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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>James is doing great things, for
sure.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>We’re working together (<span
class=SpellE>Ars</span> <span class=SpellE>Virtua</span> and my institution,
The <span class=SpellE>BitFactory</span>, which houses several groups) on some
projects, including launching The UPGRADE! SL towards the middle of the
year.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoAutoSig><font size=3 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy;mso-no-proof:yes'>- Interactive Arts &
Media<br>
Columbia College, Chicago<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoAutoSig><font size=3 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy;mso-no-proof:yes'> Intelligent Agent
Magazine<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy;mso-no-proof:yes'>http://www.intelligentagent.com<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>-----Original Message-----<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>From:</span></b> idc-bounces@bbs.thing.net [mailto:idc-bounces@bbs.thing.net]
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Joel Slayton<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, January 23, 2007
10:18 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> IDC list<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [iDC] sharing
"new media" curricula/potentials</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Hello everyone,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>You might be interested in a conference being
organized by one of our faculty here at CADRE, James Morgan. James
is responsible for the Ars Virtua Gallery in Second Life which is definitely
worth a visit. He has also organized Virtual Artists-in-Residence
(AVAIR) which provided a $400 stipend, training and mentorship
that results in an exhibition in the Ars Virtua gallery. <a
href="http://arsvirtua.com">http://arsvirtua.com</a>/<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Best<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Joel Slayton<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Director, CADRE Laboratory<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>-----<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><b><font size=3 face=Helvetica><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;font-weight:bold'>Ars Virtua
Conference on Borders April 26-28</span></font></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><b><font size=3 face=Helvetica><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;font-weight:bold'>contact: </span></font></b><span
class=apple-style-span><font face=Helvetica><span style='font-family:Helvetica'>
<a href="mailto:james@factorynoir.com">james@factorynoir.com</a></span></font></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>"Borders, Boundaries & Liminal States",
a three day conference in Second Life, will explore divisions and shed light on
these ideas and on the nature of the synthetic environment.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>•<span class=apple-tab-span><span style='mso-tab-count:
1'> </span></span>Borders define geographic boundaries of political
entities or legal jurisdictions, such as governments, states or sub-national
administrative divisions.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>•<span class=apple-tab-span><span style='mso-tab-count:
1'> </span></span>The boundary of a set (in mathematics) is those
points that can be approached from within the set and without. It is all
points not contained in the interior of a set.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>•<span class=apple-tab-span><span style='mso-tab-count:
1'> </span></span>The liminal state (in ritual) is characterized by
ambiguity, openness, and indeterminacy. One's sense of identity dissolves to
some extent, bringing about disorientation. Liminality is a period of
transition, during which normal limits to thought, self-understanding, and
behavior are relaxed, opening the way to something new.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>--(wikipedia)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Borders are frequently under contention; they are
regions that neatly separate two entities and enable a form of
deconstruction. However, the distinctions formed by borders are not
sufficient and we realize that often the border begins to represent a third region
and generates more contentious borders.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>It is truly difficult to discern the breadth a border,
an indeterminate space, and it's depth is dependent on the sphere, there is a
point when you can cross into the "other." Borders would be
impossible to cross if this was false and the liminal space would disappear.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>It is our assertion that the synthetic world is a
fundamentally liminal space. This is not because it is functionally
transitional, except perhaps that it is not a destination, but that it functions
parallel to 'real' space and remains temporary in its occupancy.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Our interest lies in both the synthetic and the
terrestrial world though fundamentally one is a subset of the other. A Venn
diagram may hold visual information about this relationship, but it misses the
point. There is a functional liminal space that exists outside the
terrestrial. We want to emphasize that while there is a relationship here the
liminal space that is created synthetically doesn't exist in a terrestrial
sense. So the atoms and the electrons are terrestrial and represented by
our friend Venn, the intellectual space is not however anything but contained
by materials and represents a different space.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>To that end we are considering sessions relating to
gender/sexuality, race, architecture, body/technology, body/digital image,
life/non-life, transgenics, and game/environment. If you have an interest in
these topics and would like to present, or would like to suggest another topic
please contact <a href="mailto:nmc@arsvirtua.com">nmc@arsvirtua.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'>Conference Date: April 26-28, 2007<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>On Jan 23, 2007, at 3:02 PM, Tiffany Holmes wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'>Dear all,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Thanks to all who have posted a response to the
questions about how to create<i><span style='font-style:italic'>
