In-class Participation, including homework and discussion: 25% Presentation (TBA): 5% Projects 1 & 2 (TBA): 40% Final Project (TBA): 30%

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1 Network Media (DESMA 161) UCLA Department of Design Media Arts Winter 2016 Tuesday & 9:00 AM 11:50 PM studio, 6 hrs/wk; outside study, 9 hrs/wk. UCLA Broad Art Center Room 4240 Instructor: Alice Wang alice.wang@ucla.edu Office Hours: TBD TA: Kate Hollenbach kjhollen@gmail.com Office Hours: TBD Course Description NETWORK MEDIA explores the creative, technical, and critical tools to realize web-based projects. Workshops on HTML, CSS, and JavaScript are framed by cultural discourses examining the Internet, including theoretical texts by Michel Foucault, Hito Steyerl, et al., the BBC television series Black Mirror, Terry Gross interviews with tech journalists, and the Laura Poitras film on Edward Snowden Citizenfour. Conceived for artists, designers, and technologists, the course is focused on gaining a deeper understanding of the technical concepts in web design while learning the history of the Internet as well as its social, political, and philosophical implications. Grading In-class Participation, including homework and discussion: 25% Presentation (TBA): 5% Projects 1 & 2 (TBA): 40% Final Project (TBA): 30% Attendance - Each unexcused absence: full letter grade markdown (i.e. A to B) on final grade - Three unexcused absences: F on the final grade - Each tardy (15 minutes late): half letter grade markdown (i.e. A to A-) on final grade - Later than 15 minutes: counts as an absence - Excused absence: documented case of illness or emergency, or approved absence by instructor at least 1 week in advance

2 Class Schedule 01) TUE. JAN/05 Introduction Workshop: setup SFTP and index.html (37:57) BROWSE: wireless devices at the Consumer Electronics Show Jan/6-9: BA49685E E3819C2E1AF ) THU. JAN/07 Internet of Things (IoT) PRESENT (in class): 3 things found at CES FINISH: READ: Too Much World: Is the Internet Dead, by Hito Steyerl, e- flux journal: ( 03) TUE. JAN/12 Ubiquitous Computing CONTINUE: (25:43) 04) THU. JAN/14 The Cloud FINISH: (38:10) READ: Captives of the Cloud: Part I, by Metahaven, e-flux journal: (

3 05) TUE. JAN/19 Privacy/Security Screening: Citizenfour (2014) by Laura Poitras 06) THU. JAN/21 Studio: work on Project 1 WATCH: Black Mirror The Entire History of You Tracking The Companies That Track You Online (39:15) 07) TUE. JAN/26 Big Data Project 1 DUE Workshop: Search Engine Optimization & Google Analytics WRITE & SUBMIT: meta tags and sitemap for Project 1 7/i-asked-a-computer-to-be-my-life-coach (08:17) WATCH: Black Mirror Be Right Back 08) THU. JAN/28 Social Media FINISH: WATCH: Black Mirror White Christmas READ: Panopticism, Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison, ) TUE. FEB/02 Automaton Digital Overload: Your Brain On Gadgets (37:54) WATCH: Sturtevant (04:55)

4 (05:59) (06:07) Optional: (58:55) 10) THU. FEB/04 STURTEVANT: Information/Knowledge 5/going-dark-the-internet-behind-the-internet (07:36) 3/infiltrating-the-dark-net-where-criminals-trolls-andextremists-reign (45:02) READ: Fuck Off, Google, from To Our Friends By The Invisible Committee, Translated by Robert Hurley, MIT Press: ( 11) TUE. FEB/09 Dark Net / Deep Net Workshop: Tor Browser and Encrypted 12) THU. FEB/11 Workshop: Antoine Lefebvre WATCH: Interview with Tom Leeser 13) TUE. FEB/16 Visiting Artist: Tom Leeser Project 2 DUE 14) THU. FEB/18 Special Topic: TBA Workshop: UX 15) TUE. FEB/23 Special Topic: TBA Workshop: UI 16) THU. FEB/25 Special Topic: TBA Workshop: CSS animation

5 17) TUE. MAR/01 Special Topic: TBA Workshop: TBA 18) THU. MAR/03 Studio: work on Project 1 Evaluations 19) TUE. MAR/08 Final Project Presentation I 20) THU. MAR/10 Final Project Presentation II