Interdisciplinary Arts 0241 - Coding for Artists: Interactive and Generative Art in the 21st Century

In this course, students will create a series of interactive projects, starting with screen-based works, progressing to connecting simple electronic sensors and actuators to multimedia programs, and culminating in a fully realized interactive work, which may be web-based, a sculpture, installation or performance. Students will work with a variety of multimedia technologies (including animation, video, and sound), various types of sensors (tracking motion with video cameras, sensing movement and touch, sensing environmental conditions, etc.). They will also work with a range of actuator technologies (DC motors, servo motors, solenoids, etc.). Our engagement with these technologies will be supported and contextualized by looking at the work of prominent interactive artists and by a series of theoretical readings drawn from fine art, new media, philosophy, and other disciplines. (keywords: computer programming, art, installation, interactive art, performance art)

Media and Technology This course is fully remote. Lab fee: $75. Students in this course can expect to spend 6 hours weekly on work and preparation outside of class time.