MULTIPLE LOADER code

var myLoaderT1:Loader=new Loader ();

var myLoaderU1:Loader=new Loader ();

var myLoaderV1:Loader=new Loader ();

shapes_Sam.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, swfT1content);

function swfT1content(myeventT1:MouseEvent):void {

var myURLT1:URLRequest=new URLRequest("http://www.pixelcola.net/swf/triangle.swf");

myLoaderT1.load(myURLT1);

addChild(myLoaderT1);

}

shapes_Sam.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, swfU1content);

function swfU1content(myeventT1:MouseEvent):void {

var myURLU1:URLRequest=new URLRequest("http://www.pixelcola.net/swf/triangle.swf");

myLoaderU1.load(myURLU1);

addChild(myLoaderU1);

}

shapes_Sam.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, swfV1content);

function swfV1content(myeventT1:MouseEvent):void {

var myURLV1:URLRequest=new URLRequest("http://www.pixelcola.net/swf/triangle.swf");

myLoaderV1.load(myURLV1);

addChild(myLoaderV1);

gotoAndStop(2);

}

myLoaderT1.x=150

myLoaderU1.x=250

myLoaderV1.x=350

Blog Post #4 (min 300 words, posted by Friday 10/23)

You have chosen a text in explore in a new form, a new type of media.

What interests you about this text in particular?

What interests you about this text in particular in relationship to its potential as a new media form, in relationship to its potential as a Flash file?

What are some initial thoughts, or early ideas on how you plan to realize this story in Flash?

Your Second Project

Your second project will be a FLASH based exploration of a pre-existing text in an interactive, non-linear fashion. You will determine the levels of interactivity and non-linearity.

Abstract formal as well as associational relationships created through juxtaposition should contribute to mis-en-scene.

An interactive exploration of mis-en-scene in relation to a story, poem, or other form of found literature...

A self directed journey through a story's setting. Encounters with activities. A book, broken into chapters, strewn across the floor. Permission to step out of the car and wander through a Disney ride...

You will determine the levels of interactivity and non-linearity. This can range from extremely complex to simple choice in the ordering of chapters. You are providing an opportunity to explore "particular aspects of" or "areas of interest around" a pre-existing text, not completely re-telling a story or trying to represent everything in that story.

Minimum requirements will be forthcoming...

Your First Project:

Your First Project:

Due by the beginning of class, Tuesday, October 13

Explore abstract formal relationships as well as associational relationships created through montage and through the juxtaposition of externally loaded swf files.

Minimum Requirements:

There must be a minimum of 4 simultaneous, externally loaded swf files in the frame at any given time.

There must be a minimum of 14 externally loaded swf files total

Project should include at least two of the following:

2 collage animations made of found images

2 vector animations made entirely in Flash and or Illustrator

2 found video clips, cropped, clipped, and modified for your project

Project should include a combination of ways to load and unload external files:

1. script and instance changes to buttons inside movie clips

2. buttons advancing the timeline to new frames

New and Re- Combinations should occur by loading and unloading external files.

Areas of Consideration:

juxtaposition within a particular frame

montage within a particular frame

juxtaposition within the entire frame

montage within the entire frame

Consider button to button formal and associational relationships as well as button to file formal and associational relationships.

Be prepared to discuss your project with respect to the issues and examples we have experienced in class so far.

Blog Post #3

Blog Post #3

Due Tuesday, September 29th, posted by the beginning of class

Reading 5:

Find one example of work from two of the following artists that relates to issues we have discussed in class so far and consider both abstract formal and associational relationships between elements within the picture plane:

Robert Rauschenberg

James Rosenquist

John Baldesaari

David Salle

Hanna Hoch

Raoul Hausmann

Joseph Cornell

Writing:

Post the two images you have read. For each, write between 75 and 100 words describing abstract formal and associational relationships between elements within the picture plane.

A Note on Technical Skills

A Note on Technical Skills
(from Mark Tribe’s New Media Art Production Course at Brown University)

The emphasis in this course is not on technical mastery but on understanding new media
technologies as tools and sites for creative cultural practice. Some students will come to the course with advanced new media production skills, others with very limited skills. This is OK! Advanced skills are not necessarily needed in order to make advanced art. Keith Obadike's Blackness for Sale and Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries' work are two examples of successful and influential new media art that required limited technological skill to produce. What makes these projects effective is, among other things, their conceptual deftness, the effectiveness with which they use relatively simple tools, and strength of their artistic voices.

New media technologies are so numerous and complex, and they are changing so quickly, that keeping up can be a sisyphean task. The most important tech skills you can learn are: how to teach yourself what you need to know in order to realize your ideas; how to find ways to realize your ideas given the skills and resources you reasonably can acquire; and how to partner or collaborate with others who have skills you need but don't have and don't want to acquire yourself. That said, there is no substitute for learning by doing. We will organize workshops on key skills, teach one another as we learn, and strive throughout to maintain a playful and experimental attitude toward the technologies we use.

Your Second Blog Post

Due Tuesday, September 22, 2009, minimum 300 words, posted by the beginning of class:

Compare and contrast abstract and associational formal systems.

Site specific examples of editing strategy from films we have seen in class.

Consider the chapters that introduced us to these systems.

Also over the weekend:

reading four