Penn State University -- School of Visual Arts
Spring 2018
ART 476 History of Digital Art
Professor: Eduardo Navas (ean13@psu.edu)
Mon, Wed, Fri 12:20 – 1:10 PM

Office hours: Mon and Wed 11 to 12 PM, 206 Art Cottage
Please contact me at: ean13@psu.edu

Syllabus:
Online
PDF

ASSIGNMENTS WEEKLY SITES

Week 17:
Friday, May 4, 2018
Revision of Final essay (Part 1 of Final Exam)

 


Week 16

Friday, April 27, 2018
Part 2 of Final Exam due

Wednesday, April 25, 2018
Writing time for part 2 of Final Exam

Monday, April 23, 2018
Review of Materials for Final Exam (Part 2)

 


Week 15:

Friday, April 20, 2018
Discussion takes place from Friday, April 20, to Sunday, April 22, 2018.

Wednesday, April 18, 2018
Continue Lecture on Shanken, “Simulations and Simulacra.”

Monday, April 16, 2018
Read and be ready to discuss:
Shanken, “Simulations and Simulacra,” 42 – 47 + the following selected art projects:

Michael Naimark, Golden Gate Fly-Over (1987), 167
Luc Courchesne, Portrait no. 1/ Portrait One (1990), 168
Monika Fleischmann, Home of the Brain (1992), 169
Eva Wohlgemuth, Body Scan (In/Out), (1997 - 2005), 178
Jordan Crandall, Drive (1998-2000), 178-79
Mary Flanagan, [Domestic] (2003), 181

 


Week 14:

Friday, April 13, 2018
Discussion takes place from Friday, April 13, to Sunday, April 15, 2018.

Wednesday, April 11, 2018
Continue Lecture on Shanken, “Survey: Bodies, Surrogates and Emergent Systems.”

Monday, April 9, 2018
Read and be ready to discuss:
Shanken, “Survey: Bodies, Surrogates and Emergent Systems,” 38 – 42 + the following selected art projects:

Lynn Hershman Leeson, Cyberoberta (1970-98), 144
Christ Burden, Doorway to Heaven (1973), 145
Laurie Andreson, Mister Heartbreak (1984), 147
Alan Rath, Voyeur (1986), 147
Barbie Liberation Organization [B.L.O.], (1989), 148
Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau, A-Volve (1994-5), 152


Week 13:

Friday, April 6, 2018
Discussion takes place from Friday, April 6, to Sunday, April 8, 2018.

Wednesday, April 4, 2018
Continue Lecture on Shanken, “Networks, Surveillance, Culture Jamming.”

Monday, April 2, 2018
Final Essay Guidelines Released (two parts)

Read and be ready to discuss:
Shanken, “Survey: Networks, Surveillance, Culture Jamming,” 32 – 38 + the following selected art projects:

Hans Haacke, News (1969), 121
Matthew Fuller, Simon Pope, Colin Green, I/O/D 4: The Web Stalker (1997), 131
Randall Packer, US Department of Art and Technology (2002 - Present), 136
Andy Deck, Glyphiti (2001), 138
Mark Napier, Potatoland (1998) and Net.flag (2002), 138
Esther Polak and Ieva Auzina with Marcus The, Milk (2004), 139

 


Week 12:

Friday, March 30, 2018
Discussion takes place from Friday, March 30, to Sunday, April 1, 2018.

Wednesday, March 28, 2018
Continue Lecture on Shanken, “Charged Environments.”

Monday, March 26, 2018
Read and be ready to discuss:
Shanken, “Survey: Charged Environments,” 27 – 32 + selected art projects from the section “Charged Environments”

Robert Lazzarni, Payphone (2002), 96
John Cage, Imaginary Landscape No. 4 (1951), 99
Peter Campus, Interface, Video Camera Monitor, Glass (1972), 104
Catherine Richards, Curiosity Cabinet for the End of the Milennium (1995), 112
Susan Hiller, Witness (2000), 115
Christian Marclay, Video Quartet (2002), 118

 


Week 11:

Friday, March 23, 2018
Discussion takes place from Friday, March 23, to Sunday, March 25, 2018.

