Penn State University -- School of Visual Arts
Spring 2014
ART 476 History of Digital Art
Professor: Eduardo Navas (eduardo@navasse.net)
Th 2:30 - 5:30 PM
Office Hours: Mondays 11 - 2 PM, Visual Arts 207A
Please contact me at: ean13@psu.edu
ASSIGNMENTS | WEEKLY SITES |
Week 17: Thursday, May 8, 2014 Part 2 of Essay due on May 5 at 12 PM.
Week 16 Final Lecture, Part 1 of Essay due
Week 15: Read and be ready to discuss: Digital Culture, Chapter 5, "Digital Resitances" Hansen, New Philosophy, Chapter 6, pp. 197 - 234
Answer questions available on Angel. Discussion takes place from Friday, April 25 to Wednesday, April 30, 2013. Week 14: Read and be ready to discuss: Hansen, Chapter 4, "Affect as Interface" and Chapter 5, "What's Virtual about VR?" 126 - 195 Answer questions available on Angel. Discussion takes place from Friday, April 18 to Wednesday, April 23, 2014.
Week 13: Final Essay Guidelines Released Read and be ready to discuss: Digital Culture, Chapter 4, "The Digital Counter Culture" Finish Reading Deleuze's "Of the Refrain," PDF
Answer questions available on Angel. Discussion takes place from Friday, April 11 to Wednesday, April 16, 2014.
Week 12: Read and be ready to discuss: Digital Art, Chapter 3, "Themes in Digital Art" Begin Reading Deleuze's "Of the Refrain," PDF Answer questions available on Angel. Discussion takes place from Friday, April 4 to Wednesday, April 9, 2014. Week 11: Read and be ready to discuss: Digital Culture, Chapter 3, "The Digital Avant-Garde" Finish reading: Mark B.N. Hansen, New Philosophy, Chapter 3, pp. 47 - 93 Answer questions available on Angel. Discussion takes place from Friday, March 28 to Wednesday, April 2, 2014. Week 10: Read and be ready to discuss: Digital Culture, Chapter 2, "The Cybernetic Era" Begin reading Hansen, Chapter 3, "The Automation of Sight adn the Bodily Basis of Vision" Answer questions available on Angel. Discussion takes place from Friday, March 19 to Wednesday, March 26, 2014.
Week 9: Spring Break
Week 8: Midterm Essay Due Lecture on Media Art: Postmodernism and Posthumanism
Week 7: Midterm Essay Released Read and be ready to discuss: Digital Art: Chapter 2 "Digital Technologies as a Medium": 67 - 137 Bily Kluver, "Four Selections by Experiments in Art and Technology," in The New Media Reader, pp. 211 - 226 (PDF)
Answer questions available on Angel. Discussion takes place from Friday, February 28 to Friday, March 7, 2014.
Week 6: Read and be ready to discuss: Answer questions available on Angel. Discussion takes place from Friday, February 21, to Wednesday, February 26, 2014.
Week 5: Finish discussing Giorgio Agamben and Mark B. N. Hansen. Begin reading Hansen, Chapter 2 (will be discussed along with Digital Culture's chapter 2 for week 6) Answer questions available on Angel. Discussion takes place from Friday, February 14, to Wednesday, February 19, 2014.
Week 4: Read and be ready to discuss: Answer questions available on Angel. Discussion takes place from Friday, February 7, to Wednesday, February 12, 2014.
Week 3: Answer questions available on Angel. Discussion takes place from Friday, January 31, to Wednesday, February 5, 2014.
Week 2: Read and be ready to discuss: 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 Giorgio Agamben "What is an Apparatus?"
Answer questions available on Angel. Discussion takes place from Friday, January 24, to Wednesday, January 29, 2014.
