Assignments

WEEK #15 – Final Project – Changing Natures

11/25 Mon – Desk Crits
11/27 Wed – NO CLASS (Thanksgiving)

•  Assignment
  • 3 – Final Project (Part III)
    • template – Abode Illustrator (.ai)
    • template – Adobe Acrobat (.pdf)

WEEK #14 – Final Project – Changing Natures

11/18 Mon – Discussion
11/20 Wed – Desk Crits

•  Assignment
  • 3 – Final Project (Part III)
• Suggested Reference
  • Design Poster examples
    • Rocket Builder – Connor Shipway and Stephanie Huang
    • Strike a Pose – Lasha Moore
    • Luminote – Zack Yokely
    • Game Space – Keystone Young
    • Celestial Bodies – Bhargavi Mohan
    • Adventure Path – Sha Liao

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WEEK #13 – Final Project – Changing Natures

11/11 Mon – Discussion
11/13 Wed – Desk Crits

•  Assignment
  • 3 – Final Project (Part II)
• Suggested Readings
  • Example Public Arts RFP sites, 1, 2, 3
  • Example RFP – Hopscotch Gallery
  • Example RFQ / RFP package – RFQ/RFP (CNM – SLC), partial submission (CNM – SLC)

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WEEK #12 – Final Project Intro – Changing Natures

11/4 Mon – Discuss Readings, issue Assignment #3 (Final Project) (Part I)
11/6 Wed – Group Presentation #6 – Design Fiction – Vaikunth / Todd

•  Assignment
  • 3 – Final Project (Part I)
  • Changing Natures exhibition brief / CAM Raleigh images
  • Final Project Links
• Suggested Readings
  • Climate Science and Risk Primer (MIT Prof. Emanual)
  • NY Times interactive – Climate Change
  • What the warming world needs now… (essay)
  • Design Fiction essay (Near Futures Lab)

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WEEK #11 – Computational Strategies of Representation

10/28 Mon – Review Assignment #2 submissions
10/30 Wed –  Lecture, review Assignment #2 submissions

• Readings
  • Bryan Alexander, The New Digital Storytelling, “The First Wave of Digital Storytelling”, pp. 17-28
  • Koenitz et al., IDN, “A Concise History of Interactive Digital Narrative”, pp. 11-21

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WEEK #10 – Digital Interfaces for Performance

10/21 Mon – Desk Crits
10/23 Wed – Group Presentation #5 – Digital Interfaces for Performance – Gisela / Webb / Katie

•  Assignment
  • continue assignment #2 – part III
• Readings
  • Janet Murray, Inventing the Medium, “Computational Strategies of Representation”, pp. 107-132

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WEEK #9 – Interactive Installations, Part II

10/14 Mon – Discussion (Interactive Installations)
10/16 Wed – Desk Crits, issue Assignment #2 (Part III), Part II Due

•  Assignment
  • 2 – Schematic Descriptions of Interactive Systems (System Diagramming) (Part III)
• Readings
  • TBA

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WEEK #8 – Interactive Installations

10/7 Mon – Lecture (Interactive Installations), issue Assignment #2 (Part II & III), Part I Due
10/9 Wed – Group Presentation #4 (Aitch and Julia) – Interactive Art/Mediated Environments

•  Assignment
  • 2 – Schematic Descriptions of Interactive Systems (System Diagramming) (Part II)
• Readings
  • Soke Dinkla, The History of the Interface in Interactive Art, pp. 1-7
  • Myron Krueger, Responsive Environments, pp. 1-12

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WEEK #7 – Data Pipelines

9/30 Mon – Lecture (The Interface Pipeline), issue Assignment #2 (Part I)
10/2 Wed – Group Presentation #3 (Steven and Barry) – 3D Story Worlds & discussion

• Assignment
  • 2 – Schematic Descriptions of Interactive Systems (System Diagramming) (Part I)
•  Readings
  • Kevin Kelly, The Inevitable, Chapter 8, “Remixing”, pp. 193-210

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WEEK #6 – The Interface

9/23 Mon – Assignment #1 (Part II) due – storyboard, critique/discussion
9/25 Wed – Group Presentation #2 (Melissa and Justin) – Virtual and Augmented Reality & discussion

•  Readings
  • Kevin Kelly, The Inevitable, Chapter 9, “Interacting”, pp. 211-236

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WEEK #5 – Future of Story

9/16 Mon – Discuss readings (Gottschall/Johannson), draft for Assignment #1, Part II due storyboard
9/18 Wed – Group Presentation #1 (Kathleen and Elijah) & discussion

• continue Assignment #1, Part II (final version due on September 23rd)
  • Recombinant play examples w/ storyboards
•  Readings (due by next week)
  • Lev Manovich, The Language of New Media, “The Interface”, pp. 62-115
  • Jim Campbell, Delusions of Dialogue: Control and Choice in Interactive Art, pp. 133-136

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WEEK #4 – Recombinant Play II

9/9 Mon – Lecture (Story-boarding), Assignment #1 (Part I) due, issue Assignment #1 (Part II)
9/11 Wed – Work Session (groups of 3-4, pitch to each other and give constructive feedback /  desk crits, 5 min each)

• Assignment
  • 1 – Recombinant Play (Part II)
•  Readings (due by next week)
  • Jonathan Gottschall, The Storytelling Animal, “The Future of Story”, pp. 177-199
  • Linn Johansson, “Storytelling Approaches to UX Design”, pp. 1-13

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WEEK #3 – Recombinant Play I

9/2 Mon – NO CLASS
9/4 Wed – finish Lecture (Affordances), review Assignment #1

• Assignment
  • continue Assignment #1 (Part 1)
•  Readings
  • finish all previously assigned readings

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WEEK #2 – Digital Media / Affordances of Computational Systems

8/26 Mon – Lecture (Digital Media), hand in Assignment #0, show discuss inspirational project
8/28 Wed – Lecture (Affordances), issue Assignment #1 (Part 1)

• Assignment
  • 1 – Recombinant Play (Part I), examples
• Readings
  • Lev Manovich, The Language of New Media, “What is New Media”, pp. 18-61
  • Saul Greenberg, et al., “The Narrative Storyboard : Telling a story about use and context over time”

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WEEK #1 – An Introduction

8/21 Wed – Course Introduction & Discussion

• Assignment
  • 0 – Group Presentation, Select Topic
• Readings
  • Janet Murray, Inventing the Medium, “Affordances of the Digital Medium”, pp. 51-85
  • Don Norman, Fundamental Principles of Interactivity, pp. 10-36
  • Janet Murray, Inventing the Medium, “Design in an Evolving Medium”, pp. 25-49 (optional)

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