Wednesday, March 21, 2018
Continue Lecture on Shanken, “Survey: Introduction + Coded and Electronic Production.”

Monday, March 19, 2018
Read and be ready to discuss:
Edward Shanken, “Survey: Introduction + Coded and Electronic Production,” 12 – 27 + selected art projects from the section “Motion, Duration, Illumination”

Lucio Fontana, Ninth Bienniale of Milan Grand Staircase (1951), 58
Gyorgy Kepes, Light Mural for KLM (1959), 58
Gyula Kosice, Estructura Luminica (1946), 59
Abraham Palatnik, Cinechromatic (1951), 60
Dan Flavin, Greens Crossing Greens: to Piet Mondrian Who Lacked Green (1966), 64
James Turrel, Catso Red (1967 , 1994), 65

 


Week 10:

Friday, March 16, 2018
Discussion takes place from Friday, March 16, to Sunday, March 18, 2018.

Wednesday, March 14, 2018
Continue Lecture on Gere, “Digital Nature” and “Digital Culture in the Twenty-first Century.”

Monday, March 12, 2018
Read and be ready to discuss:
Gere, “Chapter 6: Digital Nature” and “Chapter 7: Digital Culture in the Twenty-first Century,” Digital Culture, 201 – 224 + selected art projects, see the links for week 10 on the following works:

Olia Lialina, My Boyfriend is Back from the War (1996)
http://www.teleportacia.org/war/
Net Art Anthology:
https://anthology.rhizome.org/my-boyfriend-came-back-from-the-war
Olia Lialina - 20 Years of My Boyfriend Came Back From The War
http://www.josephinebosma.com/web/node/112

Vuk Cosic:
http://www.ljudmila.org/~vuk/

Douglas Davis:
The World's First Collaborative Sentence:
http://artport.whitney.org/collection/davis/Sentence/sentence1.html
Whitney's Description:
https://whitney.org/Exhibitions/Artport/DouglasDavis

Jodi.org:
http://wwwwwwwww.jodi.org/
A Suitably Bizarre Interview With The Early Web Provocateurs At Jodi.Org
https://www.theawl.com/2012/06/a-suitably-bizarre-interview-with-the-early-web-provocateurs-at-jodi-org/

 


Week 9:
March 5 - 9, 2018
Spring Break

 


Week 8:

Friday, March 2, 2018
Midterm Essay Due

Discussion takes place from Friday, March 2, to Sunday, March 4, 2018.

Wednesday, February 28, 2018
Continue Lecture on Gere, “The Digital Resistances.”

Monday, February 26, 2018
Gere, “Chapter 5: Digital Resistances,” Digital Culture, 154 – 200 + selected art projects from Art and Electronic Media:
Myron Krueger, Video Place (1974-75), 166
Char Davis, Osmose (1995), 175
Jeffrey Shaw, Agnes Hegedus, and Bernd Lintermann, Configuring the Cave (2001), 177
@TMark and The Yes Men, GATT.org and WTO Imposter Performances (1999 - 2002), 133

 

 


Week 7:

Friday, February 23, 2018
Discussion takes place from Friday, February 23, to Sunday, February 25, 2018.

Wednesday, February 21, 2018
Continue Lecture on Gere, “The Digital Counter Culture.”

Monday, February 19, 2018
Midterm Essay Released

Read and be ready to discuss:
Gere, “Chapter 4: The Digital Counter Culture,” Digital Culture, 116 – 153 + selected art projects from Art and Electronic Media:
Vladimir Bonacic, G.F.E. (1961 - 71), 67
James Whitney, Yantra (1950-7), 80
Stan Venderbeek and Kenneth Knowlton, Poem Field No. 2 (1967), 82
Bruno Munari, Xenografie Originalie (1965), 83
Steina and Woody Vasulka, Noisefields, (1974), 85
Sonia Landy Sheridan, Drawing in Time (1982), 86

 


Week 6:

Friday, February 16, 2018
Discussion takes place from Friday, February 16, to Sunday, February 18, 2018.

