For our warmup micro-project, we will use Twitter to displace ourselves in the third space. Be sure you have a Twitter account and the Twitter app on your phone. Each student will take their phone or computer to a place that has special significance, photograph the space, and describe what you are doing via the… Read more »

Video Selfie:  Using your smart phone, create an approximately one minute video selfie of yourself that constructs your “artistic alter ego.” Choose a location that you find best expresses this constructed sense of identity: studio, campus, apartment, park, café, garden, etc. Do not write a script or edit your piece, although you can shoot more… Read more »

The Collective Body: We will create a “collective body” made up of all of our body parts randomly reassembled and reconfigured into a single composite body. Using a smart phone or digital camera, shoot nine photographs of yourself close-up: (3) face – 2 profiles, one frontal, (2) each hand, (2) each foot, (1) upper body,… Read more »

Twitter is often referred to as “micro-blogging,” in which short texts are written in 140 characters or less. This has resulted in a form of writing that is quick, immediate, and spontaneous. In this assignment, we will capture the immediacy of everyday life, in which we will interact with one another through improvised exchanges. Our… Read more »

In short, you will be creating a “network graph” visualization with your personal Facebook data. The following pen will get you started with all the necessary code. Your job is to “hack” it, modify the parameters and values in the program to make it your own. The goal of this assignment is for you to… Read more »

Virtual Soundscape: Using only Soundcloud and a smart phone, narrate an approximately two-minute walk: no editing, cuts, or montage, a real-time recording. The goal of the project is to disrupt the “reality” of the situation by superimposing a fictitious spoken narrative, In other words, invent a narrative that transforms the environment, creating instead, an imaginary… Read more »

Glitched Aberations: Drawings from the work of Jon Cates, Rosa Menkman and other glitch artists, this project will explore the aberations, failures, and artifacts that signify this artistic form. In Class Project The following alterations are intended to show the results of “hacking” an image by altering its code as text. The idea is to… Read more »

Net Appropriation: Media artist and software designer August Black from Cycling ’74 will lead us in a workshop/project exploration net appropriation. Using the maxurl object from Max/MSP/Jitter, the project will involve appropriation from the Flickr API, exploring collective narrative and its integration with real-time media processing. Here is a short video introduction of Max: August… Read more »

  See instructions on the Internet Bridge project Website Introduction page.  

Overview of the Project Hyperessay Using the form of the hyperessay (essay with hypermedia elements) integrate a textual description with relevant graphics, video, sound, and links drawn from micro-projects, readings, discussion and other research to develop the final project. Gather together media and links to related readings and/or artworks that support your project hyperessay. The… Read more »