Creative Computing in Art, Design and Technologies

Overview

This module encourages students to experiment with emerging technologies and coding as creative tools to tackle issues of humanity/society observed by merging the disciplines of art, design, and technology. Through this class, the students will be equipped with basic coding skills, related software, and on how to create art/design pieces to evoke the questions they are interested in. The course will also guide the students to start looking at the current hot topics related to computational technology, such as Generative Art/Music, Creative Coding, Metaverse, VR/AR (Virtual Reality/ Augmented Reality), Bio-inspired Art and Design, Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence, physical computing/IoT to stimulate their personal perspectives on these topics.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this module students should be able to:
1. Understand the basic principles, syntax, and commands of programming languages with creative coding tool
2. Execute basic visual coding techniques as creative tools for visualization and digital art creation
3. Understand the basic concepts in physical and virtual 3D environment
4. Demonstrate primary AR effect with related software at a prototype level
5. Use visual coding techniques to demonstrate prototypes
6. Gain knowledge and inspiration about current emerging technologies

Skills

1. Entry-applied level of coding and visual coding, 3D notions, and AR effect skills
2. Nurture individual creation and critical thinking
3. Demonstrate skillsets to work independently with initiative
4. Ability to problem solve and explore creative solutions confronting it
5. Utilization of combining individual critical thinking with creative tools to generate projects/artworks expressing one’s statement
6. Awareness about the current emerging technologies trends and holding critical opinions on those developments
7. Capability of clear written, verbal, and visual communication/expression for project presentation
8. Spirits of self-motivation and self-learning and reflection on design process & decisions
9. Give critical constructive suggestions for self-evaluation and peer review

Assessment