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50 Days of Making is a 1.0 unit course that offers students the opportunity to pursue a creative passion and develop or refine a skill over a 50-day period. Students choose a topic of interest and produce an expression of that topic every day for 50 days.

For better or worse humanity is heading down the virtual rabbit hole. We’re trading an increasingly hostile natural environment for a socially networked and commercially driven artificial one. Whether it’s the bedrooms of YouTube streaming stars, the augmented Pokestops of Pokemon Go, the virtual tourism of the latest humanitarian crisis or even the “airspace” of Airbnb; we are witnessing a dramatic transformation of what occupying space means.

Rules of play shape competitive games from checkers to football. But how do the unspoken rules of interaction shape everyday life? And what happens when there are no established conventions and the rules are being made up as we go along, as they have been for the past 8 months of living with social distancing?

This class focuses on the art of computer graphics and image processing. We explore the concepts of pixilation, image representation and granularity and the tension between reality and image.

This workshop is for students looking to develop a song or musical project in the browser. Students will learn some fundamentals of Web Audio and Tone.js from Yotam Mann, the author of Tone.js, and present a piece of music or audio project in the second week of the class.

In the 1960’s and 70’s, club culture was a social phenomenon that introduced new forms of technologies, experiences and designs. In this course, students will study a variety of different cultures (from social, to visual to sound) from pre 1600s to present day. These learnings will realize historical patterns and psychologies displayed throughout the decades.

Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) provides low power wireless connections between devices, including but not limited to mobile phones, smart home devices, and wearables. Following the standardized protocols, it’s easy and efficient to develop low-energy wireless interactions using Bluetooth LE. This 7-week class introduces fundamental information about Bluetooth LE and provides hands-on practices for students to learn and understand BLE.

When we see the shape of an uppercase serif letterform, we may subconsciously be reminded of the Roman Empire. What we may not consciously realize is that this association has its roots in the technology used to make these letters, thousands of years ago. Serifs are a wedge-shaped artifact that occurs when a chisel hits stone—the tool used by the Roman Empire to carve their letterforms into monuments called capitals

A new world is emerging at the intersections of machine learning and physical computation that will offer wide-scale access to bringing intelligence to everyday devices and spaces at extremely low costs. In this course, students are offered the opportunity to become pioneers in a new field of hardware machine learning as they are introduced to the most used machine learning platform in the world…

In this course students create digital musical instruments and do a live performance using them. Over the semester, we look at examples of current work by creators of musical interfaces, and discuss a wide range of issues facing technology-enabled performance – such as novice versus virtuoso performers, discrete versus continuous data control, and the relationship between musical performance and visual display.

What is the medium of memory? In this 7-week studio, we will dig into this question through creative, lens-based storytelling. This class will introduce traditional and bleeding-edge documentary methods to inform our own approaches to activating archival material…

This course will explore the history and meaning of the ubiquitous concept of “cursed” media, and provide students with a survey of digital art tools for the creation of their own cursed animation, video, photography, music, and web art.

This course focuses on the Design, User Testing, and Production of the final Thesis project. Students will meet with the Thesis Advisor bi-weekly, often in small study groups or 1:1 meetings. Prerequisite: Thesis Part 1: Research and Development. All other students will take the traditional 4.0-unit Thesis course.

From the crass rattle of early pager motors to the more sophisticated purr of the iPhone taptic engine the ability to buzz has slowly worked its way into our devices. This course focuses on interaction design for non-visual feedback. Specifically it will explore how haptic feedback can be better utilized and integrated into handhelds, wearables, objects, and environments – basically anything that we touch or that touches us.