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This schedule is subject to modification. Activities are subject to change based on the progression of the course.
No due dates / readings / homework will be changed without prior notification in class.

SCHEDULE

IN CLASS WORK

HOMEWORK

WEEK 1

Course Overview

Jan 10

Jan 12

  • Watch Daniel Shiffman ‘Learning Processing’ Tutorials 

  • Begin work on Assignment 1 by creating a composition with at least three different shapes and three different fills, strokes and stroke weight values (one for each shape). These are the minimum requirements, but feel free to add more complexity! Create a post on the class blog and upload a picture of your sketch.

  • Optional reading: Mark Tribe and Jana Reena ‘New Media Art - Introduction’

  • Look for two emails from Wordpress with the subjects "[art150.nma-course.online/blog] New User Registration" and "[art150.nma-course.online/blog] Your username and password info". Go ahead and sign up

WEEK 2

Intro to Processing

Jan 17
    MLK Jr Day - No School

    Jan 19

    • Work on: Assignment 1 - Come in next class with troubleshooting questions!

    • Add to your composition: Start with your composition of at least three different shapes and three different fills, strokes and stroke weight values (one for each shape). Now ADD: at least one variable and one conditional.

    • Begin reading: Form+Code-Hello (due one week from today)

    WEEK 3

    Processing Continued

    Jan 24

    Jan 26

     
    Resource Links: Information Aesthetics/Visualization

    WEEK 4

    Basic Electronics 1.0
    Jan 31
    • Required Reading - Due next class: What is a Circuit?

    • Complete simple paper circuit with 1 LED and bring it to next class. A HOW TO GUIDE is here: MakerCamp Paper Circuits

    • BLOG POST: Having read the Form+Code-Hello article, Describe a software that changed the way that you think, see, or understand the world. (Yes, this can include games.) Describe how this changed your perceptions. POST this 1-2 paragraph narrative to the Blog and include images and links to the software you are referencing.

    Feb 2

    WEEK 5

    Creative Switch and Analog Electronics
    Feb 7

    Feb 9
    • Work on Creative Switch: Creative Switch I

    • Remember to document the 'making of' your creative switch(es) for the instructable portion of the assignment!!!

    WEEK 6

    Arduino: basic sensing + output
    Feb 14
    • IN CLASS WORK TIME for Creative Switch & Individual Meetings - Individual Meetings on Projects

    • Methods + techniques for rugged fabrication:
      • YES TO: hot glue, silicone glue, elmers glue (in small amounts), heat shrink, wire nuts, nuts and bolts
      • NO TO: duct tape, scotch tape, blue tape, masking tape, crazy glue (most of the time), and electrical tape (not for securing connections!)

    • Explore: Odd conductive building materials including conductive thread, ink, and playdoh/ puddies, zippers, LED stickers, and spring wire, etc

    • Demo: Make a pressure switch with Velostat

    • Resource Links
    • Artist Links - Contraptions + Kinetic New Media Work


    • Start posting to Blog: Documentation of your creative switch construction in the format of an Instructables project: include pictures (and/ or video) plus written descriptions of all the materials and construction steps, start to finish. See homework page for full specs.

    • Bring your cameras to document your work+ others using it during/after crits

    Feb 16

    WEEK 7

    Continued Building with Arduino & Electronic Circuits
    Feb 21

    • Review: ARTIST PRESENTATION LIST
      SIGN UP with your selection asap by EMAILING THE instructor with your top two artist choices for the Presentation by the Monday evening before next class

    Feb 23
    • EMAIL to instructor: One paragraph description + an image of the artist/ designer/ collaborative you have chosen for your Artist Presentation
    • Begin Work on: Artist Presentation Assignment

    WEEK 8

    Programming
    Feb 28


    Mar 2


    • Email instructor with 2 (or 3) project proposals by the start of next class. Each proposal should be at least one substantial paragraph in length. Be as specific as you can in your descriptions. The instructor will email feedback on the viability and technical suggestions for each of the proposals

    WEEK 9

    Arduino: Sensors --- Detecting Movement, Light, Motion, Vibration, Sound
    Mar 7
    • ARTIST PRESENTATIONS CONTINUED

    • DISCUSSION: OF READING cont'd

    Mar 9

    • Work on: Interaction Assignment

    • Complete: your Analog Sensor input to translated (mapped) output

    WEEK 10

    Project Work
    Mar 14
    • POST TO BLOG: FIll in and Post this FORM with an updated description of your Interactive assignment project proposal. Fill in all parts of the form and cut and paste your answers into the blog post.
    • Include Parts list in the 'Resources section' of the form with direct links to where the parts will be purchased. Double check on shipping time frames.
    • If you are using your own materials from home, then you do not need to supply links, but do supply a clear description.

    Mar 16

    • WORK IN CLASS & Individual Meetings

    • Catch up on CPX Analog to Digital coding

    • DIGITAL FABRICATION - Intro to 3D printing - Meshmixer
    • Intro to Meshmixer NOTES
    • SCHEDULE FRIDAY WORK SESSION?
    • Work on Interactive Assignment

    • Bring all your materials to the next class meeting and BE PREPARED TO WORK ON YOUR PROJECTS!!! Even if all your supplies are not yet in, you can and must work on the circuit, the programming, or the body/ sculptural aspects of your project.

    • DUE: Make an account on Thingiverse (it's free). Email two 3d models that you would like to mash up. Make sure they are .stl files. This is due evening before the next class - ie, sunday evening.

    • Your first round of code is DUE NEXT CLASS (whether it works or not).
      It's important that you first try to put the code together on your own!

    Week 11

    MARCH 21-25 SPRING BREAK followed by Interactive Project Critiques

    Mar 28



    • DUE NEXT CLASS: Interactive Assignment
    Mar 30

    • IN CLASS CRITIQUES - INTERACTIVE ASSIGNMENT DUE TODAY
    • Due Next Class - Discussion of Slow Design Principles

    • Post to Blog: Online Research: Find two artworks or design projects that would fit the parameters of two of the six design principles (as laid out in Fuad-Lake's Slow Design Principles). Describe the works, include images, and discuss how each of the projects fits the principles as well as what impresses you about them. This part of your blog should be at least two paragraphs long.
      Next, conceptualize a 'fantasy' project of your own that is oriented around and inspired by at least 2 of the 6 slow design principles. Describe the project + include sketches in your post. This portion of your blog entry should constitute an additional 2-3 WELL WRITTEN, WELL CONSTRUCTED paragraphs in length.

    WEEK 12

    CRITIQUE

    Apr 4
    • Final Project proposals due Monday next week

    Apr 6

     
    • Post to Blog: three questions that you want to get feedback on. The questions may address conceptual, material, or technical choices / challenges.

    • Suggested reading by Critical Art Ensemble

    WEEK 13

    Final Project Work

    Apr 11

    • Reading Discussion/ Slideshow: Slowdesign
    • Demos: Arduino to Processing Communication
    • Work On: Final project

    Apr 13
    • Intro to the Fast LED Library
    • Ever-Burning Flame Painting - example - nice flame animation as well - which could be repurposed with different colors
      (You’ll need to download the Library in the Arduino App, go to the menu: Sketch -> Include Library -> Manage Libraries Type in FastLED, and download)

    • Demos: Arduino to Processing Communication

    • Individual meetings On Final Projects

    • Work in Class
    • Work On Final Project

    WEEK 14

    Final Project Work
    Apr 18

    Apr 20

    • Work On: Final Installation

    WEEK 15

    Final Presentations
    Apr 25
    • Final Project Presentations?
    • Due: Final Presentation
    Apr 27
    • Final Project Presentations?