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Speculative Fabulation – class theme and project briefs
Group A (first name a-l) = Adonis, Brian M, Brian M, Chenyue,Dante, Declan, Haniff, Julian, Junhan, Keenan
Group B (first name m-z) = Madison, Mike, Nate, Ryan, Sanaa, Siyi, Umyah, Wenhao, Xiuhao, Zachary
INTRODUCTION – week 1
Mon Aug 30
- Zoom policies and zoom policy discussion
- Introduction of syllabus and selves
- Course overview, Speculative Fabulation theme, expectations, logistics
HW
- READ Bogost, Ian, “The Cathedral of Computation” The Atlantic, Jan 15 2015
- ADD page or para number, quotation, brief comment/question, your name into Class Doc – insert your contribution chronologically.
- BROWSE Speculative Fabulation theme – follow links and read material
- ADD brief comment/question, your name into Class Doc
Wed Sep 1
- The Cathedral of Computation discussion – HAVE TEXT IN FRONT OF YOU
- Speculative Fabulation discussion
- Break out groups: definitions, expectations, desires
PODCASTS – weeks 2 & 3
HW
- LISTEN Forest 404 episode 1 (25) talk 1, (9) soundscape 1 (5)
- ADD quotation, timestamp, brief comment/question, your name into Class Doc – insert your contribution chronologically
- BROWSE Podcast Brief: Green City
Wed Sep 8
- Forest 404 discussion
- Forest 404 Structure
- Podcast Brief: Green City
- Break out groups: Podcast brainstorming
HW
- LISTEN Oceans of Noise, episode 1 – Guardian Podcast, May 2019 (~35 mins) LOG Ocean of Noise – (submit to UB-learns)
- WRITE Podcast Script (submit to UB-learns)
- DOWNLOAD sound editor
- SIGN UP for Podcast Hosting
Mon Sep 13
- Oceans of Noise, episode 1 discussion (content and structure)
- Break Out groups – diagram structure of Oceans of Noise
- Podcast Structure/Working with Sound 101
- Break Out groups – share scripts
HW
- FINISH podcast, record/edit/source FX and music – e.g. freesound.org
- POST LINK in UB learns
Wed Sep 15
- Listen to and Critique Podcasts
TWITTER BOTS – weeks 4 & 5
HW
- MAKE Twitter Account for your bot
- WATCH Darius Kazemi (~34 mins): Bots Bots Bots
- ADD quotation, timestamp, brief comment/question, your name into Class Doc – insert your contribution chronologically
- READ Basic Twitter Bot Etiquette by Darius Kazemi
Mon Sep 20
- Darius Kazemi Video discussion
- Bot Etiquette discussion
- TwitterBot Brief : Free Bot
- Break out groups: brainstorm a bot
HW
- WRITE short proposal for your twitter bot – 1 page max – 280 characters min(!) – submit to UB learns
- PICK a bot from Botwiki – follow it , be ready with a short oral report on what it does
- CHECK OUT/CHOOSE tools/method for making bot
Wed Sep 22
- Cheapbotsdonequick play with this this tool, make eco-twitter-poetry
- Tracery tutorial, Kate Compton’s JavaScript library
- Check-in/ on twitter-bot proposals
- Botwiki report on bot you followed
HW
- START MAKING BOT
- READ Ringrose, J. and Mendes, K. (2018) Mediated Affect & Feminist Solidarity: Teens’ using Twitter to challenge “rape culture” in and around school In Affect and Social Media, Tony Sampson, Darren Ellis and Stephen Maddison (eds.)
- Group A: ADD quotation, brief comment/question, your name into Class Doc – insert your contribution chronologically
- Group B: ADD quotation that identifies main thesis of the paper, restatement of the thesis in your own words, page number/location, your name – insert your contribution chronologically
Mon Sep 27
- “Mediated Affect & Feminist Solidarity…” discussion
- Report progress, troubleshoot problems, work on bot (don’t forget profile background, avatar, bio!)
HW
- FINISH BOT – upload link to UB learns
Wed Sep 29
- Follow and critique bots
MOBILE APPS – weeks 6 & 7
HW:
- WATCH Looking at Black Box Society Part 1, speaker Frank Pasquale (33 mins)
- Group B: ADD quotation, brief comment/question, your name into Class Doc – insert your contribution chronologically
- Group A: ADD quotation that identifies main thesis of the paper, restatement of the thesis in your own words, page number/location, your name – insert your contribution chronologically
- DOWNLOAD and PLAY Zombies, Run – play at least first episode, you don’t have to run you can walk.
