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Fall 2014 Assignments

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##Assignment 1

  1. Sign up for the google group mailing list (1 min)
  2. Sign up Amazon Mechanical Turk (as a worker). (5 min)
  3. Read NYT: excuse me, may I have your seat? (10 min)
  4. Read p11-16 from the glitch moment(um) (15 min)
  5. Recreate I will talk with anyone with some of your personal flavor. Add documentation of your recreation below.

Work

Assignment 2

  1. Read Objects of intense feeling: the case of the Twitter API
  2. Read Art and the API
  3. Complete one of the following projects and add documentation of your work below:
    • Create an HPI (human programming interface) that allows others to control some aspect of your life. You must run it for one day on yourself.
    • Creatively misuse an existing API in order to reveal something about the service.

Work

Assignment 3

  1. Read All technology is assistive
  2. Create an extension for someone else (a specific person). Two options:
    • Build a browser extension.
    • Create a physical apparatus/accessory that extends their capabilities or experience in some way.

Work

Assignment 4

Hack or surveil someone for the purpose of improving your relationship with them in some way.

Work

Assignment 5

This assignment is will be presented during the final class (12/3).