multimedia survey
fall 2002


poster by student Judah S.

My fall 2002 class being
"American constructivists!!"

professor mary flanagan
maryf@oregon.uoregon.edu
office millrace II, 122
hours: 1:30 – 2:30 wednesdays
g t f mayela cardenas
 
Multimedia can mean many things, but in this class, we'll think of it as a convergence of media, communications technologies, art, design, and culture--"intermedia." Many believe that multimedia is a "new media"; this is far from the truth. Many of the elements of multimedia-- interactivity, artificial reality, performance, storage, etc -- have existed for quite a long time and have their own compelling histories.

This course will explore technology, communications media, and culture, utilizing the history and context of interactive art and design as a framework. We'll explore ancient, renaissance, and modern technologies and compare them to today's technological advances. Students will learn about the development of film, design, animation, and hypermedia through examples shown in class. We'll look at the historical context for interactivity in the surreal, fluxus, and situationist movements of the 20th century. We'll trace the history of artificial reality and look at visions of the future for ourselves and our very bodies.

This course is using both the blackboard web system (if you enrolled in the class, you are automatically registered; check your email!)
and the university of oregon/knight library's online reserve system for readings/articles (under artd 250 or flanagan).

a handy pdf of your syllabus is located here!
a bibliography of the readings is located here!

poster by student Judah S.