Penn State University -- School of Visual Arts
Spring 2015
ART 476 History of Digital Art
Professor: Eduardo Navas (eduardo@navasse.net)
Th 11:15 AM - 2:15 PM

Office Hours: Mondays/Thursdays 9 - 11 AM, 209 Arts Cottage
Please contact me at: ean13@psu.edu

Syllabus:
Online
PDF

 

ASSIGNMENTS WEEKLY SITES

Week 17:
Thursday, May 7, 2015

Part Two of Final Exam Due

 


Week 16
Thursday, April 30, 2015

Final Lecture, Part One of Final Exam Due

Read and be ready to discuss:

Gere, "Digital Resistances," chap. 5, 154-201

 


Week 15:
Thursday, April 23, 2015

Read and be ready to discuss:

Digital Art, Chapter 3, "Themes in Digital Art," 139 - 246

Manuel De Landa, A Thousand Years, pp. 227 - 274

Answer questions available on Angel. Discussion takes place from Friday, April 24 to Wednesday, April 29, 2015.

 


Week 14:
Thursday, April 16, 2015

Read and be ready to discuss:

Manuel De Landa, A Thousand Years, pp. 183 - 226

Continue discussing Gere, "chapter 4," pp. 116-153

Answer questions available on Angel. Discussion takes place from Friday, April 17 to Wednesday, April 22, 2015.

 


Week 13:
Thursday, April 9, 2015

Final Essay Guidelines Released

Read and be ready to discuss:
Digital Culture, Chapter 2, pp. 51-78, and Chapter 4, pp. 116-153

Continue discussion on De Landa's chapter 3

Answer questions available on Angel. Discussion takes place from Friday, April 10 to Wednesday, April 15, 2014.

 


Week 12:
Thursday, April 2, 2015

Read and be ready to discuss:

Digital Culture, Chapter 3, 79 - 116
Manuel De Landa, A Thousand Years , pp. 103 - 147

Answer questions available on Angel. Discussion takes place from Friday, April 3 to Wednesday, April 8, 2014.

 


Week 11:
Thursday, March 26, 2015

Read and be ready to discuss:

Manuel De Landa, A Thousand Years, pp. 71 - 99

Answer questions available on Angel. Discussion takes place from Friday, March 27 to Wednesday, April 1, 2014.


Week 10:
Thursday, March 19, 2015

Read and be ready to discuss:

Digital Art, Chapter 2: 67 - 138

Deleuze and Guatarri, "Of the Refrain," PDF

Answer questions available on Angel. Discussion takes place from Friday, March 20 to Wednesday, March 25, 2015.

 


Week 9:

Thursday, March 12, 2015

Spring Break

 


Week 8:
Thursday, March 5, 2015

Midterm Essay Due

Lecture on Media Art: digital art, media and Posthumanism

 


Week 7:
Thursday, February 26, 2015

Midterm Essay Released

Read and be ready to discuss:

Digital Art: Chapter 1: 27 - 65

"As We May Think" as it appeared in The Atlantic:
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-may-think/303881/

"Art Packets & Cultural Politics: A brief reflection on the work of Joelle Dietrick and Owen Mundy," by Eduardo Navas
http://remixtheory.net/?p=1101

Answer questions available on Angel. Discussion takes place from Friday, February 27 to Friday, March 4, 2015.

 


Week 6:
Thursday, February 19, 2015


Read and be ready to discuss:
Fredric Jameson, "Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism" (PDF)
Digital Culture, Chapter 1: 21 - 51

Answer questions available on Angel. Discussion takes place from Friday, February 20 to Wednesday, February 25, 2015.


Week 5:
Thursday, February 12, 2015

Finish discussing Giorgio Agamben and Manuel De Landa

Begin reading: Fredric Jameson "Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism" (PDF)

 


Week 4:
Thursday, February 5, 2015

Read and be ready to discuss:
Manuel De Landa, A Thousand Years of Non-linear History, pp. 11-56
Christiane Paul, "The Myth of Immateriality," pp. 251-272 (PDF)

Answer questions available on Angel. Discussion takes place from Friday, February 6, to Wednesday, February 11, 2015.

 


Week 3:
Thursday, January 29, 2015

Read and be ready to discuss:
Digital Culture, "What is Digital Culture" pp. 11 - 21
Digital Art, "Introduction" pp. 6 - 26

Answer questions available on Angel. Discussion takes place from Friday, January 30, to Wednesday, February 4, 2015.


Week 2:
Thursday, January 22, 2015

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 28, 2015.

