Week 1. What is New Media? Media and Computation. Human-computer Interface.

Week 2. Creating New Media: Plug-ins; Compositing. "Realism" in New Media.

Week 3. Digital Cinema and the History of a Moving Image.

Week 4. The Forms of New Media: Database and Navigable Space.

Readings for Week 1  [read before first class meeting]

1. Manovich. "Principles of New Media | Interface: an Introduction" [unpublished] [Word 97 file]
2. Jon Ippolio. Variable Media [go to "concept")
3. Gentner, Don and Nielsen, Jakob. The Anti-Mac Interface
4. Manovich. Cinema as a Cultural Interface
5. Art+Com. Invisible Shape of Things to Come [go to "projects"; select "invisible shape of thinsg to come" project];
6. Manovich. Archeology of a Computer Screen