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Course Outline - AVT 280 - 001: Introduction to Digital Arts

Professor: Mark Cooley
Class hours: Fall '08 - M,W, 10:30 - 1:10
Location - Fine Arts Building B202
Office hours: TR 1:30 - 3:00
Office - School of Art Building

NOTICE: This course outline indicates a rough guide to where we are headed. However, additions, subtractions and reorganization of course content is likely. You will be informed of any changes during class meetings.  In addition, you should revisit this page routinely. It may be updated throughout the semester.

It should go without saying that this outline, along with the rest of this site, is not a substitute for class attendance and participation.  As stated numerous times on this site: this is not an online course. You cannot pass this course by relying simply on content provided on this site.  Project descriptions on this site will, more often than not, lack specific technical and conceptual parameters. They should be treated as a resource to accompany in-class lecture, discussion and project descriptions.

T 9/1 - Course introduction / Setting up blogs

R 9/3 - Demo / Introduction to Project 1: Absence/Presence

T 9/8 - Studio / Demo / blog entry due

R 9/10 - No Class

T 9/15 - Studio / Demo / blog entry due

R 9/17 - Studio / Demo

T 9/22 - Project 1: Absence/Presence due / Critique / Introduction to Project 2 - Montage, Remix, Mash-up / blog entry due

R 9/24 - Studio / Demo

T 9/29 - Studio / Demo / blog entry due

R 10/1 - Studio / Demo

T 10/6 - Studio / Demo / blog entry due

R 10/8 - Studio / Demo

T 10/13 - No Class (Monday classes & labs meet Tuesday. Tuesday classes do not meet this week) / blog entry due

R 10/15 - Studio / Demo

T 10/20 - Studio / Demo / blog entry due / Midterm blog grades given

R 10/22 - Project 2: Montage, Remix, Mash-up due / Critique / Introduction to project 3 - Subvertisement

T 10/27 - Studio / Demo / blog entry due

R 10/29 - Studio / Demo

T 11/3 - Studio / Demo / blog entry due

R 11/5 - Studio / Demo

T 11/10 - Studio / Demo / blog entry due

R 11/12 - Project 3 - Subvertisement due / Critique / Introduction to Project 4: Posing / blog entry due

T 11/17 - Studio / Demo / blog entry due

R 11/19 - Studio / Demo

T 11/24 - Studio / Demo / blog entry due

R 11/26 - Break - no classes 11/25 - 29

T 12/1 - Studio / Demo / blog entry due

R 12/3 - Studio / Demo

T 12/8- Studio / Demo / blog entry due

R 12/10 - Last day of class /Posing due / Final critique / final blogs due & all course files on DVD

Final - TBA

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Internet Art
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Grad Studio: Networked Art Practice
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avt 620
Grad Seminar: Theory and Criticism
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avt 399 / 599
Informed by the Land: Experimental Media
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avt 497
Senior Project
syllabus | outline

avt 180
Computers in the Creative Arts
syllabus | outline

AVT 000
Issues and Ethics in Digital Culture
syllabus | outline