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description:
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This course is a hands-on introduction to digital media technologies.
Students will learn a number of tools and programming languages
including HTML, XML, Javascript, Activescript, Photoshop and Flash. This
term the focus will be on digital media that are similar to or extensions of prior
forms of sequential visual art, like film and video. The emphasis is on
understanding digital technologies as new media and not simply as new
tools. What are media? In general, media are technologies and practices
that mediate between people: The "media" of "digital media" need to be
understood in at least two ways: (1) as a set of practices; and, (2) as a set of
technologies that mediate between people. As a practice, a medium
influences or determines a repertoire of social, political, economic, legal, and
cultural activities. As a technology, a medium provides a mechanism and
material form for a set of relations between people. We will explore digital
media experimentally by designing and implementing a series of new media
technologies.
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