Week 28, April 23

Session Recording #

As you probably remember, class today (and then next week) are for your Functions presentations. Here’s the lineup for today:

First Half

Second Half

The rest will go next week!

Help us keep on track/time today! Our Zoom for projecting/recording:

Taking a step back, we have a couple readings to round out our semester. The first, around the topic of the year:
- Why A.I. Isn’t Going to Make Art
  Ted Chiang, 2024
Add your reading synthesis, as we have done before:

Unit 5 Reading Responses (AI)

And our very last reading, about the seemingly inevitable rise, shift, and fall of platforms:
- TikTok’s Enshittification
  Cory Doctorow, 2023
And your last reading synth:

Unit 5 Reading Responses (Enshittification)

Finish up your landing pages!

Our only hard requirements here are your name and links to all of your projects. The rest is up to you—and we want to encourage you to manifest your own design aesthetic and personality in these.

They are—as we’ve mentioned—what we reference and send out for alumni past. So the more you and the more interesting, the better! It’s small; make it fun. Play us your one song.

And if all that doesn’t matter to you, we’ll remind you these are evaluated as part of your ongoing exercises (10% of your overall grade)—and most of you didn’t turn anything in last time!
You can re-submit Project 4 for re-evaluation!

As we did in the fall, we are going to allow you to revisit these for a (maximum) one-letter bump to their previous mark. (They are worth 20% of your grade.) To earn this, we’ll want to see you meaningfully improving them and addressing the feedback you were given.
You’ll submit both of these to the form, as usual:

Submission Form

Due the morning of Monday, May 12!