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ICM Section 06 • Meeting Thursdays 9:10AM - 11:40AM ET in Room 408

  • Contact Ellen
  • About Our Course
  • Week 8 • Oct 21 • Images
  • Week 9 • Oct 28 • Video
  • Week 10 • Nov 4 • Sound Analysis and Visualization
  • Week 11 • Nov 11 • Sound Synthesis
  • Week 12 • Nov 18 • Text / Data / Final Project Proposals
  • Week 13 • Dec 2 • Final Project User Testing
  • Week 14 • Dec 9 • Final Project Presentations

Contact Ellen

  • Email [email protected], and I'll do my best to respond within 24 hours except on the weekends, which might be longer.
  • Virtual office Hours in Zoom on Tuesdays and Fridays from 10:00AM - 12:00PM Sign up here
  • If no appointments are available or you need a different time, please email me with three good times for you, and I'll send you a calendar invite with a Zoom link.

About Our Course

Course Description and Our Goals

Here is the description for ICM from the ITP Schedule.

Upon completion of the second half of the ICM course, Media, we will be able to:

  • apply fundamental programming concepts to generate and manipulate media including images, video, sound, text, and data.
  • experiment with media-specific, computational techniques and apply them to our creative work.

Format

ICM Media is a seven-week course that meets once a week in person at the scheduled time. We will have assignments to do before each Media class, and these assignments will build towards a final project to share at the end of the seven weeks.

This course embraces an active-learning approach with the belief that programming is best understood by doing. In keeping with this approach, class time will be structured as a workshop and seminar instead of a lecture, relying heavily on group discussion and participation. Weekly video tutorials to watch before class sessions will introduce fundamental coding concepts. During class, supplemental code examples will be presented and discussed before hands-on work together. Time will also be allotted to share our weekly assignments.

Your are encouraged to reach out to me outside of class to ask questions, share ideas/feedback, and discuss topics in detail.

Homework Guidelines

Before class, read / watch the tutorials that we will practice together when we meet.

There are also weekly programming assignments to practice the weekly topics. Unless otherwise stated, assignments are due on Wednesdays at 11:59pm the day before our class so that I have a chance to review your questions before we meet.

All assignments are expected to be submitted by the stated deadline, and you should be prepared to show and talk about them in class. If you anticipate any challenges meeting the deadline, please reach out to me so that we can consider your options together.

A big part of learning at ITP is learning from each other. Share your work and in return you'll see everyone else's!

  • Weekly Practice Questions. Unless otherwise stated, there are questions (linked below) to practice the topics introduced in this course. You are expected to add links to your p5 sketches directly to our weekly exercise documents.*
  • Weekly Creative Exercise and Blog Post.** Each week there is an open-ended, freestyle creative exercise to apply the concepts that we practice. You are expected to document your work online with a blog post and add links to your posts in our weekly exercise documents (linked below). Include a link to your p5 sketch in your blog post, and here are some guiding questions if you are not sure what to write about:
    • What did you originally intend to create?
    • Narrate the process of creating your sketch.
    • What resources and examples did you draw on to create your sketch?
    • What problems / discoveries did you encounter along the way?
    • (Source of prompts: Nature of Code syllabus)

*Log in to your NYU account to access the documents.

**If you are struggling with your weekly exercise sketches, put your energy into writing about what didn't work and how you tried to solve it. It is totally okay to vent your frustrations. Writing a blog post helps to remember and synthesize what you did and tried to do. Think of it as writing a reference guide for your future self.

Resources and Support

Week 8 • Oct 21 • Images

In class:

  • Welcome new students!
  • Overview of ICM Media course
  • Image file basics
  • Objects of images / pixel regions
  • Pixel by pixel manipulation
  • Related projects

Examples:

Homework assignment due Wednesday, Oct 27, at 11:59pm:

  • TEST YOURSELF • Complete the practice questions in Week 8 Exercises.
  • CREATE • The idea this week is to experiment with image files in the form of illustrations, photographic media, etc. Consider the image choice(s) carefully based on your topic(s) and goal(s). Why do you want to work with this particular imagery? In what ways can you go beyond the affordances of image editing or motion graphics software, such as Photoshop and After Effects, and use pixel data, animation, random(), and / or user interaction with your own programmed computation for creative expression or to tell a story? Here are a couple of ideas to get you started, but you can also create something from scratch. Feel free to incorporate p5's drawing capabilities in your sketch, as well!
    • Create a self-portrait or portrait of someone else. How do your computational design decisions contribute to an expression of the subject's mood, personality, dreams, current situation etc.?
    • Create a public service announcement or educational resource about an issue that is important to you or your community. What are ways to communicate an informative and engaging narrative?
    • Create an abstract work that engages with formal visual considerations, such as line, shape, composition, color, framing, perspective, light, etc.
    • Write a blog post that includes a link to your sketch. Document your process and include links to other projects that serve as references, inspiration, or engage with similar ideas.
    • Submit your post in Week 8 Exercises.
  • READ • Allison Parrish's Working with video
  • WATCH
    • Coding Train Video 11.1 on capturing your webcam ~10 min
    • Videos 0.1 and 7.1 from the Beginner's Guide to Machine Learning with ml5.js and an introduction and pose estimation with PoseNet ~40min
    • (OPTIONAL We won't cover these techniques in class, but they are super fun!) Videos 11.2, 11.4 - 11.7 on video photobooths, pixel mirrors, painting with pixels, and slit-scan video ~1hr 20min
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