Week 17:
Final Essay due:
Monday, April 29, 2013
Week 16:
Thursday, April 25, 2013
Finish Lecture from April 18, and discuss final details for final exam.
Week 15:
Thursday, April 18, 2013
Read:
Digital Art, Chapter 3, "Themes in Digital Art," 139 - 246
Answer questions available on Angel. Discussion takes place from Friday, April 19 to Wednesday, April 16, 2013.
Week 14:
Thursday, April 11, 2014Read:
"Introduction" and "Cartographic Imaginaries" from Latin American Identity in Online Cultural Production, by Claire Taylor and Thea Pitman
Answer questions available on Angel. Discussion takes place from Friday, April 12 to Wednesday, April 17, 2013.
Week 13:
Thursday, April 4, 2013
Final Essay Guidelines Released
Read:
Internet Art, Chapter 4, "Art for Networks," 173 - 212
Continue discussing Baudrillard
Answer questions available on Angel. Discussion takes place from Friday, April 4 to Wednesday, April 10, 2013.
Week 12:
Thursday, March 28, 2013
Read:
Internet Art, Chapter 3, "Themes in Internet Art," 119 - 168
Jean Baudrillard "Precession of Simulacra" (PDF, To be Discussed on April 4 as well)
Answer Questions on Angel
Week 11:
Thursday, March 21, 2013
Read:
Eduardo Navas, "Modular Complexity and Remix: The Collapse of Time and Space into Search," ( PDF: http://remixtheory.net/?p=678 )
Jean-Francois Lyotard - What is the Postmodern? - The Postmodern Condition, pp. 71 - 82
Week 10:
Thursday, March 14, 2013
Read:
Internet Art, Chapter 2: "Isolating Elements," 73 - 116
Digital Art, Chapter 2: "Digital Technologies," 67 - 138
Week 9:
Thursday, March 7, 2013
Spring Break
Week 8:
Thursday, February 28, 2013
Midterm Essay Due
Lecture on Media Art: Postmodernism and Posthumanism
Week 7:
Thursday, February 21, 2013
Midterm Essay Released
Finish discussing Vannevar Bush and Billy Kluver
Begin Discussing:
Internet Art, chapter 1: 31 - 72
Digital Art: Chapter 1: 27 - 65
Week 6:
Thursday, February 14, 2013
Finish Discussing The Postmodern Condition.
Begin discussing Vannevar Bush, "As we May Think" in the New Media Reader, pp. 35 - 48 (PDF)
Bily Kluver, "Four Selections by Experiments in Art and Technology," in The New Media Reader, pp. 211 - 226 (PDF)
Week 5:
Thursday, February 7, 2013
Finish discussing Fredric Jameson and Jean-Francois Lyotard.
Answer questions available on Angel. Discussion takes place from Friday, February 8, to Wednesday, February 13, 2013.
Week 4:
Thursday, January 31, 2013
Read:
Jean Francois Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge, pp.vii - 67
(Will be discussed along with Fredric Jameson's text on postmodernism,from week 2)
Answer questions available on Angel. Discussion takes place from Friday, February 1, to Wednesday, February 6, 2013.
Week 3:
Thursday, January 24, 2013
Read:
Internet Art, "Introduction," pp. 8 - 28
Digital Art, "Introduction," pp. 7 - 25
(PDFs available on Angel until you acquire your own copy)
Answer questions available on Angel. Discussion takes place from Friday, January 25, to Wednesday, January 30, 2013.
Week 2:
Thursday, January 17, 2013
Lesson online
Complete assigned reading plus online material available on Angel and answer and discuss questions available on Angel Forum for the readings below
Read:
David Hopkins, "The Politics of Modernism: Abstract Expressionism and the European Informel," After Modern Art: 1945 -- 2000, pp. 5 -- 34
David Hopkins, "Postmodernism: Theory and Practice in the 1980s," After Modern Art: 1945 -- 2000, pp. 197 -- 231
Fredric Jameson "Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism"
Answer questions available on Angel. Discussion takes place from Friday, January 18, to Wednesday, January 23, 2013.
