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