Week 6 • COMPUTERS

Lead Type , Abacus / Kipus / Encryption / Rosetta stone / Torah , Talmud, Kabalah / Automaton #1 Jaquet Croz / Napoleon’s semaphore telegraph / Morse code / binary conversion / vacuum tubes / eniac / transistors / chips / evolution of computers into networked environments GUI / Arpanet / Internet Dial up sound / Computing environments / Video Games / Bell Labs

History of Computing in 13 minutes

Chuck Csuri , Lillian Schwartz , Robert Whitman , Laurie Spiegel Music Mouse + East River Dawn / Apple 1984 / Apple Blue Busters Commercial /

Virtual Community as a Cultural Construct: Grow Valley / Sim City / Civilization / Spore / Second Life

Game developing tools:
unity3d.com
unrealengine.com

Learn Coding:
Python // Visual Python (VPython)
JavaScript // w3schools
Processing // p5.js
Chuck Musical Programming
Tutorial

Assignment

Create a work of art using the notion of “Grid Art“. Choose a subject to represent with a 30 x 30 unit grid based artwork yielding 900 total units. Research developments in grid based art to find examples. Post your projects to your blogs with a description of your method, the artists who inspired or informed your process and why you chose the subject matter and materials you used within your piece. See the entries below for historical resources. Make sure to cite these historical example(s) specifically within your blog entries.

History of Grid Based Art and Design:

The Grid as a Checkpoint of Modernity
History of the Grid in Contemporary Art
History of the Grid in Design
Painter Agnes Martin on the Grid

Due on your Blogs by Sunday, November 3.

Links

History of Computing Science by Michelle A. Hoyle
Computer pioneers
PC evolution
PBS
Computer History Museum
Computer History Timeline

Colossus: History / Celebration / Turing

History of ASCII Art
RTTY Art Historical Archives

History of Hypertext

History of Video Games
The video game revolution
Nintendo History
8 Bit digitizer
persuasivegames.com
Violence in games = Is tropical – The Greeks
Evolution of Graphics in Video Games

Triumph of the Nerds (1,2, 3 Playlist)

ARCHIVE.ORG -> VIDEOGAMES

The Mother of all demos – D.C Engelbart – Youtube