Week 1
Introduction

We are immigrants to cyberspace, our children are natives.     —John Perry Barlow

Class

• Register for class website with @maine.edu email (ONLY this email will work)
• New Media definitions & concepts
• Hackers & Phone Phreaks
• Open vs closed economies; sharing vs hoarding
• Performance, agency, freedom of speech

ASSIGNMENT

• Read What is New Media, New Media Strategies (due this Wednesday), and Theater of the Oppressed, Augusto Boal (due next Tuesday)
• Post response 1

Lab (Monday following classes)

• Discuss video &  2 readings above, as well as Response 1

Optional

• review/read: Wikileaks HBGary emails;  Anonymous response;  Vault 7

Week 2
Hacktivism 1

New Media is . . . always me and you, and no longer them. There is no longer a “they”, as in, “They say it’s gonna rain today.” It rains, and we know it rains because we can show it to one another. . . when the weatherman says it will rain, we can tell him he’s wrong. We can demand a better weatherman. But most importantly, we can become the weatherman . . . for me, it’s the hope that all we need to cure the world’s ills, to invite more people into the conversation. —ESalvaggio (former NMD student)

CLASS

• The Yes Men Fix the World (and get sued by US Camber of Commerce), More Yes Men
• Yes Lab, Beautiful Trouble Toolbox; Standing Man

ASSIGNMENT

• Read  Occupy Wall Street, view projects from class above; and view World Without Oil,
• Response 1b (due this Thursday)

Lab (Monday following classes)

• Response 1b  preparation & discussion.

Week 3
Hacktivism 2

New Media is . . . technical innovation that leads to greater distribution and sharing of information and ideas. —EFoltz (former NMD Student)

CLASS

• Review Intent/Approach structure
• They Rule, They Rule Video,  They Rule image,  More: Google “They Rule” Images
• Nike Ground, Jaromil, Steve Mann’s Smart Clothing,

ASSIGNMENT

• Catch up on any readings, review projects, update Response 1/1b
• Review  Project Feedback Form for a sense of how projects are evaluated
• Create your first prototype: Hacktivism Intent (due next Monday in Lab for workshop/feedback, reviewed in class next Tues

Lab (Monday following classes)

• Review  Project Feedback Form for a sense of how projects are evaluated
• Review Hacktivism Intent using  Project Feedback Form for guidance
• Briefly comment (on the class website post–all posts should allow “comments” by default) on 3 student intents with any suggestions or feedback designed to help the project move forward. You don’t need to fill out complete feedback form, but gear your feedback with that criteria in mind.
• You may add any updates to your project for class review the next Tues-Thurs.

Week 4
Hacktivism Intent

New Media is . . . the playground for the creative thinking of our age. —GJones (former NMD student)

CLASS

• Review Hacktivism Intents
• Discuss related projects
• Introduce Approaches

ASSIGNMENT

• Create Hacktivism Approach (due next Monday in Lab for workshop/feedback, reviewed in class Tues)

Lab (Monday following classes)

• Review/workshop Hacktivism Approach
• Use criteria from Project Feedback Form to workshop/discuss your Approaches in small groups

Week 5
Hacktivism Approach

New Media is . . . REVOLUTION REVOLUTION REVOLUTION —PBarry (former New Media student)

CLASS

• Review Hacktivism Approach
• Discuss Related projects

ASSIGNMENT

• Review 3 projects from week 6 Autobotography (don’t all choose the first 3).
• Read Cyborg in Us All, Cyborg Manifesto Wikipedia and view Cyborg Manifesto & We  are all Cyborgs Now

Lab

• Tweak any Approach issues; share approaches with groups and teams to get feedback using Project Feedback Form for guidance

Week 6
Autobotography I

New media is like a megaphone. It amplifies your ability to reach more people.     —Mark Batterson

CLASS

Selfies, Bots, avatars, cyborgs, hard drives and virtual mirrors

• Jennicam,  1, 2, 3, why Jennicam ended
• Life sharing, 0100101110101101.org
• [phage]  ,  on vimeo, Mary Flanagan
• Stephen Mann, Wearcam and Shooting Back
• Han Hoogerbbrugge, Modern Living & Neurotica
• Nobody Here

ASSIGNMENT

• Pick two autobotography projects and complete Response 2
•  Response 2 due by Lab section on Monday (next week).

Lab

Week 7
Autobotography II

New Media is . . . the latest technologies used around the world to express or communicate something. —DGriffin (former New Media student)

CLASS

Selfies, Bots, avatars, cyborgs, hard drives and virtual mirrors

• Young Hae Chang, Heavy Industries
• Michael Mandiberg, Shop Mandiberg
• Cornelia Solfrank, Female Extension
• 0100101110101101.org, Darko Maver

ASSIGNMENT

• Autobotography Intents due by lab next week (Mon after break)

Lab

• Brainstorm ideas for Autobot Intents

Spring Break

Begin planning your Final Project–a full project (or “release”) based on one or more of the approaches or rapid prototypes you have created through the semester.

