new technlogy consist of
special effects
graphic

storyboarding consisits
beginning middle and an end
characters
gerne
plot
relate
control fear
make you learn
contrast
unities- compostion

oter elements
protagonist, antagonist, conflict
tranformation
anti-hero
litergy crtisim
poetics
human culture
tvu-auth.tvu.ac.uk
liminality no boundary

links
ellington.tvu.ac.uk/dn
twitter
used net
www.dapper.net
www.43folder
www.mediamanic

software

http://www.eyeonline.com
software digital fusion#
studio pro
after effects
dvd authoring
motion effects
imovie
popcast
native sound/ audio
powerpoint

form

hyper text fiction
film #
cartoon
comics
songs
advertizing
data base cinema- lev manovich
painting
book
poetry
games
drawa
tv
avater

points of research

western style, anime/eastern style =  narrative different
dymanic, shock, iconology

christopher hart
first person noah pat harrison
factors

timings
specials effects  matrix

artist/ founders

edward muybrigde- cinemalogy stage animation

books

development interactive narrative content
unsure word resourse to check

closed network
jullian cambell
victor turner
luidology
part 2
hyper text

see comic sprip on the net
ditigalstrips.com

part3

second life
struwwelpeter
part4
part5
preparetion for presention

time and structure
visual and example
evidence of research
audience particiption engagement
handout and supporting material
edwaed tufte- 43 folder

moivesound.org

sakara02 user

Work it anime chicks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvB9hsx031o

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLGEPGsWxHw
Fullmetal Alchemist-Opening
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DijCDiCdNvg&NR=1
naruto
inuyasha

anime ugly
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzuIHtbx5rQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSs7qMjjH7Q

tvu work thingd to  find/ research

tutorial 

culyre/ d narr

Research Proposal Form

February 20th, 2007

To help you get started refining your research topics for the illustrated essay and your creative artefact, here is a PDF questionnaire:

Digital Culture Research Proposal Form

Download the form (right or ctrl click and save), rename it with your name in the title: eg. digital_culture_YOURNAME.pdf and fill in the form fields. Save it and send it. Do double check if your machine can save the PDF with form data intact before starting. This will work on the macs if you open the PDF in the ‘Preview’ application. On PCs you may need Adobe Acrobat installed to save the form data.

If you experience any problems, print it out and fill it in the old way.

We will collect them all (via email or the blackboard dropbox) in the next couple of weeks.

Thanks, Ian

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Welcome to the 2006-2007 Semester 2 Running of Digital Culture!

October 3rd, 2006

Hi and welcome to everyone studying the Digital Culture module this semester.

http://ellington.tvu.ac.uk/dc/

Hope you’re all having a good first week.

I am working on adjusting the module content to reflect some of the interests in the group so please check the module study guide frequently over the next two weeks or so.

Regards, Ian Grant. Module Leader.

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Session Notes: 11 Everyware – Ubiquitous and Pervasive Technology

May 10th, 2006

Hope you enjoyed the screening of the episode of “Futurama”. Popular culture is a excellent repository of satire and insights on the topics we are considering. For a fascinating introduction to philosophy see: The Simpsons and Philosophy: The D’oh! of Homer

Link: BBC News | SCI/TECH | A small slice of design

Link: Y2K Information

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Session Notes: Subversive Pleasures: Technology and Desire

May 10th, 2006

Technology and human sexuality – lecture links.

Presentation Slides:

Book: Stallybrass and White, The Politics and Poetics of Transgression.

G4 – Feature – Technology and the Sex Industry:

Link: http://www.g4tv.com/techtvvault/features/43055/Technology_and_the_Sex_Industry.html

?Cyber-Sexuality:

Link: http://www.selfhelpmagazine.com/booklet/sexuality.html

?Cyborg Theory:

Link: http://www.selfhelpmagazine.com/booklet/cyborg.html

?The Far Future of Cyber-Sex:

Link: http://www.selfhelpmagazine.com/booklet/future.html

?Cyber-Safety:

Link: http://www.selfhelpmagazine.com/booklet/safety.html?

