group presentation 5pt.

Students will be assigned to small study groups to lead a presentation on one of the major themes outline in New Media Art text.

Work groups will make a ten (10) minute in-class presentation on one of the seven core themes defined in New Media Art(Tribe and Jana): Collaboration and Participation, From Appropriation to Open Source, Corporate Parody, Hackers and Hacktivism, Interventions, Identity, and Telepresence and Surveillance. Themes will be assigned after the reading discussion on the introduction to New Media Art.

Each student of the group is required to participate publicly on the chosen theme. In addition the team as a whole will introduce the class to at least one related work or project that is not cataloged in New Media Art. The presentation of each work should include the name, distinctive features of the TENDENCY, a work or two example, and significance of the tendency.

Prepare 5 presentation slides with information and links as a PowerPoint or Google Slides document. You must include examples from the Tribe and Jana text. The presentation may include links to media (video/audio) and artist websites Limit any examples to two minutes of time-based media as an example. Put a copy of the presentation and files into a folder with the theme of your presentation and drop this folder into your Google Drive (every group member). Please email a link to your instructor before class starts on presentation day.

Project Goals

• Encourage a peer review and learning
• Articulate a style new media practice
• Experience in being the leader

DATES-TBA

LINK TO TEXT

Formal Project 1 Digital Collage (Human, Hybrid, & Machine) 15pts.

tldr; version: Make a triptych of digital imaging collage from found materials that technically and conceptually answers the prompt.

Project Goals and Overview

Use Photoshop (or other photo-editing tools) to create a digital collage triptych that addresses the prompt: "Human And Machine". Each digital collage will be composed of found imagery from Internet sources. The work will be presented as three digital full bleed prints. One print will be devoted to Human, one to Machine, and the middle collage will address the idea of a 'hybrid of human and machine'.

Learning Outcomes

• introduce non-destructive editing software and emulation software
• experience in compositing - layers, masks, selections, color adjustments
• introduction to critical and conceptual art practice (not just creating 'sick' images)
• experience in iterative design methodology
• experience with presentation methods

Process

Research Phase
Spend time on the Internet researching the topic. Students should spend time looking at visual references and reading about the topic prompt. Students should document all visual references and readings by keeping a URI list of the assets.

Download at least five (5) high-resolution images with an intention for each part of the triptych (no less than 15 images total) to create a library. You are welcome to select as many source images as you want.

Create a new folder inside the shared Google Drive folder you created for the class. This folder will be a source library for your collage triptych. Name the folder 'human_machine_hybrid_library'.

Resample library images to 200px high jpgs at 72ppi. Make a post on your blog with these smaller images on blog and a written statement. In the statement, write an analysis of why (describe the reason these images were selected) you chose these images to work from. Keep it to 300 - 500 words. Include the URI list of your assets at the end of the post.

Work phase
Create three canvas/workspaces/artboards. Make these spaces 11 by 17 inches at 300ppi, RGB-8 color space. The artist may decide to work in either portrait or landscape orientation.

Use a non-destructive photo-editing tool like Photoshop to select portions of images in your source library and place into a composition for the triptych. Use resampling, masking, layers, refinement tools, color adjustment, etc. to create a composition that supports your ideas about the topic. In the process, the artist should feel free to change or add source images in order to refine the composition with the concepts they are using.

Rough drafts due at beginning of third week. This is a worth a substantial amount on your participation grade. Export PNGS of the three canvases with longest dimension set at1500px. Post these PNG to the blog for instructor review. Worth a significant number of points on your Participation grade.

Printing and preparing for the presentation phase
Create a folder named 'human-and-machine-prints' inside your shared folder. Save final image compositions as Photoshop documents to your Drive. Files must be uploaded before deadline. We cannot guarantee the files will be printed if they are late to 'printer deadline'. Printing will be done by the instructor or a Print Lab Technician. Art2602C students are not allowed to operate printers unattended. The instructor will provide information on paper and ink profiles.

Final images should be bleed printed in color at 11 x 17 inches 300 dpi, trimmed and ready to display. Students should print an additional copy if they want a copy for their personal collection.

