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Electronic Drawing Art 3850 - 05 / 5950 - 05

Instructor: Karin Hodgin Jones Visiting Artist

Meet: DADA lab MWF 10:00a - 11:50a

Office: Hunt House 1st floor

Office hours: by appointment

e: karinjones80@webster.edu or karinhodgin@gmail.com

c: 217.898.0177

u: www.electronicdrawing.pbwiki.com

Course Overview

This course is designed with an open structure wherein individuals are encouraged to work in highly experimental ways. Students will be able to use any traditional drawing materials and techniques and combine them with any (or all) of the digital media available in the DADA lab. Students may, if they wish, elect to create their work solely by digital means.

Each member of the course will be asked to form their own opinion of what constitutes a "drawing". To that end, non-traditional media that satisfies the students opinion of "drawing" is strongly encouraged and supported in the class.

Expectations

Attendance - come to class. come to class on time. stay until class is over. if you have more than 3 unexcused absences, that will result in a failing grade in the class.

Projects - turn them in. turn them in on time and completed. Your grade will be negatively affected if they are missing, late or incomplete.

Community - be a good citizen in our classroom environment.

Participation - say it out loud. share your thoughts, ideas, your work, responses to readings and questions with the community. give feedback, listen to thoughts, ideas and responses to readings from others.

Sketchbook - you are required to keep a sketchbook. this is an electronic media course, so sketchbook can be defined in a number of ways, including but not limited to: paper media / notebook, website, photo hosting site, other data/image management site, wiki, youtube, etc. make sure I will be able to see it and review it. Send me a link!

Email policy

1. Emailing me - Please email me. It is my preferred method of communication. I am glued to my computer most of the time but for the times that I am not glued to my computer, please allow up to 24 hours for a response.

2. Emailing during class - please keep it to a minimum, keep it from being a distraction. If it becomes a distraction, I will modify my policy.

Class format:

4 weeks 1/2 studio 1/2 seminar format

We will focus heavily on new media / media's effect on perception and vice versa. From these more theoretical readings, you will be asked to complete several short projects using specific ideas discussed in the texts as the framework for your investigations.

Readings:

Manovich, Lev. "The Database" essay from The Language of New Media, MIT Press 2001

Mulder, Arjen. Understanding Media Theory, V2 Publishing 2002

Tufte, Edward R. Envisioning Information, Graphics Press LLC 1990

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Second 4 weeks 2 projects, 2 weeks each

At this point, we will end the seminar portion of the class and you will work on your own projects. Your projects will be designed by you but you are strongly encouraged to include ideas and techniques you have developed through the shorter exercises.