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Philip Baranowski, Director

 

Summer 2006 Instructors

Shawn Decker (www.shawndecker.com)
Web programming and sound editing

Tiffany Holmes (www.tiffanyholmes.com)
Imaging, video, and web programming

Teaching assistants • Brett Balogh and Matt Nelson

Course Overview

This one week course introduces the basic concepts, strategies, and techniques associated with creating multimedia web art using HTML, the basic syntax for publishing on the world wide web. In addition to HTML coding, tutorials will cover imaging for the web, web animation, web video, and web sound. Conceptually, we will create an electronic journal or sketchbook that deals in some way with some specific site in Chicago that interests you. Students will develop the skills to realize this project through in-class tutorials, demonstrations, discussions, and lectures during their week here in Chicago. The final project will be presented on the last day of class as an experimental web site and/or video.

Course Syllabus

The class will be divided into two sections which will alternate classrooms and teachers, each getting the same curriculum. See Tiffany and Shawn's individual links (located in the banner at the top of each page) for details on each day's syllabus.

Required Materials

• email address

• Spiral notebook, sketchbook or bound composition book (bring daily to class)

• Minimum 1 miniDV tape (30 minutes is fine, or longer)

• USB portable drive - for saving work

• Headphones (VERY IMPORTANT!) - for not driving each other crazy while working on sound/video projects in the lab.

• Source materials for web/video project: digital video, audio, photographs or scanned images that relate to a specific place here in Chicago.

Recommended Books to Purchase If you feel you need a reference

We highly recommend that you purchase a copy of Elizabeth Castro's HTML for the World Wide Web, published by Peachpit Press. This book is widely available from retail bookstores, or is available online from amazon.com, etc. Also, if you are likely to be doing much work using Macromedia's Dreamweaver (which will be introduced in the class), you might consider also purchasing J. Tarin Towers' Dreamweaver MX for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide, also published by Peachpit Press.

Visiting Artists

Each year, we invite a number of exciting visiting artists from across the country who give presentations on their work, in order to give participants a first-hand look at what artists are doing with technology, and how they are approaching it in their own work. This year, we are excited to have artists Lincoln Schatz, Scott Snibbe, Yael Kanarek, and John Simon visiting us. Click on each of their names to go to their web sites.

LINKS to online art

• Art web links (examine as many as you have time to look over - both before and during the institute - in particular, please look at the visiting artist's links if you are able.)