Week 1:
Thursday, January 10, 2013
Introduction | Brief overview of the History of Digital Art
Lecture on Modernism, Postmodernism and New Media
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Week 16:
Links for the Week of April 25, 2013
Closing Comments, Reflections on the importance of art:
Sweden: October/November 2009
Notes on Sweden's Approach to Art and Exhibitions:
Fargfabriken: http://remixtheory.net/?p=401
Interactive Institute: http://remixtheory.net/?p=402
Magasin 3: http://remixtheory.net/?p=403
Iaspis: http://remixtheory.net/?p=404
Mejan Labs: http://remixtheory.net/?p=405
Various Museums in Gothenburg: http://remixtheory.net/?p=406
The State of Swift Production: Interactivos?'08, Madrid, Spain
Part 1 of 3: http://remixtheory.net/?p=315
Part 2 of 3: http://remixtheory.net/?p=319
Part 3 of 3: http://remixtheory.net/?p=320
Christian Marclay, "The Clock"
http://boingboing.net/2013/02/28/christian-marclays-the-clo.html
http://wexarts.org/exhibitions/christian-marclay-clock
http://vimeo.com/34837140
Matthew Barney, "Cremaster, Part 4"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eR1TUXBdYCQ
Art 21 about Matthew Barney:
http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/matthew-barney
Beatriz da Costa:
http://www.beatrizdacosta.net/
http://www.beatrizdacosta.net/pigeonblog.phphttp://www.beatrizdacosta.net/swipe.php
http://beatrizdacosta.net/Dying_for_the_Other/
http://beatrizdacosta.net/Life_Garden/
http://histcon.ucsc.edu/news-events/profiles/beatriz-da-costa.html
Week 15:
Links for the Week of April 18, 2013
Focus: Artificial Intelligence to Databases
Alan Turing:
Brief Biography
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/people/alan_turing
The Turing Test
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/turing-test/
Turing Test Competition:
http://www.loebner.net/Prizef/loebner-prize.html
Roy Ascott and Telematics
http://telematic.walkerart.org/timeline/timeline_shanken.html
Jaron Lanier, "Agents of Alienation"
http://www.jaronlanier.com/agentalien.html
John McArthy on Artificial Intelligence:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ozipf13jRr4
Article on Moholy Nagy and his paintings made with instructions given by telephone:
http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2009/12/22
/authentic-art-by-telephone/
Eduardo Kac
Rara Avis (1996):
http://www.ekac.org/raraavis.html
Time Capsule (1997):
http://www.ekac.org/figs.html
Stelarc, Ping body, (1999):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTYYJZG0f68
Kenneth Feingold, Self-portrait at the Center of the Universe (1998-2001):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EK-7w56jN0E
Martin Wattenberg, Apartment (2001)
http://www.bewitched.com/apartment.html
Benjamin Fry, Valence (1999)
http://benfry.com/valence/
John Klima, Ecosystm (2000)
http://www.cityarts.com/lmno/ecosystm.html
Lynn Hershman at DAM:
http://dam.org/artists/phase-three/lynn-hershman-
leeson/artworks/2000-04
Week 14:
Links for the Week of April 11, 2013
Focus: After the Map: narratives of globalization
Netart Latino Database:
http://netart.org.uy/latino/
Eduardo Navas:
Plastico
http://navasse.net/plastico02/index.html
Praba Pilar:
Cyberlandia Project
http://www.prabapilar.com/pages/projects/cyberlabia.htm
Three Junctures of Remix:
http://gallery.calit2.net/
Exhibition, A Modular Framework:
http://navasse.net/modular/
P2P[iece]:
http://navasse.net/p2pF/
Week 13:
