Course discusses the emerging aesthetic of computer-based interactive multimedia.
It seeks to identify the aural, visual, rhetorical, and dramatic aesthetic traditions that preceded and pervade multimedia. Through demonstration and discussion, traditions are analyzed in relation to this new mediums unique organizing featurethe user interface. This includes exploration of the elements of line, shape, tone, texture, volume-filling systems, as well as the use of color in design. Students acquire fundamental photography skills including optics, chemistry, and aesthetics. Special emphasis given to the connection between film and digital formats.