Computational Art and Generative Media.

Catalog description

This course builds from COMM 150 to explore computational and generative media. Taking the position that "computation" is defined by information that is formatted, communicated, and generated by machine languages, we will use the language JavaScript and the library "p5.js" to explore how color, motion, time, light and sound are compressed and formatted as information and digitally expressed. Moreover, we will explore how the syntax of JavaScript, that is its formal structure, communicates not just information, but a structure and position for knowing - that is, a computational epistemology.