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Professor: Jennifer Steinkamp, js@jsteinkamp.com
home (310) 737 9616
office hours 11:30-12:30 Wednesdays in the DMA lab
TA: Lucas Kuzma philtre@philtre.com
office hours: Mondays 5-7 in our classroom and Tuesdays 12:00-2:00 senselab Kinross North 2nd floor.
Description:
Week 1
Monday 4/5
Assignment 1: Find an existing game, retool it as a self portrait without using images of yourself.
Purchase course text: Laura Steward Heon, Game Show, art exhibition catalog (North Adams, Mass: 2001)
purchase at: http://www.massmoca.org/hardware/books.html $15.00
Wednesday 4/7 JS out of town.
In class: The film Anemic Cinema, 1926. Marcel Duchamp made this film as his alter ego Rrose Sélavy in collaboration with Man Ray, make Roto-reliefs with Lucas. These can be created on the computer if you like.
Week 2
Monday 4/13 Critique assignment 1 in progress and the roto-reliefs.
Wednesday 4/14 Eddo Stern Guest Lecture http://www.eddostern.com/
Week 3
Monday 4/19 Class Lab
Director basics: Introduction to Macromedia Director Basic Lingo Scripting, Spin
Handlers Object Transformations
Wednesday 4/21 Computer Vision
Read: Quark Soup Video Games as Art Ant Farm gameshow review
Week 4
Monday 4/26 Gregory Niemeyer guest critique assignment 1 http://art.berkeley.edu/niemeyer/
Gregory Niemeyer will also give a talk at NOON in the EDA. You are required to be there!
Wednesday 4/28 JS Out of Town
Computer Vision projects in class
Read: Quark Soup Video Games as Art Ant Farm gameshow review
Week 5
Monday 5/3 Final Critique assignment 1
Wednesday 5/5 No Class, we will meet in San Francisco Saturday
Saturday 5/8 Zeum, San Francisco, 10 AM
Southwest #530 depart 8 AM arrive 9:10. Take the BART from Oakland to SF Powell St. Walk two blocks south on 4th to Howard St. The Zeum Carousel is on that corner --the building is behind it. Southwest #752 7 PM
Week 6
Monday 5/10 lists repeat loops Follow and DestLoc Dest Color Color
Check out Josh Nimoy's: http://stage.itp.nyu.edu/~jn429/froggies
Wednesday 5/12 web cam, computer vision
example 1, example 2, example 3, example 4, example 5 example 6 example 7 example8
Week 7 Present proposal drawings for Zeum project Discuss readings
Monday 5/17 Quark Soup Video Games as Art Ant Farm gameshow review
Wednesday 5/19 Celia Pierce Guest Lecture
www.calit2.net www.ucgamelab.net www.cpandfriends.com
Week 8
Monday 5/24
Wednesday 5/26
CALL FOR ENTRIES ALT+CTRL
Week 9
Monday 5/31 Memorial Day No Class
Wednesday 6/2 Present Finals in progress
Week 10
Monday 6/7
Wednesday 6/9
Week 11
Wednesday 6/16 FINAL PRESENTATION 2 PM
http://classes.design.ucla.edu/Spring04/160-1/projects/
Previous Student Examples from other classes: http://users.design.ucla.edu/~jennifer
Grading: Grading is determined by the completion of all assignments. Attendance and participation are mandatory, and of course effect the grade.
Required Text:
Laura Steward Heon, Game Show, art exhibition catalog (North Adams, Massachusetts: 2001)
purchase at: http://www.massmoca.org/hardware/books.html $15.00
Dave Gussow, Video Games as Art, St. Petersburg Times (Saint Petersburg, FL: Feb. 9, 2004)
The Rules of Play, Katie Salen and Eric Zimmerman (Boston: MIT Press, 2003). $45 hardcover
Quark Soup
Video Games as Art
Ant Farm
gameshow review
Links:
http://webcamxtra.sourceforge.net/
http://jsteinkamp.com/html/computer_information.htm
http://moca.org/museum/digital_gallery.php ON-line artist digital games/art
http://www.jamescohan.com/past/ Click on Exhibitions for The Game Show at James Cohan Gallery NYC.
http://www.massmoca.org/visual_arts/past_exhibitions/visual_arts_past_2001.html
http://art.berkeley.edu/niemeyer/ Gregory Niemeyer's web site
http://www.c-level.cc/
http://www.eddostern.com/ Eddo Stern
http://proxy.arts.uci.edu/~nideffer/ Robert Niedeffer
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