Week 1 - Friday January 31

• Class introductions
• Ritual reading of the syllabus
• Jim Campbell’s formula for computer art
• your first build- 555 flasher circuit
• Readings
  • Bret Victor “A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design” and the follow-up to reader’s responses
  • Chris Crawford, Chapter 1 What is Interactivity? from “The Art of Interactive Design”
• Assignment
  • Start a blog or website for the course. Email me the link before class next week.
  • Due Thurs Feb 6 by 5pm On your website, write a short response to the readings (between 200-500 words). Following Crawford’s argument of interaction as something that exists along a continuium, how do you define interactivity? Do you agree with his definition? How does this relate to Victor’s ‘rant’ about interfaces?
  • buy the parts for class and bring them with you next week
  • get trained in the Makerspace