DXARTS 490 ***Autumn quarter ***: Data-driven Art

DXARTS is offering a Special Topics (DXARTS 490/SLN 13328) course this  Autumn quarter on Data-driven Art.   This is a 3-credit class that will be held in 221 Raitt Hall on Wednesdays at 11:30am-2:20pm, and open to non-DXARTS students.  This is a studio-based class in which students are introduced to making art using databases, audio/video corpuses, remote/cloud--based data and metadata.  The class considers the implications and possibilities of artists using such systems, looking at dynamic, algorithmic based approaches to composing with highly dirstributed collections of data.  The class includes weekly discussion, lectures, and labs.  For more details and add codes please contact the instructor, James Coupe at <coupe@uw.edu>.