Participants

SYLLABUS

CALENDAR

PROJECT

SIMULATIONS

INDEX

 


Alena Kwok
alena@ambiant.org
Sr. Computer Science
ambiant.org
C++, Java

Daniel Riley
dpriley@ucla.edu
www.rilestyle.com
Jr. Design | Media Arts
C++

Jessica Dufour
jdufour@ucla.edu
So. Design | Media Arts

Kevin Cheng
kevin616@ucla.edu
So. Design | Media Arts

Laura Brown
lkbrown@ucla.edu
Sr. Design | Media Arts

Michael Chang
mflux@ucla.edu http://xenoflare.virtualave.net/misc So. Design | Media Arts

Tyson Evans
tysone@ucla.edu
www.tysonevans.com
So. Design | Media Arts
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Nick Gessler
gessler@ucla.edu

La Condition Humaine.
by René Magritte

What are Design and Media Arts all about?

  • Maybe this class will answer that question.
  • Interrogation of art with concrete ideas and applications.
  • Visual communication through print, web, video, graphics, etc.
  • Communicating ideas, concepts, emotions through visuals.
  • Making things with technology for some aesthetic purpose.
  • Design related closely to computers and technology.
  • Expression fused with communications: practical expression.
  • Developing music/images to effectively convey a feeling/idea.
  • Communication through understanding various media and aesthetic concepts.

ON REPRESENTATION

"That's another thing we've learned from your Nation," said Mein Herr, "map-making. But we've carried it much further than you. What do you consider the largest map that would be really useful?"

"About six inches to the mile."

"Only six inches!"exclaimed Mein Herr. "We very soon got to six yards to the mile. Then we tried a hundred yards to the mile. And then came the grandest idea of all! We actually made a map of the country, on the scale of a mile to the mile!"

"Have you used it much?" I enquired.

"It has never been spread out, yet," said Mein Herr: "the farmers objected: they said it would cover the whole country, and shut out the sunlight! So we now use the country itself, as its own map, and I assure you it does nearly as well."

Lewis Carroll - Sylvie and Bruno Concluded, 1893. In The Complete Illustrated Works. Gramercy Books, New York (1982). Page 727.

The Human Condition.
by René Magritte