Introduction: Discuss Syllabus

Kurt Vonnegut, Harrison Bergeron, 1961

Setup online Design Journal Blog (due 26 Jan)

Introduction to Ubiquitous Computing

Björn Hermans, Desperately Seeking: Helping Hands and Human Touch, Chapter 4 - An Introduction to Ubiquitous Computing, Calm Technology and Augmented Realities, 2000

Mark Weiser, The Computer for the Twenty-First Century, Scientific American, pp. 94-10, September 1991

Mark Weiser and John S. Brown, The Coming Age of Calm Technology, October, 1996 (optional)

J.C.R. Licklider. Man-Computer Symbiosis. IRE Transactions of Human Factors in Electronics, Volume HFE-1, pp. 4-11, March 1960., pages 1-20 only (Chapter 5 in The New Media Reader, MIT Press 2003) (optional)

Screening:

Selected Demonstrations from the Fall Joint Computer Conference, Douglas C. Engelbart, 1968

Invisible Interfaces, Ken Fishkin, Anuj Gujar, Beverly Harrison, & Roy Want, 1998

Selected Videos from UbiComp, ACM SIGCHI, CSCW, and Ars Electronica 1998-2005

Making and Breaking Rules: Game Design as Critical Practice
Katie Salen, Parsons School of Design and Eric Zimmerman, gameLab, NYC

Saturday Field Trip: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

http://www.snibbe.com/scott/breath/blowup/

Assignment:

Assignment 0: BlowUp Writup (if you did not attend fieldtrip) (due 2 Feb)

Introduction to New Media

Readings:

From Software - Information Technology Its Mew Meaning for Art, Exhibition at the Jewish Museum, 1970 (Chapter 17 in The New Media Reader, MIT Press 2003)

Four Selections by Experiments in Art and Technology, Exhibition from 9 Evenings: Theater and Engineering, 1967 (Chapter 14 in The New Media Reader, MIT Press 2003)

Chapter 1: What is New Media?, The Language of New Media, Lev Manovich, 2001

Screening:

Selected Videos from UbiComp, ACM SIGCHI, CSCW, and Ars Electronica 1998-2005

How Objects Became Digital

Readings:

Roy Ascot, The Construction of Change, 1964 (Chapter 10 in The New Media Reader, MIT Press 2003)

Marshall McLuhan:, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, Part I, Chapters 1-2 MacLuhan, 1964 (Chapter 13 in The New Media Reader, MIT Press 2003)

Screening:

Man with a Movie Camera, Vertov, 1929

Left or Right Brain TV, McLuhan predicts television of the future,  Sept. 12, 1977

CLASS CANCELED -- SFAI POWER FAILURE

Introduction to Electronics: Sensors and Actuators

Assignment:

Assignment 1: Crowd-Code Programming Assignment (due 14 Feb)

Dorkbot:

Luther Thie - Acclair a fictional brainscanning and neuromarketing service +provider for airport security clearance
Paul Haeberli - Lamina Design: Free form structures from computer models
Stelarc - Prosthetic Head

Assignment:

Assignment 2: Mote Programming (due 21 Feb)

Understanding Motes

Assignment:

Assignment 3: Interactive Artist Report (due 23 Feb)

PRESIDENTS' DAY - HOLIDAY

Interactive Artists Reports

Assignment:

Assignment 4: Situations: Street or Art? (due on blog before class 28 Feb)

Urban Atmospheres

Guy Debord, “Report on the Construction of Situations and on the Terms of Organization and Action of the International Situationist Tendency (1957),” Guy Debord and the Situationist International (edited by Tom McDonough), MIT Press, October Book, Cambridge, Massachusetts (2002)

Jane Jacobs, Death and Life of Great American Cities, Random House, 1961 (optional reading)

Screening:

William H. Whyte, Street Life Project 1972

Jump London, Free Running (a.k.a Le Parkour), 2003

The History of Net Art from 1995 to the Google IPO
Rachel Greene, Rhizome 

Programming with Sensors and Actuators

Lab time for programming with TA.

Intermediate programming of motes with a variety of sensors and actuators

Assignment:

Assignment 5: Mote Sensor/Actuator Interactive Piece (due 28 Mar)

Assignment 6: Project Proposal Concepts Due (due 7 Mar)

Assignment:

YOU MUST SCHEDULE A MEETING TO DISCUSS/PRESENT YOUR PROJECT PROPOSAL DURING ONE OF THE FOLLOWING TWO SLOTS:

MON 7 MARCH 12-4
TUE 8 MARCH 1-6

BASED ON FEEDBACK YOUR CONCEPT PROJECT PROPOSAL WILL BE DUE ON YOUR BLOG BY 11 MARCH

* NO EXCEPTIONS * DO NOT LEAVE ON SPRING BREAK WITHOUT HANDING THIS IN

I [heart] PowerPoint
David Byrne, Artist, Musician, NYC

San Jose Urban Stalking

Assignment:

Assignment 7: Project Proposal Technical Requirements (due 28 Mar)

NOTE:
 We will be available during break at times TBA for questions and mote programming assistance.

Critique: Mote Sensor/Actuator Interactive Piece

Advanced Mote Programming

Assignment:

Attend Friday SFAI lecture at 5pm on 1 April

Installation Art: Human Bodies Moving Through Space

Reading:

Myron Kruger, Responsive Environments, AFIPS 46 National Computer Conference Proceedings, 423-33. Montvale, N.J.: AFIPS Press, 1977 (Chapter 25 in The New Media Reader, MIT Press 2003)

Activating Performance

Reading:

Arthur Elsenaar and Remko Scha, Electric Body Manipulation as Performance Art: A Historical Perspective, Leonardo Journal 12, 2003

Final Projects Programming Lab

CHI Trip report

Final Projects Programming Lab

Lab time for programming final projects

Art Technology Cultural Colloquium

From Utopian Determinism to Network-Centric Paradigms
Marko Peljhan, Projekt Atol-Pact Systems and UCSB

Guest Lecture

 Guest Lecture:

Camille Utterback

Special Topics

Readings:

Bill Gaver, Jacob Beaver, Steve Benford, Ambiguity as a Resource for Design, ACM SIGCHI 2002

Bill Gaver, Dunne Pacenti E, Cultural Probes. Interactions Magazine, 1999

Fieldtrip SFMOMA

Final Projects Programming Lab

Lab time for programming final projects

Final Critique

Reading

Final Critique