On the Media:

Link: http://www.onthemedia.org/transcripts/transcripts_112902_tech.html

?Betterhumans > Teledildonics:

Link: http://www.betterhumans.com/Errors/index.aspx?aspxerrorpath=/Teledildonics.Article.2003-02-09-4.aspx

?Betterhumans > The Future of Sex:

Link: http://www.betterhumans.com/Errors/index.aspx?aspxerrorpath=/The_Future_of_Sex.Article.2003-02-09-7.aspx

?R E A L T I M E:

Link: http://www.realtimearts.net/rt60/krauth.html

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Introduction to Digital Art – Lecture Materials

March 8th, 2006

Hi, here are the lecture notes from Session 4. It is a PDF – you can click on the links on the last page – but for convenience they are repeated below.

Download: digital_art_1.pdf

Links mentioned in the lecture:

Steven Wilson’s Database of Digital Art and Artists (Information Art)

http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~infoarts/links/wilson.artlinks2.html

Lev Manovich http://www.manovich.net/

Walter Benjamin (Biography on Wikipedia):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Benjamin

Walter Benjamin

Complete text of “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” (1936)

http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/benjamin.htm

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The Elecronic Disturbance and the Critical Art Ensemble

March 2nd, 2006

Hi, if you are interested please check out the free books and art projects of the critical art ensemble (cae) – very interesting and challenging new media artists. The work is quite verbose so don’t worry if you do not get on with it. Just take a look at the material and the art projects on the main body of their site

The Elecronic Disturbance

Also check out the controversy around their recent work on bio-tech. There is an article here:

Read: www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1236288,00.html

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Session 3 – Researching Illustrated Essays

March 1st, 2006

Hi please find enclosed the lecture slides for today – with links to academic software etc.

Download: Lecture notes PDF and Bibliography Example

In addition to the stuff in the lecture and if electronic ‘reference’ or bibliographic management is your thing and endnote is too expensive, check out:

Booxter www.deepprose.com.

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Ken Perlin’s homepage

February 27th, 2006

Ken Perlin’s homepage

For animation students: I thought you may be interested in the university home page of one of your potential heroes – Ken Perlin. Famous for “Perlin Noise”, academy award winner for technical effects and cg and instrumental in his work on “Tron”. Loads of java applets and computer science stuff – it may make a good essay to discuss when maths and science make art… computation graphics and that sort of thing.

Cheers

Ian

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Welcome to the 2005-2006 Semester 2 Digital Culture Students!

February 22nd, 2006

Hi and welcome to everyone studying the Digital Culture module this semester.

ellington.tvu.ac.uk/dc/

Hope you all had a good first week.

I am working on adjusting the module content to reflect some of the interests in the group so please check the module study guide frequently over the next two weeks or so.

Just to remind you of the excellent node-l festival of new media art in London. See: nodel.org for more information.

As part of another module, Digital Art Processes, we will be attending the Dan Flavin retrospective at the Hayward Gallery. It is a fascinating exhibition of ‘lumia’ – art work built completely with light – neon particularly.

See: www.hayward.org.uk/current_exhib_detail.asp?i=173 and 

http://www.diacenter.org/ltproj/flavbrid/ for more details.

Watch this space or subscribe to the RSS feed for updates.

Cheers, Ian

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‘Free Culture’ by Lawrence Lessig for free online…

October 16th, 2005

Hi, given the few people in last weeks lecture interested in peer-to-peer networks (limewire, kazza, bit-torrent), file-sharing, mp3s, piracy, copyright and digital rights management (DRM), I thought you’d be interested to know that one of the module key texts “Free Culture” by Lawrence Lessig is available as a free download. If you are interested in the legal contexts of intellectual property and the internet, do explore this and Lawrence Lessig’s other work on his web-site.

See:

== Free Culture / Free Content ==:

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3D Desktop Management

Closed Published February 20th, 2006 in Open GL, General

Like the mac OS, Linux is going an interesting way with open-gl / gpu effects defining basic UI interactions. Check out the release from Novell. Features like exposé and the cube transition are used for desktop management

NOVELL: Xgl

Interesting for those interested in 3D GUI’s

Midi Performance Systems for Quartz Composer

Closed Published November 25th, 2005 in Notes

Sequencing software that brings Quartz Composer to life:

www.five12.com

www.ableton.com

Using Magpie RSS to scrape blog headlines to html

Closed Published October 6th, 2005 in Sample Code, Notes

This walkthrough assumes you have access to a server running PHP and the ability to change permissions on directories.

Step One: Get MagpieRSS here! Head to sourceforge and grab the latest copy of the excellent MagpieRSS.

Step Two: Read the docs. Quickstart: setup a directory on the webserver that looks a bit like this:

Set the permission of the “cache” directory to 777 – world writable. You may be able to get away with more restricted permissions.