 


Week 1:
Thursday, January 14, 2015


Introduction | Brief overview of the History of Digital Art
Lecture on Modernism, Postmodernism and New Media

 


 

Week 16

Links for the Week of April 30, 2015

Closing Comments

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

Three Junctures of Remix:
http://gallery.calit2.net/portal/index.php?option=
com_content&view=article&id=116%3Amultimedia-
2011-2012&catid=34&Itemid=58
Artist Presentations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uU8RP_M1tHw

Exhibition, A Modular Framework:
http://navasse.net/modular/

"After Iran's Twitter Revolution: Egypt"
http://www.levantinecenter.org/levantine-review/
after-irans-twitter-revolution-egypt
Also available here with footnotes:
http://remixtheory.net/?p=462

Netart Latino Database:
http://netart.org.uy/latino/

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

Art 21 about Matthew Barney:
http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/matthew-barney

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

 


Week 15

Links for the Week of April 13, 2015

New Media, Race, Ethnicity, and the Future of Art Production:

American Denial:
http://video.pbs.org/video/2365422025/

 

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

Ray Kurzweil TED Talk - Singularity University:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJsHRltEVBc

Ray Kurzweil: What does the future look like? - SSHF
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4axEZwLdno

Criticism of Kurzweil:
"Ray Kurzweil's Dubious New Theory of Mind"
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2012/11/
ray-kurzweils-dubious-new-theory-of-mind.html

Good Art Is Popular Because It's Good. Right?
http://www.npr.org/2014/02/27/282939233/good-art-is-popular-
because-its-good-right

"Social Influence the Puzzling Nature of Success in Cultural Markets"
http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=Tqf718wB2CUC&oi=
fnd&pg=PT383&dq=matthew+salganik+chance+art+mona+lisa+
peer+review&ots=hbYySNdyZf&sig=Oop5YDS3R9iJiu-cRPO4-a
RSfIo#v=onepage&q&f=false

A note on Posthumanism via... John Stewart:
"The Future of the Mind" Theories of Michio Kaku
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-february-25-2014/michio-kaku

 

Artists:

Netart Latino Database:
http://netart.org.uy/latino/

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/

Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau: A-Volve, 1994-97
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZ3v1jcCXmk
http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/works/a-volve/

David Rokeby - The Giver of Names (1991)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sO9RggYz24Q

Kazuhiko Hachiya - Inter Dis-Communication Machine (1993)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOzVzcmK0VU
http://www.eyebeam.org/people/kazuhiko-hachiya

 


Week 13 - 14

Links for the Week of April 9, 2015

Douglas Engelbart's Demo:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfIgzSoTMOs
The Original Files:
http://sloan.stanford.edu/mousesite/1968Demo.html

Nicholas Negroponte, "Seek," 1970
http://cyberneticzoo.com/robots-in-art/1969-70-seek-
nicholas-negroponte-american/

Historical links, pre-digital Media:

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
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MqsWqBX4wQ

Philip Glass and Robert Wilson, Einstein on the Beach (1985)
http://www.ubu.com/film/glass_einstein.html

 

Everything is a Remix Part 1
http://youtu.be/UP468k1u_Mk
Everything is a Remix Part 2
http://youtu.be/Z-HuenDPZw0
Everything is a Remix Part 3
http://youtu.be/wq5D43qAsVg
Everything is a Remix Part 4
http://youtu.be/yAmmtCJxJJY

Artists:

Stelarc, Ping body, (1999):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTYYJZG0f68
http://www.artelectronicmedia.com/document/stelarc-ping-body

Kenneth Feingold, Self-portrait at the Center of the Universe (1998-2001):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EK-7w56jN0E
http://www.kenfeingold.com/feingold/

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 12:

Links for the Week of April 2, 2015

John Cage about silence
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcHnL7aS64Y

John Cage - 4'33"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zY7UK-6aaNA

https://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/1421

Roy Ascott (UK) - The Consciousness Reframed conference series
http://vimeo.com/54132103

Ray Johnson and Mail Art:
http://www.rayjohnson.org/The-Videos-An-Excerpt/

Roy Ascott's exhibition: "Syncretic Cybernetics"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_yssksIjYg

Roy Ascott, Syncretic Sense Exhibition
http://i-dat.org/the-syncretic-sense-roy-ascott-404-240509/

http://www.spacestudios.org.uk/exhibition-programme/roy-ascott-
the-syncretic-sense/

Karlheinz Stockhausen:
http://www.karlheinzstockhausen.org/karlheinz_stockhausen_
brief_biography_english.htm

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/566782/
Karlheinz-Stockhausen

Fluxus Films:

Yoko Ono - 1965 - One (Fluxus Films)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7wfaJupGQw
Fluxus - Wolf Vostell - Sun in your head
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5krhw54oqs
Fluxus Film: Zen For Film (Nam June Paik, 1962-1964)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8z1sOsIrshU

Fluxfilm 08 George Maciunas - 1000 Frames (1966)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbWUQpUG1Gg
YouTube Mix of various art videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5krhw54oqs&list=
RD02P7wfaJupGQw

Fluxus Films:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F56A0J8v32E&list=
PLwfb7Wa00Rk4X3Rp98Ja2nBJqJl4MQ9r

