ICAM110 spring 2005 UCSD

NOTES:
Changes in the order of topics are possible.
The parts which are blank will be filled before the lectures.
The exams are "open book" so you should bring with you your lecture notes; the required book; and printouts of required texts.

FINAL EXAM : Tuesday, June 13, 7 - 10 p.m

date	topic	lecture notes	required readings	required material from the web
April 4	Class introduction
April 11	history of computers and human computer interfaces \| invention of cultural computing: Bush, Sutherland, Engelbardt, Kay	lecture outline and links to material shown in class	If you are not familiar with the basic concepts which underly modern digital computers, please read Wikipedia entry on computer view: Alan Kay shows and discusses Sketchpad Alan Kay and Adele Goldberg \| "Personal Dynamic Media" (1977) Lev Manovich \| "How Media Became New" \| From The Language of New Media (The MIT Press, 2001)
April 18	early computer art (1950s-) \| software art \| generative art \| use of algorithmic form generation in diffirent cultural areas today	lecture outline and links to material shown in class	Digital Art, pp. 7-31; 124. Wayne Carlson \| A History of Computer Graphics and Animation - section 2 Frank Dietrich \| Visual Intelligence: The First Decade of Computer Art (1965-1975)	examples of contemporary algorithmic art done with Processing
April 25	software art and generative art - continued \| artificial life \| evolutionary art \| emergence and complexity	lecture outline and links to material shown in class	Transmediale 2001 software art award - jury statement ZKM exhibition Algorithmic Revolution (2004-) - exhibition statement Manovich \| Abstraction and Complexity (2003) emergence Digital Art, pp. 139-153.	eaxmples of software art/generative art -Abstraction Now exhibition
May 2	guest lecture - computer games (Brett Stalbaum)	lecture outline and links to material shown in class	Digital Art, pp. 196-203. Anne-Marie Schleiner, Parasitic Interventions: Game Patches and Hacker Art (1999)
May 9	artificial life and generative art - continued \| review for midterm exam	lecture notes - same as for April 25 lecture (updated on May 9)
May 16	midterm exam notes for midterm exam		note: moving image lecture has been moved to June 6 the readings previously assigned for this week are due June 6 06)
May 23	locative media \| information visualization \| database art \| "data portraits"	lecture notes and links to material shown in class	"data portraits": Manovich, Social Data Browser (2006) visualization: Andrew Moere, Form Follows Data (2005) locative media [link fixed june12] Digital Art, pp. 174-189. media mobility: Manovich, notes on the introduction of video iPod	The Dumpster infosthetics (look at as many projects as you can) Information Visualization as Artistic Practice ((look at as many projects as you can)
May 30	screening of Timecode by Mike Figgis (2000)
June 6	moving image \| arhitecture	NOTE, June 12: There was a problem uploading notes file for this class in time. The first part of the lectured covered exactly the same material as in two assigned articles by Manovich. The second part covered architecture - since I did not provide notes, there will be no questions on the final about architecture. visuals: In the lecture I analyzed in detail the beginning of music video for Go by Common, directed by Convert / MK12 / Kanye West, 2005. I also shown in its entiretyItsu for Plaid, directed by Pleix collective, 2002.	(note: originally these readings were due May 16) Digital Art, pp. 96-111. Manovich \| Image Future (2003-2006) Manovich \| After Effects, or Velvet Revolution (2006)