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| | ==Instructor:== | | ==Instructor:== |
| − | '''Dr. Diane Gromala''' & Invited Experts | + | '''Dr. Diane Gromala''' |
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| | [email:gromalal@sfu.ca] | | [email:gromalal@sfu.ca] |
| − | IMPORTANT: title your emails, beginning with <811> | + | IMPORTANT: title your emails, beginning with <810> |
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| | to ensure that they will not get lost among massive amounts of email effluvia. | | to ensure that they will not get lost among massive amounts of email effluvia. |
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| − | '''Office hours:''' Thursdays, 4-5pm & by appt. | + | '''Office hours:''' |
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| | Dr. Gromala can be located M-Th in the BioMedia Lab or her 14th floor office (across from Desiree's, in the admin area). | | Dr. Gromala can be located M-Th in the BioMedia Lab or her 14th floor office (across from Desiree's, in the admin area). |
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| | SFU Surrey | | SFU Surrey |
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| − | Thursdays, 5:30–8:20pm, Room 3040
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| | ==Course Description:== | | ==Course Description:== |
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| − | This graduate level course is a critical exploration of interactive art history, theory and practice.
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| − | Students will learn to identify and explore major issues that artists and designers face in interactive art,
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| − | interaction design and their emerging critical discourses through readings, seminar discussions, writing,
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| − | experiences of interactive art and media in galleries, museums and theatres, along with conceptual
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| − | This course prepares students to identify, contextualize, analyze and critique emerging directions in
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| − | It enables students to question assumptions, locate values and determine and design tools through which
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| − | Particular focus is given to the intersection of computation, science and art through a comparative historical
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| − | This includes emerging interdisciplinary, philosophical and cultural influences that shape and reflect
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| | ==Evaluation== | | ==Evaluation== |
| − | 25% Participation: class attendance, out-of-class attendance (visits), 2 presentations
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| − | Note: depending on your goals as a grad student, the final presentation may take another form, but you need to discuss that option and gain my written approval.
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| − | 25% Experiments & mapping
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| − | 50% Writing, mapping & taxonomy assignments
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| | ==Readings & media== | | ==Readings & media== |
| − | All readings will be available online.
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| − | [http://wiki.iat.sfu.ca/ComputationalPoetics/images/d/d1/DAC_symbiogenic_copyrighted.pdf Symbiogenic Experiences in the Interactive Arts]
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| − | Please temporarily refer to the <Current Events> link for the other readings.
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| − | [[Media:Plugin-Abrams_Part_1.pdf|Plugin-Abrams Part 1]]
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| − | [[Media:Plugin-Abrams_Part_2_Section_A.pdf|Plugin-Abrams Part 2 Section A]]
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