Information Design

Information Design
Description:this course will focus on designing information. It will look at networks, data mining, Data visualization
Textbook: Information Design, Robert Jacobson (ed) Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999, pp.357, ISBN 026210069X
Course requirements - create a dynamically driven web site using MySql, PHP and Apache Visualize the Human Genome create a carnivore client
week	topic	Reading	Assignment
1	introduction to information design OSX network and server features	start textbook, read chapters 1-2 including introduction Your First database	pick a data set and bring in 3 different analog examples of information design utilizing your data set e.g.; recipes, photos, statitics,
2	Databases - Apache web server SQL, PHP and dynamic web sites setting up OSX look at data sets	ch 3 in ID read Serve It Up hotwired PHP/MYSQL tutorial	Discuss Ch 1 and 2 Digitize your data set download and install mySQL for OSX
3	setting up the server database visualizer National Graphic Design Image Database	ch 4 in ID Read Dynamic DreamweaverMacworld December 2002	Discuss Ch 3 integrate your data set into a
4	continue work on database building a php photo gallery Images in sql	ch 5 in ID	Discuss Ch 4
5	Critique databases Human Genome info design project Google human genome	ch 6 in ID	Discuss Ch 5
6	visualize the human genome Human genome in education Exit art's Paradise Now: Picturing the Genetic revolution Genomic art community Interactive timeline of genomic activity	ch 7 in ID	Discuss Ch 6
7	Human genome project	ch 8 in ID	Discuss Ch 7
8	Human genome project	ch 9 in ID	Discuss Ch 8
9	TCP IP Ethernet and packet sniffing	ch 10 in ID	Discuss Ch 9
10	Carnivore client http://rhizome.org/carnivore	ch 11 in ID	Discuss Ch 10
11	Carnivore project	ch 12 in ID	Discuss Ch 11
12	Carnivore project	ch 13 in ID	Discuss Ch 12
13	Carnivore project	ch 14 in ID	Discuss Ch 13
14	Final Critique of carnivore project	ch 15 in ID	Discuss Ch 14

Excellent collection of art and technology links put together by Stephen Wilson the author of Information Arts
Mine-Control.com

Serve It Up
by Scot Hacker
Mac users no longer have to take a backseat when it comes to designing and maintaining high-powered, database-backed Web sites. We'll step you through the process of installing an open-source server and database.

the dataflux project - http://switch.sjsu.edu/nextswitch/switch_engine/front/front.php?artc=98

terraserver.com Largets database on earth at the time of its conception

Information Design. Edward Tufte: Data Visualization-
Especially the book list

rejected project idea
Map project revisualize NYC subway system digitally (for PDA and large scale touch screen?)
Mapping project? Visualize the subway in a different way
http://www.cmap.nypirg.org/netmaps/Straps/Straphangers.asp
for a handheld device? on paper eg fold out popup

Database as Art:
August Sander
Atget
Bechers
McCoys
Ed Ruscha egg

The Google Zeitgeist, trends in searching
Google story from the Times, You need to register to access the NYTIMES site

COURSE BIBLIOGRAPHY AND RESOURCE MATERIALS:
Tufte books

As We May Think Vannevar Bush
A Rape in Cyberspace Julian Dibbell electronic distribution only 1993
Cybernetics or, Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine. Wiener, Norbert. Cambridge: MIT Press,1948
The Design of Everyday Things Donald Norman
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction Walter Benjamin
The Invisible Computer Donald Norman
Life on the Screen Sherry Turkle Touchstone Books, 1997
Being Digital Nicholas Negreponte New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1995.
Collective Intelligence Pierre Levy 1995
The Nature of Order Christopher Alexander
Envisioning Cyberspace Peter Anders, McGraw-Hill, 1999
Computers as Theater Brenda Laurel, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1993
Affective Computing. Rosalind W. Picard Cambridge: MIT Press, 1997
Hyper/Text/Theory. Landow, George P (ed.) Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994
The Age of Intelligent Machines. Kurzweil, Raymond (ed.) Cambridge: MIT Press, 1992
The Age of Spiritual Machines : When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence. Kurzweil, Raymond. New York: Viking, 1999
The Society of Mind. Minsky, Marvin New York: Simon & Shuster,1986
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Kuhn, Thomas. Chicago: U of Chicago Press, 1970
Early online version: The Cyborg Manifesto Donna Haraway
The Cyborg Handbook Chris Hables Gray (ed.) London: Routledge, 1996.
Modest_Witness@Second_Millennium_FemaleMan_Meets_OncoMouse, Feminism and Technoscience. Haraway Donna J., Routledge London, 1997.
Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature. Haraway, Donna J. London: Free Association Books, 1991
Digital Delirium. Kroker, Arthur and Kroker, Marilouise, (eds.). New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997
The War of Desire and Technology at the Close of the Mechanical Age. Stone, Allucquere Rosanne. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1996
Will the Real Body Please Stand Up? First published in the anthology Cyberspace: First Steps Stone, Allucquere Rosanne. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1991
Zeroes + Ones: Digital Women + The New Technoculture Sadie Plant New York: Doubleday, 1997
Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution. Levy, Steven. New York: Anchor Press/ Doubleday, 1984
The Network Nation: Human Communication Via Computer. Hiltz, Starr Roxanne and Murray Turoff. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1993
The Archeology of a Computer Screen Lev Manovich. published in Kunstforum International, Germany 1995
Envisioning Information Edward Tufte Graphics Press 1990
Neuromancer William Gibson
The Robot in the Garden: Telerobotics and Telepistemology on on the Internet Ken Goldberg Cambridge, MIT Press, 2000
Snow Crash. Neal Stephenson. Bantam Books 1992
Understanding Media. McLuhan,Marshall . Cambridge:The MIT Press, 1994
Information Arts: Intersections of Art, Science, and Technology Stephen Wilson MIT Press, 2001
The New World Border : Prophecies, Poems & Loqueras for the End of the Century Guillermo Gomez-Pena
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproducion Walter Benjamin
The Society of the Spectacle Guy-Ernest Debord

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