"Shibuya Epiphany." In class exercise with dodgeball.
due: Read Howard Rheingold, Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution "Shibuya Epiphany" p 1-28. Post a proposal for a game with Dodgeball to the class blog that we can all play as a class. Make sure you are registered for dodgeball.
th sept 14
Meet at the SFAI cafe to play CheckMate.
th sept 14
PARK(ing) Day Volunteer Night 7:00-9:00 PM
This is a volunteer night for Rebar's PARK(ing) Day for those who are participating to help organize and brainstorm for the event. Meet at Southern Exposure Gallery 2901 Mission Street (at 25th St.)
tu sept 19
mobile phones: urban projects
Trip to Southern Exposure Gallery to meet with Courtney Fink about their Off-Site exhibition. In addition, we will talk with Eric Rodenbeck and Jeannene Przyblyski about their projects for Off-Site. Meet at 1:30 at the gallery 2901 Mission Street (at 25th St.)
due: Read Fiona Raby + Ben Hooker. Project #26765-FLIRT: Flexible Information and Recreation for Mobile Users (London: Royal College of Art, 2000).
tu sept 19
assessing isea / zero one san jose
6:30 PM SFAI, 800 Chestnut Street Café and Lecture Hall
th sept 21
Participate in Rebar's PARK(ing) Day. Meet at Park 3 (see map) at Mission between 1st and 2nd at 1:30.
Map of REBAR's route and other related parks.
due: Review PARK(ing) Day web site.
tu sept 26
mobile phones
Flash tutorial. Making animations for mobile phones. Meet in room 16C.
due: Research mobile phone projects created by artists and upload 2 each to the project links page. Be prepared to talk about them briefly in class. Make sure you have read the FLIRT reading due Sept. 19 and post your comments to the class blog.
th sept 28
mobile phones
Working session on Flash animations. Meet in room 16C.
due: Work on Exercise 2.
fri sept 29
11:00 am - 2:00 pm
Rebar Paraformance (02), location 150 California Street
More details at www.soex.org.
tu oct 3
mobile phones
Review animations.
due: Exercise 2
th oct 5
Guest speaker Eric Paulos.
due: Read Eric Paulos, Our Emergent Urban Computing Landscape: Familiar Strangers in Receiver #10, 2004.
tu oct 10
podcasts
Working session exercise 3. Discussion of reading.
due: Read Randy Kennedy, With Irreverence and an iPod, Recreating the Museum Tour (New York Times, May 28, 2005)
th oct 12
podcasts
Working session on podcasts. Individual critiques. Meet in room 16C.
due: Work on exercise 3. Write a paragraph description of your 5 minute edition to the class podcast. Please post to the podcast page. In addition, we need to do a little wiki cleanup. Will each of you create a page named with your "FirstnameLastname." On it please put all of your work for each exercise. Follow the layout on the assignments page. Once you have created your own page, please link to it from the student work page under each assignment and delete your full descriptions from student work. There just include your first and last name + the title of your piece.
tu oct 17
podcasts
Working session on podcasts. Individual critiques. Meet in room 16C.
due: Prepare a rough draft of your 5 minute podcast for review. By Wednesday Oct 18 you will need to get your audio (WAV or AIFF) and video (MOV) files to Jason. Please put them in my box (in the mailroom off the Diego Rivera Gallery or give them directly to Jason by 5:00 pm Wednesday)
th oct 19
podcasts
Review exercise 3. Jordan Geiger, an architect and professor at CCA, will join us to review the class tour. Please meet in the SFAI courtyard prompty at 1:00 and return at 3:00 to the cafe for a review of the work.
due: Exercise 3. Download the podcast and bring your iPod and headphones to class.
sa oct 22
Mission Lake Project by Ledia Carroll
A one-day public art project exploring the history of the Mission Lake
Race Registration: 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Bike Race Begins: 2:00 pm
Lakeside" BBQ: 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Location: Mission Park and Playground (Valencia Street between 19th and 20th Streets)
tu oct 24
Review of podcasts (Daniel, Jason, and Robin). Individual meetings to discuss final projects.
