march 2009 city university of hong kong
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building web communities, networks, and portfolios from an academic curriculum: the use of web 2.0 in the arts. Dr. Mary Flanagan Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Professor in Digital Humanities Professor, Film and Media Studies Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH USA - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
MARCH 2009 CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG
building web communities, networks, and portfoliosfrom an academic curriculum:
the use of web 2.0 in the arts
Dr. Mary FlanaganSherman Fairchild Distinguished Professor in Digital Humanities
Professor, Film and Media StudiesDartmouth College, Hanover, NH USA
http://www.tiltfactor.orghttp://leopard.dartmouth.edu/groups/digitalhumanities/
http://www.maryflanagan.com
What do we mean-web 2.0?
What do we mean-web 2.0?
Platforms: blogsrich media websitesyoutube, facebooknetworked artmachinmaarts networks
Concepts:connectedparticipatoryever-loggedpublic and privatecommunities, crowdsliveness
Blogs and Portfolios
Artists networks
[furtherfield] Artists Network, London UK
Networked art, application art, rich media
[collection]: computer application.
[search]: search engine project.
[therealCosts.com] Michael Mandiberg, 2007
Domestic Tension, by Wafaa Bilal
Stanford Mobile Phone Orchestra
Stanford Mobile Phone Orchestra
In May 2007, Bilal confined himself in the Flatfile Galleries in
Chicago for 30 days under 24 hour web cam surveillance to
raise awareness about the everyday life of Iraqi citizens and the home confinement
Bilal left Iraq due to imprisonment and torture during the last Iraq regime
because he had made anti-Hussein regime
artworks
60,000 paintballs were shot in one month
Domestic Tension, by Wafaa Bilal
Domestic Tension, by Wafaa Bilal
Domestic Tension, by Wafaa Bilal
machinima
Brittanica Productions, Kheri Batal +Michelle Pettit-Mee (nowKrywolf)
Snow Witch (2006 or 2007) Machinima
social +knowledge networks
NYU ITP Alumni Facebook page
NYU Alumni Blog ‘Blender’ Aggregate
200 courses from MIT, Stanford, UC Berkeley, UCLA, Yale and IIT/IISc –searchable within YouTube EDU.
Studies show that peer review and feedback (assessment)
improves retention and performance
(McGourty-Dominick1998, Wen & Tsai, 2003, Akahori & Kim, 2003)
http://elearn.pri.univie.ac.at/patterns/?pattern=PeerEvaluation
Outcomes Based Teaching and Learning
What can be measured and how using web 2.0 tools?
http:// www.maryflanagan.com
http://www.tiltfactor.orghttp://
www.valuesatplay.org
Career Opportunities: game designer, web producer
narrative design / writeranimator, art director, concept artist
digital ethnographerexperience designer
content strategist, culture jammeradvertising,
culture and media writer/journalistprofessional artist
digital journalist, professional bloggerphoto editor, graphic designer, photographer
web producer, content manager, videographerwriter, researcher
MA+PhD: Curatorial studies, social science, cognitive science,Human Computer Interaction, AI, Critical Theory
Career Opportunities supported with more
links with sciencesystems designer
programmer, lead programmer2D/3D/Graphics programmer
AI programmer. network engineer, system administratorwebmaster, play tester, quality assurance technician
audio engineer, sound producer/programmerusability expert, HCI guru, interface design
data visualization, large scale systems designersinteraction architect, information architect
At Hunter: Computational Media Courses
media 161 Intro to digital media (all the digital creation tools)
medp 278 web production I (basic html / css)
medp 299 digital design and usability (new)
medp 331 web production II (flash programming)
medp 278 interactive media production (processing class)
media 280 understanding new media (history and theory)
media 363 concepts in gaming (game design course)
medp 399 game programming I (flash programming class, new)
medp 341 web programming (php class)
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