The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Thursdays 9:00AM-10:30AM (WWW)
Thursdays 10:45AM-12:15PM (LIT)
Room: MICHIGAN 807
Wired Website: saicwired.org
Course Blogs: mbenitez.wordpress.com
Instructors:
Margarita Benitez – mbenit[at]saic[dot]edu
Office Hours: by appointment
Course Descriptions:
SAIC WIRED: LAPTOP LITERACY AND DIGITAL IMAGING
Learn intermediate imaging techniques! This fourteen-week course introduces the basic strategies and techniques associated with using the laptop computer as a tool for creating images, archiving images, and exhibiting static images on a simple web site. The course will also present a very basic history of the WWW as well as analyze and test contemporary tools for research, collaboration, and production online.
SAIC Wired: Creating Culture and Community on the WWW
Delve into HTML, blogging, and the vast possibilities that online media tools offer artists! This fourteen-week course introduces the basic strategies and techniques associated with using the World Wide Web as a tool for creating art, documenting artistic research and practice, and online collaboration. This course assumes an intermediate knowledge of digital imaging and Photoshop expertise. The course begins by introducing the basic syntax (HTML) for publishing word and image on the World Wide Web. Programming techniques in JavaScript and Java will be introduced. The course will present a basic history of the WWW as well as analyze and test contemporary tools for research, collaboration, and production online.
About SAIC Wired
This required 1.5 credit hour course is intended to enhance the first year program curriculum by providing structured, targeted tutorials that introduce students to basic and intermediate imaging and web authoring techniques in an academic context that is both critical and celebratory of the new media tools —both proprietary and open source. The tutorials are also designed to assist first year core faculty in encouraging students to document and share their research and studio projects online with their peers via either a website or blog. The web is a medium that now must be understood and managed by artists from any field; for this reason, the curriculum is focused on imaging and authoring for the web.
Curriculum contact: SAIC Wired
Tiffany Holmes, Associate Professor
Department of Art and Technology Studies
Email: tholme (at) saic (dot) edu