Penn State University -- School of Visual Arts
Spring 2019
ART 476 History of Digital Art
Professor: Eduardo Navas (ean13@psu.edu)
Mon, Wed, Fri 12:20 – 1:10 PM

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

Syllabus:
Online
PDF

ASSIGNMENTS WEEKLY SITES

Week 11:

Friday, March 22, 2019
Continue Lecture on Way’s “Digital Art at the Interface of Technology and Feminism.”

Wednesday, March 20, 2019
Be ready to discuss:
Jennifer Way, “Digital Art at the Interface of Technology and Feminism,” 181 – 202.

Monday, March 18, 2019
Lab Day, Read:
Jennifer Way, “Digital Art at the Interface of Technology and Feminism,” 181 – 202.


Week 10:

Friday, March 15, 2019
Lab day to post response to readings on Canvas due by midnight.

 

Wednesday, March 13, 2019
Continue Lecture on Gere, “Digital Nature” and “Digital Culture in the Twenty-first Century.”


Monday, March 11, 2019
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.

 


Week 9:
March 4 - 8, 2019
Spring Break

 


Week 8:

Friday, March 1, 2019
Lab day to finish midterm essay (due at midnight). Write response to readings on Canvas due by March 4.

Wednesday, February 27, 2019
Lab day to work on midterm essay (due March 1, midnight)

Monday, February 25, 2019
Read and be ready to discuss Gere, “Chapter 5: Digital Resistances,” Digital Culture, 154 – 200 + selected art projects.

 


Week 7:

Friday, February 22, 2019
Review of readings and works of art in preparation for midterm essay.

Wednesday, February 20, 2019
Continue Lecture on Gere, “The Digital Counter Culture.”

Monday, February 18, 2019
Midterm Essay Released

Read and be ready to discuss:
Gere, “Chapter 4: The Digital Counter Culture,” Digital Culture, 116 – 153 + selected art projects.

 


Week 6:

Friday, February 15, 2019
Lab day to post response for “The Digital Avant Garde” to readings on Canvas due by midnight.

Wednesday, February 13, 2019
Visit to Palmer Museum to evaluate works for midterm

Monday, February 11, 2019
Read and be ready to discuss:
Gere, “Chapter 3: The Digital Avant-Garde,” Digital Culture, 79 - 115 + selected art projects. | Online response for “The Cybernetic Era” to readings on Canvas due by midnight.

 


Week 5:

Friday, February 8, 2019
Continue Lecture on Gere, “The Cybernetic Era.”

Wednesday, February 6, 2019
Read and be ready to discuss:
Gere, “Chapter 2: The Cybernetic Era” Digital Culture, 51 – 78 + selected art projects.


Monday, February 4, 2019
Lab day to post response to readings on Canvas due by midnight.

 


Week 4:

Friday, February 1, 2019
Continue Lecture on Gere, “The Beginnings of Digital Culture.”

Wednesday, January 30, 2019
Read and be ready to discuss:
Charlie Gere, “Chapter 1: The Beginnings of Digital Culture,” Digital Culture, 21 – 50 + selected art projects.

Monday, January 28, 2019
Lab day to post response to readings on Canvas due by midnight.


Week 3:

Friday, January 25, 2019
Continue Lecture on Gere, “Preface” and “Introduction”
Begin discussion online for weekly readings.

Wednesday, January 23, 2019
Read and be ready to discuss:
Charlie Gere, Digital Culture, “Preface” and “Introduction,” 7 – 20 + selected art projects.

Monday, January 21, 2019
Martin Luther King Day, No Classes

 


Week 2:

Friday, January 18, 2019
Lab day to post response to readings on Canvas due by midnight.

Wednesday, January 16, 2019
Continue discussion of Hopkins, introduction to Charlies Gere’s book. Begin discussion online for weekly readings.

Monday, January 14, 2019
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.

 


Week 1:

Friday, January 11, 2019
Preliminary discussion on David Hopkins, “Postmodernism: Theory and Practice in the 1980s,” After Modern Art: 1945 – 2000, pp. 197 – 231 (PDF) + selected art projects.

Wednesday, January 9, 2019
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 7, 2019
Introduction | Brief overview of the History of Digital Art

 

 

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 18

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 11

Works of Art

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 4

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

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 14, 2019

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 7, 2019

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