Mondays & Wednesdays 8:00-10:50 AM
Professor: Colin Ives
email: mailto:ives@darkwing.uoregon.edu
Office Hours: Wed. 2:00-3:00 PM or by appointment

Course Description:

In this course we will discuss issues of interactivity, examine stochastic artistic strategies, and experiment with a variety of ways of presenting interactive work. We will be asking, both in our discussions and in our artwork, Is there art that is idiomatic to the computer? What opportunities do interactive multimedia offer that no other media can? Director will be our primary tool for developing interactives for the web, CD-ROMs and DVDs. We also discuss computer-controlled installations.

We will use the internet as a means of sharing work in progress. Students are required to keep an online studio. The online studio should be specific to this class alone. The site may include related research and links to related sites and should help visitors (primarily members of our class) appreciate the themes and issues that are important to understanding your art work. Near the end of the semester, I will be relying on your online studios to focus our discussions in individual conferences.

Participation also affects your grade. This means active engagement in group projects and discussions, working to make critiques a helpful give and take of ideas on each others projects, and of course, good attendance; If you are not in class you can not participate. Unexcused absences will count against your grade. If you have a necessary absence it is your responsibility contact me and complete the missed work as soon as possible. There is often a workshop every week and in order to keep our discussion on track it is essential that everyone have their projects ready. Lateness on assignment will also count against your grade.

Grading:

*Assignment I - 25%

* Assignment Il - 25%

* Assignment IlI - 20%

* Assignment IV (Individual Projects) - 25%