- Do Description Exercise
- Upload to UBlearns
- BROWSE Mobile App:Sustainable Clothes Brief – focus on the content not the tech, browse all the links, dig into the ones that interest you.
Mon Oct 4
- Looking at Black Box Society Part 1 discussion
- Zombie’s Run discussion
- Mobile App: Sustainable Clothes Brief
- Break Out: Mobile App brainstorm – THIS WILL BE A GROUP PROJECT
HW
- Mobile App – – idea -> … spec -> … wireframe … -> prototype
- Work with your group to continue brainstorming and to start writing the spec
Wed Oct 6
- Mobile App – – idea -> … spec -> … wireframe … -> prototype
- Groups check in – each group will present their spec to me for 15 mins while others continue to work in breakout rooms
- Group 1 12:20
- Group 2 12:35
- Group 3 12:50
- Group 4 1:05
- Group 5 1:20
HW:
- FRDM
- READ Issie Lapowsky, “The Next Big Thing You Missed: Software That Helps Businesses Rid Their Supply Chains of Slave Labor,” Wired Magazine 02.03.15
- BROWSE and WATCH VIDEO, FRDM.co/how-it-works
- Group A: ADD quotation, brief comment/question, your name into Class Doc – insert your contribution chronologically
- Group B: ADD quotation that identifies main thesis of the paper, restatement of the thesis in your own words, page number/location, your name – insert your contribution chronologically
Mon Oct 11
- FRDM discussion
- Break out groups check in
- Mobile App – – idea -> … spec -> … wireframe … -> prototype
Wed Oct 13
- Upload mobile app wireframes
- Show and critique wireframes and (optional) prototypes
AR APPS Tues weeks 8 & 9
HW
- READ Helen Papagiannis, The Critical Role of Artists in Advancing Augmented Reality
- Group B: ADD quotation, brief comment/question, your name into Class Doc – insert your contribution chronologically
- Group A: ADD quotation that identifies main thesis of the paper, restatement of the thesis in your own words, page number/location, your name – insert your contribution chronologically
- WATCH MIT Open Doc Lab, Charity Everett talk on Go Back Fetch it ~36 mins
- ADD quotation, timestamp, brief comment/question into Class Doc – insert your contribution chronologically
- CHECK OUT Artivive AR platform/tool used by Everett
- Artivive at Albertina Museum in Vienna, Monet To Picasso In Augmented Reality
- If you are interested in working with Snapchat, CHECK OUT and download lens studio.
Mon Oct 18
- The Critical Role of Artists in Advancing Augmented Reality & Go Back Fetch it discussion
- Augmented Reality Brief – Sustainable Travel
- Support Groups – AR tools
- Hallucinatory Augmented Realty (AR), 2007 Papagiannis
- AR Hanging Mobile, 2010 Papagiannis
- Augmented Reality Pop-up Book, 2011 Papagiannis
HW
- Check out Lens Studio AND Artivive – familiarize yourself with the platforms
- artivive inspiration
- this artivive tutorial helps you understand what it can do
- lens studio is the power behind snapchat (which I am assuming you are already familiar with)
- check out some of the lens studio creators
- Choose which one you want to play with – DOWNLOAD Lens Studio OR Register with Artivive – be ready to start playing on Thursday.
Wed Oct 20
- PLAY with lens studio or artivive – don’t jump into your project, do a test, do a tutorial etc. etc.
- Let the tech influence your idea creation process.
HW
- READ Cathy O’Neil, “Civilian Casualities: Justice in the Age of Big Data” Chapter 5 in Weapons of Math Destruction, ebook in UB library
- Group A: ADD quotation, brief comment/question, your name into Class Doc – insert your contribution chronologically
- Group B: ADD quotation that identifies main thesis of the paper, restatement of the thesis in your own words, page number/location, your name – insert your contribution chronologically
- PRODUCE rough SKETCH for AR project – POST in UBlearns
- CONTINUE MAKING AR project
Mon Oct 25
- Discussion Chap 5 of Weapons of Math Destruction
- Augmented Reality
- continue AR project
HW
- Finish AR project, post artivive link or snapchat icon in UBlearns
- Make sure you have BOTH snapchat and artivive apps on your phone
Wed Oct 27
- Show AR projects by whatever means possible
- Critique
END GAME
HW
- READ: Cathy O’Neil, “Bomb Parts: What is a Model” Chapter 1 in Weapons of Math Destruction, ebook in UB library.
