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Week 1
Class discussion: Introduction to the class & review of lingo programing
Assignment I—(Prompt): Make something with your hands. It has been argued that because of new technologies that the body has become obsolete. Yet for many contemporary artists the physical engagement with the process of making is critical to the art. Some would say that computer art has perilously lost the direct connection with the body. As computer artists how is your expression related to issues of the body? What does hand made mean in our virtual realm of the computer interface?
Reading: The Visualization of Art Practice. Simon Penny

Week 2
Class discussion: Linear lists & property lists

Week 3
Due: First Interactives
Assignment II—(Prompt): Create a project where the interaction mirrors or enacts a psychological condition or emotional state. For the interactive artist the meaning of the work is expressed not only through the images and symbols on the screen but by the kinds of interaction through which viewer/participant engage the work. This project emphasizes the interactivity by asking you focus on how the interactions themselves might express a mental state.
Class discussion: Applying math equations in Lingo.

Week 4
Class discussion: Reading & Queuing sound with lingo

Week 5
Class discussion: Controlling Quick Time movies in director

Week 6
Due: Second Interactives
Assignment III (Prompt): This the age of "smart" refrigerator and cell phone orchestras. More and more of the tools we use in our daily lives do not stand alone in isolation but are networked parts of wider distributed databases. Our screens are always full of multiple layers of information and we talk of multitasking. In this context we as a culture seem more concerned with the myriad of interconnections and relations than single unified wholes.
Class discussion: Cross-platform CD-ROM and DVD authoring

Week 7
Class discussion: Object-Oriented Programming

Week 8
Due: Third Interactives
Assignment IV: Individual final projects
Class discussion: Object-Oriented Programming

Week 9
Demonstration: Physical computing & Live video feed

Week 10 Due: Final projects