Randall Packer
We are going to have a virtual “field trip” via Adobe Connect in the third space. Everyone is required to attend the interview with Second Front on Networked Conversations, Saturday, October 28th at 11pm, so please mark the date! You can attend on your laptop or phone. Each student will be responsible for preparing a… Read more »
Hi Everyone: Don’t forget that class tomorrow night will take place in the Adobe Connect Virtual Classroom. Everyone needs to login on time for class from wherever you like. Just be sure it is a quiet location with good bandwidth, and that you aren’t together with any other members of the class. You can be… Read more »
August 17th Video Wall This micro-project explores social broadcasting as the organization of distributed media flows, spaces, locations, images, and sound aggregated in the immediacy and simultaneity of their performance. As an in-class assignment, each student will broadcast via Facebook LIve and their feeds will be aggregated in real-time on to a Web-based interactive video wall. Despite… Read more »
“You’re either on or your off the bus.” – Ken Kesey, as quoted by Tom Wolfe from his book, the Electric Kook-Aid Acid Test In the 1960s, Ken Kesey catalyzed the hippie generation in the US and the around the world by conducting a social experiment with his collective, the Merry Pranksters. In 1964, they… Read more »
If you look on the right side of this grid from top to bottom… you will see a mobile broadcaster (Curt Cloninger, an artist developing this idea) on an inner-tube flowing down a river; in the middle is a desktop broadcaster capturing the image of the mobile broadcaster (myself); and then on the bottom a… Read more »
Due: Thursday, September 28th This semester we have discussed the work of video and Internet artists, as well as reviewed key concepts of net culture and its relation to media art. For the first Hyperessay assignment, students will write a summary by synthesizing ideas culled from your research posts, as well a ideas that you… Read more »