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Important intellectual property requirements

Look for public domain and certain creave commons (hps ://creavecommons.org/about/cclicenses/) content (CC

BY; CC BY-SA; CC BY-NC; CC BY-NC-SA); (videos, images, sound, music (hps ://archive.org/details/freemusicarchive) ,

etc.), or create your own images. Always give credit for the content you've used, including work you created yourself.

You must not use copyrighted material in your porolio unless it is for educaon or cricism. You can use AI image

generators but must acknowledge how you created them (plaorm and prompt). The excepons are for the gadgets in

Week 2 and the collage in Week 7 (as these uses are for study or cricism).

Relationship to the workshop exercises

Each week you will do some basic exercises relevant to that week's topic. We scaffold these for you so you can

develop some basic skills using the element during the class. We do not expect you to create the porolio element in

that hour. Do so in your own me. Your porolio should not use any of the material provided in the workshop, and it

should address the theme that you specify. Follow the brief for each element below. The best porolios will sustain a

conceptually, visually and textually cohesive theme.

Help! I don't have technology skills

We recognise that students come into this class with various skill levels in media producon. While it is not

permissible to submit anything that has been created by someone else, you can get help from others to learn relevant

techniques and troubleshoot your work. You will be assessed mainly for your ideas and not your technical skills.

Choose a portfolio theme

Each student should choose a theme to explore through the porolio. Discuss possible themes with your tutor and

the class.

The theme could be a style, genre, mof or concept. You can come up with your own theme, but here are some

examples:

Gothic (neo-gothic buildings on USyd campus; horror themes. There are many interpretaons of the gothic

(Wikipedia (hps ://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothic) ))

Cyberpunk (science ficon aesthec of dystopia and high technology)

Speed (e.g. emphasis on fast-moving vehicles; tachophobia; futurism)

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Metropolis (the 1927 movie is out of copyright now (hps ://www.cultureslate.com/explained/metropolis-enters-

the-public-domain-and-what-it-means-for-this-classic-film) ; or you could use a wider theme of the city)

Digital rhythm (images of musical instruments; make your own music)

Gadget culture (choose an interesng gadget to feature through your porolio)

Self-portrait (interpret your own image in different digital elements. Research portraiture)

Glitches and fails (explore the aesthec dimensions of failure; research glitch culture)

Future shock (retro-futurism)

Archaic tech (old technologies; nostalgia; steampunk)

Comic (draw your own comics; research literature on comics and digital media)

Create a Sway

Sway is not only a plaorm for containing the media content you create. It's a medium in its own right. Choose the

style and fonts to suit your porolio theme. Tweak the way that the end user experiences your Sway.

Create your Sway using this template (hps ://canvas.sydney.edu.au/courses/55154/files/34331285?wrap=1)

(hps ://canvas.sydney.edu.au/courses/55154/files/34331285/download?download_frd=1) . This will create all the Cards for

the porolio.

Here is Chris's sample Sway (still under development).

Chris Chesher

Briefs for topics

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2 Gadgets

Choose a gadget from the Consumer Electronics Show from one of these arcles: Wired

(hps ://www.wired.com/live/ces-2023-liveblog-highlights/) , CNet (hps ://www.cnet.com/tech/the-most-noteworthy-tech-

at-ces-2023-we-couldnt-ignore/) , Rolling Stone (hps ://www.rollingstone.com/product-recommendaons/lifestyle/ces-

2023-highlights-lg-sony-samsung-lenovo-1234659610/) , Tech Radar (hps ://www.techradar.com/au/tag/ces) , Digital

Trends (hps ://www.digitaltrends.com/topic/ces/) , the Verge (hps ://www.theverge.com/23496511/ces-2023-news-

products-announcements-tvs-laptops-fitness-trackers) or Tom's Guide (hps ://www.tomsguide.com/news/ces-2023) . Find

a clean image you can use in your diagram. Analyse the gadget's affordances, and build a diagram. Don't just label the

components: idenfy how users relate to it. Include a tle at the top of the image.

3 Bodies

Use Pixlr to construct a collage ‘self-portrait’ illustrang how your body relates to technology – prostheses that

extend your body, sensors that capture data and control (quanfied self) about it, and mulmedia spectacles and

physical devices you experience.

4 Sound

Write your own script that responds to the overall theme of your porolio. Create a 30 second narrave audio piece

that uses locaon recording, sound effects and/or sound processing to create a sense of story, place and mood.

