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ARTTECH 2101 • Fundamentals • Art & Tech I

Fall 2001 • 112 S. Michigan Avenue • Thursdays • 9-4pm

Instructor: Tiffany Holmes • tholmes@artic.edu • 312.345.3760

CLASS 1: Coding for the Web

  1. Introductions, review syllabus, complete survey.
  2. Demonstration: Basic HTML tutorial
  3. Skills Check: Basic page creation
  4. Project: Collaborative exercise: fast food concrete poetry

    5. Web Freeware

    Webcolor

    Gifbuilder

    Poetry Resources:

    http://www.smalltime.com/dada.html

    http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/dada/

    HTML Glossary:

    http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/reference/html_cheatsheet/

  5. Reading assigned: Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser, p. 1-57. (Available outside Holmes’ office).
  6. Lecture online: Dadaism and Concrete Poetry
  7. Homework: HTML poetry sketch/essay ready for upload

CLASS 2: Basic Animation
  1. Demonstration: Upload index.html pages
  2. Lecture: Emotion in Motion: Introduction to Animation
  3. Skills check: Making animated flipbooks in Director.
  4. Additional: Begin discussion of object oriented programming, properties in frame scripts: blend, width, height, rotation, locH, locV also "go to the frame."

WEB GRAPHICS EXPLAINED

DIRECTOR 8 TUTORIALS

CLASS 3: Animating objects with properties

1) Demonstration/Lecture: Using properties in director, creating mouseUp cast member scripts.

  1. Skills check: Assigning properties to objects using the random function
  2. Lecture: Dada, Surrealism, and the exquisite corpse
  3. Project: Collaborative exquisite corpse: You are what you eat

Screen: Hansel and Gretel by Lisa Moren

CLASS 4: Using an HTML editor

  1. Demonstration/Lecture: Intro to Dreamweaver tools
  2. Skills check: Editing your index.html page in Dreamweaver
    3. -creating links to class page in Dreamweaver.
  3. Project: Upload Director pieces to class web site.

Optional homework: Review online Dreamweaver tutorial.