Step Three: use the code below as a starting point for exploration. You can see the results of it here here

There are several lines you can comment/uncomment to see the object magpierss returns. The current example is set to return the results of a blogger feed. With some extra code one can detect the feed and provide summaries accordingly… that is to come.

< !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN” “http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd”>

< ?php

require_once(‘magpierss/rss_fetch.inc’);

// the @ suppresses errors

// change the URL to the blog atom / rss feed. If the feed is not atom but RSS some of the item names will be different – one will need to check. The info is in the ‘channel’ array.

$rss = @fetch_rss( ‘http://internetandnetworkart.blogspot.com/atom.xml’ );

// $rss = @fetch_rss( ‘http://ellington.tvu.ac.uk/dev/?feed=rss2′ );

// dump the object to the screen to study the structure magpie returns

echo ‘

‘;

print_r($rss);

echo ”;

// end dump

$channel = $rss->channel;

echo “Blog Title: ” .$channel[’title’];

//display links recent blog entries:

echo “

Latest blog additions:\n”;

foreach ($rss->items as $item) {

   $href = $item[’link’];

   $title = $item[’title’];

   $author = $item[’author_name’];

   $created = $item[’created’];

   $content = $item[’atom_content’];

   echo “

$title created by $author on $created

\n

   $content\n”;

}

echo “

“;

?>

The sample files can be downloaded here: magpierss_blog_scrape.zip

The Farm: The Tucows Developers’ Hangout :: [Web Apps] The del.icio.us API

0 Comments Published September 6th, 2005 in Web Services, Data Visualisation, Tagging

A very useful elaboration on the del.icio.us API by Joey deVilla. Extensive instructions on receiving and sending stuff through the API.

The Farm: The Tucows Developers’ Hangout :: [Web Apps] The del.icio.us API:

No keynote at Apple Expo, Paris.

0 Comments Published September 5th, 2005 in Apple Technologies

There was a rumour that Steve Jobs would be delivering this keynote. I wonder what implications the change of plans will have for grand announcements.

Dear visitor,

Thank you for registering for Apple Expo 2005, a five-day event that gives all a chance to try new products from Apple and over 250 companies.

Apple Expo will begin at 11 a.m. (CET) Tuesday, September 20 at the Porte de Versailles in Paris. There will not be a formal keynote presentation at this year’s Apple Expo at Palais des Congrès.

We look forward to seeing you.

Kind regards, ?The Apple Expo team

Installing Typo on Textdrive

Closed Published August 26th, 2005 in Sample Code, Notes

(1) Acquire Typo.

On the textdrive forum, there has been discussion that the stable / current releases of typo make a difference.

(a) I have tried svn-ing, moving typo directly into my SITES directory. This must acquire the CURRENT release?

(b) I have tried sftp-ing the typo tar, moving the current release of typo to SITES and RENAMING the directory to ‘typo’. cd into SITES and typo:

tar -zxvf typo-2.5.5.tar

(c) Keep a local copy of whatever version you acquire and you can make subsequent edits and sftp them to SITES

You need to change the following files, details follow:

/config/database.yml

/public/dispatch.fcgi

/public/dispatch.rb

(4) Set up the MYSQL database. Followed the general advice to set up a database named username_typo. I cut and pasted the contents of schema.mysql.sql into my textdrive accounts ‘phpMyAdmin’.

(5) Edit /config/database.yml to reflect your MYSQL database name and settings

(6) Edit /public/dispatch.fcgi and /public/dispatch.rb. The top line should point to the ruby installation on textdrive:

Change:

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

to

#!/usr/local/bin/ruby

I have seen a variation that points to:

#!/usr/local/bin/ruby18

(7) Set up a symbolic link in the apache webroot. From a ssh connection, type:

ln -s /home/username/sites/typo/public /home/username/web/public/typo

This sets up an alias that, I think, allows subdomain addressing to work, eg. http://typo.domain.com/ and http://www.domain.com/typo/

(8) Troubleshooting lighttpd, apache redirects and proxying.

This is where I fall down.

