Create an interactive hypertext narrative that reveals something about yourself or an experience you've had. It could be a story about yourself or an experience you had, a journey through a topic you're interested in or are researching, a mode of navigation that mimics your mood or personality. There should be multiple HTML pages, linked together by a tags. Each page could contain text and/or images. No styling. Limit your focus to story and html tags.

Weight: 15% of class grade.

Inspiration:

• Angela Washko, Woman as Place
• Olia Lialina, My Boyfriend Came Back From the War
• Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries, Cunnilingus In North Korea . Note that this work was originally created in flash, so it was viewed in a browser. Browser's no longer support flash and so Young-Hae have documented all their old sites as videos. RIP flash.
• Nicky Case, Coming Out Simulator
• Nicky Case, Anxiety Demo
• Mouchette
• Porpentine Charity Heartscape (esp Girl Waste and With Those We Love Alive)
• Alexi Shulgin, Form Art
• Morehshin Allahyari, The Laughing Snake
• Elisabeth Nicula, Dioramas such as this one or this one.

Create a home for the work made in this class. Start by making a basic html/css page. Add to it throughout semester as you learn and experiment more. First review will be in class in week 3, with another look at it in the final week of the class.

Weight: 15% of class grade.

Create a website (with one or more pages) for an existing manifesto. You can either choose one of the manifestos we have read in class, or another one if you prefer. See the Arena channel for some. Research who wrote the manifesto, and the context in which it was produced. What was it pushing back against ? What is it advocating for? How can the design, aesthetic treatment and logic of your site reflect the conceptual content of the manifesto? Consider including additional references, research or example of work to accompany the manifesto.

Make a post with the link to the project and a brief description on your personal homepage

Weight: 20% of class grade.

The final project for this class is an open brief. You are to devise the brief and goals for the final website you make in this class. This is a chance for you to make your own contribution to the hand-coded web, to add your own voice to the choir. Consider all the sites you've looked and and explored in this class and beyond, which ones create the kind of space your interested in? What do you think is missing from this history? You should aim to make something personal, that speaks to an interest, your own practice or research. Consider that sites are never finished but always being updated and in the making. Consider what kind of site you'd be interested in working on in the future?

Stuck? Consider the following starting points:

• A website for collecting: sketches, other websites, images, or references.
• A project that extends your practice or current area of research.
• A website that is based on a specific mood, feeling or emotion.
• An extension or elaboration of an exercise or project from this class.
• A website that tells a story.
• A website that is based on a particular structural metaphor (eg. in reference to Laurel Schwulst's reading from week 1.
• Class arena channel may hold more inspiration.

Weight: 20% of class grade.

Each week you are to write a brief response to the reading (150-250 words). Either link an idea, a prompt, an argument or a question from the reading to a creative or critical project from the field, or discuss how it relates to your own practice. When you are considering the readings, don't forget to consider when the text was written, and who it was written by.

One week during the semester you will be assigned as a lead for the reading discussion. As a discussion lead, you are expected to come to class with a question for the class related to the reading, and/or share a relevant example from the field of art or design to kick off the conversation.

Weight: 20% of class grade.