In this unit, students will broaden their understanding of contemporary interactive digital media and its practice, gaining a comprehensive overview of the development of digital media, its forms, technologies and issues. This unit will introduce principles of digital media programming with Flash Actionscript 3.0. In addition, students will work to extend their media production and web programming knowledge and skill. The class will consist of lectures, tutorials, discussions, supervision and feedback.

Assessment is by a series of assignments and a final presentation of the major project to the Viva Examination panel.

Term Assignments (50%), Semester Project (50%).

All sessions take place in a computer laboratory:

3 hours of seminar / studio practice per week

Students are expected to do at least an extra 4 - 6 hours of independent studio practice each week

DART1004 Discovering Interactivity

• Packer,Randall  and Jordan, Ken. eds., Multimedia from Wagner to Virtual Reality, New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2001.
• Wardrip,Noah  and Montfort, Nick.eds, The New Media Reader, Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 2003.