DigitalPractice2017

Practice Theme

The theme of Digital Craft 2017 is How to be Human. Over the next 16 weeks, you will explore how human, inhumane, candid, or uncanny your digital/electronic media can be. The first 8 weeks are dedicated to bi-weekly thematic projects. The last 8 weeks consist of an independent research on a medium of your choice.

Practice Daily Planning

MONDAY

• MAJOR

TUESDAY

• MAJOR

WEDNESDAY

• START THINKING ABOUT DIGITAL CRAFT

THURSDAY

• DEEP IN DIGITAL CRAFT

FRIDAY

• ALL DAY EXPERIMENTAL DIGITAL CRAFTING

Practice/Minor Overview

Study Week	Project	Content
1 & 2	Project 1: On The Body	Exploring bespoke technologies as remediation, adaptions or extensions of the human body.
3 & 4	Project 2: Inhuman Factors / Sensitivity Training	DIY Sensor Exploration / Finetuning Sensitivity / Exploring Reactive Materials
5 & 6	Project 3: Mind (of) the Machine	Machine Learning Workshop
Week 7	Q9 Evaluation	Project presentation + Independent/Research Project Proposal
Week 8	Fall Vacation / DDW MICA Meet Up	Informal drinks with MICA Student
Week 9	International WDKA/MICA Workshop (INFORM MAJOR TEACHERS)	Sensitivity Training part II / Reactive Installation
Week 10 - 14	Final Project: On The Body / Inhuman Factors / Mind of the Machine	Your chosen Q9 project turned into a deeper exploration
Week 15	Q10 Evaluation	Final Practice Evaluation
Week 16	Digital Craft Minor Exhibition (with some practice projects)	Final Minor Evaluation / Party
Week 02	Research Document Due	Packaging of final research/project

Projects

On The Body

Week 1

Each minor is asked to draw a body part. In the intro week assignment that are required to make an artefact that reflects, remediates, adapt or extends the function of their choices part of the body. In a addition to the ‘artefact’, a large scale refined drawing of their human body part and campaign poster for the minor will be displayed in a mini exhibition.

Each third year student becomes a body double for the last two days of the Minor project week to help with the work and exhibition (Thursday & Friday).

Week 2 - 

Each minor student will deepen/push their project and put extra attention on refinement and craftsmanship

Each third year will produce a new work inspired by one of the minor projects, but in an explicitly different medium or approach.

Project Schedule

Date	Location	Content	Assignment
Thursday 31 August	Interaction Station 10:30 - 12:00 Interaction Station 13:00 - 16:00 De Willem 17:00 - 21:00	Digital Craft Launch w/ 3rd years: How to Be Human Minor Project Review & Exhibition Planning Wiki Intro Autonomous Practice Borrel	Production of artefacts and posters for On the Body Presentation Presentation Materials Body Part Drawings/Posters How to Be Human Posters
Friday 1 September	Location TBD - 13:00 - 16:00	On The Body - Digital Craft Project Presentation	first project presentation and introduce Digital Craft Practice/Minor exhibition “How to Be Human”
Tuesday 5 September	Interaction Station 13:00 - 16:00	On the Body Revisited	Critiquing, Refining & Reproducing Artefact
Thursday 7 September	Interaction Station 13:00 - 16:00	Informal Final & Launch Project 2: Sensitivity Training	Sensor Lottery Assignment & Hertzian Tales Reading

Deliverables

Q9 Deliverables

Individual & Group Practice-Based

1. An artefact for/on/or about the body
2. A short filmshowing a design scenario in the context of (in)human factors
3. A small "booklet" exploring the Mind [of] the Machine
4. A well-presented sketch illustrating the direction you wish to explore based on one of the three previous project, within the context of "How To Be Human" (a visual forshadowing of your Q10 proposal)

Individual Research

1. A fully propagated wiki page showing all your findings and contextualising your production

People

Jon Bart Marielle