Upload it into Sway.

In your exegesis, specify the sources of your sounds and how you processed them. Explain the aesthec movaon of

the piece: what meanings did you intend? How did you use sound modality? How did you make use of sound marks

(lecture)?

5 Moving Image

Create a 30-second montage responding to the theme of your porolio. Use public domain or creave commons

video, images and sound such as the Prelinger archives (hps ://archive.org/details/prelinger) . Use only cuts or cross-

fades (no other transions). In your exegesis, explain the type of montage you used, and the aesthec that you were

seeking. Idenfy the source of all your footage. Use copyright-free sound effects, music and/or dialogue.

Upload it into Sway.

6 Text

Create logos and tles for your theme in the form of the following logos or tles. Add new pages for each tle. Label

each one.

Movie opening tle/poster (All caps; Display typeface)

Corporate Logotype (use a serif font; black and white)

Personal note (script/cursive typeface)

Album art (mix of typefaces. Split text into blocks)

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Monospace

Other...

Export logos as JPEG (if you include photos) or PNG (for basic graphics)

Add your 5 logotype images to your Week 6 Sway entry as a stack.

You can use one of these for the first image in Sway if you want.

Wordcloud

Include a wordcloud of a text (recommended Project Gutenberg). Briefly analyse the results.

7 Images

Capture your own image of someone using a piece of technology against a plain background.

Manipulate the image to create six versions and add them as a slideshow in your Sway

(hps ://www.office.com/launch/sway) porolio.

1. High modality (realisc; possibly use HDR)

2. Historical (monochrome; vignee)

3. Fantasy / dream / hallucinaon

4. Drama / focus

5. Glitch

6. X-ray / LIDAR

Use Pixlr.com (hps ://pixlr.com) or any other form of image manipulaon. The image must be recognisable in some

way.

In the text you must explain your process for each image (i.e. your design strategy, soware and technique), and the

meanings you wanted to convey.

8 Algorithms

The minimum porolio entry for this week is to prepare the following elements for a Discord server:

Server

Choose a server name, create an icon (256 x 256px) and write a descripon of the purpose of the server. This should

relate to the theme of your porolio. If your server works, add an invitaon link to your Discord server in the

porolio.

Application

Choose an applicaon name, an icon (256 x 256px) and a descripon of the applicaon's features (which is to create

the bot).

Bot

Choose the bot's user name and its appearance as an icon (256 x 256px).

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Prepare a welcome message that includes 3 versions of welcome text in the bot's character, including basic

informaon, a welcome graphic (256 x 256 px), and a footer (underneath).

For bonus points:

Include a screen movie of someone entering your Discord server and being greeted by the bot that you created.

9 Artificial Intelligence

Create a short video (30 seconds maximum) of an arficial human using AI tools such as those introduced in the

Arficial Intelligence week:

Develop a character/persona of the arficial human and a scenario relang to your porolio theme

Create a sll image of that character using text-to-image AI (Midjourney, Dall-e 2, DiffusionBee, NightCafe)

Write a dra script of a monologue by the character using ChatGPT

Convert the text of the script to speech to create an audio file using hps://beta.elevenlabs.io/speech-synthesis

(hps ://beta.elevenlabs.io/speech-synthesis) or similar

Make a video animang the character's face based on the sound (hps://www.d-id.com (hps ://www.d-id.com) ).

Note: it is possible to complete the whole task within hps://www.d-id.com (hps ://www.d-id.com) , but we

recommend using separate tools.

Create each of these elements with AI, but you can edit the image, script, audio and video if necessary.

10 Games

Write (or generate) a 200-300 word cultural studies analysis of your favourite game. If you use ChatGPT, include the

prompt you use, and write a paragraph reflecon on the effecveness of this as a way of generang the text.

You can use any of these approaches:

GAMES AND CULTURE

How did the wider culture shape the game? What were the contexts for the game's producon and

consumpon?

GAMES AS CULTURE

What cultural pracces and communies have emerged around this game? What genres or groupings does the

game belong to? What issues does the game raise?

GAMES IN CULTURE

How has this game influenced the wider culture?

11 Platforms

Create a 4-slide pitch for a new media plaorm. This can be a stand-alone plaorm or a way of using other plaorms.