(a) directory structure: this seems to vary between users and makes studying the configuration files a bit of a nightmare. Create, if they don’t exist:

mkdir /home/username/sites/ – hosts all rails apps. Do not put them in the apache web root.

mkdir /home/username/lighttpd

/home/username/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf – create this file

/home/username/lighttpd/lighttpd-fcgi.socket-0 – automatically created by a lighttpd.conf line

mkdir /home/username/tmp/ – used by the lighttpd compress module to save bandwidth

mkdir /home/username/tmp/lighttpd

mkdir /home/username/tmp/lighttpd/cache

mkdir /home/username/tmp/lighttpd/cache/compress

mkdir /home/username/var

mkdir /home/username/var/log

mkdir /home/username/var/run

create these files. They are referenced by lighttpd.conf:

touch /home/username/var/log/lighttpd-error.log

touch /home/username/var/log/lighttpd-access.log

In trouble-shooting the lighttpd installation, I have used the following commands in ssh:

ps aux

- lists all active processes

kill -9 pid

- pid is the process number you need to kill

killall -9 -u username ruby

- an alternative way to kill all ruby processes

killall -9 -u username ruby18

- an alternative way to kill all ruby processes

killall -9 -u username lighttpd

- an alternative way to kill all lighthttpd processes

/usr/local/sbin/lighttpd -f /home/username/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf

- restarting lighttpd using your lighttpd.conf file at /home/username/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf

curl -I http://domain.name

- check is lighttpd is serving your pages

Technorati Tags: Textdrive

UML and xCode 2.1

1 Comment Published August 20th, 2005 in Programming, Objective-C, xCode

Research: Unified Modelling Language and xCode

SVG on the mac

1 Comment Published August 20th, 2005 in Notes

Research: the current implementation of SVG on the mac.

Test From Dashboard

Closed Published August 17th, 2005 in Sample Code

This is a test post from Dashboard

PHPBuilder.com: PHP and CURL – screenscraping techniques

Closed Published July 17th, 2005 in Web Services, Screen Scraping

PHPBuilder.com:

Using cURL with PHP

Excellent, clear tutorials here on screenscraping, ftp remote logins and other methods using php and curl.

interet art

html form handing

database connectivity

user authentication aka login systems

screen grabbing an image from flash

building an interactive timeline

http://ellington.tvu.ac.uk/ina/blog/

http://www.panic.com/transmit/

Welcome to the module!

I hope you enjoyed the class today and feel enthused to read the module study guide and start coming up with some ideas. Here is a PDF of todays lecture slides – with links to work, examples, artists and writing.

Lecture 1 Notes PDF:

Session 2 – Lecture Notes

Tuesday, October 9th, 2007

Dear All, here is a PDF of today session notes. Please start researching artists, designers, technicians work you find interesting.

Remember the briefs in the modules study guide are starting points only – unless you are interested – you do not need to research all of them!

A couple of things are emerging from your ideas that are not mentioned in the briefs – networked multiuser 3D environments (like Second Life I guess) and approaches to mobile media streaming – that sound great starting points.

The Mark Amerika coordinated website at art.colorado.edu/hiaff/ is another great starting point – with example work, interviews, commentary, theory and so on.

Lecture 2 Notes PDF:

other notes to read write in own word and understand

Issues and Research Starting Points

Photography as a social practice

Photo Sharing and Collaboration

Folksonomies and tagging

Copyright and Radical Appropriation

Visual Bricolage: image based collages, maps, narratives

The Semantic Web

Visualisation

Self-promotion and marketing

An Interview with Flickr’s Eric Costello

(Flickr founder) http://www.adaptivepath.com/publications/essays/archives/000519.php

Art based examples:

Playing FLICKR v2.0

Mediamatic Screen 23bis: Imaginative Keyword Conversations in Public Space

http://www.mediamatic.net/artefact-200.9770.html

Playing FLICKR is a public space installation by Mediamatic on the

11th floor of the PostCS building in Amsterdam. The diners in bar/

restaurant/club 11 will be subjected to the wrath of fellow visitors

SMSing whatever keyword they want to the installation that pulls

photos from the online community flickr and projects them onto

Restaurant 11’s huge panoramic screens” Source: http://listes.ilesansfil.org/pipermail/volontaires/2005-September/006096.html

Great Flickr Experiments:

Color Flickr Pickers, FlickrVerse and other

http://krazydad.com/

In the bibliography/Google see:

Flickr

Data Visualisation

Web 2.0

Flickr on Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flickr

Innovative visualisation

Technology Starting Points

Flickr API

Flickr API Wrappers

Flash as a Graphical Front End to Web Services (Flickr in Flash)

RSS (feed mashups)

PHP, Javascript, AJAX (almost any scripting language)

Blog integration of photo-streams

Web services

Clusters

Simple Starting Points

Sign up.

