MegMitchell_teaching http://www.megmitchell.com/wordpress a resource for students and the curious Mon, 30 Apr 2012 20:02:28 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Intro to Digital Forms Spring 2012 – Silhouette Assignment Highlights http://www.megmitchell.com/wordpress/?p=1908 http://www.megmitchell.com/wordpress/?p=1908#comments Mon, 26 Mar 2012 23:52:48 +0000 AndrewSalyer http://www.megmitchell.com/wordpress/?p=1908 emptyspaceopener1_xiongcs3 fixed_silhouette_greenbackg Kellen_Project1_pt1 Pattern2_Martinez Qian_Shape_Snowfall Toda_composition2 yavnoshan_shapes2 AlexEvans_Shape2 agrossmann_sihouette Rotheray_Scan rotheray_scan_3 ]]> http://www.megmitchell.com/wordpress/?feed=rss2&p=1908 0 Intro to Digital Forms Spring 2012 – Mapping Assignment Highlights http://www.megmitchell.com/wordpress/?p=1892 http://www.megmitchell.com/wordpress/?p=1892#comments Mon, 26 Mar 2012 23:42:42 +0000 AndrewSalyer http://www.megmitchell.com/wordpress/?p=1892 tracz_datamap McSweeney_mapping mappingfalk2 Mapping_Toda walters_datamap yavnoshanDataMap ]]> http://www.megmitchell.com/wordpress/?feed=rss2&p=1892 0 Intro to Digital Forms Spring 2012 – Design Lab http://www.megmitchell.com/wordpress/?p=1869 http://www.megmitchell.com/wordpress/?p=1869#comments Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:05:23 +0000 Meg http://www.megmitchell.com/wordpress/?p=1869 DesignLab is a new digital composition center providing students advanced design consultancy in new media forms. TA consultants from across campus will deliver services in four areas:

research design (definition of topic, identification of materials and methods, desired outcomes)

data design (design of databases, information visualization, information design and architecture)

media design (graphic design layout, video editing, sound design, web interactive design)

experience design (design of user experience, from rhetoric to game design to installations)

Located in College Library’s Computer Media Center,DesignLab will complement services provided by the Writing Center and DoIT’s Software Training for Students by focusing on conceptual and aesthetic dimensions of emerging scholarly genres, including digital storytelling, graphic essays, theory comix, video essays,TED talks, RSAnimates, podcasts, radio shorts, wikis, blogs, and smart games.

DesignLab Hours:
Sun 4-8pm
Mon 1-6pm
Tues – Thurs 1 – 8pm
Fri 1- 5pm

no Saturdays

to make an appointment: designlab.wisc.edu

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]]> http://www.megmitchell.com/wordpress/?feed=rss2&p=1851 0 Intro to Digital Forms Fall 2011 – Install/Propose Highlights http://www.megmitchell.com/wordpress/?p=1877 http://www.megmitchell.com/wordpress/?p=1877#comments Thu, 01 Dec 2011 17:49:12 +0000 Meg http://www.megmitchell.com/wordpress/?p=1877 Install/Propose Assignment Install/Propose Assignment Install/Propose Assignment Install/Propose Assignment Install/Propose Assignment Install/Propose Assignment Install/Propose Assignment Install/Propose Assignment ]]> http://www.megmitchell.com/wordpress/?feed=rss2&p=1877 0 Intro to Digital Forms – Web Assignments http://www.megmitchell.com/wordpress/?p=1840 http://www.megmitchell.com/wordpress/?p=1840#comments Wed, 30 Nov 2011 16:01:18 +0000 Meg http://www.megmitchell.com/wordpress/?p=1840 You will have 3 assignments for the web portion of the course:

HTML/text formatting exercise
Non-Linear Narrative
AlterEgo

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2. My WebSpace @UW – You should sign up for an account with your UW NET ID. You can use this free webspace provided to you by the university to complete the required assignments for this course. You will need to use this account on the class period immediately following Thanksgiving break.

3. Read the essay “Always-On/Always-On-You: The Tethered Self (2007)” by Sherry Turkle. Try to think about ways in which her current position, exemplified in “The Tethered Self” and her recent lectures and public appearances(as seen on previous posts) contrast with the views she expressed in her 1994 essay.

]]> http://www.megmitchell.com/wordpress/?feed=rss2&p=1833 0 Intro to Digital Forms – White Cube / Install / Propose Assignment http://www.megmitchell.com/wordpress/?p=1826 http://www.megmitchell.com/wordpress/?p=1826#comments Mon, 21 Nov 2011 14:40:18 +0000 Meg http://www.megmitchell.com/wordpress/?p=1826 White Cube – Installation Proposal Assignment

Floor Plan #1
Floor Plan #2
Floor Plan #3

Inspiration:
Carsten Holler
Tara Donovan
Ernesto Neto
Olafur Elaisson
Christian Boltanski

Ann Hamilton

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