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Instructor: Christiane Paul E-mail: Christiane_Paul@WHITNEY.ORG This class will introduce students to possibilities for making artworks that utilize computer networks and other forms of interactive multimedia and telecommunications technologies. The course will outline the history of tele- and network communications and basic Internet technologies as well as forms and concepts of interactivity. We will examine aesthetic and technological possibilities for art works in the networked environment of the Internet. Through a series of projects, and discussions and readings, students will learn to work with these technologies, and to articulate their interests and concerns as artists working with them. Attendance will be recorded for each class. Grades will be based on attendance, participation, and completed projects. Unexcused absences, lateness, and missed assignments will negatively affect students' grades. The following syllabus is subject to change. Field trips and guest speakers may be added. Required Books: Required course work: Week 1 (9/8)Guest lecture and introduction: Mary Flanaganmaryflanagan.comAssignment for next week: 14|211 Four Selections by Experiments in Art and Technology 17|247 From Software -- Information Technology, Its New Meaning for Art (exhibition at the Jewish Museum, 1970) Week 2 (9/15)Introduction to course: topics and course work.History of art and technology, and telecommunications art. Overview of tele- and network communications and Internet technologies. URLs: Hobbes' Internet Timeline A Little History of the World Wide Web Bruce Sterling, "History of the Internet" Liza Bear , Willoughby Sharp, Sharon Grace, Carl Loeffler Send/Receive (1979) Kit Galloway / Sherrie Rabinowitz, Satellite Arts Project 77 Robert Adrian,Telecommunications Projects artport (Whitney Museum) Walker Gallery 9 SFMOMA e-space Turbulence Rhizome: http://www.rhizome.org nettime: http://bbs.thing.net Assignment for next week: 08 | 93: Douglas Engelbart, From Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework 16 | 231: Douglas Engelbart, William English "A Research Center for Augmenting Human Intellect / online information about the presentation Week 3 (9/22)Early concepts of interfaces and hypermedia. Desktop and GUI.History of Internet art and early net art projects. URLs: Martin Wattenberg, Idea Line Natalie Bookchin, A story of Netart Guggenheim Cyberatlas jodi, map.jodi.org, after a network diagram, 1997. Olia Lialina, teleportacia / My Boyfriend Came Back From The War / The Last Net Art Museum / Anna Karenin Goes To Paradise Heath Bunting, READ ME [Own, be owned, or remain invisible] / irrational.org Alexei Shulgin, easylife.org / Form Art Competition Vuk Cosic entropy8zuper.org jodi.org Assignment for next week: Week 4 (9/29)Changing notions of the art object. Concepts of interactivity.'Interface culture' and alternative Web browsers. Recycling and reproduction of information. URLs: Mark Napier, Potatoland Wattenberg/Walczak, mw2mw Andy Deck, artcontext / Icontext / Progressive Load Sawad Brooks/Beth Stryker, DissemiNET / Lapses & Erasures I/O/D, WebStalker Maciej Wisniewski, Netomat Mark Napier, Riot, Web Shredder Mark Daggett, Browser Gestures Janet Cohen, Keith Frank, John Ippolito, The Unreliable Archivist Amy Alexander, The Multicultural Recycler Maciej Wisniewski,Jackpot Assignment for next week: 12|147 Six Selections by the Oulipo 42|613 Michael Joyce, "Siren Shapes: Exploratory and Constructive Hypertexts" 48|691 Stuart Moulthrop, "You Say You Want a Revolution? Hypertext and the Laws of Media" 52|761 Espen J. Aarseth, "Nonlinearity and Literary Theory" Week 5 (10/6)Hyperlinking and hypertext.WikiWikiWeb WikiPedia Martin Wattenberg, Wiki History Flow Darcey Steinke, Blindspot Yael Kanarek,World of Awe Mark Amerika, Grammatron Judd Morrissey, The Jew's Daughter Michael Crumpton, Nathan Fruin, Kristin Holcomb, Kirstin Kantner, Chris Spain, Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Duane Whitehurst, Gray Matters Eastgate Hypertext Resources Vivian Selbo, Carl Skelton, Tree Part 2: Before & After Geography, Ralph Lemon Patrick Lichty, Sprawl Margot Lovejoy, Turns 360 Degrees Visual Thesaurus Mary Flanagan, [search] Assignment for next week: 04|65 Norbert Wiener, "Men, Machines, and the World About" 05|73 J.C.R. Licklider, "Man-Computer Symbiosis" 03|49 Alan Turing, "Computing Machinery and Intelligence" 24|367 Joseph Weizenbaum, From Computer Power and Human Reason Jaron Lanier, "Agents of Alienation" New Media Reader: 41|599 Lucy Suchman, From Plans and Situated Actions Week 6 (10/13)Presentation: Yuli Ziv.Artificial intelligence and artificial life. URLs: Karl