School of Art Digital Literacy/Semester 1 Weeks 7-12
The following list provides the content for Semester 1: Weeks 7 - 12 of Digital Literacy as taught by the Electronic Arts section in the School of Art, Otago Polytechnic
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Timetables and Content
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Semester 1: Weeks 1 - 6
Semester 1: Weeks 7 - 12
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Week Seven - Blogging & Social Networking
Lecture: Blogging, The Internet & Global Communities
Workshop: setting up a blog(blogger, or wordpress), setting up a newsreader(bloglines)
| Your Own Blog Self-Directed: e-mail Rachel (rachelg@tekotago.ac.nz) with your blog address and find 5 relevant blogs (to art/your study) to add to your newsreader. Once you have done this, write a blog post, listing your chosen blog feeds. |
RESOURCES | These resources will provide you with everything you need to know to achieve the assignments above:
Blogger
Wordpress
Bloglines
Create and maintain a basic weblog
Use social bookmarking to store and retrieve information
Below are some links to information covered in this weeks lecture: Spend some time before the next class looking through these and thinking about them.
Window:Scene//Electronic art, new media and digital culture in New Zealand
ISOCHRONIC (Photoblog)
Creative Review Blog (Art and Design News)
My Photo Discussion Blog
This week's Lecture Slides are now available on Blackboard
Week Eight - Can I do that? Copyright Issues and Ethics
Your Guest Lecturer for week 8 will be Pam McKinlay
Lecture: IP/Copyright Issues
Workshop: using info from the web legally (e.g. saving and attributing images), applying CC licence to your blog.
| COPYRIGHT ISSUES AND ETHICS
all assignments for this week need to be recorded in your BLOG under the heading COPYRIGHT |
RESOURCES | These resources will provide you with some starting points to complete this week's worksheet:
Keir Smith Oh, so criminal
Transcript of A&M case against Napster
creative commons New Zealand
how to add cc licences and maintain your blog
In the lecture I started the ball rolling with the tale of aggrieved artist John Radford and his story of a corporate rip-off of his artwork as told on Fair Go. Note this kind of thing had happened elsewhere in the NZ garment industry.
COPYRIGHT AND CREATING. - See benedict.com for an introduction to ‘real world’ digital issues. This site includes case studies of high profile multimedia infringements (wav files).
Art at Risk: copyright, fair dealings and art in a digital age
From Flickr to Facebook to YouTube internet users engage both still and moving digital images and negotiate different permissions and database resources every day. In this research project we looked at some of the questions that people ask everyday: What can you download from YouTube? Is everything on Flickr available to use? Can I cut this image up and call it my own? What happens if I upload my project to Facebook? Can I add this soundtrack to my animation. Can I copy that? Art at Risk was inspired by Re-Cut, Re-Frame and Recycle?
CREATIVE COMMONS LICENCES. What is Creative Commons? When looking at using CC make sure you know exactly what you want your licence to do (or not to do). Use the local version CC NZ as this has been tailored to our particular jurisdiction.
Week Nine - Free Open Source Software
Your guest lecturer for this week will be Leigh Blackall
Lecture: Free Software
Workshop: More Blogging: uploading images, uploading video.
| Self-Directed: Write a post to your blog about FLOSS as you understand it and list at least 5 software programmes and their functions. Find a video that discusses, showcases, or demonstrates the use of FLOSS and upload this to your blog, with a short introduction. Upload to your blog a copy of all the images you have saved so far. |
Resources to help you with this week's assignment
FLOSS MANUALS-Free Manuals for Free Software
FLOSS MANUALS-Digital Foundations book that teaches a range of free software specifically for designers and artists
Leigh's Free and Open Source Software Resources
Week Ten - Online Presence - The Project
Lecture: Intro to the Project: ‘Presence’
Workshop: Getting your Project Started
| Presence Project
The aim of the project is to develop an online ‘presence’ for yourself that will inform someone about you as an artist and your current art practice.
This may take the shape of a website, or a blog and you should choose the most relevant to your abilities. If you choose to use a blog, you should start a NEW Blog just for this project, while maintaining your original digi lit blog with your weekly posts/course exercises. You will submit both at the end of the course (10th June).
Your presentation will consist of you talking to your online ‘presence’ in front of your group. The documentation (i.e. the website) and in your oral presentation, you should ensure that you are showing you have completed all learning outcomes for this course. |
This week's Lecture Slides are now available on Blackboard
*All students to bring headphones to next week’s workshops.
Week Eleven - What is Electronic Art?
Your Guest Lecturer for this week will be Dr. Su Ballard.
Lecture: Electronic Art & The Network
Workshop: Collecting images from the internet– still and moving.
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Self-Directed: Choose two electronic artists from the lecture and find some information about them online (– are your sources reliable?) Write a post for each artist with a short introduction to their practice and add images/moving image as necessary. Continue to work on your Presence Project, and catching up on any week's you may have missed. |
RESOURCES | These links will lead to some of the artists discussed today:
Cory Archangel
Corby and Baily
Thompson and Craighead
Lucy Kimbell
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Wafaa Bilal
The Yes Men
This week's Lecture Slides are now available on Blackboard
Week Twelve - Audio Visual (AV)
Lecture: Audio Visual - AV
Workshop: Using Movie Maker (moving image) and Audacity(audio)
| Self-Directed: Using images from the project that you have saved so far, put together a short ‘moving-image presentation’ in moviemaker. Then create a short audio file of you speaking to your ‘movie’ and add the audio track to your movie. The final movie should be saved as a small file for the internet, and a large file for your archive. |
This week's Lecture Slides are now available on Blackboard
RESOURCES: These links should help you with today's tasks
FLOSS Manuals: Audacity - about it, downloading it, installing it and using it!
Microsoft.com Using Move Maker
RESOURCES: Links, Ideas & References from the lecture
Creative Review Moving Image Blog
Magnum In Motion Website
PAM Perpetual Art Machine
Pierre Huyghe: A Forest of Lines 2008: Timelapse Video
What is Sound?
Wikipedia: Sound (audible acoustic waves)
Wikipedia: Sound Recording & Reproduction
Video File Formats: What and When to Use
