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DIGITAL NARRATIVE ARTD 2355 + DMST 2355 / 4355 University of Denver
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Digital Narrative The course web site for Net Art + Design: Digital Narrative Fall 2006
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Designed for both graduates and undergraduates, this course explores the potential for creating anecdotes and stories with the digital media technology that are readily available to the every-day citizen, artist and composer today.

This course is designed to allow for the process of telling stories through digital means, etc. It is an examination of the creative process augmented by the conceptualization, direction, and production of experimental student projects.

The grounding conceptual framework of this course on net art includes an understanding of the psychological, social and cultural contexts of net art history, net access and distribution, net culture, network-driven collaboration and community building, hypertext and rich media narrativity, visual semiotics, identity, content delivery architectures and venue development. The course specifically introduces, complements and extends the concepts, aesthetics, and techniques critical to the exploration and authoring of hypertext, interactive multimedia art and design works which use the protocols, infrastructure and technology of the internet as vehicles for content delivery, creation, presence and venue.

Aesthetic and technical reinforcement of this conceptual base will explore network architectures; user/audience interface/navigation design development and experimentation; website and domain development and presence; meta data/multimedia content utilization; enhanced interactivity; online collaborations, internet distributions, venue development and definition. Emphasis in this course is on innovation, experimentation, and making your work distinctive.

Various current applications and processes of digital narrative production will be discussed, analysed, and utilized. Technical skills are not required, and technical instruction will be made available. At the same time, it would be helpful to have some experience in the intended software. Technology used in this course will include Dreamweaver MX 2004 and related digital imaging and embedded multimedia authoring software. Anything goes.

Seanachaà |Literature, history| Irish or Gaelic for storyteller. File (Fih-leh); "Poet" stories were told through songs and poetry; Seannachai an i with an accent known as a fada:- which is the irish word for long and means dipthong. The word itself is pronounced (sha-na-kee). Digital Narrative course authored by Gregory O'Toole 2006. Existing Net Art + Design content by Professor Tim Weaver, eMAD University of Denver.

Number Nine Arts & Books / Gregory O'Toole © 2006 The entirety of the literacy, digital poetics and cultural studies created by or documented on this site are property of Gregory O'Toole. Each work is potentially a remediated hybrid. This is good, but it makes it somewhat difficult to accurately categorize all of the work into specific media types. Use your judgment. Graphagromania |literature, social science| A portmanteau of the words 'Graphomania' and 'Agromania'. Coined by Gregory O'Toole, 2005. "A portmanteau (plural: portmanteaus or portmanteaux) is a word that is formed by combining two words. It can also be called a frankenword. The term used in linguistics is blend (see Portmanteaus in linguistics)." Graphomania |psychiatry| Morbid and excessive impulse to write. Origin: Grapho-+ G. Mania, insanity. Agromania |psychiatry| An obsolete term for a morbid impulse to live in the open country or in solitude. Origin: G. Agros, .eld, + mania, frenzy. Enjoy your visit. Peace. www.gregory-otoole.com.