SLIDE 1: What is the name of your plaorm, the tag line and your business name?

SLIDE 2: What is the market for your plaorm?

SLIDE 3: What are the features of your plaorm?

SLIDE 4: How does your plaorm use dataficaon and commodificaon?

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Academic integrity

While the University is aware that the vast majority of students and staff act ethically and honestly, it is opposed to and

will not tolerate academic integrity breaches and will treat all allegaons seriously.

Further informaon on academic integrity, and the resources available to all students can be found on the academic

integrity pages on the current students website: hps://sydney.edu.au/students/academic-integrity.html

(hps ://sydney.edu.au/students/academic-integrity.html) .

We use Turnin, which includes AI detecon, to detect potenal instances of plagiarism or other forms of academic

integrity breach. If such matches indicate evidence of plagiarism or other forms of academic integrity breaches, your

teacher is required to report your work for further invesgaon.

You may only use arficial intelligence and wring assistance tools in assessment tasks if you are permied to by your

unit coordinator, and if you do use them, you must also acknowledge this in your work, either in a footnote or an

acknowledgement secon.

Further informaon for on research integrity and ethics for postgraduate research students and students undertaking

research-focussed coursework such as Honours and capstone research projects can be also be found on the current

students website: hps://sydney.edu.au/students/research-integrity-ethics.html (hps ://sydney.edu.au/students/research-

integrity-ethics.html) .

Compliance statement

In subming this work, I acknowledge I have understood the following:

I have read and understood the University of Sydney's Academic Integrity Policy 2022

(hps ://sydney.edu.au/policies/showdoc.aspx?recnum=PDOC2012/254&RendNum=0) .

The work is substanally my own and where any parts of this work are not my own I have indicated this by

acknowledging the source of those parts of the work and enclosed any quoted text in quotaon marks.

Write about the praccality and ethics of the project in the exegesis and evaluate it in terms of daficaon, capturing,

circulaon and commodificaon.

It is recommended that you create slides in Google Slides and embed them (hps ://support.microso.com/en-

us/office/embed-content-in-your-sway-1e1ab12a-f961-4a26-8afc-77a15f892b1d) in the relevant locaon in Sway.

Week 12 The Metaverse

Create an avatar and place it into a 3D environment with objects inspired by your porolio theme.

We recommend creang an avatar in hps://readyplayer.me (hps ://readyplayer.me/)

Import your avatar into hps://app.vectary.com/ (hps ://app.vectary.com/) and add elements to the scene.

Export your scene as an OBJ

Import the OBJ .zip file into SketchFab hps://sketchfab.com/ (hps ://sketchfab.com/)

Get the embed code from SketchFab

Add the embed tag to a card in Sway to display your 3D scene.

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I have acknowledged any assistance provided in preparing the work including the use of copy-eding, proof-reading,

and automated wring and drawing tools (including arficial intelligence (AI), reference generators, translaon

soware, grammar checkers, but not spell checkers).

The work has not previously been submied in part or in full for assessment in another unit unless I have been given

permission by my unit of study coordinator to do so.

The work will be submied to similarity detecon soware (Turnin) and a copy of the work will be retained in

Turnin's paper repository for future similarity checking. Note: work submied by postgraduate research students for

research purposes is not added to Turnin's paper repository.

Engaging in plagiarism or academic dishonesty in coursework will, if detected, lead to the University commencing

proceedings under the Academic Integrity Policy 2022. (hps ://sydney.edu.au/policies/showdoc.aspx?

recnum=PDOC2012/254&RendNum=0) and the Academic Integrity Procedures 2022

(hp: //sydney.edu.au/policies/default.aspx?mode=glossary&word=Academic+honesty) .

Engaging in plagiarism or academic dishonesty in research-focussed work will lead to the University commencing

proceedings under the Research Code of Conduct (hps ://sydney.edu.au/policies/showdoc.aspx?

recnum=PDOC2013/321&RendNum=0) and the Academic Integrity Procedures 2022

(hp: //sydney.edu.au/policies/default.aspx?mode=glossary&word=Academic+honesty) .

Engaging another person to complete part or all of the submied work will, if detected, lead to the University

commencing proceedings against me for potenal student misconduct under the University of Sydney (Student

Discipline) Rule 2016 (hp: //sydney.edu.au/policies/showdoc.aspx?recnum=PDOC2017/441&RendNum=0) .

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