Wednesday, February 14, 2018
Continue Lecture on Gere, “The Digital Avant-Garde.”

Monday, February 12, 2018
Read and be ready to discuss:
Gere, “Chapter 3: The Digital Avant-Garde,” Digital Culture, 79 - 115 + selected art projects from Art and Electronic Media:
Gary Hill, Soundings (1979), 70
Kenneth Nowlton and Leon Harmon, Studies in Perception 1, (1966), 81
Paul Sermon, Telematic Dreaming (1992), 128
David Rokeby, Very Nervous System (1986 - 2000), 146

 


Week 5:

Friday, February 9, 2018
Discussion takes place from Friday, February 9 to Sunday, February 11, 2018

Wednesday, February 7, 2018
Continue Lecture on Gere, “The Cybernetic Era.”

Monday, February 5, 2018
Read and be ready to discuss:
Gere, “Chapter 2: The Cybernetic Era” Digital Culture, 51 – 78 + selected art projects from Art and Electronic Media:
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Vectorial Elevation -- Relational Architecture 4 (1999 - 2004), 75
Ted Victoria, Solar Audio Window Transmission (1969 - 70), 102
Les Levine, Contact: A Cybernetic Sculpture (1969), 103
Peter Weibel, Observation of the Observation: Uncertainty (1973), 106
Dan Graham, Present Continuous Past(s) (1974), 106
Steve Mann, WearComp (1970s - present), 126
Norman White and Doug Back, Telephonic Arm Wrestling (1986), 126


Week 4:

Friday, February 2, 2018
Discussion takes place from Friday, February 2 to Sunday, February 4, 2018

Wednesday, January 31, 2018
Continue Lecture on Gere, “The Beginnings of Digital Culture.”

Monday, January 29, 2018
Read and be ready to discuss:
Charlie Gere, “Chapter 1: The Beginnings of Digital Culture,” Digital Culture, 21 – 50 + selected art projects from Art and Electronic Media:
Naum Gabo, Kinetic Construction (1919-20), 56
Nicolas Schoffer, CYSP 1 (1956), 62
Nam June Paik, Video Flag Y (1985), 70
Julia Scher, Security by Julia (1989-90), 127
Antonio Muntadas, The File Room (1994), 129
Heath Bunting, Own, Be Owned, or Remain Invisible (1998), 132

 


Week 3:

Friday, January 26, 2018
Discussion takes place from Friday, January 26 to Sunday, January 28, 2018

Wednesday, January 24, 2018
Continue Lecture on Gere, “Preface” and “Introduction”

Monday, January 22, 2018
Read and be ready to discuss:
Charlie Gere, Digital Culture, “Preface” and “Introduction,” 7 – 20 + selected art projects from Art and Electronic Media:
Nancy Burson, First and Second Beauty Composites (1982), 87
Bruce Nauman, Live - Taped Video Corridor (1970), 105
Ben Rubin and Mark Hansen, Listening Post (1999 - 2003), 116
Jane Prophet (with Gordon Selley), TechnoSphere (1995), 131
Ken Feingold, The Animal, Vegetable, Mineralness of Everything (2004), 165
Art + Com, The Invisible Shape of Things to Come (1997), 176


Week 2:

Friday, January 19, 2018
Discussion takes place on Canvas from Friday, January 19 to Sunday, January 21, 2018.

Wednesday, January 17, 2018
Read and be ready to discuss:
David Hopkins, “Postmodernism: Theory and Practice in the 1980s,” After Modern Art: 1945 – 2000, pp. 197 – 231 (PDF) + selected art projects.

