School of Art Digital Literacy/Semester 1 Weeks 7-12



The following list provides the content for Semester 1: Weeks 7 - 12 of Digital Literacy as taught by the Electronic Arts section in the School of Art, Otago Polytechnic

Timetables and Content
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Semester 1: Weeks 7 - 12

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Week Seven - Blogging & Social Networking
Lecture: Blogging, The Internet & Global Communities

Workshop: setting up a blog(blogger, or wordpress), setting up a newsreader(bloglines)

RESOURCES | These resources will provide you with everything you need to know to achieve the assignments above:

Blogger

Wordpress

Bloglines

Create and maintain a basic weblog

Use social bookmarking to store and retrieve information

Below are some links to information covered in this weeks lecture: Spend some time before the next class looking through these and thinking about them.

Window:Scene//Electronic art, new media and digital culture in New Zealand

ISOCHRONIC (Photoblog)

Creative Review Blog (Art and Design News)

My Photo Discussion Blog

This week's Lecture Slides are now available on Blackboard

Week Eight - Can I do that? Copyright Issues and Ethics
Your Guest Lecturer for week 8 will be [mailto:PamM@tekotago.ac.nz Pam McKinlay]

Lecture: IP/Copyright Issues

Workshop: using info from the web legally (e.g. saving and attributing images), applying CC licence to your blog.

RESOURCES | These resources will provide you with some starting points to complete this week's worksheet:

Keir Smith Oh, so criminal

Transcript of A&M case against Napster

creative commons New Zealand

how to add cc licences and maintain your blog

In the lecture I started the ball rolling with the tale of aggrieved artist John Radford and his story of a corporate rip-off of his artwork as told on Fair Go. Note this kind of thing had happened elsewhere in the NZ garment industry. COPYRIGHT AND CREATING. - See benedict.com for an introduction to ‘real world’ digital issues. This site includes case studies of high profile multimedia infringements (wav files).

Art at Risk: copyright, fair dealings and art in a digital age From Flickr to Facebook to YouTube internet users engage both still and moving digital images and negotiate different permissions and database resources every day. In this research project we looked at some of the questions that people ask everyday: What can you download from YouTube? Is everything on Flickr available to use? Can I cut this image up and call it my own? What happens if I upload my project to Facebook? Can I add this soundtrack to my animation. Can I copy that? Art at Risk was inspired by Re-Cut, Re-Frame and Recycle? CREATIVE COMMONS LICENCES. What is Creative Commons? When looking at using CC make sure you know exactly what you want your licence to do (or not to do). Use the local version CC NZ as this has been tailored to our particular jurisdiction.

Week Nine - Free Open Source Software
Your guest lecturer for this week will be Leigh Blackall

Lecture: Free Software

Workshop: More Blogging: uploading images, uploading video.

Resources to help you with this week's assignment

FLOSS MANUALS-Free Manuals for Free Software

FLOSS MANUALS-Digital Foundations book that teaches a range of free software specifically for designers and artists

Leigh's Free and Open Source Software Resources

Week Ten - Online Presence - The Project
Lecture: Intro to the Project: ‘Presence’

Workshop: Getting your Project Started

This week's Lecture Slides are now available on Blackboard

*All students to bring headphones to next week’s workshops.

Week Eleven - What is Electronic Art?
Your Guest Lecturer for this week will be [mailto:sballard@tekotago.ac.nz Dr. Su Ballard.]

Lecture: Electronic Art & The Network

Workshop: Collecting images from the internet– still and moving.

RESOURCES | These links will lead to some of the artists discussed today:

Cory Archangel

Corby and Baily

Thompson and Craighead

Lucy Kimbell

0100101110101101

Wafaa Bilal

The Yes Men

This week's Lecture Slides are now available on Blackboard

Week Twelve - Audio Visual (AV)
 Lecture: Audio Visual - AV

Workshop: Using Movie Maker (moving image) and Audacity(audio)

This week's Lecture Slides are now available on Blackboard

RESOURCES: These links should help you with today's tasks

FLOSS Manuals: Audacity - about it, downloading it, installing it and using it!

Microsoft.com Using Move Maker

RESOURCES: Links, Ideas & References from the lecture

Creative Review Moving Image Blog

Magnum In Motion Website

PAM Perpetual Art Machine Pierre Huyghe: A Forest of Lines 2008: Timelapse Video

What is Sound?

Wikipedia: Sound (audible acoustic waves)

Wikipedia: Sound Recording & Reproduction

Video File Formats: What and When to Use