Class Schedule

  • artist talk with Amelia Marzec
  • guest critique

Artist talk: Amelia Marzec

Our visiting guest artist this week is Amelia Marzec.

Amelia Marzec is an American artist focused on rebuilding and engaging with local communications infrastructure to prepare for an uncertain future. Her work has been exhibited at SIGGRAPH, MIT, ISEA (Canada), University of the Arts Helsinki (Finland), ONCE Foundation Contemporary Art Biennial (Spain), NODE Forum for Digital Arts Biennial (Germany), and is part of the Rhizome ArtBase. She has been a resident at Eyebeam, Ox-Bow, and Harvestworks, a fellow at NYSCA/NYFA and A.I.R. Gallery, a Tow Fellow at Columbia University, a visiting artist at the Center for Integrated Media at Calarts, a grantee of the Research Foundation of CUNY, and a nominee for the World Technology Awards for Art. Her work has been featured in Wired, Make, Hyperallergic, Neural Magazine, Metropolis Magazine, Creators, and the front page of Reddit. She holds an MFA in Design and Technology from Parsons School of Design, and a BFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts. She co-founded the Radical Networks conference; has written for the Huffington Post; and taught at Hunter College, Queens College, and Pratt Institute.

Forecasting in the underground video room

Critique with visiting guest

Cyberdeck project requirements

Due March 12

  • a cyberdeck, with name, customized OS/desktop, and installed software
  • at least one costumed character
  • produced images showing your character(s) with the cyberdeck
  • A printed user guide to the cyberdeck (this should included title, logo, description, diagram of the computer and its parts, and any background lore). You can have this be a pamphlet, website, zine, photocopied manual, etc.

New inspiration: Zachtronics’ Last Call BBS

Retro manual inspiration: The Tom Swift Terminal

Neo-“Cyberpunk” design inspo from Cyberpunk 2077: a fake website https://www.nightcity.love/en/

Consider how you’ll build the visual iconography and interface for your cyberdeck, inspired by the cyberpunk aesthetics and scenes we’ve viewed, or something new that you conceive of. Your cyberdeck should complement your character (and vice versa).

At minimum, the cyberdeck should have:

  • a logo or video (or animated gif) that should run on startup
  • a custom startup sound that plays on startup
  • a selected or produced background that fits the concept
  • customized terminal software and prompt