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Week 1
Class discussion: Introduction to the class & review of lingo programing
Assignment I—(Prompt): Clementine
Reading: The Visualization of Art Practice. Simon Penny

Week 2
Class discussion: Linear lists & property lists
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.

Week 3
Class discussion: Applying math equations in Lingo.

Week 4
Class discussion: Controlling Quick Time movies in director
Due: First Interactives

Week 5
Due: Second Interactives
Assignment III (group project)—(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. Can we create a group project that facilitates a networked distributive collaborative process and create a site specific public work?


Week 6
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