DART 450
Web Intervention
Winter 2018
Topics
- Net art
- JavaScript and jQuery
- Web aesthetics
- Abusive design
- Playful interfaces
- Speculative design
- Algorithmic culture
- Slow technology
Readings
- Scheduled reference: Michael Connor (2016). Speaking in Net Language: My Boyfriend Came Back from the War. Rhizome, November 10.
- Scheduled artwork: Olia Lialina (1996). My Boyfriend Came Back from the War, original and remixes.
- Scheduled reference: Alexander Galloway (2016). Jodi’s Infrastructure.
- Scheduled reference: Nick Douglas (2014). It’s Supposed to Look Like Shit. Journal of Visual Culture 13(3).
- Scheduled reference: Douglas Wilson and Miguel Sicart (2010). Now It’s Personal: On Abusive Game Design. Proceedings of FuturePlay 2010.
- Scheduled reference: Bill Gaver (2009). Designing for Homo Ludens (Still). In (Re)Searching the Digital Bauhaus, eds. Thomas Binder, Jonas Löwgren and Lone Malmborg.
- Scheduled reference: Bill Gaver (2003). Ambiguity as a Resource for Design. Proceedings of CHI.
- Scheduled reference: James Pierce and Eric Paulos (2014). Counterfunctional Things. Proceedings of DIS.
- Scheduled chapters: Anthony Dunne (1999). The Post-Optimal Object; (In)Human Factors. In Hertzian Tales. MIT Press.
- Scheduled reading: Carl DiSalvo (2012). Design and Agonism, chapter 1 of Adversarial Design. MIT Press.
- Scheduled reading: James Auger (2013). Speculative Design: Crafting the Speculation. Digital Creativity 24(1).
- Scheduled reference: James Bridle (2017). There Is Something Wrong on the Internet.
- Scheduled reference: Alexander Mordvintsev, Christophe Olah and Mike Tyke (2015). Inceptionism: Going Deeper into Neural Networks. Author spelling as listed in source.
- Scheduled film reference: Sunspring, film with an AI-generated script.
- Scheduled reference: Lars Hallnäs and Jonas Redström (2001). Slow Technology: Designing for Reflection. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing 5(3).
- Supplementary technical resources: instructor tutorials for Atom, Git/GitHub and GitHub Pages; W3Schools HTML/CSS/jQuery references and tutorials; Codecademy courses; CSS-Tricks; jQuery API documentation.
Sources
- Syllabus or course outline ↗Winter 2018
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- Instructor-hosted archived outline, weekly schedule and resources. Bibliography is labelled References or Things to Read; no mandatory textbook specified. Source spellings are retained where bibliographic ambiguity remains.