introductory exercise
remix and web publishing of Alison Knowles / James Tenney early computer poem
technology: xhtml

Assigned Reading: Vannevar Bush: As We May Think

Using Arcangel and other screenings as examples, create a data-diary  sketch using HTML5. The work may involve: a daily or repetitive task/composition, a log of activity, a series of observations, transcriptions, recordings,trace of travel patterns, a memory map, personal error codes, quantifications of self as information, etc.

Resource: HTML5 tutorial (Complete the tutorial from HOME to BLOCKS as needed based on prior experience).

Screenings:
Data Diaries, Corey Arcangel
Spigot (Oracle’s Reflection), others, Jason Salavon
War, Vuk Cosik
Year Long Performance, Tehching Hsieh
 Self Portrait(s) [(as others)], Talan Memmott
My Body, Shelley Jackson
3rdi, Wafaa Bilal
The Thrilling Potential of Sixth Sense Technology, Pranav Mistry

introductory web resources:

How the Internet Works
An Internet Timeline
Alternate Visions: Way Out of the Box

Assigned Reading: Jorge Luis Borges: Garden of Forking Paths

Screenings: Michael Joyce: Afternoon (safari or firefox only; must change java security settings); Shelley Jackson: My Body; Superbad.com; Andrei Thomaz: Invisible Mazes; Natalie Bookchin: The Intruder

Research Resources: Camillo’s Memory Theatre; Memory Palace (Method of Loci); Ted Nelson’s Xanadu (image & wikipedia); 10 PRINT CHR$(205.5 + RND(1)); GO TO 10 (see Mazes, p. 31); Espen Aarseth: Introduction: Ergodic Literature; Maze Generation; Early Hypertext (image, info)

Patterns: sieve, mirror world, cycle

Coding Resources: html5; css;codeweek2 (zip archive); see also Violet’s blog posts

Task: Path, Pattern, Labyrinth
In consideration of Borges’ Garden of Forking Paths in conjunction with the provided research resources, craft a small experimental response that engages with pattern, path or labyrinth.

While this is an open-ended task up to your interpretation, possible outputs include: site that structures content into a pattern or labyrinth using hypertext links, a site or page that visualizes connections between nodes of content, a code-driven sketch that generates mazes, a site based on a memory palace, etc.

WEEK 3, 9.11: BUILDING BLOCKS OF FORM
technology: css box model
exercise: remaking dada & conceptual artforms
assignment for week 4: architecture

Suggested Reading: Data Photomontage and net.art Sitemaps

Task: Magritte’s Wake
This begins as a technical assignment for all who are not expert in css3
1. Take the CSS3 Tutorial
2. Review the in-class exercise based on Gary Simmon’s Wake
3. Once the exercise is understood, add one or more css3 Transitions
4. If you get this far, create a second version using  one or more css3 Animations
5. If you get this far,  rethink & remix the content and aesthetics into a dazzling new work
Foundational Code from In-Class: wake (click to download zip archive)

screenings:
Marek Walczak and Martin Wattenberg: apartment
Gene Simmons: Wake
Early Maps of Network Space
Internet Mapping Project

screenings of historical browser art screenings:

Vuc Cosic: Contemporary ASCII
JODI.org
0100101110101101.org: ftpermutations
Ben Benjamin: Superbad
Thomson and Craighead: Weather Gauge
Olia Lialina: My Boyfriend Came Back From the War
Mark Napier: The Shredder (404!)
JODI: %Location — http://wwwwwwwww.jodi.org/
JODI: globalmove.us
JODI: http://404.jodi.org/
Mez: _[ad][Dressed in a Skin Code
Alexei Shulgin: Form Art
jimpunk

reading:
Natalie Bookchin and Alexei Shulgin: introduction to net.art; net.art: the origin: Alexei Shulgin on nettime; nettime interview with Vuc Cosik: net.art per se; Four Questions;

resources:
MTAA, simple net art diagram(1997): http://www.mteww.com/nad.html
Linkoln.net (later) complex net art diagram: http://www.linkoln.net/complex/http://www.linkoln.net/complex/

Task: DIY net.art /  Hacked Web Site
During the afternoon in-class lab, create a site that hybridizes materials and ideas your are considering for a current/future independent project with one of the net.art sites above. Consider this an exercise in response / remix / distant collaboration using one or more of the following approaches: appropriation (of content &or code), montage, documentation (screenshot/recording), imitation, invasion, embodiment. If it helps, consider an authorship ratio (e.g: 50%/50%, 20%/80%, 60%/40%).

WEEK 5, 9.25: FUNDAMENTALS OF CREATIVE SCRIPTING 
fundamentals of creative coding: strings, numbers, variables, conditionals, timers
technology: javascript
suggested tutorial: w3schools javascript

in-class code: My boyfriend came back (download all files)

conceptual codeworks:
jodi: %Location (view the source – may need to paste into a text editor)
Jose Carlos Silvestre: Failed Fractals
Mez: cross.ova.ing
Florian Cramer: Words Made Flesh: chapter 2
Virus Charms and Self-Creating Code
Eva and Franco Matte: Biennale.py

Assorted Resources:
xhtml character codes
Hiding in DNA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibonacci_number
    ascii
    unicode
    binary
http://www.haykranen.nl/projects/markov/demo/

WEEK 6, 10.2: TERRITORIES OF THE MOMENT
Projects lab with ad-hoc rapid, stop-where-you-are exhibitions
Exhibition 1: 11:40PM
Exhibition 2: 3:30PM

WEEK 7, 10:9: PROJECT ONE PRESENTATION & CRITIQUE
MIDTERM Presentations + Critiques

WEEK 8, 10.16: STRANGE LOOPS
screenings: Constant Dullart: The Revolving Internet;  Olia Lialina: Summer; Young Hae Chang Heavy Industries: Bust Down The Door;  bpNichol: First Screening

Resources: I am a Strange Loop (wikpedia)
Code: IN-CLASS LOOPS

Task: Loop Composition
Compose using at least 1 for-loop and/or recursive function (code that calls itself). If you have a fairly good grasp of the techniques,  as a further constraint, use one of the following number systems as a score for the composition:
*fibonnaci
*prime
*cube
*square
Read from Douglas Hofstadter’s I am a Strange Loop and consider concepts of self-reflexivity, recursion and feedback, one or more of which might feed into what you generate.

WEEK 10, 10.30: GENERATIVE PALIMPSEST
tutorials in html5 experimental composition using canvas

canvas tutorial: http://www.w3schools.com/html/html5_canvas.asp
canvas reference: http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_canvas.asp
in-class basic examples

Task: Render / Palimpsest
Composition in canvas using one or more definitions of either 1)render or 2)palimpsest as a loose constraint for content and composition.

WEEK 11, 11.6: AESTHETICS OF CROWDS AND DATA
technology: php, mysql. discussion of advanced ajax techniques and apis