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School of Art Digital Literacy/Semester 1 Weeks 7-12
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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
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Timetables and Content
School of Art Digital Literacy - Mainpage
Semester 1: Weeks 1 - 6
Semester 1: Weeks 7 - 12
Semester 1: Weeks 13 - 15
Week Seven - Blogging & Social Networking
Lecture: Blogging, The Internet & Global Communities
Workshop: setting up a blog(blogger, or wordpress), setting up a newsreader(bloglines)
| Your Own Blog Self-Directed: e-mail Rachel (rachelg@tekotago.ac.nz) with your blog address and find 5 relevant blogs (to art/your study) to add to your newsreader. Once you have done this, write a blog post, listing your chosen blog feeds. |
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 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.
| COPYRIGHT ISSUES AND ETHICS
all assignments for this week need to be recorded in your BLOG under the heading COPYRIGHT |
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
This week's Lecture Slides are now available on Blackboard
A COPYRIGHT BIBLIOGRAPHY
If you have little or no idea about copyright you could do much worse than starting here - Richard Niven gives a quick wrap of copyright in Radio NZ’s CyberLaw series.
In the lecture I start the ball rolling with the tale of aggrieved artist John Radford and his story on Fair Go. Note this kind of thing had happened elsewhere in the NZ garment industry.
COPYRIGHT NZ LEGISLATION. - The entire riveting 1994 Copyright Act. Wallpaper your bedroom with it and memorise Fair Dealings sections. The literary style is pure legaleese.
Amendments to Act - The new Bill tweaks the old one by seeking to clarify how copyright works in a digital environment. See where the tweaking needs more tweak.
Otago Polytechnic CLL brochure “Copyright the Law and You”. You've got it. It was a hand out. Please read it. See further the Copyright Council of NZ . See also summary of “info rights”. Covers common everyday digital uses, pulled together by Lesley Harris for the SLA.
COPYRIGHT GENERAL. - Easy to navigate, small partially chewed portions. Crash course in copyright (note US legal system). See also Stanford University for Fair Use in America.
COPYRIGHT/INTELLECUTAL PROPERTY/MAORI IP. - An enlightened recap of the cornerstones of European-style copyright law and a compelling look at the future of tikanga as a way of addressing spiritual, intellectual and material concerns regarding traditional knowledges in Aotearoa. Mana Tuturu: Maori Treasures & Intellectual Property Rights by Barry Barclay Auckland University Press, 2005. A must read for film makers in Aotearoa New Zealand.
COPYRIGHT AND CREATING. - Introduction to ‘real world’ digital issues. Includes case studies of high profile multimedia infringements (wav files).
How big money is eroding fair use for the public good by proprietary practices and penalising measures. Vaidhyanathan, Siva, Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How It Threatens Creativity, New York University Press, 2003. Also searchable on Google books.
MACHINIMA - Excellent keynote address by Fred von Lohmann from the Electronic Frontier Foundation and another that may interest from Dan Hunter (Virtual Worlds) from the recent symposium run by the Games and the Law research group.
ILLEGAL ART or illegal imagination ? - An exhibition which explored the legalities of “illegal” creating and the corporate world.
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. UK Artists – study of artists’ approaches to Copyright and Creative Commons
Can I copy that? Can I Re-Cut, Re-Frame and Recycle? A copyright 'calculator'. Clear and concise but you can navigate to fuller descriptions for clarification of terms if need be. See also Plagiarism and Appropriation and where they intersect with Copyright.
Otago Poytechnic and University of Otago have put together self-directed modules on digital literacy. Very simple, easy to navigate and covers the basic information and some how to’s for various media tools. It also covers copyright essentials.
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.
| Self-Directed: Write a post to your blog about FLOSS as you understand it and list at least 5 software programmes and their functions. Find a video that discusses, showcases, or demonstrates the use of FLOSS and upload this to your blog, with a short introduction. Upload to your blog a copy of all the images you have saved so far. |
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
| Presence Project
The aim of the project is to develop an online ‘presence’ for yourself that will inform someone about you as an artist and your current art practice.
This may take the shape of a website, or a blog and you should choose the most relevant to your abilities. If you choose to use a blog, you should start a NEW Blog just for this project, while maintaining your original digi lit blog with your weekly posts/course exercises. You will submit both at the end of the course (10th June).
Your presentation will consist of you talking to your online ‘presence’ in front of your group. The documentation (i.e. the website) and in your oral presentation, you should ensure that you are showing you have completed all learning outcomes for this course. |
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 Dr. Su Ballard.
Lecture: Electronic Art & The Network
Workshop: Collecting images from the internet– still and moving.
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Self-Directed: Choose two electronic artists from the lecture and find some information about them online (– are your sources reliable?) Write a post for each artist with a short introduction to their practice and add images/moving image as necessary. Continue to work on your Presence Project, and catching up on any week's you may have missed. |
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)
| Self-Directed: Using images from the project that you have saved so far, put together a short ‘moving-image presentation’ in moviemaker. Then create a short audio file of you speaking to your ‘movie’ and add the audio track to your movie. The final movie should be saved as a small file for the internet, and a large file for your archive. |
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
