Buy required books (and CD-ROM of Califia) at UCSB Bookstore
Buy course reader at Alternative Copy Shop
Pick up sticker for use of Instructional Computing labs (if needed) in Phelps Hall courtyard between 9 am and 4 pm on Jan. 9-10 (bring syllabus or other proof of being in this class)
I. Information Revolutions: Media, Communication, Computing, and 'New Media'
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 cutting-edge 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")
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.
"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.])
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)
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]
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).
Readings Due: M. D. Coverley (Marjorie Luesebrink), Califia
(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 (12-12:50 pm).
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