Vito Acconci
http://www.ubu.com/film/acconci.html
Laurie Anderson
http://www.ubu.com/film/anderson_l.html
Joseph Beuys
http://www.ubu.com/film/beuys.html
Chris Burden
http://www.ubu.com/film/burden.html
Paul McCarthy
http://www.ubu.com/film/mccarthy.html
Yoko Ono
http://www.ubu.com/film/ono.html
Nam June Paik
http://www.ubu.com/film/paik.html

 


Week 11:

Links for the Week of March 26, 2015

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/

The Shredder, Mark Napier (1998):
http://www.potatoland.org/shredder/shredder.html

Heavy Industries (2001 - Present):
http://www.yhchang.com/

Film Text, Mark Amerika (2001-02):
http://www.markamerika.com/filmtext/

Mouchette (1996 - Present):
http://www.mouchette.org/

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

 


Week 10:

Links for the Week of March 19, 2015

History:

"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

 

Artworks:

James Coleman, Box (1977)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=db-MdUWgWK0

Paul Pfeiffer Art21 on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIj4IpTATLM

Art + Com, The Invisible Shape of Things Past (ongoing since mid 00s)
http://www.artcom.de/en/projects/project/detail/the-invisible-shape-of-things-past/

Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau (1992-2006)
http://www.interface.ufg.ac.at/~christa-laurent/WORKS/index.html


Teleporting An Unknown State (1994/96)
http://www.ekac.org/teleporting.html
Rara Avis (1996)
http://www.ekac.org/raraavis.html

Ben Fry, Valence (1999)
http://benfry.com/valence/

Lisa Jevbratt, C5 (1999)
http://128.111.69.4/~jevbratt/1_to_1/index_ng.html

John Klima, Ecosytm (2000)
http://www.cityarts.com/lmno/ecosystm.html

Natalie Bookchin, The Intruder (1999)
http://bookchin.net/projects/intruder.html
Metapet (2002)
http://bookchin.net/projects/metapet.htm

Ann-Marie Schleiner and Brody Condon, Velvet Strike (2002)
http://www.opensorcery.net/velvet-strike/

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 7:

Links for the Week of February 26, 2015

Lecture for the Week on "The Waning of Affect" and its relation to media in contemporary times

John F Simon Jr.(1997 - Present)
http://www.numeral.com/

Owen Mundy:
http://owenmundy.com/
Joelle Dietrick:
http://joelledietrick.com/

 

Generation Like
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/generation-like/
The Persuaders
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/persuaders/
The Merchants of Cool
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/cool/


Week 6:

Links for the Week of February 19, 2015

History of the Computer:

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

Jacquard Loom
http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventions/jacquard.htm

Ada Lovelace
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace

John Mauchly
https://www.library.upenn.edu/exhibits/rbm/mauchly/jwmintro.html

Presper Echert
http://www.computer.org/portal/web/awards/entrepreneuereckert

Herman Hollerith
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Hollerith

 

New Media Art:

Jochem Hendricks, Eye Drawings (1989 - 2006)
http://www.jochem-hendricks.de/_englisch/w_augen/non_index.htm

Robert Lazzarni:
http://www.robertlazzarini.com/

Karen Sander
http://www.karinsander.de/index.php?id=e2

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 4 and 5:

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/

 


Week 3:

Links for the week of January 30, 2014

Preliminary History, Part 2

New Media Art:

Andreas Mueller Pohle
Digital Scores I, II, III
http://www.muellerpohle.net/projects/scores.html
Face Codes
http://www.muellerpohle.net/projects/facecodes.html

Beryl Graham, "A Small Collection of Categories and Keywords of New Media Art"
http://intelligentagent.com/RISD/A_table_of_categories_of_digital_art.html

Josh On, "They Rule"
http://www.theyrule.net/

Mark Napier, "P-Soup"
http://www.evo1.org/p-soup.html

Martin Wattenberg and Marek Walczak, "Apartment"
http://www.turbulence.org/Works/apartment/

Radical Software Group (RSG)
http://r-s-g.org/carnivore/


Week 2:

Links for the week of of January 23, 2014

Preliminary History, Part 1

Contemporary Art History:

Marcel Duchamp:
http://www.marcelduchamp.net/artworkspage.php?show=all

Jackson Pollock:
http://www.jackson-pollock.org/

Mark Rothko:
http://www.markrothko.org/

Cindy Sherman: http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2012/cindysherman/#/0/

Phillip Guston:
http://mckeegallery.com/artists/philip-guston/

Richard Prince:
http://www.richardprince.com/

Gerhard Richter:
https://www.gerhard-richter.com/en/

Nam June Paik:
http://www.paikstudios.com/
Electronic Superhighway:
http://americanart.si.edu/education/rs/artwork/
On YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llZTDXh7kp0

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/

Nancy Burson, Composites:
http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/works/first-and-second-beauty/

Jenny Holzer, For the Guggenheim, 2008:
http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/exhibitions/past/exhibit/2522

 


Week 1:

Links for the week of January 15, 2015

Introduction/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: 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