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HISTORY FLOW
As being in one wikipage right now it may be interesting to look at History Flow -"a tool for visualizing dynamic, evolving documents and the interactions of multiple collaborating authors,"such as wiki-sites. One of "History Flow" authors, Martin Wattenberg have very interesting website www.bewitched.comand has created other fascinating works.

PROCESSING Processing For this course, you aren't required to do anything in Processing, because of time constraints. But, it is similar to Flash (it uses Java, which is like ActionScript in many ways), and I do recommend looking at it and the examples that come with it. - Evan

Comparition of different programming languages(Java \ ActionScript \ Lingo \ Python \ Design By Numbers)and their syntax. http://www.coolbubble.com/programs/elle.htm

See The The Barbarian Group's Grass

ARDUINO open hardware + open/free software ARDUINO
We're not going to get into hardware with this course, that would take another semester in itself. But Arduino is very handy - worth looking at, especailly after learning Processing, Flash, and Max/MSP. EvanR

Some interesting and crazy stuff to read about experimental media art x-med-a

ART-CODE-WORK Joshua Samberg(USA) who wrote in code(C++ ?) tasks of his daily lifeSELF SDK
“Self SDK is an attempt to gain understanding and control of my often difficult and confusing existence by modeling myself and my life in a computer program. As an experienced programmer, I feel a lot of power, efficacy, and safety in the world that lies inside the computer. In real life, on the other hand, I feel hopeless and overwhelmed in the face of the most basic, everyday tasks and occurrences. By constructing a model of myself inside the computer, I have tried to utilize my comfort, experience, and skill with computer programming to explore, understand, and ultimately transform myself.",br>

REACTABLE
sound experiment

AESTHETIC MACHINERY
Video works by Don Ritter(CAN/USA)

VOLUME EXHIBITION IN V&A MUSEUM