Links for the week of April 4, 2013
Focus: Simulation and Criticality
The Loud Family:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_American_Family
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sF3bs4xvbYg
The Real World:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Real_World
http://www.mtv.com/shows/real_world/brooklyn/series.jhtml
Wolfgang Staehle:
Untitled, (2001) http://www.e-flux.com/announcements/2001-an-installation-by-wolfgang-staehle/
Bang Lab Drones at home:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/07/drone-crash-uc-san-diego_n_2258323.html?ir=College
Bang Lab's Transborder Immigrant Tool:
http://post.thing.net/node/1642
Exhibition, A Modular Framework:
http://navasse.net/modular/
Michael Mandiberg:
Shop Mandiberg
http://mandiberg.com/shop/
After Sherrie Levine:
http://www.aftersherrielevine.com/
After Walker Evans
http://www.afterwalkerevans.com/
Keith Obadike:
"Blackness for Sale"
http://obadike.tripod.com/ebay.html
Damali Ayo
"Rent-a-Negro"
http://www.salon.com/2003/05/14/ayo/
http://damaliayo.com/book%20promos/pages/How%20to%20Rent.htm
Jonnah Peretti and Chelsea Peretti:
"Black People Love Us"
http://www.blackpeopleloveus.com/
Week 12:
Links for the week of March 28, 2013
Focus: Simulation and Networks
etoy.com:
http://etoy.com/
Mongrel:
Heritage Gold, http://v2.nl/archive/works/heritage-gold-1-0
Uncomfortable Proximity, http://www2.tate.org.uk/intermediaart/entry15266.shtm
Futurefarmers:
They rule, http://www.theyrule.net/2001/theyrule.html
Lisa Jevbratt:
1:1, http://128.111.69.4/~jevbratt/1_to_1/index_ng.html
Jodi:
SOD, http://www.leonardo.info/gallery/gallery351/jodi.html
Runme.org: http://runme.org/
Turbulence.org: http://turbulence.org
Week 10:
Links for the Week of March 14, 2013
Focus: Network, film, and space
Netart Latino Database:
http://netart.org.uy/latino/
Ben Benjamin's Superbad (1995 - 97):
http://superbad.com/
@rtmark (1995 - 2003):
http://rtmark.com/history.html
e-toy:
http://www.etoy.com/
John F Simon Jr.(1997 - Present)
http://www.numeral.com/
Web Stalker, Matthew Fuller (1997):
http://bak.spc.org/iod/
http://artelectronicmedia.com/artwork/the-web-stalker
http://v2.nl/archive/works/the-web-stalker
The Shredder, Mark Napier (1998):
http://www.potatoland.org/shredder/shredder.html
Heavy Industries (2001 - Present):
http://www.yhchang.com/
World of Awe, Yael Kanarek:
http://www.worldofawe.net/index.html
Film Text, Mark Amerika (2001-02):
http://www.markamerika.com/filmtext/
Mouchette (1996 - Present):
http://www.mouchette.org/
Jeffrey Shaw:
http://www.jeffrey-shaw.net/
Rafael Lozano Hemmer:
http://www.lozano-hemmer.com/
Wax web, David Blair (1993):
http://www.waxweb.org/
201 a space algorhithm, Jennifer and Kevin McCoy (2001):
http://www.mccoyspace.com/project/48/
No Ghost, Just a Shell, Phillippe Parreno and Pierre Huyghe (2000):
http://www.noghostjustashell.com/
Peter Horvath:
http://www.peterhorvath.net/
Week 8:
Links for the Week of February 28, 2013
Focus: Posthumanism
2045: The Year Man Becomes Immortal
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2048299,00.html
Singularity: How Scared Should We Be?
http://www.time.com/time/video/player/0,32068,
784887564001_2048332,00.html
Ray Kurzweil on "I've Got a Secret":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4Neivqp2K4
The Singularity (documentary) Trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_
embedded&v=kJDvdEQJOew#!
