1, 2, 3,
4, 5, 6, 7,
8, 9, FINAL
Assignment
1 (due Monday, Oct 7th):
LA/Berlin poster
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Assignment 2 (due Monday, Oct
14th):
a. Design personal logo, splash for your homepage and a print
version.
Design
your personal logo. It can be your name or your invented 'company
name'. Create the opening page of your future web site with
this logo and a printed version. Drafts due on Monday for critique,
submit version 1 on Wednesday. We will be working on your personal
style and image throughout the quarter and this will be an assignment
that we will keep coming back to.
b. Design Poster for Xin Wei Sha Lectures
About
the lecture:
Where: EDA-104 North Kinrooss
When: Monday, October 14th, 6pm
Sha was a member of the first generation of developers for the
Apple's Lisa and Macintosh computers and deaded a team of programmers
who produced the first physics simulations and microworlds for
the graphical personal computer. After obtaining an interdisciplinary
Ph.D. in 2001 at Stanford on differential geometric performance
and the technologies of writing (in Mathematics, Computer Science,
and History & Philosophy of Science) Sha joined the faculty
of the School of Literature, Communication and Culture at the
Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta where he teaches
presently. (more)
Technical Information:
You should submit a printed version of your poster and a web
version (.gif or .jpg, 72 dpi, proportional to 800 x 600 pixels).
Upload the web version
to the server.
c.
Optional assignemnt: portfolio flyer.
Although
not required, the Hammer is a very prestigious museum and would
be a good addition to a portfolio. It may even catch the attention
of the musuem director or curator. The event is on Thursday,
October 15th. (more)
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Assignment
3:
a. Design interface for your homepage. (due on Wednesday, October
23)
b.
Design poster (legal size) for ISEA
Conference. (due on Monday, October 21)
The
goal of this poster is to advertise the Department of Design
| Media Arts to the participants of the ISEA Conference and
possible future international students. It's is not going to
be hang on the wall, but rather turned in to participants.
About
the event:
Founded in the Netherlands in 1990, ISEA is an international
non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion and development
of the electronic arts. ISEA's membership and collaborators
consist of a wide range of individuals and institutions involved
in the creative, theoretical and technological aspects of the
electronic arts. The 11th International Symposium on Electronic
Art will be held for the first time ever in Asia, in Nagoya,
Japan, organized by MEDIASELECT in collaboration with ISEA.
Technical
Information:
You should submit a printed version of your poster on Monday,
October 21st.
- Legal size.
- Required information: how to contact the Department of Design
| Media Arts, faculty members, types of activities developed
by students (installations, web projects), facilities + images,
your name.
Upload a web version to the server (.gif or .jpg, 72 dpi, proportional
to 800 x 600 pixels). Upload
the web version to the server.
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Assignment
4:
Design and prepare for print your two color business card and
letterhead.
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Assignment
5:
Design poster announcement for (you should choose at least one
of these events):
LA
Freewaves | Michael Century |
Berlin Media Group
About
the event:
When: November 21-24
Sat. Nov. 23, 11 am-10pm and Sun. Nov. 24, 11am-5pm
Modify--Speculative Technology Selected by Cathy Davies. Modify
presents works that speculates about near future technology.
On the surface, these works present humor, fantasy or corporate
slickness, but lead the viewer to dark questions about the goals
and results of these technological speculations. Video works
by: Hillary Mushkin, Shane Hope, ModGen, Steven Matheson, Steve
Wong, RAchel Mayeri, Rian Brown, and Leslie Thornton; as well
as two other video programs will be shown continuously at UCLA
Hammer Museum.
Thur-Sun., Nov. 21-24, 11am-5pm, Sat., Nov. 23, 7-11pm
Digital works of Modigy--Speculative Technology by: Michelle
Glaser, Clover Leary, Machine Corporation, Tran T Kim-trang
and Karl Mihail. and NAVIGATE also selected by Cathy Davies
will be shown @ UCLA EDA Space.
The works present the users with strategic, experimental choices
in interface design, from passive to aggressive, from humorous
to poetic, and from inscrutable to intuitive. Works by: Sarah
Rosenbaun, Ken Marchionno, Michelle Glaser, Andrew Bucksbarg,
German Bobe, Jeanne Finley adn Lynne Sachs, Kenneth Tin-Kin
Hung and Anonymous.
Reception Nov. 23, 7-11pm
with Gen Mod Cafe, an altered cafe serving genetically modified
food. (For more information see http://www.Freewaves.org)
Technical Information:
You should submit a printed version of your poster and a web
version (.gif or .jpg, 72 dpi, proportional to 800 x 600 pixels).
Upload the web version
to the server.
About
the event:
When: Tuesday, November 19th
Title: "Animating Life: the construction of the
creative user of
computer animation".
MICHAEL
CENTURY is Chair of the Arts Department at Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute, which he joined in August, 2002. Long associated
with The Banff Centre for the Arts, Century founded the Centre's
Media Arts Division in 1988. In this position, he was the
instigator of the Art and Virtual Environments project (1991-1994).
From 1993-1996, Century was a program manager at the Canadian
Centre for Information Technology Innovation (CITI), a federal
research laboratory located in Montreal, with responsibility
for new media arts funding. From 1996-98, he served as policy
advisor to the federal department of Canadian Heritage. Since
September 1997, he has been the principal of Next Century
Consultants, focusing on new media and cultural policy for
various public and university sector clients. For the Rockefeller
Foundation, he researched and wrote a report in 1999 entitled
Pathways to Innovation in Digital Culture. He was educated
in humanities, piano performance, and musicology at the University
of Toronto (B.A.) and the University of California, Berkeley
(M.A.) and the University of Iowa (M.A). He has recently completed
a historical study of the transition from analogue to digital
techniques in animation as a doctoral dissertation in science
and technology policy studies at the University of Sussex.
About
the event:
Title: "Inspirations I of 2 (designers
and architects from berlin meet their l.a. counterparts)
When and Where:
Thursday, November 14th, 4-6pm @ EDA
Presenters: Werner Aisslinger-Studio Aisslinger (Berlin), Christopher
Burns Abcarius + Burns Architecture Design (Berlin), Lars Krückeberg-Graft
(L.A.), David Mocarski and Arkkit Forms Design (L.A.)
Friday, November 15, 2002 7-9pm @ Art Center College of Design
Ahmanson Auditorium (Art Center College of Design, Ahmanson
Auditorium 1700, Lida Street, Pasadena, CA 91103 - for info
go to www.artcenter.edu
under "contents")
Presenters: Harald Schindele-Hoyer & Schindele (Berlin),
Tim Edler realities:united (Berlin), Page Beerman-Designworks/USA
(L.A.), Annie Chu-Chu+Gooding Architects (L.A.)
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Assignment
6:
Final version of the business card.
Deadline:
Nov. 14th (Thursday) - until midnight
Colors: two spot colors (black and red - pantone solid 185 C)
Format: EPS
Size: 2 X 3.5
* Create a folder inside "assignment 6" with your
last name and make sure you include fonts, images and the EPS
file.
* Also upload a jpg of your card outside the folder to the class
website.
More information here.
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Assignment
7:
Second
version of printed portfolio (physical container).
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Assignment
8:
HTML
version of your website.
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Assignment
9:
First version of your final portfolio.
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FINAL
portfolio due: December
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