august

week	tuesday	thursday
	August 25	August 27
week 1	Soft Cinema	NonNarrative Film Forms
screening	Texas Mission to Earth Absences Lev Manovich and Andreas Kratky, 2004	Ballet Mechanique Leger, Murphy, Ray, 1924 Koyaanisqatsi Reggio, Glass, Fricke, 1982
reading	Borges, "Garden of Forking Paths"	Film Art pp. 146-157: "An Example of Abstract Form: Ballet Mechanique" and "Principles of Associational Form"

september

week	tuesday	thursday
	September 1	September 3
week 2	NonNarrative Film Forms intro to flash	photogram, mise en scene intro to flash: the loop
screening	Rhythmus 21, Hans Richter, 1921 Symphonie Diagonale, Viking Eggeling 1924	Mothlight, Stan Brackhage, 1964
reading
	September 8	September 10
week 3	flash animation	more flash animation intro to ActionScript 3.0
screening	San Soleil, Chris Marker, 1962
reading	William Burroughs,"The Future of the Novel," 1964 Marc Canter,"The New Workstation: CD ROM Authoring Systems," 1986		blog post due in next Tuesday, 9/15
	September 15	September 17
week 4	Database and Narrative ActionScript 3.0 Adobe Media Encoder	DADA collage James Rosenquist ActionScript 3.0	choose a poem or short story on which to base your project by 9/17
screening	animation of Takeshi Murata Unmonumental Online: John Michael Boling	Man with a Movie Camera, Dziga Vertov, 1929
reading	Film Art pp. 415-420: "Man With a Movie Camera"		blog post due Next Tuesday, 9/22
	September 22	September 24
week 5	Database and Narrative ActionScript 3.0	Database and Narrative ActionScript 3.0
screening		Man with a Movie Camera, Dziga Vertov, 1929
reading	Lev Manovich, "Prologue: Vertov's Dataset," from The Language of New Media, 2001		blog post due Next Tuesday, 9/22

Database and Narrative

week	tuesday	thursday
	September 29	October 1
week 6	Database and Narrative	Database and Narrative
screening		Prospero's Books, Peter Greenaway, 1991
reading	Lev Manovich, "Database Cinema, Greenaway and Vertov," from The Language of New Media, 2001
	October 6	October 8
week 7	Database and Narrative	Database and Narrative
screening
reading
	October 13	October 15
week 8	Database and Narrative	Database and Narrative
screening	INSERT YOUR WORK HERE (Student Critiques)	INSERT YOUR WORK HERE (Student Critiques)
reading
	October 20	October 22
week 9	Scripted Spaces	Scripted Spaces
screening
reading	Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, "Theatre, Circus, Variety, Theatre of the Bauhaus," 1924	Billy Kluver, "The Great Northeastern Power Failure," 1966	blog post due Next Tuesday, 10/27
	October 27	October 29
week 10	Scripted Spaces	Scripted Spaces
screening	Diana Thater
reading	Peter Lunenfeld, "Diana Thater:Contraint Decree," from Snap To Grid A User's Guide to Digital Arts, Media, and Cultures		blog post due Next Tuesday, 11/3

scripted space

week	tuesday	thursday
	November 3	November 5
week 11	Scripted Spaces	Scripted Spaces
screening	Jennifer Steincamp
reading	Peter Lunenfeld, "Jennifer Steincamp:Light In Space," from Snap To Grid A User's Guide to Digital Arts, Media, and Cultures		blog post due Next Tuesday, 11/10
	November 10	November 12
week 12	Scripted Spaces	Scripted Spaces
screening	Won Ju Lim
reading	Janet Staiger, "Future Noir: Contemporary Representation of Visionary Cities," from *Alien Zone II* ed. Annette Kuhn		blog post due Next Tuesday, 11/17
	November 17	November 19
week 13	Scripted Spaces	Scripted Spaces
screening	Doug Aiken
reading	Richard Wagner, "Outlines of the Artwork of the Future," 1849		blog post due Next Tuesday, 11/24
	November 24	November 26
week 14	Scripted Spaces	NO CLASS
screening		JUST LIKE SCHOOL IN THE SUMMERTIME
reading		NO CLASS