Graphic arts in an earlier era: Jan Tschichold, The New Typography (1928) (sample images and excerpts, course password required)
David Carson's graphic design work (1980s-90s) (sample images, course password required)
April Greiman's graphic design work (1980s-90s) (sample images, course password required)
Examples of advanced Web design: explore some of the "styles" of Web design categorized by Curt Cloninger on the site associated with his book, Fresh Styles for Web Designers: Eye Candy from the Underground. (See especially "Gothic Organic School" and "Lo-Fi Grunge School")
Originally scheduled for May 9th, the midterm exam has been moved to Friday, May 11th due to the power outage on campus the evening before the original date of the exam. Students are excused from coming to class on May 9th.
The readings assigned for the next week of the course will be shuffled forward by one class (and one class will be cut). See the schedule below, which was adjusted on 5/9/07.
[Note: Originally scheduled for May 9th, the midterm exam has been moved to this date, May 11th, due to the campus power outage shortly before the original date of the exam.]
Exam on readings (print and online) in the course to date. The exam is "factual," and is designed to reward students who have regularly kept up with the assignments and attended lectures and sections.
[This class, originally scheduled for May 18, has been cut from the schedule due to the power outage and postponed midterm earlier in May, which forced the preceding few classes to move forward one notch on the calendar.]
Conclusion of lectures on postindustrial "knowledge work."
Discussion with the Instructor."
Literary and Artistic Responses to Information as Work and Power
"Jodi" (Joan Hermskerk and Dirk Paesmans, Home Page
Critical Art Ensemble, "Electronic Civil Disobedience" (1996) and "The Mythology of Terrorism on the Net" (1995) [Note: these essays are in the reader but are also part of books by the CAE that can be retrieved online in the form of .pdf files.])
Julian Dibbell, "A Rape in Cyberspace; or How an Evil Clown, a Haitian Trickster Spirit, Two Wizards, and a Cast of Dozens Turned a Database into a Society" (1993) [in Trend]
Simon Penny, "Representation, Enaction, and the Ethics of Simulation" (2004) (also read the responses to the essay by Eugene Thacker and Katherine Hayles)
Donna Haraway, "A Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology, and Socialist Feminism in the 1980s" (1985) [in Trend]
Recommended Readings:
Sherry Turkle, "Who Am We?" (1995) [in Trend]
If you've never been in a MOO environment, you may wish to venture as a guest into the lamdaMOO discussed in the Dibbell essay--at least as far as reading the tutorial and trying the interface. Use a telnet client to go to lambda.moo.mud.org, port 8888 (most computers have a telnet client installed, in which case clicking on the above link in a Web browser should open it).
Due on this date: online, revised version of 4-page essay (Web Authoring Assignment) (see Technology Help page for information regarding technical assistance and resources for Web authoring) [Note: this assignment was moved to this date from its original deadline of May 25]
Readings Due: M. D. Coverley (Marjorie Luesebrink), Califia (2000)
(Open the file "Califia.exe" on the CD-ROM to start; turn your sound on. Try to make your way through at least the first two "journeys" in this hypertext novel: the journeys South and East.)
Exam on materials in the course (print and online) covered since the midterm. The exam is "factual," and is designed to reward students who have regularly kept up with the assignments and attended lectures and sections. The exam will be only 50 minutes long (4-4:50 pm).
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