Monday, January 15, 2018
Martin Luther King Day, No Classes

 


Week 1:

Friday, January 12, 2018
Assignment of Readings to lead online discussions on Canvas

Wednesday, January 10, 2018
Lecture on Modernism, Postmodernism and New Media | Early discussion on Hopkins’s “Postmodernism: Theory and Practice in the 1980s,” After Modern Art: 1945 – 2000, pp. 197 – 231 (PDF).

Monday , January 8, 2018

Introduction | Brief overview of the History of Digital Art

Week 15:

Links for the Week of April 16

Michael Naimark, Golden Gate Fly-Over (1987)
http://www.naimark.net/projects/goldengate.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVw7Bf9g2iI

Luc Courchesne, Portrait no. 1/ Portrait One (1990)
https://vimeo.com/5827424
http://www.fondation-langlois.org/html/e/page.php?NumPage=157

Monika Fleischmann, Home of the Brain (1992)
https://vimeo.com/7560336

Eva Wohlgemuth, Body Scan (In/Out), (1997 - 2005)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3E1FOLgfVzI
https://homemcr.org/exhibition/eva-wohlgemuth/

Jordan Crandall, Drive (1998-2000)
http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/works/drive/
https://www.digitalartarchive.at/database/general/work/drive.html

Mary Flanagan, [Domestic] (2003)
http://maryflanagan.com/work/domestic/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRZBBA1HWsk

On Simulation:

Scientists Know How You’ll Respond to Nuclear War—and They Have a Plan
https://www.wired.com/story/scientists-know-how-youll-respond-to-nuclear-warand-they-have-a-plan/

Philosophy and the Matrix - Baudrillard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3tr0gSNBx4

 


Week 14:

Links for the Week of April 9

Lynn Hershman Leeson, Cyberoberta (1970-98)
www.lynnhershman.com
http://www.lynnhershman.com/tillie-and-cyberroberta/
Art News Article:
http://www.artnews.com/2017/03/28/a-new-future-from-the-passed-lynn-hershman-leeson-comes-into-her-own-after-50-years-of-prophetic-work/

Christ Burden, Doorway to Heaven (1973)
http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/features/finch/finch5-12-08_detail.asp?picnum=3
https://transmediale.de/content/doorway-to-heaven

Laurie Andreson, Mister Heartbreak (1984)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFpN-zdNMI0
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Laurie-Anderson

Alan Rath, Voyeur (1986)

http://alanrath.org/
Article on Rath's work
http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1992-05-20/features/9202090394_1_art-object-art-and-technology-sculptor

Barbie Liberation Organization [B.L.O.], (1989)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVT4T7OR3iQ
http://beautifultrouble.org/case/barbie-liberation-organization/

Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau, A-Volve (1994-5)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZ3v1jcCXmk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WG45k93pCA

 


Week 13:

Links for the Week of April 2

Hans Haacke, News (1969)
http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/works/nachrichten/
The Art of News; The News of Art
https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-art-of-news-the-news-of-art

Matthew Fuller, Simon Pope, Colin Green, I/O/D 4: The Web Stalker (1997)
https://anthology.rhizome.org/the-web-stalker
http://artelectronicmedia.com/artwork/the-web-stalker

Randall Packer, US Department of Art and Technology (2002 - Present)
http://www.usdat.us/
http://artelectronicmedia.com/keywords/us-department-of-art-and-technology

Andy Deck, Glyphiti (2001)
http://artcontext.net/act/06/glyphiti/docs/about.html

Mark Napier, Potatoland (1998), Net.flag (2002)
Potatoland
http://www.potatoland.org/
net.flag
https://www.guggenheim.org/artwork/10703

Esther Polak and Ieva Auzina with Marcus The, Milk (2004)
http://www.milkproject.net/



Week 12:

