Assignments
/participation 15%. Your participation grade covers your attendance and your upbeat, dynamic engagement in classes and class activities. Major points for actively referring to specific excerpts from that week's reading! If you are generally quiet in class, or otherwise concerned about how I might perceive your engagement, come see me so we can strategize your participation so that it is comfortable yet challenging to you, and trackable for me.
Another note on participation: Learning digital tools and processes can be hard and sometimes intimidating. We have to ask questions, and yet for some reason we are scared to (why?). In this class I will reward you if you keep asking questions until you get it, and those of you who are eager to help your peers. We often need to hear something explained in a different way in order to understand.
/a1. 5% Website to hold work for the semester
Full assignment here
/a2. 15% Online Dataportrait (Self Portrait for a Spy)
Online Dataportrait (Self Portrait for a Spy): For this assignment, you will create a self portrait of who you are with no 'selfie' images of yourself; rather, this self portrait will be made up of metadata, ip addresses, links, and/or other kinds of codes that paint a picture of who you are on the internet.... Please 'hand code' using your new html and css skills. javascript, php, etc. optional. No Dreamweaver or packages. Full assignment description here
/a3. 15% Nonlinear or interactive narrative: Stories for our time.
You will be making an interactive story that informed by data and database aesthetics. In a2 we worked with our own metadata to tell a story; in a3, you are invited with work with a larger data set to construct a different, more complicated, or unexpected interactive narrative. We will explore work with images, text, databases, form elements, and some interactive javascript elements to generate a dynamic narrative that is built with data. Work with video is also possible. Full assignment here
/a4. 5% Copyright and the commons
Put a Creative Commons license on each of your project pages: https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/ (and required for all subsequent projects). Due Friday Oct 23
a5. 15% Map one thing.
For /A5, you will make a unique sort of map, using openstreetmap as a starting point to Map one thing. This "one thing" could be a mood, an object, a history, a landscape, an organism, a plot. Due Nov 14 Full assignment here
a6. 20% Map one thing continued.Due Dec 14.
a7. 10% Digital Response
We will use Slack in this class to share our work with one another, and to post 4 responses to the week's readings and artworks. Reading + Artwork responses can be both visual and/or written. It must be clear that the texts have been read; if the primary response is through visual material, consider adding bullet points that connect the image to the reading so it is clear your are grappling with the texts. You can also upload audio recordings. Post to the #readingresponses channel in Slack.
You may only submit one response a week, so budget your responses throughout the semester so that you aren't scrambling to complete your responses the last few weeks of class. Submit the Friday after the reading is due, by 11:59p.