General Information
Catherine D'Ignazio & Gideon Webster, professors
Course Description
This class will be an open forum for students to bring tech problems, get critical feedback, share ideas, and learn new skills in a "just-in-time" approach in order to include them into studio projects. The main work in this class will be the students' studio work.
The class will be a mixed format of individual meetings, workshops & demos, scheduled small & large group critiques, and open lab time for working on projects, troubleshooting and getting informal feedback from peers and instructors. For this reason, class attendance and participation is extremely important and will be the only thing that students are graded on.
From a pedagogical perspective, the Technology Workshop class will emphasize a "consider everything" approach to art making. We will emphaisze the students' responsibility as the artist for the entire presentation of the work through consideration of site, physical presentation, attention to material detail and public speaking about the work. This class encourages students to think outside the structures of powerpoint and will emphasize to important role of the body encountering the work in space, even for the presentation of work in progress.
Additional Notes
Workshops:
- Flexible Moldmaking
- Advanced Web Technologies
- Video tracking
+ Midterm crits: we will reserve the Fletcher space for these and students will be encouraged to use this space and/or to find another space to install their work. If the work is at an early stage, we will encourage them to find a visual, 3D way of representing their working process so that people can discuss it productively (e.g. REALLY no powerpoint unless its Powerpoint-Art).
+ Individual Meetings: We will encourage students to install their work as thoroughly as possible (given whatever stage it is in) for discussion with us. Indiv. meetings will be 45 min.
Requirements
Your attendance and participation.
Grading and Policies
Grades will be based on attendance, participation/peer mentoring, and productive use of class time. There will be no formal group assignments, though the instructors may give individual assignments.
No laptops open during critiques and class discussions. No exceptions.
More than one unexcused absence and you risk failing the class.
Calendar and Events
Tuesday, Feb 20, 2007
Instructor: Gideon + Catherine
Introduction to the class. Discuss studio projects.
Tuesday, Feb 27, 2007
Instructor: Gideon + Catherine
Tuesday, Mar 6, 2007
Instructor: Catherine
Individual Meetings (45 min each):
1) Rachelle
2)
Tuesday, Mar 13, 2007
Instructor: Gideon
Flexible Moldmaking Workshop
Individual Meetings (45 min each):
1)
2)
Tuesday, Mar 20, 2007
Instructors: Catherine
Individual Meetings (45 min each):
1)
2)
----- SPRING BREAK -----
Tuesday, Apr 3, 2007
Instructor: Catherine + Gideon
Early Mid-term Small/Large group Crits - 3rd Floor Installation space reserved
Tuesday, Apr 10, 2007
Instructor: Gideon + Catherine (last 2 hours)
Special Guest: Antonio Muntadas, MIT
Individual Meetings (45 min each):
1)
2)
Tuesday, Apr 17, 2007
Instructor: Gideon
(possible) Video Tracking Workshop
Individual Meetings (45 min each):
1)
2)
Tuesday, Apr 24, 2007
Instructor: Catherine
Advanced Web Technologies Workshop (RSS/Data feeds, Web 2.0, Greasemonkey, XML, PHP)
Individual Meetings (45 min each):
1)
2)
Tuesday, May 1, 2007
Instructor: Gideon
Individual Meetings (45 min each):
1)
2)
Tuesday, May 8, 2007
Instructor: Catherine + Gideon
Final Small Group Class Critiques - 3rd Floor Installation space reserved
Tuesday, May 15, 2007
Instructor: Gideon
Additional Resources
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