community/interdisciplinary collaborations and innovation </span></i>in new
media curricula. Thanks to those to who took the time to describe your
programs to us! We'd love to hear more-------Mark Tribe and Michael
Naimark created a whole list on their WIKI but we'd like to hear your take on
your curricula and its effect on the student population---in particular the
diversity of the new media student population.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>In terms of strategies to encourage a diverse
community and modes of participation in curricula, I'm thrilled to hear
Patrick's comment about creating a virtual classroom in Second Life. Is
anyone else working with Second Life as an educational space or performance
venue?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Interesting questions have been posed about the ways
that computer programming as a medium is approached by both students and their
instructors. Most of you agreed that there is no need for a concrete set
of standards or outcomes for a new media program. But I'm curious about
your position on this question: <i><span style='font-style:italic'>should
every new media student learn the basics of computer programming? Why or why
not?</span></i><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Blanca described the difficulty of learning
programming in a collaborative group when everyone in the group was working on
a project to be produced with a deadline. She spoke of the challenge of
having so many levels of experience in a working group.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'>Shawn articulated his position that artists should
learn to code ("The artist should not be absent from the creation of their
own custom software.") and that computer programming was a medium to learn
no different that painting or drawing.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Coding literacy takes time to acquire---but if you
spend the time anyone can do it. MFA students at SAIC want to make
large-scale projects without having to fool around learning media
"basics." Recently, a graduate student informed me that our
department should hire an additional computer programmer as technician who
would work exclusively with students to "code" their projects from
inspiration to installation. Nancy mentioned this problem of the
production costs---the elaborate new media installations one sees these days at
festivals require tremendous resources to produce. The graduate students
are hyper-aware that 2 years is a short time to learn programming and produce a
thesis piece. Our MFA population (25 total) is incredibly varied in terms
of levels of experience and interests. It is a constant concern, how to
get these students to independently solve coding problems and feel empowered by
their tool so they can realize their exciting ideas.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'>In Unlocking the Clubhouse (2002), social scientist
Jane Margolis and computer scientist Alan Fischer make recommendations to
decrease the gender gap in computer science (CS) programs particularly in those
areas that prepare individuals to design and create new software. This
discussion, while focused on CS students, is incredibly relevant to this debate
over how to keep new media students engaged in a community of students studying
the same medium: the practice of learning programming. The book is based on
interviews with over 100 computer science students from Carnegie Mellon
University. The authors' study was a huge success; since 1995 the
proportion of women has risen from 7% to 42% in 2000 in the undergraduate CS
program. Here are some of the key recommendations:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span class=apple-style-span><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>1) <u>Level the
playing field</u>---give those with less programming experience a
background. Combine a "discovery-based", real-world orientation
to curriculum with an introduction to programming that would prepare students
for a more advanced course. </span></font></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'>2) Advertise to everyone---<span
class=apple-style-span><u>Prior experience with computer programming is not a
prerequisite.</u></span><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>3) <u>Hire a pool
of diverse teachers and TAs</u>; equal numbers or men and women in particular,
and hire individuals that engage a variety of learning styles.</span></font></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span class=apple-style-span><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>4) <u>Create
programming problems around real-world issue</u>s. (Molly Steenson
described short, 4 to 6 week courses in Ivrea that addressed this need---sounded
very interesting!)</span></font></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'>I think for the most part these four are good rules to
live by. Let us know if there are other strategies you have employed to
increase the diversity of your student population.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'>Thank you to the IDC listers for these resources also:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>Andrea
Polli-</span></font></b>Leonardo Education Forum</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>Shawn
Lawson</span></font></b>-Siggraph Education Committee</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>PAUL
D. MILLER </span></font></b>aka DJ SPOOKY-Media Sounds course syllabus, and
description of the European Graduate School. Thanks for these
references. I want to take the class....</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>Michael
Naimark and Mark Tribe</span></font></b>: Wiki Directory of Academic Art and
Technology Programs (IDC listers--try to add yours if it's not there)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><b><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>Kevin
Hamilton:</span></font></b> Apply, this one sounds fascination!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Workshop on HCI and New Media: Methodology and Evaluation<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'><a href="http://orchid.cs.uiuc.edu/HCIandNewMedia/">http://orchid.cs.uiuc.edu/HCIandNewMedia/</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span class=apple-style-span><b><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>Molly
Steenson:</span></font></b> description of interaction design at Ivrea</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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