.  The course will also present a 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 rese10 orch 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.

Processing URL + extra handout for those interested in PImage