CMPM 180Topics in Computational Media

Allows students to explore topics in the computational media field and practice design in a wide variety of applications and areas, including but not limited to interactive computational experiences, AI and poetry, smart cities and game design, ethics and computational media, and computational media culture. Course presentation and assessment will vary by topic and instructor.

• Topic: Moving Text: Poetic Code Sketching. This course will investigate the relationship between reading, writing, artmaking, and programming. This is a studio style course; students will create ‘code sketches’, small computer artworks made in response to weekly readings. These readings will include essays and chapters on digital poetics (such as Katherine Hayles, Johanna Drucker); the materiality of language and digital text (Matthew Kirshenbaum, Dennis Yi Tenen), art and interpretation (Walter Benjamin) and critical posthuman theory (Donna Haraway, Karen Barad). Students will gain exposure to new media theory and practice, pairing introductory creative coding and humanities instruction styles. Students will not be expected to have past programming experience, but those with less experience will be required to attend the weekly hands-on section.
• From the Instructor: Students will be using P5 and other creative coding libraries (all free).
• Enrollment in the associated discussion section is mandatory.

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