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DATE + TOPIC |
READINGS + ASSIGNMENTS |
WORKSHOPS |
Tuesday,
January 10
INTRODUCTION
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Course
Introduction: Critical Digital Media Studies
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Tuesday,
January 17
CYBERNETICS
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O'GORMAN PRESENTS
> Vannevar Bush, "As We May Think"
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Norbert Weiner, "Men,
Machines, and the World About"
Introduction
to Project 1: Remediation/Database Animation
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Form groups and start blogs
Introduction to Fireworks |
Tuesday,
January 24
REMEDIATION
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GROUP: Adam Birch, Joshua Kho, Lucina Lo, Eric Selley
> Marshall McLuhan, "The Medium is the Message"
O'GORMAN:
> Jay David Bolter and Richard Grusin, "The Double Logic of Remediation"
OTHER READINGS:
Jim Campbell, media artist
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Stop-motion workshop |
Tuesday,
January31
DATABASE
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O'GORMAN:
> Lev Manovich, "The Database"
GROUP:
Meghan Harder, Alida Iacobellis, Nathaniel Singh
> Eugene Thacker, "Biomedia"
OTHER READINGS:
> Nick Rombes, "The Blue Velvet Project" and "Do Not Screen"
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Stop-motion workshop
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Tuesday,
February 7
ROBOTS/ANDROIDS
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GROUP: Brittany Martin, Francis Tiangson, Kim To
> Sidney Perkowitz, from Digital People
GROUP: Matt Amoral, Jenine Paul, Joannie Vuong
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Rodney Brooks, from Flesh and Machines: How Robots Will Change Us
OTHER READINGS:
> Karl F. MacDorman, Mortality
Salience and the Uncanny Valley
> Karl F. MacDorman, "Charting the Uncanny Valley"
> Hanson Robotics, Eva
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Project 1 + Essay Due
Present Projects
Introduction to Project 2
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Tuesday,
February 14
POSTHUMANISM
and
TRANSHUMANISM |
O'GORMAN PRESENTS:
> Donna Haraway, "A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century"
> N. Katherine Hayles, "What Does it Mean to be Posthuman?"
OTHER READINGS:
> Humanity+, "Transhumanist Declaration" (explore entire site)
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Tuesday,
February 21
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READING
WEEK - NO CLASS
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Tuesday,
February 28
PROSTHETICS
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O'GORMAN:
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David Wills, "Techneology or the Discourse of Speed" (ACE)
GROUP: Brittany Martin, Francis Tiangson, Kim To
> Diane Currier, "Assembling Bodies in Cyberspace: Technologies, Bodies, and Sexual Difference"
OTHER READINGS:
> Stelarc |
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Tuesday,
March 7
HACKTIVISM
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GROUP: Meghan Harder, Alida Iacobellis, Nathaniel Singh
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Rita Raley, "Tactical Media as Virtuosic Performance"
GROUP: Katie Carson, Thomas Longrigg, Onie Tam
> Tim Jordan, "Hactivism: All Together in the Virtual"
OTHER READINGS
> Peter Ludlow, "WikiLeaks and Hacktivist Culture"
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Tuesday,
March 14
GAMES |
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TBD |
Tuesday,
March 21
FIELD TRIP |
The class will meet briefly and then move to PAC to attend the games of the FIRST
Robotics competition, hosted by UW from March 21-23.
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Final Project Iteration 1 Due |
Tuesday,
March 28
LIFELOGGING |
GROUP: Adam Birch, Joshua Kho, Lucina Lo, Eric Selley
> Nicola Doring and Axel Gundolf, "Your Life in Snapshots: Mobile Weblogs"
GROUP: Katie Carson, Thomas Longrigg, Onie Tam
>José van Dijck, From Mediated Memories in the Digital Age
OTHER READINGS:
> memoto
> "Life-logging camera brings new hope for memory-loss patients"
PRESENT
ITERATION 1 of Final Project
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Final Project Iteration 2 Due |
Tuesday,
April 4 |
FINAL PROJECT DUE - PRESENTATIONS IN CLASS |
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Monday,
April 8 |
FINAL
ESSAYS DUE - SUBMIT VIA E-MAIL |
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