PLEASE DELIVER THE PRINTOUTS OF YOUR ESSAYS TO YOUR TA's OFFICE on MARCH 19 BETWEEN 7 AND 9PM.

PART 1:

write an essay between 800 and 1000 words (excluding footnotes):

1. Contrast the new artistic forms created in the early decades of the 20th century with the new artistic forms being created today.
Your essay should include example from each of these fields: architecture, graphic/web design, industrial design, moving image (i.e., film and/or animation and/or motion graphics).
For each example, discussion one modernist work and one contemporary work (for instance: Le Corbusier, Villa Savoye vs. Frank Gerhy, Walt Disney Concert Hall.)
In comparing selected works, and/or artistic movements and/or communication techniques from the early 20th century and today, explain how they act as symbols of a new type of society in which artists were/are living (i.e., industrial society or information society.)
Your examples should include material presented both in lectures and in sections. Optional: you can include a discussion of art project not covered in class if list a web site which has sufficient documentation of this project.)

PART 2:

You can do ONE essay for question 1 or 2 - in this case it should be between 800 and 1000 words (excluding footnotes).
OR, you can do TWO essays for both questions - in this case, each essay should between 400 and 500 words (excluding footnotes).

2. When Ivan Sutherland, Alan Kay, Douglas Engelbart and other pioneers of cultural computing have created computer simulations of older media, they simultaneously added many new properties to these media. Discuss a few examples of these new properties using work done by Sutherland, Kay, and Engelbart.
Can you think of some properties and techniques of physical media which were lost then media were simulated in software? Talk about some examples of such loss.

3. The three guest visitors which we had in our class - Mieke Gerritzen and Koert van Mensvoort, Joshua Kauffman (Reginal), and Benjamin Bratton - each combine many roles: designers, cultural organizers, writers, academics, publishers, consultants, etc. Using examples of their ideas and projects, discuss how each of these people/groups extend our ideas abut what design is and what designer's job is.