Links for the Week of March 26

Robert Lazzarni, Payphone (2002)
http://www.robertlazzarini.com/payphone/
http://artelectronicmedia.com/artwork/payphone-robert-lazzarini

John Cage, Imaginary Landscape No. 4 (1951)
http://artelectronicmedia.com/artwork/imaginary-landscape-no-4
http://johncage.org/pp/John-Cage-Work-Detail.cfm?work_ID=104

Peter Campus, Video Camera Monitor, Glass (1972)
http://artelectronicmedia.com/artwork/three-transitons
https://www.moma.org/collection/works/88833

Catherine Richards, Curiosity Cabinet for the End of the Milennium (1995)
http://www.catherinerichards.ca/artwork2/Cabinet-index.html
http://www.catherinerichards.ca/artwork2/Cabinet_statement.html

Susan Hiller, Witness (2000)
http://www.tate.org.uk/context-comment/blogs/susan-hiller-witness-behind-scenes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hq2Lt9fQM00

Christian Marclay, Video Quartet (2002)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VmXoeZir7A
http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/marclay-video-quartet-t11818

 


Week 11:

Links for the Week of March 19

Lucio Fontana, Ninth Bienniale of Milan Grand Staircase (1951
http://www.fondazioneluciofontana.it/index.php/en/en-1951-1960
http://artelectronicmedia.com/artwork/ninth-triennial-of-milan-grand-staircase

Gyorgy Kepes, Light Mural for KLM
http://artelectronicmedia.com/artwork/light-mural-for-klm

Gyula Kosice, Estructura Luminica (1946)
http://artelectronicmedia.com/artwork/estructura-lum%C3%ADnica-mad%C3%AD-%E2%80%98f%E2%80%99

Abraham Palatnik, Cinechromatic (1951)
http://artelectronicmedia.com/artwork/cinechromatic-art-machine

Dan Flavin, Greens Crossing Greens: to Piet Mondrian Who Lacked Green (1966)
https://www.guggenheim.org/artwork/1305http://artelectronicmedia.com/artwork/greens-crossing-greens-to-piet-mondrian-who-lacked-green

James Turrel, Catso Red (1967 , 1994)
http://artelectronicmedia.com/artwork/catso-redhttps://www.artsy.net/artwork/james-turrell-catso-red

 


Week 10:

Links for the Week of March 12

New Media Works Relevant to the Readings of the Week:

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

 

Design:

Toulouse Lautrec:
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/laut/hd_laut.htm
Posters:
https://www.google.com/search?q=toulouse+lautrec+
posters&biw=1676&bih=949&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=
X&ved=0ahUKEwiO5OqljbbKAhXCYyYKHUOrD-sQ_AUIBygB

WWI Army Posters
Britons, "Wants You"
http://www.onslows.co.uk/images/Press/25960%20jul14.jpg
I Want Youfor U.S. Army"
http://www.ocm.com/cms400min/uploadedImages/Product_
Catalog/RDAL/Art/8682350__nnledb8nmwde9hwejgzptknhw.jpg

Futurism Book Covers:
https://www.google.com/search?q=futurism+book+covers&source=
lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiV6_3GjrbKAhWGOiYKHfdlBAI
Q_AUIBygB&biw=1676&bih=949

A.M. Cassandre:
https://www.google.com/search?q=Cassandre+posters&source=
lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjeqs_xjrbKAhWI4iYKHUtIBl8Q_
AUIBygB&biw=1676&bih=949

El Lissitzky:
https://www.google.com/search?q=el+lissitzky&source=lnms&tbm=
isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiEstW1j7bKAhVIVj4KHQsSDNAQ_AUIByg
B&biw=1676&bih=949

Bauhaus Museum:
http://www.bauhaus.de/en/

Bauhaus.com (Contemporary Design Resource)
http://www.baubauhaus.com/

 

