DOWLOAD LECTURE NOTES - in <Infoaesthetics> folder
NOTES:
Changes in the order of topics are possible.
The parts which are blank
will be filled before the lectures. The parts below marked in gray will also be changed (as they correspond to visiting lectures from the last year.)
Please note that I may update my Keynote presentations before each lecture.
Therefore, you should download each week's Keynote presentation on the day of the lecture (i.e., Thursday) to make sure you have the up-to-date version.
REQUIRED READINGS AND REFERENCES (columns III, IV, V, VI):
Primary readings and additional readings (columns III and IV): read before each week's lecture.
Lecture references (column V ): read/view after the lecture.
Section references (column VI): read/view after the section meeting.
MIDTERM / FINAL PREPARATION:
The exam questions / essay topics will refer to concepts, projects, artworks and people which appear in lectures' Keynotes, and which were discussed in sections.
The material in columns IV and V will provide you with background information about ideas, projects and people discussed in lectures. I will not ask you about other arguments/ideas/discussion of other projects which appear in this material but which were not mentioned in lectures. Therefore, in preparing for the midterm, first review each week Keynote and then look over the readings/sites in columns IV and V - focusing only on the parts of the readins which are directly about the ideas/projects which appeared in Keynotes.
The midterm questions will refer to key points in primary required readings and also to the projects which appear in columns III and VI - so you should also review the material in these columns.
| I | date | II | topic / lecture notes |
||| | required readings - unless indicated overwise, these are chapter drafts from Lev Manovich, Info-aesthetics (book in progress) and chapters from Software takes Command. | IV | required: additional readings |
V | required: references for projects / artworks/ people discussed in lectures - read/view after the lecture | VI | required: references for projects / artworks discussed in section meetings - read/view after the section meetings | VII | suggested: web resources |
| 1/ January 8 | lecture 1: Class introduction |
MODERN TIMES (1936) |
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| 2/ January 15 | lecture 2: |
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Man Ray: Emak-Bakia (1926) Rhythmus 21
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designers profiles @design museum london Constructivism (textuses many important terms with links to their pages) |
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| 3/ January 22 | lecture 3: symbols of information society - continued; new modernist techniques of visual communication and spatial organisation |
modernism and technology |
Industrial_revolution (you can skip details on particular industries and other technical details - focus on the key concepts)
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representing industral society - new symbols/new forms:
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Megacity |
Futurust maifestoes
MAD exhbition in Copenhagen (2007)
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| 4/ January 29 | lecture 4: software and contemporary visual forms - I |
definitions and history: ADDED January 26, 2009:
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MK12: Common music video |
Hans Richter - Rhytmus 21 (1921) | info | movie
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http://xplsv.tv/movies.php http://www.motionographer.com/ |
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| 5/ February 5 | lecture 5: software and contemporary visual forms - II |
Design workflow and contemporary aesthetics | Graphic Design For The 21st Century: 100 Of The Worlds Best Graphic Designers (Paperback) by Charlotte Fiell (Editor), Peter Fiell (Editor) some images from the book |
framemag.com |
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| 6/ February 12 | in-class midterm | BRING EXAM BOOKS | ||||
| 7/ February 19 | lecture 6: Origins of cultural software. Alan Kay's concept of computer as a metamedium. |
Alan Kay's Universal Media Machine | Alan Kay and Adele Goldberg, view video: Alan Kay discusses Sketchpad Towards a Machine with Interactive Skills (an article on Sketchpad) |
standard computer interfaces of the 1950s-1970s video 1 | video 2 SAGE | video part 1 part 2 Sketchpad | video Douglas Engelbart Aspen Movie Map | video Interactive Stage Invisible Shape of Things Past Google Earth |
Douglas Engelbart 1968 demo:| video Alan Kay's 1997 Scientific American article on Xerox Alto |
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| 8/ February 26 | lecture 7:
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Cultural Analytics white paper Cultural Analytics case studies
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Anderson, Chris. The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete. Wired 16.07 (2008). Please also read all case studies linked on this page. | |||
| 9/ March 5 | lecture 8 Michael Century: Early Computer Animation |
all recommended: |
recommended: some of the films shown in lecture:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnlQa74H7is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzB31mD4NmA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXmTz3LxIRg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJTzS-t5UG4&feature=related
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10/ March 12 |
Cultural Analytics: case studies / Artistiic work in information visualization |
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recommended: Manovich: Visualization as new abstraction Manovich: Abstraction and Complexity
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recommended: resoursces for artistic work in information visualization and culture visualization: culturevis.com |
processing.org
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