Week 8
Autobotography Intent

Albert Einstein said technological change is like an ax in the hand of a pathological criminal.      —Now You See It

CLASS

• Review Autobotography Intents & related projects

ASSIGNMENT

• Create Autobotography Approach (due next Monday)

LAB

• Using Project Feedback Form, comment on 2 student intents with suggestions or feedback designed to help the project move forward (by lab) Begin feedback with projects that do NOT yet have feedback, when those are all taken, then you may comment on a project that has only 1 comment; in the end ALL projects should have no more and no less than 2 comments. You may begin this by having show & tell in pairs.

Week 9
Autobotography Approach

How we use our brain changes our brain.      —Now You See It

CLASS

• Review Autobotography Approaches
• Discuss Related projects

ASSIGNMENT

• View The Systems View of Life (above), Fritjof Capra; pick one key idea to discuss for use in your team presentation.
• Read articles below and pick a quote from each to add to your presentation ( a team of 3 should have 3-6 quotes)
• Intelligent Design, and Hippocratic Oath for Designers, David Orr
• Pick your own article from Ecoliteracy.org for a topic (hopefully) related to your Intent, or perhaps something you want to learn or explore; add article name & URL to your Green museum post.

LAB  (4/1)

• Ecotech Response 3 Each lab should create teams of 3 students to present this response in class
• Each team should combine their reading quotes and choose one project from Treehugger/technology  and create a post/presentation for class on Tuesday & Thursday.
• All students need to post (so there will be 3 similar posts for each project under 3 different student names), and each student needs to take an active (speaking) part of the class presentations..

Week 10
EcoTech I

work of the eyes is done, now go and do heart work on all the images imprisoned within you      —rilke, turning point

CLASS

• Sample projects: A new paradigm for art: co-creation, biomimicry, ecological restoration, crowd-sourcing with nature, inter-species intelligence
  • CarrotMob Makes it Rain
  • Trans-Species Art, Lynne Hull
  • Victory Gardens 2007, Amy Franceschini & Future Farmers
  • Environmental Health Clinic, Natalie Jeremejenko
• Class presentations : EcoTech Response 3

ASSIGNMENT

• Read  A practical guide to sustainable IT, Paul Mobbs
• Brainstorm ideas for  EcoTech Intents ;  due Monday, April 16.

LAB (4/8)

• Review ecotech readings and projects (as a class)  and brainstorm ecotech project ideas/intents (in groups)

RESOURCES

• The Story of Stuff, The Story of Electronics 
• The Story of Your Enslavement
• The Story of iChange
• Another World Without Oil
• Fritjof Capra, Eocliteracy Full video

Week 11
EcoTech II

The reason for designing new media is simple—to subtly and quietly change the world.  —Hillman Curtis

CLASS

Maine Ag Data Monitoring App

Guest speaker: Bill Giordano, Outreach and Education Coordinator, Sustainable Year Round Agriculture Cluster Initiative

Review Ecotech projects, regenerative design, and possible scotch intents

• World Without Oil, LARP game exploring Peak Oil
• Long GreenHouse,
• Belfast EcoVillage,
• Terrel House

LAB (4/16)

• no lab? work in EcoTech Intents

 ASSIGNMENT

• Create  EcoTech Intents ;  due Monday, April 16.
• For intents, add research from response 3:  use quotes, sample/inspiring project visuals (maybe even ones other students presented); use whatever materials you produce or you glean from other presentations to enrich your own presentations–so pay attention to your classmates responses!!

Week 12
EcoTech Intent

New Media . . . is influencing our culture by creating new forms of interactive storytelling. Yet by enabling people to participate in such various media they can converge as a crowd to alter the story to create new modes of engagement, some not necessarily endorsed by the creator – or the brands that back them.     —Henry Jenkins

CLASS

• Review EcoTech Intents

ASSIGNMENT

• Create EcoArt Approach, due Monday, 4/23 before lab.

LAB (4/23)

• Workshop Approaches and/or final project ideas

Week 13
EcoTech Approach

New Media are not just mechanical gimmicks for creating worlds of illusion, but new languages with new and unique powers of expression.     —Marshall McLuhan

CLASS

• Review EcoTech Approaches
• Discuss Related projects

ASSIGNMENT

• Prepare Final Project for presentation Tues (5/1) & Thurs (5/3) next week.

LAB (4/30)

• Work on Final Projects

Week 14
Final Presentations

The world’s gotten smaller by virtue of the Internet and new media.—Ryan Phillippe

• Final Presentations allow you to give a brief 5 minute overview of your final project.
• Tuesday (5/1) Final Presentations:
• Thursday Final (5/3) Presentations:

Final project is a release of one of your three approaches, i.e. a fully realized project based on one or a combination of your rapid prototype projects. You should begin working on this by Spring Break or soon after. Final Projects are due on the last Friday of classes.

LAB

• Advice for final projects
• Work on final project alone or with collaborators if you have any

TAKEHOME EXAM/SELF-REFLECTION

Exam/Self-Reflection