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=Summary=
=Summary=
"Hello, welcome to my homepage. Hope you like it, feel free to stay around"
''Hello, welcome to my homepage. Hope you like it, if you like it feel free to send me an email.''
This course is about presenting yourself to the world, through the Wold Wide Web.


This will involve exploring how your identity can be invented, confused, or reaffirmed in an online environment.  
This or similar messages were present in many of the personal website on the mid-90's. Before the templates and uniform layouts of Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, the way to present yourself to the whole world on the nascent medium of the Internet was to construct your own website, or as they became know, homepage, you home on the Web.
 
We'll do investigate works of art and interventions on the Web, as well as services like Google Search or Facebook, in which identity plays a central role.  
In this course we will revisit that past and learn how to publish content on Wold Wide Web, by design simple web-pages from scratch, using HTML and CSS. But since we are in 2015 we will also explore the possibilities of current Wold Wide Web, where video, audio, maps, drawing canvas and typography open up the an exciting territory for artists or designers to work in.  
 
At the same time that we'll learning and experiment with the essential for tools for web-design - HTML and CSS .
 
Through out these classes you'll you will be encouraged to experiment with the design and expressive possibilities of publishing on the Web, and hopefully become comfortable with this process.


As a conductive threat that will run along these sessions, we'll take a critical look at how identities have been invented, confused, or reaffirmed in online environments. To help us think and design, we'll take a close look at art-work and interventions for the Web, as well as, services like Google Search or Facebook, in which identity plays a central.






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  a Web-page opening in your browser
Approach the whole globe, the world: The internet as the infrastructure;  the web as the (virtual) space;
How do i present myself to the whole world? How did people present themselves on the Web and Internet
* Consolidate the difference between the Web and the broader Internet.
* familiarize you with the tools allow for the creation content for the Web, namely HTML and CSS
* gain an understanding of the processes that involve a Web-page opening in your browser
As this kwartaal has as topic '''who are you''' in articulation with the tools and techniques you'll learn we'll explore how your identity can be created, confused, or turned into profit on the current Web.
We'll do this exploration by observing and investigating works of art and interventions for the Web, as well as services like Google Search or Facebook, in which identity plays a central role.
You'll be encourage to experiment with the design and expressive possibilities offered by the Web, but also simply by navigating and finding surprising and inspiring websites, which you are welcome to share with the whole class.


=Method=
=Method=

Revision as of 20:35, 27 August 2015

Summary

Hello, welcome to my homepage. Hope you like it, if you like it feel free to send me an email.

This or similar messages were present in many of the personal website on the mid-90's. Before the templates and uniform layouts of Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, the way to present yourself to the whole world on the nascent medium of the Internet was to construct your own website, or as they became know, homepage, you home on the Web.

In this course we will revisit that past and learn how to publish content on Wold Wide Web, by design simple web-pages from scratch, using HTML and CSS. But since we are in 2015 we will also explore the possibilities of current Wold Wide Web, where video, audio, maps, drawing canvas and typography open up the an exciting territory for artists or designers to work in.

As a conductive threat that will run along these sessions, we'll take a critical look at how identities have been invented, confused, or reaffirmed in online environments. To help us think and design, we'll take a close look at art-work and interventions for the Web, as well as, services like Google Search or Facebook, in which identity plays a central.


Method

Classes will take the form of an informal seminars, where observation of examples, critical thinking and hands-on prototyping (writing code, seeing the result, changing it, breaking it, fixing it, sharing with others.

At each session participants will develop simple prototypes that put into practice the subject presented. And as a long term goal participants will be asked to create an experimental browser-based work, that can be anything but a typical webpage.

Aims

This course has as its aims to:

  • ...
  • find online help for the problems you encounter
  • ...

Previous courses

Software Required

   XCode 
   Git - http://git-scm.com/download/mac
   Github - https://mac.github.com/
   Pandoc - http://github.com/jgm/pandoc/releases
   Sublime text - http://www.sublimetext.com/ 
   Firefox (latest version - 40) - http://www.getfirefox.com/
   Chrome - https://www.google.com/chrome/
   Filezilla https://filezilla-project.org/
   Inkscape - http://inkscape.org/en/ 
   Calibre - http://calibre-ebook.com/

Classes

In total we'll have 10 classes

week 1 - The Internet and the Web

  • Introductions & presentations
  • What do you I use the Internet for? Map uses in post it notes.
  • Are the internet and the Web the same? What is the difference between them?
  • 2 documentaries:
    • On the Internet: The World Brain Episodes 2,3
    • On the Web: ???? The Virtual Revolution ??
  • Separate the uses marked on the post it notes that happen inside the Web and those that outside the Web in th Internet
  • Distinguish the Internet (the infrastructure, like a highway) and the Web (one of the vehicles of the highway)
  • (Briefly) Describe the history of the Web. A documentation

Films

Degoutin, Stéphane, and Gwenola Wagon. World Brain Stéphane Degoutin & Gwenola Wagon, 2012. http://worldbrain.arte.tv.

Optional Reading

Stephenson, Neal. “Mother Earth Mother Board.” Wired, http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/4.12/ffglass_pr.html.

Material

  • Post it notes
  • Markers
  • Masking tape
  • AV

week 2 - HTML: a language for browsers humans

  • What is a Web page?
  • What happens when I save a web-page? What files do I save?
  • Open those files in a text editor
  • Can you understand anything from is there? What can you read? Is this file for humans or for computers?
  • HTML
    • tags: ways of saying this = a image, that = a paragraph
    • Essential HTML page structure
    • Basic content tags: p, b, i, img ...
    • hyper-links

Prototype: scrible a simple webpage

Homework: save any website and make into something different (the most drastic change receives a prize)

week 3 - HTML: head, squares, styles

  • Inspector
  • images
  • Local images (or other media): relative path

week 4 - CSS: the clothes of HTML

Courses/Browser_as_Canvas

  • Inspector for CSS

Homework: save any website, keep its content and structure as it is, but simply by styling its CSS it make into something different (the most drastic change receives a prize)

week 5 -

week 6 -

  • What happens when I navigate the web?
  • Enact the process that take place from opening a web-browser to getting a webpage.
    • (computer): Browser
    • Type URL to browser
    • URL: a request and address to that request
    • Server: receives the request, gets content for the request and sends it back to the browser
    • Browser gets the text content, "reads" it and displays it in a graphic form.

topics

  • Internet and Web:
    • History of the Internet:

Critical Art Ensemble "Flesh Machine: Cyborgs, Designer Babies, & New Eugenic Consciousness" - Appendix (p.140) offers an concise description of the motivations behind the creation of the Internet.


  • Homepages
    • It was understood as the way you presented yourself on the Web world
    • Homepage used to be your home on the Web, now all very similar. my home on facebook is very similar to yours.
    • Geocities closure in 2009 - rescue of pages by Archive Team and screenshots added everyday under http://oneterabyteofkilobyteage.tumblr.com/


  • Identity
    • Malleable: No one knows youŕe a dog
    • Static and unique: One single identity
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