Week 1:
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Week 16: Thursday, May 1, 2014 New Media's relation to Postmodernism and Globalization The Century of the Self, Part 3: Wafaa Bilal
Week 15: Thursday, April 24, 2014 Digital Facial Image, Social Media and the Future of Virtual Reality Simon Penny, Fugitive (1995-97) Diane Gromala, Dancing with the Virtual Dervish (1993) Michael Scroggins and Stewart Dickson, Topological Slide (1994) Teresa Wennberg Parallel Dimensions (1998) Pavel Smetana, The Room of Desires (1996) Roberto Lazzarini, Skull (2000) History of Virtual Reality: A Critical History of Computer Graphics and Animation
Week 14: Thursday, April 17, 2014 Digital Facial Image and its relation to Social Media Kristen Geisler Inez van Lamsweerde: http://kirstinhanssen.wordpress.com/2010/03/29/to-look-forward-to-inez-vinoodh-foam/ Luc Courchesne, "Portrait One" (1990) Alba d'Urbano, "touch Me" (1995) Mongrel, Color Separation (1998) Michael Mandiberg:
Everything is a Remix Part 1 Douglas Rushkoff:
Week 13: Thursday, April 10, 2014 Becoming the Refrain of New Media John Cage about silence Roy Ascott (UK) - The Consciousness Reframed conference series Ray Johnson and Mail Art: Roy Ascott's exhibition: "Syncretic Cybernetics Roy Ascott, Syncretic Sense Exhibition Fluxus Films: Yoko Ono - 1965 - One (Fluxus Films) Fluxfilm 08 George Maciunas - 1000 Frames (1966) Fluxus Films: Vito Acconci
Week 12 Thursday, April 2, 2014 1990s-2000s: Net.art and New Media, Part 2 Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau (1992-2006) Eduardo Kac Ben Fry, Valence (1999) Lisa Jevbratt, C5 (1999) John Klima, Ecosytm (2000) Natalie Bookchin, The Intruder (1999) Ann-Marie Schleiner and Brody Condon, Velvet Strike (2002) Michael Mandiberg: Keith Obadike: Damali Ayo Jonnah Peretti and Chelsea Peretti:
On Futurism and emobodiment: Transcendence - Official Trailer 2 Imogen Heap Electronic Gloves:
Week 11 Haptic Space, The Digital Image and New Media Art 1990s -2000s Haptic Space: Blade Runner (1982) Official Trailer The Garden, Tamas Waliczky Golden Calf (1995), Jeffrey Shaw Lovers Leap (1995), Miroslaw Rogala
The Digital Image and New Media Art 1990s -2000s Netart Latino Database: Ben Benjamin's Superbad (1995 - 97): @rtmark (1995 - 2003): John F Simon Jr.(1997 - Present) Web Stalker, Matthew Fuller (1997): The Shredder, Mark Napier (1998): Heavy Industries (2001 - Present): Film Text, Mark Amerika (2001-02): Mouchette (1996 - Present):
Week 10: 1990s-2000s: Net.art and New Media Naming "net.art" Olia Lialina: Heath Bunting: Jodi.org: http://wwwwwwwww.jodi.org/ Alexei Shulgin: Vuk Cosic: Douglas Davis: Ken Goldberg: Next 5 Minutes: http://www.next5minutes.org/about.jsp Thing.net: http://www.thing.net/ Digital Art: Charles Cohen: Alexander Apostol:
Week 7 and 8 Links for the Week of February 27, 2014 Lecture: New Media Installation and New Film Forms Criticism of Kurzweil: Good Art Is Popular Because It's Good. Right? "Social Influence the Puzzling Nature of Success in Cultural Markets" A note on Posthumanism via... John Stewart: "The Future of the Mind" Theories of Michio Kaku
Historical links, pre-digital Media: John Cage, Variations V: Jean Tingueley, Omage to New York and other recordings: Philip Glass and Robert Wilson, Einstein on the Beach (1985)
New Media Artists: John F Simon Jr.(1997 - Present) Jeffrey Shaw Rafael Lozano Hemmer: Erwin Rendl Ashid + Lise Anne Couture Masaki Fujihata Carsten Nicolai & Marko Peljhan Perry Hoberman Wax web, David Blair (1993): 201 a space algorhithm, Jennifer and Kevin McCoy (2001): Peter Horvath: Christian Marclay, "The Clock" No Ghost, Just a Shell, Phillippe Parreno and Pierre Huyghe (2000):
Week 6: Links for the Week of February 20, 2014 Lecture: Embodiment, Posthumanism and New Media, Part 2 Everything Is a Remix, part 3 "The Element of Creativity" There is No Ghost in the Shell: GITS Movie Analysis
Artists: Jeffrey Shaw, Corpocinema (1967) Jochem Hendricks, Eye Drawings (1989 - 2006) Robert Lazzarni: Karen Sander
Week 5: Links for the Week of February 13, 2014 Lecture: Embodiment, Posthumanism, and New Media "As We May Think" as it appeared in The Atlantic: Douglas Engelbart's Demo: 2045: The Year Man Becomes Immortal Singularity: How Scared Should We Be? Ray Kurzweil on "I've Got a Secret": Ray Kurzweil TED Talk - Singularity University: Ray Kurzweil: What does the future look like? - SSHF
Artists: Stelarc, Ping body, (1999): Kenneth Feingold, Self-portrait at the Center of the Universe (1998-2001): Eduardo Kac, Time Capsule (1997): Adrianne Wortzel, Camouflage Town (2001): Natalie Jeremijenko:
Week 4: Links for the week of February 6, 2014 Lecture: What Makes Media New? James Coleman, Box (1977) Paul Pfeiffer Art21 on YouTube: Art + Com, The Invisible Shape of Things Past (ongoing since mid 00s) Tamas Waliczky, The Way, video installation, (1995) Jeffrey Shaw, Eve (1993)
Week 3: Links for the week of January 30, 2014 Preliminary History, Part 2 Jacquard Loom Ada Lovelace John Mauchly Presper Echert Herman Hollerith
Andreas Mueller Pohle:
Week 2: Links for the week of of January 23, 2014 Preliminary History, Part 1 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 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/ Nancy Burson, Composites: Jenny Holzer, For the Guggenheim, 2008:
Week 1: Links for the week of January 16, 2014 Introduction/Preliminary History Marcel Duchamp: http://www.moma.org/collection/artist.php?artist_id=1634 Art & Language: Jackson Pollock: 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:
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