Feb 09::
Before Class:
Read
- Information Arts by Stephen Wilson Ch. 1.1: Introduction, Methodology, Definitions and Theoretical Overview: Art and Science as Cultural Acts
- Read from Casey Reas and Ben Fry, Processing: a Programming Handbook, and look at processing.org/reference if you haven't already
Do
- A1a :: Step One:
Collect ALL your digital communications from a 72 hour timeblock (you can do longer if you need more data, but not shorter) and list them in a spreadsheet or some other organized manner. Find metadata categories for making sense of this data. In other words, you will not share the content of this data, but data about the data: time, date, location, medium etc. Are they: email, chat, twitter, social network sites, listserves, blogs, text messages and phone/voicemail? Make a list of the type of relationships (immediate family member, close friend, acquaintance, etc.) Make your own categories. Make a list of kinds of conversations and data exchanges you had; were they executables, coordinating a physical meeting, gossip, intimate or ...? Are the messages short or long? Classify the contexts (from bed, campus, class, cafe) and mood. A truly excellent work will conceive of new categories for classification and analysis in addition to the ones above. Label file A1a_lastname_firstname.filetype and email.
In class:
Discuss
- Conversation Map, by Warren Sack (see article in Cabinet and Media Art Net)
- Early cybernetics
- A1
Studio time
- work on A1.