Class Brief Overview

• DMA Project - how to represent a museum in virtual space. Learning examples (ex: cubism in participatory virtual space)
extend it into areas only possible in virtual space
Assignment: go find other museums and see what they are doing, especially any "art learning" Present results in class.

• Island Redesign Project. Proposals about what should be there, what shouldn't be there. Then design proposals, then mockups. KEY is to follow and refine the design principles we have been developing. Codify them better. Present them. Theorize them.
Assignment: 1. find other well designed spaces edu and otherwise and analyze. 2. think of a list of things we should have in our space.

• collaboration with Frank's Sound Design class. ( Midway though semester ) they will do sound for our spaces and we will design an area for sound works. Connect with Frank half way through the class & do sounds for each of the new areas - then - moods spaces at the end - like an installation.

• Presentation / Exhibition: Show results at opening of the Center for creative Connections @ DMA UPDATED: May 3 & 4 and remotely at University of California Irvine Conference on the Cultures of Virtual Worlds April 25-26