02Web2.0 in the arts

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building web communities, networks, and portfolios
from an academic curriculum:
the use of web 2.0 in the arts
Dr. Mary Flanagan
Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Professor in Digital Humanities
Professor, Film and Media Studies
Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH USA
http://www.tiltfactor.org
http://leopard.dartmouth.edu/groups/digitalhumanities/
http://www.maryflanagan.com
MARCH 2009 CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG
What do we mean-web 2.0?
What do we mean-web 2.0?
Platforms:
blogs
rich media websites
youtube, facebook
networked art
machinma
arts networks
Concepts:
connected
participatory
ever-logged
public and private
communities, crowds
liveness
Blogs and Portfolios
Artists networks
[furtherfield] Artists Network, London UK
Networked art, application
art, rich media
[collection]: computer application.
[search]: search engine project.
[therealCosts.com] Michael Mandiberg, 2007
Domestic Tension, by Wafaa Bilal
Stanford Mobile Phone Orchestra
Stanford Mobile Phone Orchestra
In May 2007, Bilal confined himself in
the Flatfile Galleries in Chicago for
30 days under 24 hour web cam
surveillance to raise awareness
about the everyday life of Iraqi
citizens and the home confinement
Bilal left Iraq due to
imprisonment and torture
during the last Iraq regime
because he had made
anti-Hussein regime artworks
60,000 paintballs
were shot in one month
Domestic Tension, by Wafaa Bilal
Domestic Tension, by Wafaa Bilal
Domestic Tension, by Wafaa Bilal
machinima
Brittanica Productions, Kheri Batal +Michelle Pettit-Mee (nowKrywolf)
Snow Witch (2006 or 2007) Machinima
social +knowledge networks
NYU ITP Alumni Facebook page
NYU Alumni Blog ‘Blender’ Aggregate
200 courses from MIT, Stanford, UC Berkeley, UCLA, Yale and IIT/IISc –
searchable within YouTube EDU.
Studies show that peer review
and feedback (assessment)
improves retention and
performance
(McGourty-Dominick1998, Wen & Tsai, 2003, Akahori &
Kim, 2003)
http://elearn.pri.univie.ac.at/patterns/?pattern=PeerEvaluation
Outcomes Based Teaching and
Learning
What can be measured and how using web 2.0 tools?
http:// www.maryflanagan.com
http://www.tiltfactor.org
http://www.valuesatplay.org
Career Opportunities:
game designer, web producer
narrative design / writer
animator, art director, concept artist
digital ethnographer
experience designer
content strategist, culture jammer
advertising,
culture and media writer/journalist
professional artist
digital journalist, professional blogger
photo editor, graphic designer, photographer
web producer, content manager, videographer
writer, researcher
MA+PhD: Curatorial studies, social science, cognitive science,
Human Computer Interaction, AI, Critical Theory
Career Opportunities
supported with more links
with science
systems designer
programmer, lead programmer
2D/3D/Graphics programmer
AI programmer. network engineer, system administrator
webmaster, play tester, quality assurance technician
audio engineer, sound producer/programmer
usability expert, HCI guru, interface design
data visualization, large scale systems designers
interaction architect, information architect
At Hunter: Computational Media Courses
media 161 Intro to digital media (all the digital creation tools)
medp 278 web production I (basic html / css)
medp 299 digital design and usability (new)
medp 331 web production II (flash programming)
medp 278 interactive media production (processing class)
media 280 understanding new media (history and theory)
media 363 concepts in gaming (game design course)
medp 399 game programming I (flash programming class, new)
medp 341 web programming (php class)
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