This class will introduce students to both fundamental and advanced concepts in play theory and game design, particularly in the service of designing tangible games. We will focus on tabletop games with particular attention to game genres that involve and encourage player communities to creative appropriation and production, like tabletop RPGs and wargames. In addition… Read more DM-UY 4913 Tangible Games
This course introduces design and engineering students to the power of drawing as a fundamental tool for ideation, problem-solving, and innovation. Moving beyond technical drafting, students will explore both analog and digital drawing techniques that serve as direct pathways from imagination to implementation. By bridging artistic practice with engineering methodology, students will use visual thinking… Read more DM-UY 4913 Drawing Studio for Designers and Engineers
This course will explore the possibilities of audio and video compositing, manipulation, and analysis in dataflow (or datastream) environments like Max and TouchDesigner with an eye towards interactive installations and real-time applications. These environments treat media differently than traditional functional programming languages, offering unique possibilities for experimentation and creative output. Integration with other tools like environmental… Read more DM-UY 4913 Dataflow: Boxes and Lines
“Dark patterns,” malicious uses of good design practices, manipulate and trick users into following UX flows to increase spending and reduce data privacy. Students will identify the design practices at play in dark patterns, design their own manipulative interfaces, and implicate the ethics of UX design practices in a corporatized digital landscape. This course will… Read more DM-UY 4193 Dark Patterns
This course introduces students to the history, theory, and practice of live audiovisual signal processing for experimental media art performance. Through readings, lectures, screenings, discussions, technical instruction, and visiting artists, students will learn how early experiments by video artists and toolmakers have developed, through the years, into contemporary praxis. Hardware-based, analog video systems will be… Read more DM-UY 4913 Real Time A/V
Analog Heaven is an experimental sound class that looks at the history, theory, and techniques behind using electricity to make sound. We will be working with technologies ranging from simple analog circuits to professional-quality synthesizers, as well as digital systems inspired by – or designed in contrast to – these circuits. Along the way we… Read more DM-UY 4913 Analog Heaven
In this project-based course students will learn fundamental concepts and skills of digital accessibility and apply them creatively and intuitively to creative projects. Students will be joined on a weekly basis by consultants with lived experience with disabilities. Students and consultants will work together on digital projects focused on web accessibility. Topics include HTML and… Read more DM-UY 4913 Digital Accessibility and Creative Applications
This course explores the relationship between fabrication tools and contemporary artistic practice. Lectures and hands-on activities are integrated with computer-aided design (CAD) software to create individual or group projects. The course will focus equally on conceptual and technical skills. We will cover the process of creating works using experimental modes of making from ideation to… Read more DM-UY 4913 Hands-on Design: Fabrication Studio
In this course, students focus on client and server side programming, as well as the web design and development process. Students are also introduced to databases for the web. Examples of dynamic web applications include content management systems, registration systems, and social media solutions. Prerequisite: DM-UY 2193 Intro to Web Development Sample Syllabi
Students will learn advanced techniques of 3D computer animation, along with the theories and principles of motion including motion capture. Students will become comfortable utilizing cameras, lights, dynamics, motion, and effects in an industry-standard software. Comprehensive critiques will be conducted regularly to encourage good design for time-based animation. Prerequisite : DM-UY 2133 3D Modeling or instructor… Read more DM-UY 3133 3D Animation