Nearly every week this semester you will be asked to “look outwards” — to browse various blogs and feeds<\/a> or other resources<\/a> in order to deepen your knowledge of the field, and familiarize yourself with the current state of the art. You will then be expected to report on your findings, as described below — hopefully, with a critical perspective. Some weeks, the “Looking Outwards” deliverables may be thematically oriented. There is no restriction on the sources of information you may use for a “Looking Outwards” report. For example, you are invited to use the …library…<\/em>, particularly to learn about older works which may not be well-documented on the Internet.<\/p>\n A “Looking-Outwards” report is a blog post reporting on a new media project that interests you.<\/strong> Your job is to browse blogs and other sources, and then report on artworks or other projects that you haven’t seen before<\/em>. (For this course, it may be most appropriate to select projects that are made by individuals or small teams, rather than large companies, but that’s not a strong requirement). Blogging about a project of which you’re already aware defeats the point of the assignment, which is to deepen your familiarity with the fields of new media arts and creative technology.<\/p>\n Try to find things that you aspire to make yourself. If you’re not finding projects that interest you, ask your professor or teaching assistant for advice. You probably just need to find the right search terms.<\/p>\n Checklist for your blog post:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n In your paragraph, you should:<\/p>\n After completing the sequence of ten Looking Outwards reports, students will be able to:<\/p>\n What is a “Looking Outwards” report? Nearly every week this semester you will be asked to “look outwards” — to browse various blogs and feeds or other resources in order to deepen your knowledge of the field, and familiarize yourself with the current state of the art. You will then be expected to report on … Continue reading “Looking Outwards”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":535,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/15-104\/f2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/255"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/15-104\/f2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/15-104\/f2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/15-104\/f2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/535"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/15-104\/f2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/15-104\/f2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39622,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/15-104\/f2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/255\/revisions\/39622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/15-104\/f2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}How to do a Looking Outwards report<\/h2>\n
\n–<\/em> a Looking Outwards category, e.g. LookingOutwards-01<\/em>, and
\n– a Section category, e.g. SectionA.<\/em><\/li>\nLearning Outcomes<\/h2>\n