The readings have been gathered from a variety of sources ranging from gallery catalogues to discussion list postings. They reflect the diverse ways people talk and write about digital images. The readings along with practical exercises in the lab will help students discover a plurality of practices relating to the distribution and the creation of digital images.
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Because engineers are concerned with execution, designers with evaluation, and participants with function, they each have different conceptual models of the system. Meredith Bricken |
Our design objective: to design systems that accelerate the process where by novices begin to perform like experts. Bill Buxton |
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Topics: ASCII Art, raster versus vector, scanners
Reading:
Bill Buxton. "Snow's Two Cultures Revisited: Perspectives on Human-Computer Interface Design" in CyberArts: Exploring Art and Technology ed. by Linda Jacobson (San Francisco: Miller Freeman, 1992) pp. 24-31
Carl Machover, David Em, Bo Gehring, Ellen Sandor. "Is it Technology or Is It Art?" in CyberArts: Exploring Art and Technology ed. by Linda Jacobson (San Francisco: Miller Freeman, 1992) pp. 39-45
Topics: compression, resolution, embedding images in HTML
Reading:
Erkki Huhtamo. "Time Traveling in the Gallery: an Archeological Approach in Media Art" in Immersed in Technology: Art and Virtual Environments ed. by Mary Anne Moser (Cambridge, Mass., MIT Press, 1996) pp. 233-268
Topic: Colour
Reading: Matthew Fuller. "A Means of Mutation: Notes on I/O/D 4 the Web Stalker" in README! Filterd by Nettime ed. by Josephine Bosma et al. (New York, Autonomedia, 1999) pp. 37-45
Supplement: I/O/D Web site
Topic: animation - GIF
Readings: Verena Andermatt Conely. "Place/Non-Place: How to Cultivate a Digital Garden" in Digital Gardens: A World in Mutation. Catalogue of an exhibition at The Power Plant --- Contemporary Art Gallery at Harbourfront Centre, September 28 - December 2, 1996 Chief Curator, Louise Dompierre. (Toronto, The Power Plant, 1996) pp. 83- 96
Larry Korba. "Seamless Messaging and Sharing Hearts" in Catharine Richards: Charged Hearts. Catalogue of an exhibition at the National Gallery of Canada 11 July to 14 September 1997 and at The Power Plant 16 January to 15 March 1998
Supplement: Power Plant Listing of Past Exhibits
Topic: animation - Shockwave
Reading: Mikkel Aaland. "Case Study/Interview with Bob Stein of Voyager" in Still Images in Multimedia (Indianapolis, Hayden, 1996) p. 32
Topic: video capture and editing
Reading: Bill Nichols. "The Work of Culture in the Age of Cybernetic Systems" in Electronic Culture: Technology and Visual Representation ed. by Timothy Druckrey (New York: Aperture, 1996) pp. 121- 143
Topic: video on the Web
Reading: David Tomas "Art, Pyschasthenic Assimilation, and the Cybernetic Automaton" in The Cyborg Handbook ed. by Chris Hables Gray (New York & London: Routledge, 1995
pp. 255-266
Supplement:
InterAccess
IDORU
Topics: paths and (un)grouping objects
Reading: Steven Holtzman. "The Visual World" in Digital Mantras: The Languages of Abstract and Virtual Worlds (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1994) pp. 171-191
Supplement: Steven Holtzman. "Digital Limited Inc." in Digital Mosaics: the aesthetics of cyberspace (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1997) pp. 149-165
Topics: layers and channels
Reading: Jay David Bolter and Richard Grusin "Digital Photography" and "Digital Art" in Remediation: Understanding New Media (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1999) pp. 105-112; 133-145
Topic: navigating a 3D authoring space
Reading: Lev Manovich. "The Automation of Sight: From Photography to Computer Vision" in Electronic Culture: Technology and Visual Representation ed. by Timothy Druckrey (New York: Aperture, 1996) pp. 229 - 239
Topic: 3D Modeling
Reading: Gary Lee Downey. "Human Agency in CAD/CAM Technology" in The Cyborg Handbook ed. by Chris Hables Gray (New York & London: Routledge, 1995) pp. 363 - 370
Topic: 3D Animation
Reading: David Stork. "'I could see you lips move': HAL and Speechreading" in HAL's Legacy: 2001's computer as dream and reality ed. by David Stork (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1997) pp. 237-261
Topic: VRML
Reading: Meredith Bricken. "Virtual Worlds: No Interface to Design" in Cyberspace: First Steps ed. by Michael Benedikt (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1991) pp. 363 - 382