MassArt SIM3X3 Spring 1999

Web Design For Artists

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Eric Joan Rob Laura
Josh Shaun Tuan Asuka
Tracy Cathy Nate Brad

Email Instructor, Nita Sturiale

Tuesdays 6:30- 9:30 pm, Room 310, Computer Arts Center, Tower Building.

Course Requirements:
¥ Be present in body - come to class.
¥ Be present in mind - participate in class discussion.
¥ Read the readings and be prepared to discuss the readings at length in class.
¥ Create a project for yourself in three parts.
¥ Completion of Mid-term Self Evaluation AND Final Self Evaluation.
¥ Completion of final project and presention of your final work to the class.

Recommended Texts:
Visual Quickstart Guides, Adobe Photoshop 5 and HTML 4.0
Designing Web Graphics, Lynda Weinman
Jan 26
Greetings - class logistics; Bits, Bytes and Pixels; Computer lab logistics; Mac Graphic User Interface; Search Engines and Directories;

Required: email account and a ZIP disk,
Activity: Define computer terms + Find 2 websites that you love or hate and tell us why.
Reading: "Casting The Net" , Hafner and Lyon
Feb 2
Web Architecture; Introduction to HTML. Tags.

Activity: Make a simple text document and view it with a browser application (Netscape).
Bring in images to scan or digital files for next week!!
Feb 9
Include graphics. Low memory graphics. File formats. Scanning/Photoshop Tutorial. More HTML practice, Content - what is your idea? Who is your audience? The skills you need to learn will be determined by your idea; What are YOU curious about?

Activity: scan in at least 3 images to get started with.
Activity: Write a short description of why and how you will use the internet. Include a story board or design for your extended website.
Reading: Internet terms from PC magazine.

Reading: Envisioning Information, Edward Tufte


* Website Part 1: Make the homepage of your website with text and image(s).Due Feb 23.

Feb 16
Field trip down the hall to the MassArt Web Server and meeting with Stephane Alnet, MassArt's System Administrator.
Also - web editors - speeding up HTMLing.

For next week's discussion go to: http://www.bostoncyberarts.org/
and check out the ASCII artwork by Juliet Martin

Please bring in URLs of Internet Artworks to share with the class throughout the semester.
Feb 23 Website Part 1 DUE
Words as Image, Images as Words - icons and interfaces.
Image maps. GIF animations.

Cyber Law - go to: http://www.ssrn.com/update/lsn/cyberspace/csl_lessons.html

Activity: Make an image map or gif animation.

Mar 2
Lab time

Mar 9 Mid Term Self Evaluation Due Mar 23
Frames; See work in progress.

* Website Part 2: add a multimedia element to your page - image map, gif animation, sound file... These will be put on Mass Art's server so that our class can access them and see how they work. Due Mar 30.
Mar 16 Spring Break

Mar 23
Show work in progress.

Activity: continue working on Website Part 2.

Mar 30 Website Part 2 DUE
Lab time; Show work in progress;
Please take a look at Auriea Harvey's art on the Boston Cyberarts Festival Gallery.

Reading: Interface Culture, Johnson

*Website Final: clean/jazz up what you've done or start anew, the final should include images and text, a multimedia element, and more thought into what it is you are trying to communicate to a world wide audience. Due April 27
Apr 6
FTP - now... how to get the files onto a web server? Meta tags. Promoting your site.
Apr 13
Low resolution sound; Sound Edit 16; Check out this Sound Starter Kit

Apr 20
Nita will not be here for this class - will try to have someone here to answer questions.
Apr 27 Final Project due
Overview of Online resources; Presentations of projects.
May 4 LAST CLASS/Final Self Evaluation
Presentations of projects. Art and the Internet - what are the possibilities?
 
*Schedule may change at any time for any good reason : )
 

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