Courses taught by Dana Moser
for Fall 2010 - Spring 2011:
>note: on sabbatical Fall 2011<
Studio for Interrelated Media -Major Studio:
(Meets thursdays 1:30 - 6:30pm Pozen Center)
Team-taught with Dana Moser, Nita Sturiale, Dawn Kramer and Elaine Buckholtz.
This is a student-produced presentation and critique course required of all SIM majors. It
can also be
taken as an elective by students in other majors.
Art and the Internet:
This course changes every semester because the Internet is developing
and changing so rapidly. In terms of course content, every semester
it does include:
- - Introducing the Internet as a medium for artists
- - Learning how to make pages for the World-Wide-Web (HTML,CSS, etc.)
- - Multimedia for the Internet
Additionally, the course covers aesthetic and technical issues relevent
to artists' use of the Internet at the time the class is offered such
as installation and live events.
MPSM300 Electronic Projects for Artists:
(Mondays 1:30-6:30pm in the Electronic Projects Lab (T320))
This year-long studio course is designed to provide skills and information
that will be useful for artists who use electrical devices in their artworks.
Part I -Analog- (Fall semester):
- An introduction to electronics, electrical components, "circuit bending",
reading schematics and working safely with electricity.
- Working with a variety of sensors to influence the behavior of timers,
oscillators and motors.
Part II -Digital- (Spring semester):
- Content that is sometimes referred to as "physical computing"
- Programming microcontrollers that can be embedded in standalone artworks
such as kinetic sculpture, animatronics or "wearables"
- Programming interfaces that can communicate with desktop software
to control audio and video in multimedia environments such as Processing and
MAX/MSP/Jitter.
Studio for Interrelated Media -Graduate Seminar:
(Usually Dana is the professor for this course in the Spring.)
This is a Graduate-level, required course. It is designed to serve
the needs of the majors in the program with a combination of workshops
in professional practice, visiting artists, presentations and critiques.
In the Fall it is usually taught by Denise Marika.
Streaming Media / Web Video:
(Last offered SP 05):
This course introduces students to technology and aesthetics involved in
distributing video over networks, the Internet in particular. Artists in the
course will create
video work in a variety of formats emphasizing streaming media.
Non-Linear Editing I:
(Last offered FA05):
This is a video post-production (editing) course using Final Cut Pro and
AVID systems. The editing process is completely digital, using non-linear
computer software environments. As such it can also be thought of as
a computer arts course. No prerequisite experience with computers is
required, but some experience with video is. (Either Intro to Video,
or other experience viewed as equivalent by the instructor.)