Digital Culture Seminar This course will explore how digital culture and fabrication are changing the nature of authorship and production in art and design. In seminars we will discuss cultural, technological, theoretical and ethical changes - focusing on polyvalent authorship - and in workshops you will experiment with digital methods including programming, 3D modeling, robotics, and computer numerical controlled (CNC) machining. You will put theory into practice by writing scripts that write poems and using digital fabrication to give your poems physical form. You will collect your work in an online repository with version control and present it at a exhibition in the College of Art and Design.
Objectives
- Programming for artists and designers
- Theories of digital culture, design, production, and ethics.
- Polyvalent authorship in the digital age
Syllabus | 2018
Organization | https://github.com/digital-culture-seminar
Assignments | Projects | Readings | Jupyter Notebooks
Software | Python | Anaconda Distribution | Rhino
- Open culture
- Open source + Python: Hello World
- Open work + Python: lists & loops
- Open science + Python: flow control
- Death of the Author + Python: Markov chains
Project | Poetry repository
- Digital humanities
- Digital humanities + Tools & resources
- Topic modeling + Topic modeling tools
- Digital poetry + Python: export Markdown
- Sonic art + Python: audio
Project | Poetry generator
- Generative art & design
- Death of the Architect + Rhino: waveforms
- Automation + Rhino: freeform modeling
- Digital design + Rhino: parametric modeling
- Robotic art + Arduino
Project | Poetry model
- Digital fabrication
- Digital fabrication
- Assembly
- Exhibition
Project | Poetry fabrication
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