ENGL 408C - MAKER CULTURE (Rhetoric of Digital Design)

	S C H E D U L E	Rhetoric of Digital Design MAKER CULTURE ENGL 408C Fall 2014 Professor O'Gorman


DATE	READING	PRESENTERS
Thursday, September 11	Introduction to course. Groups formed and blogs started. Workshop: Conductive play dough hardware design with working LED Squishy Circuits: http://courseweb.stthomas.edu/apthomas/SquishyCircuits/buildingCircuits.htm Learn How To Design Hardware (upverter.com): https://upverter.com/learn/	O'Gorman
Thursday, September 18	Gauntlett,Making Is Connecting Balsamo, Designing Culture Workshop: Digital Design with LEGO	Ninka Bielak Lucy Barnett
Thursday, September 25	Ruskin, The Stones of Venice, Vol 2, Chapter VI, “The Nature of Gothic” (i-xxix) Morris, “Useful Work vs. Useless Toil” Workshop: Weaving Without the Web	Valerie Petersen
Thursday, October 2	Field Trip to Critical Media Lab Workshop: Space Invaders LED Pendant Introduction to Arduino: http://www.introtoarduino.com/downloads/IntroArduinoBook.pdf Introduction to Gemma: https://learn.adafruit.com/introducing-gemma Setting Up With Arduino IDE: https://learn.adafruit.com/introducing-gemma/setting-up-with-arduino-ide Trinket/Gemma Space Invader Pendant Project: https://learn.adafruit.com/trinket-slash-gemma-space-invader-pendant/overview Adafruit LED Backpacks https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-led-backpack/1-2-8x8-matrix	O'Gorman
Thursday, October 9	Hatch, The Maker Movement Manifesto Morozov, “Making It” Workshop (studio time): Hacking the Arduino Pendant	Guest Lecture by Dr. Nicholas Balaisis
Thursday, October 16	Field Trip to Critical Media Lab Marx, Manifesto of the Communist Party (Preamble, Bourgeois and Proletarians) Arduino Pendant Showcase Introduction to Final Project	Jeffrey Macarandang
Thursday, October 23	Field Trip to Kwartzlab Somerson, The Art of Critical Making	Victoria Stacey
Thursday, October 30	Anderson, Makers: The New Industrial Revolution Jones, Against Technology Presentation of Final Project Proposals	Chinye Osamusali Winona So
Thursday, November 6	Oroza, “Technological Disobedience” Julio Garcia Espinosa, "For an Imperfect Cinema" Workshop: TBD depending on student needs	Guest Lecture by Dr. Nicholas Balaisis
Thursday November 13	Doctorow, Makers Dunne and Raby, Speculative Everything Workshop: TBD depending on student needs	Airlie Heung Joyce Qin
Thursday, November 20	Field Trip to Critical Media Lab Chun, Programmed Visions Present Iteration 1 of Final Project	Guest Lecture by Prof. Aimée Morrison
Thursday, November 27	Ingold, Making Hertz, "Interview with Alex Galloway" Studio time for final project	Chase Denomme O'Gorman
Friday, November 28	Exhibition and Presentation of Final Projects at Critical Media Lab Final essay due Thursday, December 4 (before midnight)	everybody presents

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