March 16, 2007

Class 1: Overview of Multimedia

Discussion: Introduction to key concepts, paradigms, multimedia artworks

Lab: Creation of a blog on blogger.com
See my example blog for a discussion on Hypomnemata and the basics of formatting.

Reading: Is There Love in the Telematic Embrace, Roy Ascott

Assignment: Situational Tours, a photo-journal narrative project.

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Class 2: Socio-cultural impact of technology

Discussion: Issues in the socio-cultural impact of technology as viewed through the film genre of science fiction.

Critique: Student presentation of project ideas.

Assignment: Photograph location and write narrative text for the Situational Tours project.

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March 18, 2007

Class 3: Situational Tours

Discussion: An overview of authoring in the Blogger environment, ideas regarding the structuring and formatting of projects.

Lab: Work on Situational Tours project

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Class 4: Final Critique

Critique of Situational tours

Spatial

210 Katzen Arts Center
Multimedia Studio

Instructor

Randall Packer | Katzen 216
tel | 202-885-2773
email | rpacker @ zakros.com
course syllabi |
multimedia.american.edu/teaching
personal web | www.zakros.com

Multimedia

Randall Packer, Coordinator
Multimedia
Department of Art
American University