DO NOT delete your digital file – you will need it later in the semester! Students should package their final Photoshop files, and upload the packaged folder to the Google drive folder they created titled 'human-and-machine-prints' With each assignment, students should provide a 1-2 paragraph statement describing both their conceptual and technical process of making the piece. Please submit the writing in your blog as a post. Please make a high-quality jpg of each of your works and include in this post.

Formal Project 2 HTML Studies (net.art) 15pts.

Students will compose a work of non-linear net.art that will be hosted on the university web servers. LINK TO GOOGLE DOC OF PROJECT

• Rough Draft Deadline: TBA
• Final Project: TBA
• Formal Critique: TBA

Project Learning Outcomes: After completing this project students will be able to:

• create a net.art work using HTML, CSS, and javascript;
• use research to create flowcharts and low-res prototypes to develop a net.art concept; and
• apply critical thinking to create a non-linear net.art piece that creates an engaging artistic experience.

Project Overview: For this project, you will create a net.art work that experiments with the narrative characteristics of hypermedia. Consider how you can utilize the linking and branching structure of the web browsing user experience to create an interesting and engaging artistic experience. You may explore any subject matter you desire through the approach of a narrative.

Narrative: “A narrative is some kind of retelling, often in words, of something that happened (a story). The narrative is not the story itself but rather the telling of the story. While a story just is a sequence of events, a narrative recounts those events in any way the author desires, perhaps leaving some occurrences out because they are from some perspective insignificant, and perhaps emphasizing others. In a series of events, a car crash takes a split second. A narrative account of this split second crash, however, could be hundreds of pages long and might be almost entirely about the crash itself or could include the events leading up to it or directly following it.” http://www.units.miamioh.edu/technologyandhumanities/nardef.htm   

For this project, you will be creating a non-linear narrative.

Philosophy & references: In an apocryphal story the term 'net.art' was discovered by Vuk Ćosić in a garbled email. He immediately considered this a good fortune because it appeared that the system automatically described the new form artists were beginning to explore in network technologies. net.art describes a series of art practices specifically designed for execution and native residence on the Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs). When we describe, design, or view net.art, take special care not to conflate other aspects of cultural productions with the particular intention to leverage the network. This is not art on the Internet, this is art from/using/manifest on the network. This is Web Art not Art on the Web.

In 2018, there are many hybrids of network and analogs in all kinds of communication and culture that, it may be difficult to parse out a pure net.art piece in new contemporary work. It will be more likely to be a subtle mixture of network and actual life. From performances of Shakespeare and Broadway to academic conferences on Massively Multiplayer Environments like World of War Craft and new poetic and narrative structures on social media (Google docs collaboration: terrorawedpatches, Passover on Facebook). Still, it is important to recognize the distinct feature of an artwork that is truly native to ICTs.

References:

• early net.art (or that aesthetic)
• Olia Lialina My boyfriend came back from the war. http://www.teleportacia.org/war/ Vuk Cosic war http://ljudmila.org/~woelle/lajka/war/ Heath Bunting read_me http://www.irational.org/_readme.html new guy: Curt Cloninger playdamage.org http://playdamage.org/

• social media hybrids:
• http://iloveepoetry.com/?tag=mez-breeze http://www.springgunpress.com/terrorawedpatches.html http://www.cdelkin.com/haggadah/5769.htm

Project Goal: Your prompt for this project is to engage in early aspects of the net.art form. You will be responsible for designing and executing an artwork completely composed in HTML (and related media) and to be publicly distributed as part of the web. It must:

• Provide a unique networked experience for the user that differs greatly from what is commonly encountered during daily web-browsing experiences. Using your knowledge of HTML and CSS, utilize the graphic design and painterly nature of the browser to make imagery from computer graphics, text, etc. Work with the non-linear hypertext syntaxes of the web as an artist. Use linking, embedding, etc. to create paths through the work to create a series of linked HTML pages that take the viewer throughout the narrative. There must be more than one path through the narrative!