Ray Kurzweil TED Talk - Singularity University:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJsHRltEVBc
Artists:
Stelarc, Ping body, (1999):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTYYJZG0f68
Kenneth Feingold, Self-portrait at the Center of the Universe (1998-2001):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EK-7w56jN0E
Eduardo Kac, Time Capsule (1997):
http://www.ekac.org/figs.html
Adrianne Wortzel, Camouflage Town (2001):
http://vimeo.com/34525688
Natalie Jeremijenko:
http://www.nyu.edu/projects/xdesign/onetrees/
Week 7:
Links for the Week of February 21, 2013
Introduction to Concepts of New Media and Net Art
Olia Lialina:
http://art.teleportacia.org/olia.html
My Boyfriend Came Back from the War: http://www.teleportacia.org/war/
Heath Bunting:
http://irational.org/
Bunting CV: http://irational.org/cgi-bin/cv2/temp.pl
Refresh: http://www.irational.org/fresh.html
Cybercafe: http://www.irational.org/cybercafe/
Readme: http://www.irational.org/heath/_readme.html
Jodi.org: http://wwwwwwwww.jodi.org/
Alexei Shulgin:
http://www.easylife.org/
Performance:
http://www.easylife.org/386dx/
http://video.dma.ucla.edu/video/alexei-shulgin-performance-with-386dx/12
Vuk Cosic:
http://www.ljudmila.org/~vuk/
Douglas Davis:
The World's First Collaborative Sentence:
http://artport.whitney.org/collection/davis/Sentence/sentence1.html
Ken Goldberg:
Tele-Garden: http://goldberg.berkeley.edu/garden/Ars/
Next 5 Minutes: http://www.next5minutes.org/about.jsp
Nettime: http://www.nettime.org/
Rhizome: http://rhizome.org/
Turbulence: http://turbulence.org
Charles Cohen:
http://www.promulgator.com/
Alexander Apostol:
http://s107238961.onlinehome.us/07_residente.php
Andreas Muellerpohle:
http://www.muellerpohle.net/projects/facecodes.html
Jochem Hendricks:
http://www.jochem-hendricks.de/_englisch/w_augen/non_index.htm
Robert Lazzarni:
http://www.robertlazzarini.com/
Week 6 & 7:
Links for the week of February 14, 2013
Preliminary History, part 3
"As We May Think" as it appeared in The Atlantic:
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-may-think/303881/
Douglas Engelbart's Demo:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfIgzSoTMOs
The Original Files:
http://sloan.stanford.edu/mousesite/1968Demo.html
John Cage, Variations V:
http://www.ubu.com/film/cage_variations5.html
Jean Tingueley, Omage to New York and other recordings:
http://www.ubu.com/sound/tinguely.html
Philip Glass and Robert Wilson, "Einstein on the Beach"
http://www.ubu.com/film/glass_einstein.html
current context of knowledge
College Inc:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/collegeinc/
Week 3:
Links for the weeks of January 24, 2013
Preliminary History, part 2
Charles Babbage: http://www.charlesbabbage.net/
ENIAC: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/computinghistory/eniac.html
UNIVAC: https://www.census.gov/history/www/innovations/technology/univac_i.html
History of the Internet: http://www.internetsociety.org/internet/what-internet/history-internet/brief-history-internet
Marcel Duchamp: http://www.marcelduchamp.net/artworkspage.php?show=all
Nam June Paik: http://www.paikstudios.com/
Alan Kaprow: http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/works/18-happenings-in-6-parts/
Sol Le Witt: http://remixtheory.net/?p=403
http://www.massmoca.org/lewitt/
Jon Whitney: http://computer-arts-society.com/static/cas/computerartsthesis/index.html%3Fpage_id=117.html
Douglas Davis: http://whitney.org/www/artport/collection/index.shtml
Jeffrey Shaw: http://www.jeffrey-shaw.net/
Week 1:
Links for the weeks of January 10, 2013
Preliminary History
Marcel Duchamp: http://www.moma.org/collection/artist.php?artist_id=1634
Art & Language:
(Frieze, October 2005) http://www.frieze.com/issue/review/art_language1/
Jackson Pollock:
Biography http://www.biography.com/people/jackson-pollock-9443818
Jackson Pollock Documentary: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4G5hQWPP74s
Mark Rothko: Mark Rothko: http://www.markrothko.org/
Jasper Johns: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/episodes/jasper-johns/about-the-painter/54/
Robert Rauschenberg: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/episodes/robert-rauschenberg/about-the-artist/49/
Andy Warhol: http://www.biography.com/people/andy-warhol-9523875
Conceptual Art: http://www.theartstory.org/movement-conceptual-art.htm
E.A.T. Billy Kluver: http://www.fondation-langlois.org/html/e/page.php?NumPage=237
New Media and Internet Art Resources:
http://turbulence.org
http://rhizome.org
http://furtherfield.org
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