ss hypertext essays and mini-sites

Please mail me (Shiralee Saul), if you have any comments, questions or corrections (or I've stolen a quote from you and not credited you appropriately).

Histories of hard and soft new media technologies

• Technologies of Time and Space: a prehistory of multimedia
• Computers and the development of Interactivity
• The Internet and How it Grew...

Space writing

• Hyper Hypertext
  • Vannever Bush and Memex
  • Ted Nelson and 'non-sequential writing'
  • 'Traditional' hypertext
  • Palimpsests and visual hypertexts
  • Bringing texts to life (or life to texts)

    Proto-hypertexts

    • The 'Golden Biblia Pauperum' (Pauper's Bible)
    • William Burroughs, Cut-ups
    • OuLiPo
    • Raymond Queneau's 'One Hundred Trillion Poems'
    • William Gillespie's '11,112,006,825,558,016 Sonnets'
    • Mark Saports, 'Composition No. 1'
    • Julio Cortazar, 'Hopscotch'
    • Robert Coover's short story 'Quenby and Ola, Swede and Carl'
    • Raymond Federman's 'Double or Nothing'
    • Italo Calvino's 'The Castle of Crossed Destinies'

  Related Ideas

  • Visual Texts

Cyborgs and the Six Laws of Robotics

• Artificial Life and Synthetic Realities (introduction and history)
• Cellular Automata and Self-replicating Code
• Artificial Intelligence

Informatics

• Mnemosyne's Bones: Designing Online Content
• Approaches to Graphic User interface Design
• Information Design and Architecture

Teaching resources

• 2011 : Media Cultures 2
• 2010 : Media Cultures 1
• 2010 : Media Cultures 2
• 2009 Games : Media Cultures 1
• 2009 Games : Digital Curation and Exhibition Practice
• 2009 RMIT Media Arts: Comix for Artists
• 2008 RMIT Games : Digital Curation amd Exhibition Practice
• 2007 RMIT Games : Media Cultures 1
• 2007 RMIT Games : Media Cultures 2
• 2006 RMIT Screenwriting : Designing for Multimedia
• 2006 ACU Media : New Media Services
• 2006 ACU 2D Animation
• NEWEST! :: Learning from Slime Mold: Developing interactivity handout
• The 'Golden Biblia Pauperum' (Pauper's Bible)
• Principles of Visual Design
• User-interface Design Principles
• Perception
• Communication and Theory
• Perspective
• Pictograms
• Photography
• Web Design
• Persistence of Vision: Animation history, theory and practice

Graphic Design handouts

• Introduction to Graphic design PDF
  • Print fundamentals
  • Scanning and Resolution
  • An Approximate History of Computers
  • Typography
  • Colour -- basic outline of colour theory
  • Print Technology Timeline
  • Glossary -- computer terms and descriptions
  • Namedropping -- influencial designers and movements
• by John Bleaney

Powerpoints on SlideShare

• Overview of course and comix: powerpoint
• writing for comix: powerpoint part 1
• Early history of comics; birth of the UK industry
• Early history of comics Part 2: Supermen of America
• Developing Character: Somene to believe in
• Physical development: The importance of Appearances
• Underground Comix
• Get a job in the games industry
• SWOT Analysis
• Project Management

Updated August 2006

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