Multimedia Authoring [MMDD 200]

Multimedia 200 is the application of artistic and production technique that focuses on authoring and the integration of digital media elements, including: image, sound, animation, video, and text. Students will create projects for the Web, DVD, and other platforms. Emphasis will be placed on the expressive potential of multimedia and the exploration of new experimental forms through an understanding of the evolving paradigms of the medium.

January 17, 2006 - Introduction

Discussion: Introductions, course overview, syllabus, Blog sketchbook.
Exhibition: America's Grave, AU Museum (indeterminacy)
Reading: Ted Nelson, Computer Lib/Dream Machines

January 19, 2006 - Hypertext

Discussion: hypertext and hypermedia, indeterminate and non-linear narrative forms
Project I: Hypertextual Poetics
Reading: Janet Murray, Agency
Exhibition: Interface, Fraser Gallery, Bethesda

January 24, 2006 - Branching narrative

Discussion: Branching narrative & hyperfiction
Reading: Future of the Novel, William Burroughs

January 26, 2006 - Lab

Hands-on: Web techniques - layout, typography, css, linking

January 31, 2006 - Indeterminacy

Discussion: Further exploration of non-linear, non-sequential, recombinatory, and indeterminate forms.
Reading: John Cage, Diary 1966

February 02, 2006 - Lab

Hands-on: Web techniques - sized and pop-up windows, embedded graphics, etc.

February 07, 2006 - Complete Project I

Individual critiques

February 09, 2006 - Critique

Presentation: critique of Hypertext project
Reading: Dick Higgins, Intermedia

February 14, 2006 - Media Integration I

Discussion: Intermedial relationship between image, text and narrative
Project II : Situational Tour
Reading: Dick Higgins, Intermedia

February 16, 2006 - Lab

Hands-on: Blog technique - image and text authoring

February 21, 2006 - Critique

Presentation: Critique of Situational Tours (Project II)

February 23, 2006 - Media Integration II

Discussion: Intermedial relationship between sound, text and narrative
Project III: Unofficial DADA Audio Tour
Exhibition: DADA Show, National Gallery of Art

February 28, 2006 - No Class

Work on projects.

March 02, 2006 - Lab

Hands-on: Audio editing and mixing in ProTools

March 07, 2006 - Project Completion

Discussion: Completion of projects and podcasting

March 09, 2006 - Critique

Presentation: Critique of DADA audio tour (project III)
Reading: Lynn Hershman, Fantasy Beyond Control

March 21, 2006 - Interactive and Non-linear Video

Discussion: interactive and non-linear video form and narrative
Project IV: Navigable Video
Reading: Marcos Novak, Liquid Architecture

March 23, 2006 - Lab

Hands On: Video recording and editing techniques

March 28, 2006 - Navigable Video

Discussion: Navigable video and inhabiting the video space
Reading: Jeffrey Shaw, Modalities of Interactivity and Virtuality

March 30, 2006 - Lab

Hands-on: DVD interactivity, editing and mastering

April 04, 2006 - Interaction & Virtualization

Discussion: Interaction in virtual space
Reading: Char Davies, Changing Space: Virtual Reality as an Arena of Embodied Being

April 06, 2006 - Lab

Hands on: Video and audio compression

April 11, 2006 - Immersion

Presentation: Immersive form and virtual reality
Reading: Bill Viola, Will There Be Condominiums in Dataspace?

April 13, 2006 - Lab

Hands on: Video and text effects in Motion

April 20, 2006 - Video Space

Presentation: Construction of non-linear video narrative as storage and retrieval

April 22, 2006 - Lab

Work on projects

April 27, 2006 - Lab