When: Tuesday/Thursday 3:00 - 4:50 pm
Where: CFA 112
Instructor: Dave Pape
e-mail: depape@buffalo.edu
Office: CFA 250
Office hours: Mon/Tues 1-2
| Notes | Videos/Media viewed | Reading assignment |
|---|---|---|
| Class 1 (17 Jan) - Course Intro | SIGGRAPH Video Review Issue 150 | |
| Class 2 - History of Media & Computing (19 Jan) | McLuhan. Two Selections. pp. 193-210
Wiener. Men, Machines, and the World About pp. 65-72 | |
| Class 3 (24 Jan) - Animation | J. Stuart Blackton. Humorous Phases of Funny Faces
Winsor McCay. Gertie the Dinosaur Max & Dave Fleischer. Snow White (excerpt) Timothy Hittle. The Potato Hunter Bill Kroyer. Technological Threat Lotte Reiniger. The Adventures of Prince Achmed | |
| Class 4 (26 Jan) - Abstract Animation | William Latham. A Sequence from The Evolution of Form
Dan Sandin, Tom DeFanti. Spiral 4 A.C.M. Larry Cuba. Calculated Movements John Whitney. Experiments in Motion Graphics Oskar Fischinger. Motion Painting No. 1 Busby Berkeley. "By a Waterfall", from Footlight Parade | McCloud. Time Frames pp. 711-736
Murray, Manovich. Introductions. pp. 3-25 |
| Class 5 (31 Jan) - Character Animation | Bob Clampett. The Great Piggy Bank Robbery
John Lasseter. The Adventures of Andre and Wally B. | |
| Class 6 (2 Feb) - Algorithmic Art | Media Magic. Fractal Fantasy
Lucasfilm. Genesis Effect, from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan Daniela Kutschat, Rejane Cantoni. Op-era Rudy Rucker. Cellular Automata Karl Sims. Primordial Dance Karl Sims. Liquid Selves John Cage. Six | Sutherland. Sketchpad. pp. 109-127 |
| Class 7 (7 Feb) - Adrian Levesque: Visualization | ||
| Class 8 (9 Feb) - Visualization | SIGGRAPH 2004 course: Introduction to Computer Graphics
SIGGRAPH Video Review #61 | Borges. The Garden of Forking Paths. pp. 29-35
Six Selections by the Oulipo. pp. 147-189 Paik. Cybernated Art. pp. 227-229 |
| Class 9 (14 Feb) - Brian Milbrand & Ron Ehmke (Real Dream Cabaret) | Choose Your Adventure DVD | |
| Class 10 (16 Feb) - Carolyn Tennant: Video Processing | Dave Jones. Jones Colorizer
Nam June Paik. Wobulator Dan Sandin. 5 Minute Romp Through the IP | Krueger. Responsive Environments. pp. 377-389
Bolt. "Put-That-There": Voice and Gesture at the Graphics Interface. pp. 433-439 |
| Class 11 (21 Feb) - History of Immersive Environments | Myron Krueger. Videoplace '88 (Siggraph Video Review #40) | |
| Class 12 (23 Feb) - Virtual Reality | Virtual Reality (Siggraph Video Review #70)
EVL. Pocket Cathedral EVL. CAVE: A Virtual Reality Theater Pape. Crayoland GM. VisualEyes: Virtual Vette NCSA. Caterpillar - Distributed Virtual Reality Cox, Patterson, Thiebaux. Virtual Director Demo EVL. The NICE Project Addison, Thiebaux. Detour Dolinsky. DreamGrrrls | Boal. From Theatre of the Oppressed. pp. 339-352
Weizenbaum. From Computer Power and Human Reason. pp. 367-375 |
| Class 13 (28 Feb) - Josephine Anstey: Interactive Drama | Josephine Anstey. The Thing Growing
Brenda Laurel, Rachel Strickland, Rob Tow. Placeholder Aaron Bobick, et al. The KidsRoom Blast Theory. Desert Rain Josephine Anstey. Human Trials | |
| Class 14 (2 Mar) - Virtual Reality | Laurel, Strickland, Tow. Placeholder
Char Davies. Osmose Maurice Benayoun. Worldskin Agnes Hegedus, Jeffrey Shaw, Bernd Lintermann. conFiguring the CAVE Foundation of the Hellenic World. Ancient Miletus Disney Corp. DisneyQuest excerpts | Laurel. Two Selections. pp. 563-573
Morningstar & Farmer. The Lessons of Lucasfilm's Habitat. pp. 663-677 |
| Class 15 (7 Mar) - Shawn Rider: Online Games [Powerpoint slides] | ||
| Class 16 (9 Mar) - Video Games | Computer Chronicles: Computer Games (1988)
Will Wright. Spore Gameplay | Turkle. Video Games and Computer Holding Power. pp. 499-513
Nichols. The Work of Culture in the Age of Cybernetic Systems. pp. 625-641 |
| Class 17 (21 Mar) - Game Development | The Document of Metal Gear Solid | |
| Class 18 (23 Mar) - Educational / Advertising / Political Games | Katherine Neil, Radwan Kasmiya. Game as Critic as Art presentations | Papert. From Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas. pp. 413-431 |
| Class 19 (28 Mar) - Art Games; Machinima | ILL Clan. Apartment Hunting & Common Sense Cooking
Koulamata. The French Democracy | |
| Class 20 (30 Mar) - Copyright | Don't Copy That Floppy | Burroughs. The Cut-Up Method of Brion Gysin. pp. 89-91
Bagdikian. The Endless Chain. pp. 471-483 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright |
| Class 21 (4 Apr) - Sonic Outlaws | Craig Baldwin, Negativland. Sonic Outlaws | |
| Class 22 (6 Apr) - Sampling / Appropriation | Franzen & McLeod. Copyright Criminals
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid excerpt Star Wars: 133t Trailer Illegal Art | MPAA - www.mpaa.org/piracy.asp
CSPD - www.law.duke.edu/cspd/comics/ |
| Class 23 (11 Apr) - DMCA | Bruce Conner. Mongoloid
MPAA. Piracy: It's a Crime | |
| Class 24 (13 Apr) - Free Software / Linux | Revolution OS | Stallman. The GNU Manifesto. pp. 543-550
CreativeCommons.org, "About" pages : History, Licenses, Legal Concepts |
| Class 25 (18 Apr) - Free Software; Wikis; Creative Commons | Creative Commons. Get Creative | |
| Class 26 (20 Apr) - Creative Commons | DJ Spooky. Presentation from Creative Commons launch.
Justin Cone. Building on the Past Creative Commons. Reticulum Rex | Haraway. A Cyborg Manifesto. pp. 515-541 |
| Class 27 (25 Apr) - Robots & Cyborgs | Survival Research Laboratories, from Aspect, Vol. 2
Stelarc at UB | |
| Class 28 (27 Apr) - the end | Marx Brothers. Duck Soup |