• Must have a minimum of 20 separate HTML pages to compose the work. No broken links; the project must load reasonably quickly on the school's network. The work should not break the 'suspension of disbelief' (The term suspension of disbelief has been defined as a willingness to suspend one's critical faculties and believe something surreal; the sacrifice of realism and logic for the sake of enjoyment.) Must sit cohesively as an artwork, must communicate the narrative. You will also write a brief artist statement (250-500 words) about your concept. This will be one of your pages. Must incorporate sound at least one time in the project The technology employed can be simple; the crux of this project is the sophisticated, aesthetic and conceptual decisions evidenced by your artistic choices. Must be uploaded to the web server. We will use the I Drive, Students are allocated 2 Gb distributed between your H and I Drives. We will use this limitation as a design constraint.
• You will need to be very careful about the files you produce. Save them to the appropriate sizes and nothing extra in the directory Contact instructor immediately if you are using this space for any other course.

Options:

• Can be as abstract or representational as the work needs to be. Can exceed the 20-page minimum. Can utilize video.

Some things to consider about Narrative and Hypermedia:

• Time: A narrative is typically based on time; things happen in a particular order; there is a beginning, middle, and end to a story. How can the branching, looping, dynamic nature of hypermedia complicate the notion of time in a narrative context? Authorship: Narratives are generally told from a particular point of view. Think about who/what your author’s voice will be. Will it be a particular person? Several people? An inanimate object? Does it use words or sounds or video to speak? Does it change over time? Does it lie? Can the reader trust what they're reading? Appropriation: Everything on the web can be taken and remixed into something new. For example, you could juxtapose news stories, or weave them into an (in)coherent retelling. You could layer seemingly unrelated songs on top of GIFs to construct new implied narratives.

Process: Brainstorming/research

• Do some brainstorming – what kinds of stories are you interested in? Do some research on “twine” sites such as twinery.org and in some of the links posted in the philosophy and references section to see what engages you. Include this research through screenshots, comments, and notes in your process book about your brainstorming/research.

Analog

• Write out your narrative and make a flow diagram on actual paper of how the pages will link. After you have determined the flow, work out the design of the pages, thinking about type and color, images, and other media. Remember how the pages will link and what you are trying to say with your narrative. Scan/photograph this research. Post to your blog. Note: this step should be comprehensive, but is subject to change/editing as you continue through the process.

Digital

• Once you are satisfied with the outline of your narrative, begin writing your HTML. Write the HTML structure of the site first, and style it with CSS afterward. Test your pages as you go. Reminder: how to link HTML files to each other: https://www.w3schools.com/html/html_links.asp Add images / video / audio to complete your narrative. Test as you go. Test your pages; troubleshoot. Upload files and folder structure to the server.

Rough Draft:

• Keep working on your pages, linking the story parts to each other (make sure all links function). On the rough draft due date (October 3rd), you should have your brainstorming, written narrative, and sketches available for review, in addition to your HTML pages. Your project should be at least 75% complete. Work on a brief artist statement (250-500 words) to explain your project and concept. This Statement and a bibliography should be added as an extra HTML page to your project.

Specifications:

• Create a minimum of 20 linked HTML pages Make sure your pages link correctly, and that the folder structure is tight (with a root index.html file, and HTML and CSS folders, image folder, etc.) Include an extra HTML page at the end with a brief artist statement. IMPORTANT: Appropriated elements (code, imagery, etc.) must be attributed appropriately. SAVE LINKS TO YOUR APPROPRIATIONS. Include a bibliography of links and titles on the statement page. Upload your folder structure to your FTP. Upload your folder structure to your Project B Google drive folder with the naming convention: lastName_project02. Upload the website URI to the appropriate discussion board on Canvas

Due for Final Submission

• Folder, files, assets, etc. uploaded to FTP. Folder, files, assets, etc. uploaded to Google Drive folder URI posted to the blog You will be sending your link to other students, they will critically introduce the work to the class during critique (this will be assigned by the instructor). Be prepared to read your artist statement and give a brief explanation to the class about your piece.