Class overview & Topics covered

THIS COURSE IS AN ART PROJECT?!?

Yes!

We will be treating this course as a creative act of engagement in community and process! We will be addressing course content and peer interactions as materials to transform into a living work of virtual art. Our goal is to make the "PROCESS" of learning transformative to both students and the instructor!

Computing and the Arts provides a broad overview of the ways computers are used in the production of art. The course will examine computing across artistic disciplines, including music, sculpture, dance, visual art, film, photography, and digital art. Although we will discuss the ways that computer software is used as a tool in traditional media (for example, using Photoshop to enhance a photograph), special emphasis will be given to artists who use computers or algorithmic processes as an integral aspect of the creative process. Some discussion will be devoted to aesthetics and technology, the mediation of art by computational processes, and the relationships between artistic production, creativity, and computation.

This course does not presume any programming experience. Some background in an artistic discipline is helpful but by no means necessary, as several assignments will involve creating art. In this course, you will have the chance to explore creativity through computational processes, and will create works of your own through homework assignments.

TOPICS COVERED

Introduction to Computing

Algorithms and Algorithmic Art

Dadaism, Fluxus, and Conceptual Art

Cybernetics and Cybernetic Art

Collage

Video Art

Programming Paradigms

Introduction to the Processing coding environment

Cellular Automata

Fractal Art

Generative Art

Digital Media,

New Media Art

Net Art

Installation I

Interactive Art

Computer Graphics

Video Games as Art

Virtual Reality Art

Data Visualization

Social Media and Locative Media

Introduction to Artificial Intelligence

Creative Evolutionary Systems and Artificial Life