For 2/7 mid-term evaluation

Three parts to project progress this week: read, write, and critique.

Last things first -- on Monday we will critique works in progress by Kyle, Oneal, Jesse Dewyer, and collaborators Mando & JJ, with additional peeks at work by Patrick Byrd and Jesse Boutin.

If you are not planning on an in-class discussion of your work, you should write an honest self-evaluation of your production progress (timeline adjustments are still possible) and post to your blog no later than Sunday night, 2/6. This will form the basis for your mid-term evaluation grade.

Finally, please read this Wikipedia article on interactive art:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interactive_art

... and check out links to info about interactive controllers on Austin's and Tawnee's blogs, plus watch this short video on interactive shadow-puppetry created with 360-Kinect for the X-box:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nqo8AMoTe-A&feature=player_embedded

For 1/31

Review and be ready to critique works in progress by Tawnee, Suzanne, Maxine, and Jesse Dewyer.

This Tuesday night, 2/25, stop by the SUB to see Projects in Digital Media creative team member Patrick Byrd perform with The Woolly Moon!

For 1/24

Watch this space for updates, but so far the basic plan for class on Monday is to discuss work-in-progress by Dominic Luciano, Lonny Bevill, and (in the 2nd half) Jared Hail. (Suzanne Cabral will be rescheduled to next week). All of these have updates on their blog links at right.

There are still a few projects without timelines -- if yours is one of them, please put something together by Sunday night.

And check out classmates Jake Fery and J Smiles at Thursday night's (1/20) Video Game Extravaganza (talk show, 'game-off', and more) in RVTV at 8PM! (Will be broadcast that same night at 11PM on Channel 9.)

For Wednesday, 1/12

If you haven't already, please add a production timeline to your blog (see Lonny, Lindsay and Karen for examples) and suggest a Monday before mid-February that you think you would be ready for a preliminary critique.

Remember, no class on Monday, 1/17, MLK Day. But check back here by next Wednesday, 1/19 for project updates that relate to our meeting on 1/24.

Digital Media Project Proposal

1. Create your blog and link in a comment to this post.

2. Post a Digital Media Project Proposal letter to your blog by 11:59 PM on Sunday 1/9:

This is your opportunity to come up with your own idea for a digital project (the term’s Big Product), pitch it to the artistic director (your profs), workshop the idea with a creative team (your peers, lab aides, instructors, etc.) and apply their insights to your production schedule (the next 9 weeks of drafts, discussions, and revisions) until the project launch (final due 2/28).

You have a lot of latitude with creative content. And with great freedom comes great responsibility. Here are some questions to consider for fulfilling this week’s responsibilities:

What kind of project will you create? Is the final product digital, real-space, or a combination? Is it a website, an app, a movie (animation or live-action), an audio piece, an installation….? How will you be creating original content? Photographs or Photoshop? Mostly images or mostly text? What is the genre: creative, abstract, or nonfiction? Will you be working with any partners in the college or the community?
Include any notes on possible aesthetic influences. Articulate what you don’t yet know about technology, skills, or techniques that may be involved in the process. This week it’s up to you to pitch your idea in a brief proposal letter to our creative team. Please post your proposal by Sunday January 9.

For Wednesday, 1/5

Find a digital media project that you like and link to it (or, if it's not online, describe it and post whatever references to it you can) in a comment to this post. Also compose a brief paragraph or two of research and analysis on what kind of design skills, media software, computer programming, development, and pre-production you think were involved in creating the project. Finally, reflect on what you like about the project -- and what you would like to borrow or steal from the creators for your own work.

Here's some digital media projects we looked at in the first class on Monday...

Animation:

david harvey vs rsa animate:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOP2V_np2c0

Jotham Porzio (SOU student)

http://vimeo.com/17541307

Trisha Zimmerman (SOU grad)

http://vimeo.com/8039725

Literature:

Electronic Literature Showcase

http://www.eliterature.org/showcase-index

Jason Nelson digital poetry

http://heliozoa.com/

Graphic lit by SOU student / prof:

http://armsandether.com/bpdxianjan02/

http://armsandether.com/bpdxevcolorjan022011/

http://armsandether.com/bpdxstoryboards/index.htm#23

Game:

Lea Gillette (SOU grad)

http://kitrun.blogspot.com/

PDF on character development for “Bioshock”:

http://avaxhome.ws/ebooks/artbook/B00131USA2.html

App:

Ashland App developer wins prize (see under 'Art Authority')!

http://justanotheripadblog.com/ipad-apps/best-ipad-apps-of-2010/

Billion$ for ‘virtual hot chocolate’ app?

http://www.news.com.au/technology/hot-chocolate-legal-battle-over-virtual-milk-apps/story-e6frfro0-1225922021288

Web/ concept / NetArt, etc.:

http://aen.walkerart.org/mediatheque/

http://markamerika.com/

Installation (exhibition, performance, etc.):

http://jennyholzer.com/

Building Projection at Frank Gehry HQ:

http://vimeo.com/15887314?