- Group B: ADD quotation, brief comment/question, your name into Class Doc – insert your contribution chronologically
- Group A: ADD quotation that identifies main thesis of the paper, restatement of the thesis in your own words, page number/location, your name – insert your contribution chronologically
Mon Nov 1
- Discuss Chap 1, Weapons of Math Destruction
- Final Project brief, production steps, deliverables, expectations
HW
- OPTIONAL Michael Flarup,What You Should Know About The App Design Process, Smashing Magazine
Wed Nov 3
- Break out group – brainstorming final
- Start Design Document
HW
- READ Cathy O’Neil, “Collateral Damage: Landing Credit” Chapter 8 in Weapons of Math Destruction, ebook in UB library.
- Group A: ADD quotation, brief comment/question, your name into Class Doc – insert your contribution chronologically
- Group B: ADD quotation that identifies main thesis of the paper, restatement of the thesis in your own words, page number/location, your name – insert your contribution chronologically
- BROWSE Shinseungback Kimyonghun, Cat or Human
- WORK ON final project
Mon Nov 8
- Discuss Chap 8, Weapons of Math Destruction
- Discuss Cat or Human
- Support Groups – work on design document
HW
- Finalize Design Document – upload to UB learns
- should include spec with all planning details, production timetable, group roles
Wed Nov 10
- Present Design Document
- Work on final project
HW
- READ Kate Crawford and Vladan Joler, Anatomy of an AI System (2018)
- Group B: ADD quotation, brief comment/question, your name into Class Doc – insert your contribution chronologically
- Group A: ADD quotation that identifies main thesis of the paper, restatement of the thesis in your own words, page number/location, your name – insert your contribution chronologically
- CONTINUE final project (as per your timetable)
Mon Nov 15
- Discuss Anatomy of an AI System
- Work on final project
Wed Nov 17
- Weekly Update on final project
- Work on final project
HW
- READ Riccardo Di Clemente, Miguel Luengo-Oroz, Matias Travizano, Sharon Xu, Bapu Vaitla, Marta C. González. Sequences of purchases in credit card data reveal lifestyles in urban populations. Nature Communications
- Group A: ADD quotation, brief comment/question, your name into Class Doc – insert your contribution chronologically
- Group B: ADD quotation that identifies main thesis of the paper, restatement of the thesis in your own words, page number/location, your name – insert your contribution chronologically
Mon Nov 22
- Discuss Sequences of purchases in credit card data reveal lifestyles in urban populations
- Weekly Update on final project
Wed Nov 24 thanksgiving break
HW
- Play Game, write up description using description exercise
- Alpha Beat Cancer – “children’s game demystifies cancer by teaching the terminology and information needed for informed and productive care” (IOS and Android)
- BBC Earth: Life in VR – ” takes the users to the Californian coast, and an underwater world bursting with life.” (Android)
- Climate Defense – “asks the player with preventing global warming by absorbing carbon dioxide (CO2) ” (Android)
- Dumb Ways to Die – “avoid dangerous situations around trains — and other life-threatening scenarios” (IOS and Android)
Mon Nov 29
- Present game/app that you played – discussion
- Weekly Update on final project
HW
- READ Tung Hui Hu, How AI Manufactures a Smile: Tung Hui Hu Interviews Artist Elisa Giardina Papa on Digital Labor, Media-N | The Journal of the New Media Caucus, Spring 2020: Volume 16, Issue 1, Pages 141 – 150
- ADD quotation, page number/location, brief comment/question into Google Doc – insert your contribution chronologically
- FYI Technologies of Care by Elisa Giardina Papa
Wed Dec 1
- Discuss Tung Hui Hu, How AI Manufactures a Smile
- Weekly Update on final project
Mon Dec 6
- Final Show/Critiques – Groups 1,2, & 3
- 20 minutes presentation and 10 mins Q and A
- PRACTICE your presentation and organize your time.
- Start with the website and overview of the project conceptually.
- Demo bots, social media, podcast and videos – you are responsible for organizing your time.
Wed Dec 8
- Final Show/Critiques – Groups 4 & 5
- 20 minutes presentation and 10 mins Q and A
- PRACTICE your presentation and organize your time.
- Start with the website and overview of the project conceptually.
- Demo bots, social media, podcast and videos – you are responsible for organizing your time.