Tag and share photos.

Create simple scripts using the api to get your images out of flickr!

Put a flick stream on your wordpress or moving type web-blog (or other blog).

Misc Workshop Notes and Links – Session 1

Tuesday, October 3rd, 2006

ina stuff

web 2.0 for designers

http://www.digital-web.com/articles/web_2_for_designers/

Film Created through Net Interaction …

WaxWeb … http://www.iath.virginia.edu/wax/

Examples from Tom Corby… (more…)

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Tutorial: Searching and Returning Images from Flickr

Sunday, December 4th, 2005

A number of people really need to get searching flickr, returning and displaying images according to tag or full-text searches and handling associated tags. Although it seems a long process, this tutorial demonstrates one way to approach flickr that is simple and flexible. With application and extension, you can use the contents here to play a part in projects that:

- utilise user input to get images from flickr. ‘User input’ could come from web forms or, like ‘Play Flickr’, from mobile phone SMS messages.

- search and display flickr images from script-based lists of words and associations. Select search terms by semantic analysis (meaning) or other random principles. You could use ‘get related tag functions’ as demonstrating in phpFlickr_search_002_red.php.

- store image search result data in a mysql database or in a text file to use in flash (more…)

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Important Notice: No classes this week for Internet and Network Art

Tuesday, November 22nd, 2005

For those who haven’t noticed in the module study guide, this weeks lecture and the workshops are given over to independent study or independent exhibition visits.

You can use the time to blog-till-you drop ready for the deadline at the end of the week!

Regards,

Ian

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Session Notes Week 4

Thursday, November 3rd, 2005

Key Questions

To what extent is the web read only?

What was Web 1.0? – To 

or not to

Web 2.0

The Zeitgeist of Web 2.0

- meme map

- wired article

Mapping and Mashups

Phenomena (Current Big Things)

Open Source and Open Access to Web Services

Google Maps (and others), Plazes

Flickr

Delicious

43Things

Blogging

Podcasting

“Second Life” as a medium

Companies

flickr

google

apple – itunes

Technologies Associated with Web 2.0

Javascript, DHTML and AJAX

XMLHTTP Request

RSS, XML and Feeds

Application Programming Interfaces (APIs)

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Session Notes: Ian’s Workshop 2: Summary of Workshop and Tasks for The Week Ahead

Thursday, October 13th, 2005

(1) Blog Set up your own personal blog as soon as possible. There is material you should already be blogging. See the recent posts for some advice on free blogs and other tools:

personal responses to the net.art manifesto, artefacts and artists

ideas in development. Document the beginnings of your research into the each briefs, especially the one you may wish to do. Note the new ‘flickr’ brief…

blog how you are feeling about the module

(2) Briefs Use the briefs as starting points for your own research. You do not need to include all the points in the sub lists in your final project… just use the material as the starting points for web research. Try to settle on a brief and brainstorm ideas to write about on your blog and talk about in the workshop. Do not worry at this stage about the technical skills needed to implement your project ideas. Be bold, ambitious and creative!

(3) Hosting Services and Registering Domain Names I was asked about hosting. I can only recommend from my own experience, but for this module I suggest that the bare minimum for this module would be a host providing a linux server, with PHP and a MySQL database. I use http://www.ukhosts.com/ approx £60 a year. You can register domain names with them (you get one for free when you register and they wont charge you if you wish to transfer domains you have registered with them. Support is good, in my experience. Yours may vary. I also have a fab service hosted with http://textdrive.com/$12 per month. They are a different kind of host. They do not offer domain name registration, you do that elsewhere at a ‘registrar’ like http://www.gandi.net/ They are like a sandpit for web developers. You can play and learn and if you break something you can ask them to fix it! In a sense they give you full access to maintaining and configuring all aspects of your web server experience. You can fiddle with all the latest web technologies: the latest versions of PHP (php 5), all PERL modules, other scripting languages like Ruby and Ruby-On-Rails. You can configure different ’servers’, eg. Lighttpd rather than Apache. This freedom leads to some complexity and an intense learning experience but they offer a real community of support.

They are currently offering hosting packages for ‘life’ for a few hundred dollars excellent for the serious would-be web professional.

(4) Skills Refresh You should start to refresh your HTML (XHTML) skills using dreamweaver or text editing tools of your choice.

