Cultural Theory & Data-Based Art

Demonstrations
Resources

WEEK 5 --
HUMAN RIGHTS, DATABASES, PARTICIPATORY CULTURES


Lecture:

"Information and Institutional Change: The Case of Digital Libraries" by Philip E. Agre

"Broadcast and archive: human rights documentation in the early digital age" by David Block

// Art project of the week:

Wikipedia.org http://wikipedia.org
Wikipedia is a multilingual project to create a complete and accurate free content encyclopedia.
Started in January 2001, Wikipedia currently works on 188228 articles in the English version.

WEDNESDAY:


INTRODUCTION TO PROGRAMMING
- what is a programming language?
- programming vs. markup languages
- interpreted vs. compiled languages
- language examples: php, python, javascript, java, actionscript, C++, PERL
- "hello world" example in php

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