Assignments

ASSIGNMENTS FOR WEEK 4, FEBRUARY 27

1.  READINGS:

BOTH DOCUMENTS ARE UPLOADED  IN “RESOURCRS” SECTION

a. The Garden of the Forking Paths (Borges)
b. You Say You Want a Revolution?  Hypertext and the Laws of Media, Stuart Moulthrop
c. Vanevaar Bush – As We May Think (Memex)

Post to LINKAGE discussion referring to all three readings.

2. TO DO:

Produce a non-linear fictive or non-fictive hypertext map of a story, article, script, production plan, that has some complexity.   You can use any original or pre-existing performative work, or a story you would like to see made into a play, or a technical plan, with at least 30 entries, plotting at least 3 different paths through the material, and add at least 6 hyperlinks associating to outside links.  Your story/plan can backtrack on itself. You can use PREZI, or a trial download of Inspiration, index cards, or any other client or system that lends itself to hyptertextual/hypermedia constructs — i.e, Freemind, Inspiration — all of these are FREE.

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FOR WEEK 5

Assignment: Make your wish list in the form of a short essay of 3 single or combinatory conceptions for invention in entertainment for the future. Technologies can overlap. These inventions can be concrete or conceptual, that is, they can be anything from a new kind of physical or virtual theater (holodeck), to a robotic propmaster, robotic lighting crew, robotic acting ensemble . Conceptual—time travel theater, projecting our inner thoughts. They can be science fiction. Describe them.

IMAGINE PROJECT

“In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.” – Miguel de Cervantes

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.” – Albert Einstein

The glaring obsolesce inherent in “new” technologies lends itself to the belief that, what is imagined as science fiction, will likely become science fact at an accelerated pace all through our working lives. Therefore, it is a rational and indeed recommended exercise to imagine a tool, system or protocol in your area of interest where anything is possible.

The assignment, consisting of research, development and final deliverables, is to conjure up an ideal, inventive and imaginative technological entity without regard for its realization at this time. Distilling the essence of what you want to express and imagining and fleshing out such a tool will feed back into what you can actually do at this time and can serve to amplify the most important elements of your practice now, and in the future. That is just one of the benefits of treating science fiction as science fact.

Deconstruct your project so that the essential goals emerge independent of current methodologies and imagine the optimum a system, device, protocol of the future offering the most effective pedagogy for the concepts and materials you intend to work with Design this in terms of sketches, faux prototypes, written text, and “pitch” it to the class in several presentations, including final presentation.

DUE:  A completed project in the form of proposal, journals, patent application summary, models, scenarios, script, drawings, descriptions, video, virtual environment, and/or web site, etc.

1.  Proposal – outline timeline, deliverables, demos, with justifications

2. Patent Application Summary – (Form will be provided)

3. Ongoing WEEKLY  journal with weekly documentation consisting of research questions and “answers, devised “experiments”, reference quotes, original text and imagery (drawing, photo, video, collage, animation etc.)

4. MIDTERM PAPER

5. FINAL REPORT/PAPER

6. FINAL DELIVERABLES

(For resources, see full bibliography as well as prior student examples in “Resources” on our OpenLab WordPress site.)

DESIGN, ILLUSION AND REALITY, a course at Cooper Union

http://adriannewortzel.com/robottheater/projects.html
http://adriannewortzel.com/replicating/

 

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