Web Research with Google:

HTML (XHTML)

Javascript

the DOM (document object model)

DHTML (dynamic html)

Make sure you can do the basics:

set up a local site with dreamweaver

set up a remote site with dreamweaver

FTP (file transfer protocol) with dreamweaver

The student web server, Zappa, may not be with us until after next week. So get some third party web-space or your own host if you want to get your heads down.

Have a good weekend…

Ian

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A new brief aimed at the Photography Majors but anyone can do it!

Wednesday, October 12th, 2005

Brief 7

Play with Flickr – Social Photography, Mashups and Interfaces for Images.

Preamble

Flickr is an online photosharing / storage facility and is an quintessential example of a web 2.0 service. Most if not all of the value in visiting it comes from the users not the supplier. An independent start up with a great idea became one of the acquisitions of a hungry Yahoo who were rumoured to have paid between $17 and $30 million dollars for it. It seems the dot.com boom is returning for some.

Anyhow, the basic architecture of the site is simple and free to use for a limited account. You can upload photos in any number of ways.

Like its URL storing cousin, Del.icio.us , Flickr uses a tagging system that is communual and thereby produces a ‘folksonomy’, a web base collective categorisation system. Although this sounds complicated it is Flickr’s strength and needs to be played with to be understood. People have played games, set photographic competitions, grouped photos by aesthetic properties of form or colour, eg. fog, red.

Not only is Flickr great to participate in on a simple level by uploading photographs (not good enough for this module!), it is a great place to begin hacking (creative coding) and making mashups. Flickr provides a well documented application programming interface (API) [wikipedia definition of api http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_programming_interface]. Flickr also provides RSS feeds it calls ‘photostreams’.

The spirit of a mashup is to take an RSS feed, mashit, blend it, collage it with another, or give it a new visuality, a new design and represent it back to a viewing community. This creative appropriation and re-dissemination is central to the recombinant digital aesthetic typified by ‘cut n paste’ – in the case of flickr it has.

Note on RSS

RSS (Really Simple Syndication or Rich Site Summary depending on who you ask) and other associated technologies are an example of a future direction of the internet: the semantic web. Through computer-generated markup, resources and data ‘reveal themselves’ to our web browsers. So: feeds are not limited to textual data. You can have RSS feeds of audio (aka Podcasting), video (VCasting), or images (like Flickr photostreams).

[wikipedia definition of rss: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS_%28file_format%29]

Issues and Research Starting Points

Photography as a social practice

Photo Sharing and Collaboration

Folksonomies and tagging

Copyright and Radical Appropriation

Visual Bricolage: image based collages, maps, narratives

The Semantic Web

Visualisation

Self-promotion and marketing

An Interview with Flickr’s Eric Costello

(Flickr founder) http://www.adaptivepath.com/publications/essays/archives/000519.php

Art based examples:

Playing FLICKR v2.0

Mediamatic Screen 23bis: Imaginative Keyword Conversations in Public Space

http://www.mediamatic.net/artefact-200.9770.html

Playing FLICKR is a public space installation by Mediamatic on the

11th floor of the PostCS building in Amsterdam. The diners in bar/

restaurant/club 11 will be subjected to the wrath of fellow visitors

SMSing whatever keyword they want to the installation that pulls

photos from the online community flickr and projects them onto

Restaurant 11’s huge panoramic screens” Source: http://listes.ilesansfil.org/pipermail/volontaires/2005-September/006096.html

Great Flickr Experiments:

Color Flickr Pickers, FlickrVerse and other

http://krazydad.com/

In the bibliography/Google see:

Flickr

Data Visualisation

Web 2.0

Flickr on Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flickr

Innovative visualisation

Technology Starting Points

Flickr API

Flickr API Wrappers

Flash as a Graphical Front End to Web Services (Flickr in Flash)

RSS (feed mashups)

PHP, Javascript, AJAX (almost any scripting language)

Blog integration of photo-streams

Web services

Clusters

Simple Starting Points

Sign up.

Tag and share photos.

Create simple scripts using the api to get your images out of flickr!

Put a flick stream on your wordpress or moving type web-blog (or other blog).

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Clarification: Get your own blogs for the assessment!

