MARCH 2009 CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG

MARCH 2009 CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG

building web communities, networks, and portfoliosfrom an academic curriculum:

the use of web 2.0 in the arts

Dr. Mary FlanaganSherman Fairchild Distinguished Professor in Digital Humanities

Professor, Film and Media StudiesDartmouth College, Hanover, NH USA

http://www.tiltfactor.orghttp://leopard.dartmouth.edu/groups/digitalhumanities/

http://www.maryflanagan.com

What do we mean-web 2.0?

What do we mean-web 2.0?

Platforms: blogsrich media websitesyoutube, facebooknetworked artmachinmaarts networks

Concepts:connectedparticipatoryever-loggedpublic and privatecommunities, crowdsliveness

Blogs and Portfolios

Artists networks

[furtherfield] Artists Network, London UK

Networked art, application art, rich media

[collection]: computer application.

[search]: search engine project.

[therealCosts.com] Michael Mandiberg, 2007

Domestic Tension, by Wafaa Bilal

Stanford Mobile Phone Orchestra

Stanford Mobile Phone Orchestra

In May 2007, Bilal confined himself in the Flatfile Galleries in

Chicago for 30 days under 24 hour web cam surveillance to

raise awareness about the everyday life of Iraqi citizens and the home confinement

Bilal left Iraq due to imprisonment and torture during the last Iraq regime

because he had made anti-Hussein regime

artworks

60,000 paintballs were shot in one month

Domestic Tension, by Wafaa Bilal

Domestic Tension, by Wafaa Bilal

Domestic Tension, by Wafaa Bilal

machinima

Brittanica Productions, Kheri Batal +Michelle Pettit-Mee (nowKrywolf)

Snow Witch (2006 or 2007) Machinima

social +knowledge networks

NYU ITP Alumni Facebook page

NYU Alumni Blog ‘Blender’ Aggregate

200 courses from MIT, Stanford, UC Berkeley, UCLA, Yale and IIT/IISc –searchable within YouTube EDU.

Studies show that peer review and feedback (assessment)

improves retention and performance

(McGourty-Dominick1998, Wen & Tsai, 2003, Akahori & Kim, 2003)

http://elearn.pri.univie.ac.at/patterns/?pattern=PeerEvaluation

Outcomes Based Teaching and Learning

What can be measured and how using web 2.0 tools?

http:// www.maryflanagan.com

http://www.tiltfactor.orghttp://

www.valuesatplay.org

Career Opportunities: game designer, web producer

narrative design / writeranimator, art director, concept artist

digital ethnographerexperience designer

content strategist, culture jammeradvertising,

culture and media writer/journalistprofessional artist

digital journalist, professional bloggerphoto editor, graphic designer, photographer

web producer, content manager, videographerwriter, researcher

MA+PhD: Curatorial studies, social science, cognitive science,Human Computer Interaction, AI, Critical Theory

Career Opportunities supported with more

links with sciencesystems designer

programmer, lead programmer2D/3D/Graphics programmer

AI programmer. network engineer, system administratorwebmaster, play tester, quality assurance technician

audio engineer, sound producer/programmerusability expert, HCI guru, interface design

data visualization, large scale systems designersinteraction architect, information architect

At Hunter: Computational Media Courses

media 161 Intro to digital media (all the digital creation tools)

medp 278 web production I (basic html / css)

medp 299 digital design and usability (new)

medp 331 web production II (flash programming)

medp 278 interactive media production (processing class)

media 280 understanding new media (history and theory)

media 363 concepts in gaming (game design course)

medp 399 game programming I (flash programming class, new)

medp 341 web programming (php class)

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