The parts which are blank will be filled in throughout the quarter as we receive readings and other information from the visitors
Questions in midterm and final will include references to (1) lectures; (2) required readings; (3) required material from the web sites.
The exams are "open book" so you should bring with you your lecture notes/recordings; the required book; printouts of required texts; printouts of the assigned texts from the web sites.


date lecturer reference URL required readings required material from the websites
         
March 30 Lev Manovich, UCSD www.manovich.net Christiane Paul. Digital Art, pp. 67-111; 174-189. www.softcinema.net/form.htm
Database Imaginary exhibition (go through all projects; read their curatorial summaries and artists' statements)
April 6 Eduardo Navas, UCSD


Death of the Author
by Roland Barthes
What is an Author
by Michel Foucault

Recommended:
The Turntable
by Charles Mudede
The Gift Economy
by Richard Barbrook
On Curating
by Steve Dietz
Conceptual Art
in Wikipedia


Muntadas's File Room:
www.thefileroom.org/
Brocker-Cohen's Bumplist:
artport.whitney.org/gatepages/june03.shtml
MTAA's One Year Performance:
www.turbulence.org/Works/1year/
Codedoc by Christiane Paul
artport.whitney.org/exhibitions/index.shtml
April 13 Cory Archangel, New York Beige Records/Cory

Read:
Petite Mort Interview

Interview
by Erik Salvagio

Introduction to Data Diaries
by Alex Galloway
SuperMario Hack
by Cory Arcangel

Recommended:
Emulation and Curatorial Practice

Emulator to play Super Mario Bros hacked game
Data Diaries
April 20 Lev Manovich, UCSD www.manovich.net

Metadata Mon Amour
Lecture Notes

Dogma 95
Russian Ark -- Alekandr Sokurov
Timecode -- Mike Figgis
Cosmopolis -- Maurice Benayoung
My Life Bits
Eavesdrop --Jeffrey Shaw

April 27

John Jannone, Brooklyn College, New York

Tim Jaeger

www.balibay.com

timjaeger.com

Stillframe
by James Keepnews

respam (Special presentation by Tim Jaeger)
May 4 MIDTERM Modulations Screening

World in Chaos/
Conversation with Lara Lee (director)/
Caught in the web/

For DJ History:
djhistory.com
Modulations Website

May 11 Casey Reas, UCLA reas.com

creas/
Softwarestructures/

 
May 18 Brett Stalbaum, UCSD

clui.org/
Remote Location

Editorial Notes for "Large Data Sets and the Sublime"/

Remote Location 1:100,000
Wendover Journal, Paula Poole/

 
May 25 Cristiane Paul, Whitney Museum, New York

artport.whitney.org/
intelligentagent.com/

Lecture titled: "Public CulturalProduction Art(Software) -- Software Art, Database, and Data Visualization"

Required:
Christiane Paul, Digital Art:
Databases, Data visualization and Mapping, pp.174-189.

Recommended:
Database as Symbolic Form
/ by Lev Manovich
The Anti-Sublime Ideal in Data Art/ by Lev Manovich

 

Links for Christiane Paul's Lecture:
Software_Database

June 1 William Huber, UCSD  

Game Theory:
Simulation vs. Narrative

Required:
Introduction to ludology (Gonzalo Frasca,
2003)
http://ludology.org/articles/VGT_final.pdf /

Suggested:
Computer game studies, year one (Espen Aarseth, 2001):
http://www.gamestudies.org/0101/editorial.html
Neither gaze nor glance, but glaze: relating to console game
screens (Chris Chesher, 2004) -
http://scan.net.au/scan/journal/display_article.php?recordID=19
I lose, therefore I think: (Shuen-shing Lee, 2003) -
http://www.gamestudies.org/0302/lee/

Games:

Darwinia/
Civilization IV: Age of Empire/
mario_battle_no. 1/
Velvet Strike/