In this class

• set-up for presentations
  • last-minute emergencies, bug fixes, fires, etc
• Ubiquitous Computing
• The Stack!

Set-up for public presentations of Dream Machines!

• set up your Dream Machine project
• place manual
• finished? Help a neighbor!
• presentation!

Demo and Presentations! 4pm!

• Stand-up Presentation! We will have visitors!
• What is your project title and concept?
• How does it work?
• Demonstrate it
• Ways to extend the project
• NOT PART OF THE PRESENTATION: What is it supposed to do if you got it to work as you originally intended.

Ubiquitous Computing and The Stack

–from The Stack, Benjamin Bratton, MIT Press

A comprehensive political and design theory of planetary-scale computation proposing that The Stack—an accidental megastructure—is both a technological apparatus and a model for a new geopolitical architecture. –Benjamin Bratton, The Stack: On Software and Sovereignty

Homework Reading and Response

Pick 2 to read from the below and write a response

• Read the chapter Platform and Stack, Model and Machine from Bratton’s The Stack
• Read Divining A Digital Future: Mess and Mythology in Ubiquitous Computing, Introduction by Paul Dourish and Genevieve Bell
• Read What Is Code, Chapters 1 and 2 by Paul Ford

Homework Writing Response

• Write a 1/2 page/approx 500 word reading response to your chosen essays. Address your understanding of ubiquitous computing, its limitations/downsides, and any upsides. You may address any other topics that came up such as our roles as learners, creators, artists, programmers, technologists.

Project 2

Begin brainstorming your collaborative project.

• What tools and equipment do you need?
• What resources will you use?
• What do you need to learn?