Well, the reason I'm assembling this 'mediabook' is for a distance
class I'm doing next fall from Tsinghua or UCSB - not sure who is
willing to host it yet. There may be other interested parties participating.
The good part is that I aim for an interdisciplinary group,
combining programmers and writers, designers, audio synthesizers, etc.
The content is, I guess you might say, human/academia interaction :) That
is, to situate the students/teachers in the middle of an extreme
technological
learning situation such as that in which we do really find ourselves - while
those machines which we face(inter) each day are just the surface of a new
knowledge organization system (digital libraries, online papers,
(non)realtime
performances/discussions), massive call for papers - we all understand
this.
So, the content is related to new practices like interdisciplinarity,
internet
research, language/media, virtual universities, media composition,
simultaneously
extending the very tools used for the discussion of the content :)
Programmers could work on such projects as a Moo in Squeak, and possibly
some extended functionality like linked morphic projects which visually
drive or ride along with the MUTE (multiuser text enviornment). The swiki
also
follows the structure of the building out process in its own
textual/literary
way. It would be nice of course if all of that could be integrated in both
an architectural and design sense - exhibiting the multiple facets
(literary,
visual, spacial, auditory) of its structure (and process).
Anyway, if you (anyone) want to see the class proposal let me know.
take care,
ken.
mark guzdial wrote:
>
> I don't unfortunately, but I was thinking of my class here as the
> victims, er, volunteer programmers for a good cause :-) I have to
> come up with an interesting group project each semester, and a MOO in
> Squeak sure sounds like a cool one (and about the right level of
> difficulty)!
>
> Mark
Kenneth Fields
Ph.D. Media Arts and Technology
Institute of Human Computer Interaction and Media Integration
Department of Computer Science
Tsinghua University
Beijing, China 100084
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