Media Design Studios

Brand New School
http://brandnewschool.com/
Bruce Mau Design
http://www.brucemaudesign.com/
Imaginary Forces
http://www.imaginaryforces.com/
Meta-design
http://www.metadesign.com/san-francisco

10 Agencies in NYC:
http://www.awwwards.com/the-10-best-agencies-
in-new-york-city.html

50 Graphic Design Firms in the World:
http://www.graphicdesigndegreehub.com/50-best-graphic-design-firms-in-the-world/
List of Video Game Developers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_video_game_developers

 


Week 8:

Links for the Week of February 26

Works from Art and Electronic Media:

Myron Krueger, Video Place (1974-75), 166
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmmxVA5xhuo

Char Davis, Osmose (1995), 175
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54O4VP3tCoY

Jeffrey Shaw, Agnes Hegedus, and Bernd Lintermann, Configuring the Cave (2001), 177
https://vimeo.com/137850212

The Yes Men, New York Times Special Edition
https://vimeo.com/129322969

 

Complementary videos for the readings of D&G and DeLanda:

Three Minute Theory: What is the Rhizome?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnteiRO-XfU

Three Minute Theory: What are Societies of Control?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onZ1U4jKJdk

Three Minute Theory: What is Neoliberalism?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzLv3rfnOVw

Naomi Klein on Global Neoliberalism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKTmwu3ynOY

Manuel DeLanda. Assemblage Theory, Society, and Deleuze. 2011
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-I5e7ixw78

 

 


Week 7:

Links for the Week of February 19

A brief view on Xerox Parc and Apple:
Everything is a Remix Part 3
http://vimeo.com/25380454

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/

 

Artworks from Art and Electronic Media

Vladimir Bonacic, G.F.E. (1961 - 71)
https://darkofritz.net/text/bonacic.html
https://monoskop.org/Vladimir_Bona%C4%8Di%C4%87

James Whitney, Yantra (1950-7)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvWwlZSXaR0

Stan Venderbeek and Kenneth Knowlton, Poem Field No. 2 (1967)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4agEv3Nkcs

Bruno Munari, Xenografie Originalie (1965)
http://www.munart.org/index.php?p=20

Steina and Woody Vasulka, Noisefields, (1974)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbn00MgqURk

Sonia Landy Sheridan, Drawing in Time (1982)
http://sonart.org/
http://www.fondation-langlois.org/html/e/image.php?NumObjet=65170

 


Week 6:

Links for the Week of February 12

Artworks from Art and Electronic Media

David Rokeby, Very Nervous System (1986 - 2000)
https://vimeo.com/8120954

Paul Sermon, Telematic Dreaming (1992
https://vimeo.com/44862244

Gary Hill, Soundings (1979)
https://vimeo.com/111166472

Kenneth Nowlton and Leon Harmon, Studies in Perception 1, (1966)
http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O239963/studies-in-perception-i-print-harmon-leon/

 

Artworks of the "Digital Avant-garde"

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

John Cage - 4'33"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gN2zcLBr_VM

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

E.A.T. Billy Kluver: http://www.fondation-langlois.org/html/e/page.php?NumPage=237

Related Artists

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 5:

Links for the Week of February 2

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

Claude Shannon:
https://www.nyu.edu/pages/linguistics/courses/
v610003/shan.html

"The Nature of Things"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBHGzRxfeJY

The Turing Test:
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20150724-the-
problem-with-the-turing-test
The Turing Test Contest:
http://www.aisb.org.uk/events/loebner-prize

 

Works of Art

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Vectorial Elevation -- Relational Architecture 4 (1999 - 2004)
http://www.lozano-hemmer.com/vectorial_elevation.php

Ted Victoria, Solar Audio Window Transmission (1969 - 70)
https://wavefarm.org/ta/works/z9sc1e

Les Levine, Contact: A Cybernetic Sculpture (1969)
http://n3krozoft.com/_xxbcf67373.TMP/tv/les_levine.html