Saturday, October 8th, 2005

Note: Where the module study guide says your blog it means you should set up a blog with your own host or on Zappa, (when the technicians launch it), or on Blogger or a similar service. The best solution is to host your own blog with a company that provides access to the scripting language PHP and a mysql database. You can get this service relatively cheaply. Then you can learn about PHP and databases while setting up a the blog for your assessment. Blogger and other free services have limitation. For example, you cannot ‘categorise posts’ although there are some work-arounds. Search google for these with the term ‘categorising posts in blogger’

Archive for the ‘CSS’ Category

Three Workshop Tasks for the Week Ahead

Friday, October 13th, 2006

For those interested in developing their Web Design Skills:

(1) Deconstruct the “CSS Zen Garden”

(2) Create a simple web page with a single coloured box, containing text with “rounded corners”.

(3) Do Something with Javascript

Detail

(1) Deconstruct the “CSS Zen Garden”

http://www.csszengarden.com/

Understand what the CSS Zen Garden is demonstrating.

Download the demo html and css file and understand the structure of the html file.

Getting Deeper with CSS:

Learning CSS is an involved process and I can recommend the following resources:

Eric Meyer on CSS

http://www.ericmeyeroncss.com/

http://meyerweb.com/eric/css/

Westciv’s CSS Resources (and StyleMaster – the best CSS dev product [in my view])

http://www.westciv.com/style_master/house/tutorials/

Bleeding Edge Browsers

Exploring CSS3 with Webkit and / or Dev Versions of Firefox

http://www.css3.info/preview/

http://webkit.org/

http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Firefox_1.5_Beta_for_Developers

The CSS Discuss List Wiki Front Page

http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=FrontPage

A List Apart

The most elegant free online magazine for web designers:

http://alistapart.com/

(2) Create a simple web page with a single coloured box, containing text – and this is the important part – the box must have “rounded corners”.

Sounds simple!

(a) Try to solve the problem yourself with your existing knowledges

(b) Research the problem

(c) Solve the problem – or at least find your own preferred solution.

(3) Do Something with Javascript

When you have (re)-familiarised yourself with the basics of how javascript sits in a simple HTML file – get some instant gratification and start looking at the current fashionable javascript libraries that are designed to make using javascript (1) ‘easier’, (2) quicker to get cool cross-browser functionality and – some claim – (3) ‘fun’.

The coolest libraries I have seen recently include:

Dojo – http://dojotoolkit.org/

Mochikit – http://www.mochikit.com/

Prototype – http://prototype.conio.net/

Scriptaculous – http://script.aculo.us/

jQuery – http://jquery.com/

Yahoo UI – http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/

See the post on “Aptana” and “Eclipse” for tools optimised to use the latest javascript libraries.

Getting Deeper with Javascript:

Study the document object model issued by the W3C.

http://www.w3.org/DOM/

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Cheat Sheets – ILoveJackDaniels.com

Wednesday, October 19th, 2005

Cheat Sheets:

To help you refresh your coding, check out the free A4 cheat sheets supplied here. Download them, print them out, keep them with you, learn them and you will be better web coders / artists!

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Archive for the ‘Useful Tools’ Category

Three Workshop Tasks for the Week Ahead

Friday, October 13th, 2006

For those interested in developing their Web Design Skills:

(1) Deconstruct the “CSS Zen Garden”

(2) Create a simple web page with a single coloured box, containing text with “rounded corners”.

(3) Do Something with Javascript

Detail

(1) Deconstruct the “CSS Zen Garden”

http://www.csszengarden.com/

Understand what the CSS Zen Garden is demonstrating.

Download the demo html and css file and understand the structure of the html file.

Getting Deeper with CSS:

Learning CSS is an involved process and I can recommend the following resources:

Eric Meyer on CSS

http://www.ericmeyeroncss.com/

http://meyerweb.com/eric/css/

Westciv’s CSS Resources (and StyleMaster – the best CSS dev product [in my view])

http://www.westciv.com/style_master/house/tutorials/

Bleeding Edge Browsers

Exploring CSS3 with Webkit and / or Dev Versions of Firefox

http://www.css3.info/preview/

http://webkit.org/

http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Firefox_1.5_Beta_for_Developers

The CSS Discuss List Wiki Front Page

http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=FrontPage

A List Apart

The most elegant free online magazine for web designers:

http://alistapart.com/

(2) Create a simple web page with a single coloured box, containing text – and this is the important part – the box must have “rounded corners”.

Sounds simple!

(a) Try to solve the problem yourself with your existing knowledges

(b) Research the problem

(c) Solve the problem – or at least find your own preferred solution.

(3) Do Something with Javascript

When you have (re)-familiarised yourself with the basics of how javascript sits in a simple HTML file – get some instant gratification and start looking at the current fashionable javascript libraries that are designed to make using javascript (1) ‘easier’, (2) quicker to get cool cross-browser functionality and – some claim – (3) ‘fun’.

