Arts and Cultural Heritage Community Arts Learning Grant

Participants will: View work by new media artists particular those working in net.art and net.writing, position net.art and net.writing in the larger context of new media, digital publishing and transmedia, explore patterns and metaphors that arise in this landscape (iterative processes, generative forms, algorithmic patterns, encodedness, interactivity, open authorship, nonlinear narratives, hypermedia, glitch, navigation), explore the poetics of code : the dream of a common language : the interface between humans and the machine, gain basic skills in languages used on the web (HTML5, CSS3, and Javascript), use these tools to create projects for a final exhibit and online class gallery. Course materials will be provided online and there will be a dedicated hashtag and social media presence to encourage community discussion. After every session a series of writing prompts will be given and discussed. These will include questions about the learning experience and questions that attempt to tease out a working definition of net.art and the ways it is different and similar to other forms. Our final project will include a digital collage of our answers to these questions that augments the work we make. At the end of the eight learning sessions we will produce a collaborative installation, companion gallery and community discussion.