Peter Weibel, Observation of the Observation: Uncertainty (1973)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiVTmCjV3xg
http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/works/beobachtung/

Dan Graham, Present Continuous Past(s) (1974)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLNfUB7JtA4
http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/works/present-continuous-pasts/

Steve Mann, WearComp (1970s - present)
http://wearcam.org/pictures.html

Norman White and Doug Back, Telephonic Arm Wrestling (1986)
http://v2.nl/archive/works/telephonic-arm-wrestling
https://vimeo.com/44733790

 


Week 4:

Links for the Week of January 29

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

 

Works of Art:

Naum Gabo, Kinetic Construction (1919-20)
http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/gabo-kinetic-construction-standing-wave-t00827
Replica: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l82LnrzuUTE

Nicolas Schoffer, CYSP 1 (1956)
https://www.olats.org/schoffer/archives/cyspe.htm
Article on the work:
http://cyberneticzoo.com/tag/cybernetics/page/7/
Video on Nicolas Schöffer - Cyspe - 1959
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJD27tJLoaQ

Nam June Paik, Video Flag Y (1985)
http://www.pbs.org/video/weta-around-town-video-flag-by-nam-june-paik/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMxmBiSjlfohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XjJmcDqcE8

Julia Scher, Security by Julia (1989-90)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbLS27YI_wI

Antonio Muntadas, The File Room (1994)
http://www.thefileroom.org/

Heath Bunting, Own, Be Owned, or Remain Invisible (1998)
https://www.irational.org/_readme.html

 


Week 3:

Links for the Week of January 22

Important predecessor reflecting on art and technology:

Dziga Vertov, The Man with the Movie Camera(1929)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z97Pa0ICpn8

Artworks to discuss:

Nancy Burson, First and Second Beauty Composites (1982)
http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/works/first-and-second-beauty/

Bruce Nauman, Live - Taped Video Corridor (1970)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IrqXiqgQBo

Ben Rubin and Mark Hansen, Listening Post (1999 - 2003)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dD36IajCz6A

Kenneeth Feingold, The Animal, Vegetable, Mineralness of Everything (2004)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSBLQUWK9ls
Kenneth Feingold, Hell (2013)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weP3JKC-IRI

Jane Prophet (with Gordon Selley), TechnoSphere (1995)
https://www.leonardo.info/gallery/gallery332/prophetselley.html

Art + Com, The Invisible Shape of Things to Come (1997)
http://www.artcom.de/en/projects/project/detail/the-invisible-shape-of-things-past/

 


Week 2:

Links for the Week of January 19, 2018

Preliminary History

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/

Dead:
https://www.gerhard-richter.com/en/art/paintings/photo-paintings/baader-meinhof-56/dead-7689

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

Abuse of Power T-Shirt:
https://theartstack.com/artist/jenny-holzer/abuse-power-comes-no-s

Lorna Simpson:
http://www.lsimpsonstudio.com/

Glen Ligon:
http://www.art21.org/artists/glenn-ligon

Kara Walker:
http://www.art21.org/artists/kara-walker

Kerry James Marshall:
http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/kerry-james-marshall

Daniel Martinez:
https://www.artsy.net/artist/daniel-joseph-martinez
http://www.robertsandtilton.com/artists/martinez/

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


Week 1:

Links for the week of January 14, 2016

Creative practice as a form of intertextual production:

Political Remix Video: An Interview with Dr. Colin Gardner
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24tu_jgyvw4

Everything is a Remix Part 1
http://vimeo.com/14912890
Everything is a Remix Part 2
http://vimeo.com/19447662
Everything is a Remix Part 3
http://vimeo.com/25380454
Everything is a Remix Part 4
http://vimeo.com/36881035

Media Criticism:

Slavoj Zizek on "They Live" (The Pervert's Guide to Ideology)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVwKjGbz60k

Zizek - Full Metal Jacket
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nI_qFj4Tsk

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