Archive for the ‘Digital Art’ Category

Introduction to Digital Art – Lecture Materials

Wednesday, March 8th, 2006

Hi, here are the lecture notes from Session 4. It is a PDF – you can click on the links on the last page – but for convenience they are repeated below.

Download: digital_art_1.pdf

Links mentioned in the lecture:

Steven Wilson’s Database of Digital Art and Artists (Information Art)http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~infoarts/links/wilson.artlinks2.html

Lev Manovich http://www.manovich.net/

Walter Benjamin (Biography on Wikipedia):http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Benjamin

Walter BenjaminComplete text of “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” (1936)http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/benjamin.htm

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Ken Perlin’s homepage

Monday, February 27th, 2006

Ken Perlin’s homepage

For animation students: I thought you may be interested in the university home page of one of your potential heroes – Ken Perlin. Famous for “Perlin Noise”, academy award winner for technical effects and cg and instrumental in his work on “Tron”. Loads of java applets and computer science stuff – it may make a good essay to discuss when maths and science make art… computation graphics and that sort of thing.

Cheers

Ian

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The coolest libraries I have seen recently include:

Dojo – http://dojotoolkit.org/

Mochikit – http://www.mochikit.com/

Prototype – http://prototype.conio.net/

Scriptaculous – http://script.aculo.us/

jQuery – http://jquery.com/

Yahoo UI – http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/

See the post on “Aptana” and “Eclipse” for tools optimised to use the latest javascript libraries.

Getting Deeper with Javascript:

Study the document object model issued by the W3C.

http://www.w3.org/DOM/

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casttee deck-quality

fades

60min

90min

As part of this module, you will explore film, video, sound works, video installation, games, DVDs, CD-ROMs and visual online narratives.

Through a close study of a chosen existing narrative? ranging from film-montage, video performance-art, music videos, video games, digital puppetry, animations, net narratives, you will identify and appraise the context for your own creative work.

You will be given the opportunity to experiment with different approaches to storytelling, and you will be asked to consider the significance of some of the following aspects within time-based digital media:

image and sound in a storyline.
What does sound bring to a narrative
stories within a gaming environment,
computers as theatre
the use of time to create short and long term memories
flashbacks and a “reframing” of key events in a plot
the management of parallel and concurrent strands in narrative
the need for plot stranding, counterpoint and balance
the use of databases as a means of providing variation of storyline
interactive and noninteractive narratives
digital narrative and immersive, sensorial experiences
“classical” and abstract narrative structures
character development
tension build up and suspense
atmosphere and ambient characteristics in narrative
audience: catharsis within narrative
the narrator and narrative voices
location and environment
We will discuss who are the main artists, what are the key debates and artistic-forms. We will explore the critical and artistic precedents of digital narrative and appraise how it is new and distinctive? You will explore key creative problems using, mainly, Apple’s Final Cut Studio to create a short digital narrative.

You will attend to the mode of exhibition of your work: how will an audience experience the narrative? What creative

As part of this module, you will explore film, video, sound works, video installation, games, DVDs, CD-ROMs and visual online narratives.

Through a close study of a chosen existing narrative? ranging from film-montage, video performance-art, music videos, video games, digital puppetry, animations, net narratives, you will identify and appraise the context for your own creative work.

You will be given the opportunity to experiment with different approaches to storytelling, and you will be asked to consider the significance of some of the following aspects within time-based digital media:
image and sound in a storyline.
What does sound bring to a narrative
stories within a gaming environment,
computers as theatre
the use of time to create short and long term memories
flashbacks and a “reframing” of key events in a plot
the management of parallel and concurrent strands in narrative
the need for plot stranding, counterpoint and balance
the use of databases as a means of providing variation of storyline
interactive and noninteractive narratives
digital narrative and immersive, sensorial experiences
“classical” and abstract narrative structures
character development
tension build up and suspense
atmosphere and ambient characteristics in narrative
audience: catharsis within narrative
the narrator and narrative voices
location and environment
We will discuss who are the main artists, what are the key debates and artistic-forms. We will explore the critical and artistic precedents of digital narrative and appraise how it is new and distinctive? You will explore key creative problems using, mainly, Apple’s Final Cut Studio to create a short digital narrative.

You will attend to the mode of exhibition of your work: how will an audience experience the narrative? What creative