12.04.08
Posted in Resources at 10:12 am by johnwalter
Some resources to help with color.
Color Theory
Color Pickers
Color Scheme Tools
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Posted in Daily Agendas at 9:35 am by johnwalter
- Announcements: Grading criteria for the Progymnasmata web sites has been added to the assignment guidelines.
- General questions, concerns, discussion about the course.
- Discuss and work on Progymnasmata 2.0 web sites.
- Homework:
- Work on Progymnasmata 2.0 projects.
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12.02.08
Posted in Daily Agendas at 1:07 pm by johnwalter
- Announcements: Grading criteria for the Progymnasmata web sites has been added to the assignment guidelines.
- General questions, concerns, discussion about the course.
- Discuss and work on Progymnasmata 2.0 web sites.
- Homework:
- Work on Progymnasmata 2.0 projects.
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11.30.08
Posted in Daily Agendas at 1:02 pm by johnwalter
- General questions, concerns, discussion about the course.
- Discuss creating Progymnasmata 2.0 web sites.
- Homework:
- Play around with web authoring program of your choice.
- Start storyboarding your Progymnasmata 2.0 web site.
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11.20.08
Posted in Daily Agendas at 11:01 am by johnwalter
- General questions, concerns, discussion about the course.
- Contextualize The Medium is the Massage, pp. 150-151.
- Discuss the Medium is the Massage.
- Homework:
- Peer review final remediation write-ups.
- Get a hold of a web authoring program and familiarize yourself with its interface. I would recommend KompoZer, which is loaded on the computers in the ECL. A good, introductory tutorial that will get you started is available at <http://www.lis.uiuc.edu/itd/tutorials/KompoZer/>. In class Tuesday, we’ll start playing around with a basic design for your remediation projects.
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Posted in Resources at 10:40 am by johnwalter
SeaMonkey is a free, open-source all-in-one web browser; email, newsreader, and IRC chat client; and web authoring program.
Here is a tutorial to get you started.
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Posted in Resources at 10:29 am by johnwalter
A few free, cross-platform web authoring programs. I recommend KompoZer, which is installed on the computers in the ECL, but you’re free to use something else as well. Note, however, that if you chose to use something other than KompoZer, you will want to install and bring the program to class on a laptop.
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11.18.08
Posted in Resources at 7:48 pm by johnwalter
Many of the photos in The Medium is the Massage come from Peter Moore, who was closely conntected with the Fluxus movment. (The post “Context for The Medium is the Massage, pp. 94-96, 119” explains the significance of the Fluxus movement to the book.) For some information on Peter Moore and his connection with the Fluxus artists, see Barbara and Peter Moore Fluxus Collection Acquired by Harvard University Art Museums and his NYT obit.
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Posted in Resources at 11:27 am by johnwalter
The woman on p. 96 is Charlotte Moorman, who regularly collaborated with Nam June Paik, who is himself considered to be the first video artist. Both are associated with the Fluxus movement, as is John Cage (p. 199). Kevin Brooks of North Dakota State University has suggested that McLuhan’s juxtaposition of the Dance of the Dead (pp. 94-95) with the picture of Charlotte Moorman positions the Fluxus movement as another sign, along with the Theater of the Absurd, of the clash between print and electronic technologies, in much the same way McLuhan saw the Dance of the Dead was a sign of the anxieties over the rise of print. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted in Daily Agendas at 8:31 am by johnwalter
- General questions, concerns, discussion about the course.
- Contextualize The Medium is the Massage, pp. 150-151.
- Discuss the Medium is the Massage.
- Homework:
- Bring electronic copy final remediation write-up for peer-review.
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