Author: Joline Blais

Approach 2-JessC

  APPROACH Resources Required -Coder, Unity, Cell Phone to test, Time,3d Model and a Model that can wear multiple articles of clothes. Design Details -Programming in Unity via C script and will Beta Test it with Friends.to see what works and what dose not work. […]

Creativity in Art, Change and Survival

Creativity in Art, Change and Survival

Don Foresta & Edwige Armand Tuesday 24 April 3:30PM Soderberg Lecture Hall, 116 Jenness Hall Why art is linked to the survival of humans in general. We start from an ancestral point of view and end with a look at the world [ http://airmail.calendar/2018-04-20%2012:00:00%20EDT ]today. The roots […]

Game Points

Game Points

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Ecotech Intent

Review ecotech projects and readings and consider what issues “life generating” issues or technologies speak to you. What matters most to you about the living world? What gives you support, sustenance and/or pleasure?  Hone in on that and try to link it to some technology […]

Think

Below is a series of articles that may help you think about some of the topics we have covered this semester. Please feel free to  by adding your article and a brief 1-2 sentence summary or annotation after it.’ Technology & Our Inner Lives online Have we […]

Technology Is Destroying Our Inner Lives

Two years ago, I started using the Kindle app on my iPad to read those big heavy biographies and novels that I had been lugging around the world. I still wasn’t using it to read books I might reference in my writing, but nonetheless I […]

NMD Curriculum

New Media Curriculum

A Good Approach?

What makes a good Approach? Strong concept  Good and sufficient content (is there enough of it to really show how the project will work) Clear, functional and appealing design Good use of or planning for, or analysis of technology Clear attention to specific audience  (age, interests, accessibility, usefulness, […]

Generative Economy

Generative Economy

Living Enterprise as the Foundation of a Generative Economy Guest Essay in The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision, by Fritjof Capra and Pier Luigi Luisi (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2014). By Marjorie Kelly “What kind of economy is consistent with living inside […]

Testing 2

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Slack

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Jan24

Jan24

Hi, I have updated the Response 1 instructions, and added a link to the Optimize images post, so you can make sure your images are below 250k, with max width (or height) of 800, and max resolution of 72dpi,  before uploading. Assignments can be found […]

Final Project

Final Project

Create a final project based on one of your previous approaches. Your final project should be a fully working project, whether it’s a website, social media campaign (with real time event, posters, community of followers, etc, game, artifact or artwork, or an interactive installation (this is […]

EcoTech Approach

Create an Approach or ‘prototype’ for project based on your EcoTech Intent. You may revise or change your Intent if necessary, though you should adda short note to your intent with your new idea. An approach or”prototype” looks like a finished project, but because you can navigate or […]

Response 3

1995 • I wanna live on the internet. 2015 • I wanna live in virtual reality. NOW • I wanna live on a farm. — dǝǝןsןןnɴ (@Nullsleep) March 30, 2018 Create a team for presenting the eco-tech response 3. Each team should collect quotes from […]

Autobotography Approach

Autobotography Approach

Create an Approach or ‘mock-up’ for project based on your Autobiography Intent.   An approach looks like a finished project, but because you can navigate or present the project, you can hide those aspects not fully complete. The project looks complete, but some implementation details may not be […]

Autobotography Intent

Autobotography Intent

Review Autobiography projects and readings and consider how people you know represent themselves using New Media tools or techniques (how lost do we feel without our phones or laptops?) Which tools do you think are most important for your sense of self? Why? If you […]

Response 2

Response 2

All media work us over completely. They are so pervasive in their personal, political, economic, aesthetic, psychological, moral, ethical, and social consequences that they leave no part of us untouched, unaffected, unaltered. The medium is the message. Any understanding of social and cultural change is […]

Hacktivism Classwork

Hacktivism Classwork

With your “Table Team” brainstorm some possible hactivism projects based on some strategies you can find in What is New Media,  New Media Strategies, Beautiful, Trouble, or any of the projects we reviewed in class. List the strategy Define if briefly Given an example of […]

Hacktivism Approach

Hacktivism Approach

Create an Approach or ‘mock-up’ for project based on your Intent. You may revise or change your Intent if necessary, though you will need to create a new Intent post to do so. This may be simply copying the original Intent and just making a […]

Project Feedback Form

Concept what media is the intent/project? 1-1, 1-many, many-many? explain does the idea enlist any of the New Media Strategies? If so which & how? what major issue(s) does the project engage? does the concept interest you? Design is the design clear and appropriate? does the […]

Preview-Image Size

Duplicate the image you are using, save the original if you need it and shrink the copy. Rename the copy to a suitable name, then open it in  Preview on mac (or similar software on PC). Select Adjust Size from the Tool Menu: You are […]

Hacktivism Intent

Hacktivism Intent

Review New Media Strategies, New Media projects, and also any ideas about “what needs fixed” in your own world. How do these tools we’ve been exploring (websites, video, culture hacking, participatory theater, gaming etc) enable you to imagine projects that help you shape the world? […]

Response 1b

Response 1b

Explore past student projects in New Media Strategies, projects discussed in videos or in class and tactics or case studies in  Beautiful Trouble with a team of 3 students; pick some issues and strategies that you could use in a prototype project of your own concerning some aspect […]

Response 1

Response 1

POST: Post Title:  Response 1—FirstnameL  (L=lastname initial) Post Format: Standard Post Category: Response 1 Add Featured Image (lower right box in post), using Optimized Image Click on Article titles below  to get to article I. What is New Media? Describe the hallmark characteristics of New […]

Wow Fractals

Wow Fractals

This is where featured posts will show up….these can be chosen by instructors or students each week..