Class Schedule

*The instructor might deviate slightly from the class schedule if more time is required for a particular topic.

Date Lecture Assignments and Readings
Week 1 Introduction
Student intros, Class overview
Student websites and icons
Data Portrait, due week 3
Week 2 Review (Raw Data, part 1) Reading:
Delusions of Dialogue: control and choice in interactive art
Week 3 Review (Raw Data, part 2) Midterm project, due week 7
Week 4 Stories and Statistics
Reading:
Artistic Data Visualization: Beyond Visual Analytics
Week 5 Networks, Data Mining
Week 6 Time and other Intangible Things
Week 7 Midterm project presentations

Week 8 Drawing Machines
Reading:
What is Generative Art? Complexity Theory as a Context for Art Theory
Week 9 A-Life and Genetic Algorithms
Final project proposal, due week 11
Week 10 Emergence and Complex Systems Reading:
Exploring Emergence
Week 11 Final project proposals and Idea Jam, in class
Final project prototypes, due week 13
Week 12 Project development
How to document your work
Course evaluation

Week 13 Prototype presentations
Exam Period Final project critiques
December 12th (011)
December 13th (021)