due: Download the podcast, bring ipod and headphones. Post a one paragraph description of your final project to the wiki. (See assignments page for specifics.) Please load your project descriptions to your own project page and link to it from student work.
th oct 26
intervention lecture and discussion about artistic strategies of urban intervention (tour)
due: Read Francesco Cerari, Anti-walk in Walkscapes (Barcelona: Gustavo Gili, 2002) p. 68-94. and Robert Smithison, A Tour of the Monuments of Passaic New Jersey in Jack Flam ed. Robert Smithson: The Collected Writings (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996) p. 68-74.
tu oct 31
Meet at SFMoMA in the lobby. Take the Janet Cardiff tour and meet with Peter Samis.
due: Read Peter Samis and Stephanie Pau ‘Artcasting’ at SFMoMA (optional). Review SFMoMA podcasts. Update project descriptions and work on final project proposals.
th nov 2
Review proposals for final projects.
due: Proposals for final projects due. Upload power point files or web site URL's to student work page.
tu nov 7
intervention lecture and discussion about artistic strategies of urban intervention (mapping)
due: Read Simon Sadler, A Passion for Maps in The Situationist City (Cambridge: MIT Press,1998)p. 82.-91, Making Sense of Psychogeography p. 76-81 and Drifting
as a Revolution in Everyday Life p. 91-95.
th nov 9
intervention
Guest lecture Jamie Schulte of Preemtive Media http://www.preemptivemedia.net/.
due: Review Preemtive Media's AIR project http://www.pm-air.net. Work on final projects.
tu nov 14
intervention lecture and discussion about artistic strategies of urban intervention (mapping)
due: Read Sadler readings assigned Nov. 7. Work on final projects.
th nov 16
Working session. Meet in 16C unless you have sent me an e-mail describing your research off-site.
due: Work on final projects.
tu nov 21
Review of progress on final projects. Individual meetings. Meet in 16C for a working session.
due: Work on final projects. Update web pages showing all recent research.
th nov 23
Thanksgiving Break
tu nov 28
Review of progress on final projects. Individual meetings. Meet in 16C for a working session.
due: Work on final projects. Update web pages showing all recent research.
th nov 30
Working session. Meet in 16C.
due: Post a rough draft of your audio piece including images, etc if applicable. In addition, please post your exact route to your final project page (use Mapquest multi-stop route builder http://www.mapquest.com/maps-directions/main.adp?cid=1_tryitnow_home_text) and link the URL.
tu dec 5
Review of final project audio files. Meet in 16C.
due: Final project audio files loaded to student work.
th dec 7
intervention lecture and discussion about artistic strategies of urban intervention (probe + performance)
due: Project Documentation, a web page descriing your project to the reviewers as well as a one-page PDF that can be downloaded and brought on the tour. See assignments for more details. Please use documentation template: http://inyourpocket.pbwiki.com/Final-Project-Documentation Bring your iPods to class to load the tour files.
Read Urban Probes: Encountering our Emerging Urban Atmospheres
Eric Paulos and Tom JenkinsACM SIGCHI, April 2005. (optional)
tu dec 12
Final review 1:00-5:00. Meet at SFAI (Pete's cafe).
Guest reviewers: Anthony Burke, Jordan Geiger, Jeannene Przyblyski, and Jamie Schulte.
th dec 14
Tour NPR's (Neighborhood Public Radio's) Talking Homes: Bringing Down the Neighborhood. See http://www.soex.org. Meet at Southern Exposure Gallery at 2901 Mission Street. We will find an opportunity for a celebratory lunch en-route!
sa dec 16
optional walking tour! come for treats and miserable narrators. 3:00 - 4:00 p.m. Check in at 48th ave and pt lobos avenue. please check dianevadino.com for the latest download. bring your video ipod.
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dp said
at 12:38 pm on Sep 4, 2006
when are we going to be able to download:
<i>Read Howard Rheingold, Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution "Shibuya Epiphany" p 1-28.</i>
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