DIS2105

Continuing the exploration of technical exercises with an abstract theme, please download this tutorial and associated files. As well as being useful for collage and blending techniques, it's a really useful one to practice at file management - naming layers and grouping them for ease of access.

Download pdf tutorial
Download the zipped artwork files

Viveka

DIS2105 - Abstract project - Exhibition in Sydney

If you're in Sydney, check out this exhibition:

http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/exhibitions/current/paths_to_abstraction

I might go myself this weekend while I'm there.

Viveka

DIS2105 - Notes for week 1

Please complete the attached tutorial - it just goes through a 3d tool and manipulation with blending modes. Generally classes will consist of a technical demo, then discussion and work on projects.

Week 1 tutorial
Abstraction in the visual arts

DIS2105

In the last class I handed out the brief for the first project - Visual Noise
Produce a non-objective abstract composition.

Download the brief.

Viveka

DIS1704 - Notes for week 3

In this class we look at tables and lists. Work through my videos below and then attempt to recreate an html file that looks like this image below. Remember that when you save your files into the text editor, you have to select' file/save as' and save the file with the extension '.html'. It's the extension that makes the page an html page.
Try and keep all your html files in a folder structure set up for each week - Filing properly is really important when it comes to making web pages.









Note: If you find saving the actual pages too hard, or if you have been unable to download a text editor, do this exercise using the 'try-it-and-see' editor at w3schools.com - you won't be able to save your work, but it is still good practice.

Viveka

DIS1704 - Please download Text Wrangler

To complete the exercises during this semester, you will need a text editor. Unfortunately the text editor you have on your computer is most likely not ideal for writing code - a lot of  text editors (note pad, Text edit) actually try and process html, and open up your document in much the same way as a browser does. This means when you save your code, you might end up losing it all together. Word is also not good for this task, due to formatting problems. Word does give you an option to 'save as html', but this will create a web page that looks exactly like the content of your word document, ie a white page with code on it.

So, please download a text editor suited to creating html pages. There are a few out there, but the one I use and recommend is Text Wrangler - download and install it on your home computer. Hopefully we'll have access to this in the lab by the time we are in there again. Text Wrangler is only available for Mac, so if you have a pc, try Kimodo.

Viveka

Dis1704 - notes for week 2

In this week's class we looked at some actual code, focusing on the 'structural' tags - that is, the tags that are essential for a browser to be able to process the file. I demonstrated to the class using the W3Schools website, which is a great place to learn html - no software required.

In the videos below, I step through setting up a basic group of pages. This exercise is on the W3Schools html tutorial website. Please note that when you close the 'try-it-and-see' window on this website, you will lose your work - it's not possible to save this code without copying and pasting in to a text editor like Text Wrangler.

The videos below are designed to be watched in sequence - the screencasting software I use only allows up to 5 minutes of video, so occasionally I get chopped off and have to add on another video picking up where I left off.

DIS1704 - notes for week 1

In today's class we looked at the history of the internet and discussed how servers work. We also looked at urls and talked a bit about web standards. The first 2 documents below, 'week 1 a' and 'week 1 b' cover what we went through in class. The other 2 contain some more detailed notes about the history of the internet, just in case you are interested!

Week 1-a
Week 1-b
Internet timeline
A brief history of the internet

Viveka

Welcome to the blog - Unit guides for DIS2105 and DIS1704

Hi everyone,

This blog is a communication tool for DIS2105 and DIS1704. Since the classes are both pretty small, and there are a couple of students doing both, I thought I would set up one blog rather than two separate ones.

As I mentioned in an email I just sent out, I will be away next Monday 2 August. All course content for these days will be available here on the blog.

As last semester, this blog will be open to everyone to add content, so please sign your name since we will all have the same login - I will send these details out shortly.

I am attaching the Unit Guides here for those who have not received them yet.
DIS2105 Unit Guide 2010
DIS1704 Unit Guide 2010

Viveka