Sims, Galapagos Rebecca Allen, Emergence Kenneth Rinaldo, Autopoiesis Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau, Life Spacies Tom Ray, Tierra Eduardo Kac, Genesis Technosphere The Gene Media Forum Eliza Eliza, Computer Therapist Alice IA Foundation Ken Feingold, If/Then (2001), Sinking Feeling (2001) David Rokeby, The Giver of Names Harold Cohen, Aaron / also see kurzweilcyberart.com/ Gabor Papp, Connoisseur Heide, Onesandzeros, Pocock, Stehle, Unmovie Noah Wardrip-Fruin + Adam Chapman, Impermanence Agent / Agent Intro Robert Nideffer, PROXY Portal / Agent Application / MUE/MOO help / overview of MAM system Jenny Marketou, Smell.Bytes Amy Alexander, The Bot MIT Medialab Agents group MIT AI Lab Steering behaviours for autonomous characters Mirek's Java Cellebration Particle World Computer Visualization of the Marine Environment The Computational Beauty of Nature Assignment for next week: Week 7 (10/20)Presentation: Heayeon Yoon.Mapping and database visualization; database aesthetics. Sound projects URLs: The Art Of Memory Giulio Camillo, Memory Theater Atlas of Cyberspace Martin Wattenberg & Marek Walczak, Apartment Golan Levin, with Martin Wattenberg, Jonathan Feinberg, Shelly Wynecoop, David Elashoff, and David Becker, The Secret Life of Numbers John Klima, Earth Lisa Jevbratt, 1:1 / Mapping the Web Infome / Infome Imager Lite Ben Fry, Valence Bradford Paley, TextArc Mary Flanagan, [collection] Alex Galloway & RSG, Carnivore Mark Watkins, Manhattan Timeformations Financial Data Sets: Smart Money's Map of the Market (Martin Wattenberg) Nancy Patterson, Stock Market Skirt Lynn Hershman, Synthia John Klima, ecosystm Mapping Communication Warren Sack, Conversation Map Judith Donath, Chat Circles Exhibition: Mapping Transitions Assignment for next week: Lev Manovich, Cinema and Telecommunication/Distance and Aura (1999) Week 8 (10/27)Presentation: Lexia Snow.Streaming media. Digital cinema. Exhibition: Future Cinema: The Cinematic Imaginary After Film Online Projects: Mark Amerika, Filmtext Jennifer & Kevin MCoy, 201, A Space Algorithm Nick Crowe, Discrete Packets David Blair, WAXWEB ASCII movies: ASCII Art Ensemble Cory Arcangel, Urbandale Installations: Toni Dove, Artificial Changelings / Spectropia / Sally Luc Courchesne, The Visitor, Living by Numbers Jennifer & Kevin MCoy, Every Shot, Every Episode / Every Anvil / How I learned Web Cinema / Internet as Distribution Medium: New Venue Daniel Garcia Andujar, Technologies to the People Video Collection Assignment for next week: Week 9 (11/3)Telepresence and telerobotics.URLs: Ken Goldberg et. al., Telegarden June Houston, Ghost Watcher Steve Mann, Wireless Wearable Webcam Parkbench, Alice sat here / / Alice sat here Eric Paulos, John Canny, PRoP -- Personal Roving Presence Fakeshop, Fakeshop / Capsule Hotel Wolfgang Staehle, Empire 24/7 Adrianne Wortzel, Camouflage Town Eduardo Kac, Rara Avis / Uirapuru / Teleporting an Unknown State Exhibition: Telematic Connections: The Virtual Embrace Xavier, Carnegie Mellon telerobot.mech.uwa.edu.au Yahoo robots directory Assignment for next week: Week 10 (11/10)Guest lecture: John Klimacityarts.comWeek 11 (11/17)Presentation: Sang Joon Han.Cyberbodies, avatars, self, and identity in the networked environment. URLs: Victoria Vesna, Bodies, Inc. / Notime / Datamining Bodies: Project Documentation -- online version (under construction) Tina Laporta, Distance / eye2ear / Dystopia / Re:mote Mouchette, mouchette.org / Flesh&Blood Stelarc Shu Lea Chang, Brandon Mark Daggett, Analysis Engine Desktop Theater The ABC Experiment Assignment for next week: Patrick Lichty, Grasping at Bits Robbin Murphy, "Artists and Legal Ambiguity on the Internet" Week 12 (11/24)Presentation: Elsa Tu.Net activism, tactical media hacktivism and cultural hacking. Intellectual Properties. URLs: RTMark etoy Heath Bunting, irational.org Ricardo Dominguez, floodnet Mongrel Harwood [Mongrel], Tate online Josh On & Futurefarmers, They Rule plagiarist.org 0100101110101101.ORG Institute for Applied Autonomy Critical Art Ensemble Natalie Jeremijenko Bureau of Inverse Technologies open_source_art_hack I LOVE YOU - computer_viruses_hacker_culture "Reward" "7-11" Documenta X Antonio Muntadas, The File Room Creative Commons Berkman Center for Internet & Society Assignment for next week: 46|663 Chip Morningstar and F. Randall Farmer, "The Lessons of Lucasfilm's Habitat" 34|499 Sherry Turkle, "Video Games and Computer Holding Power" 38|563 Brenda Laurel, "The Six Elements and the Causal Relations Among Them" / "Star Raiders: Dramatic Interaction in a Small World" Mary Flanagan "navigating the narrative in space: gender and spatiality in virtual worlds" DAC Melbourne Papers: Espen Aarseth, "Playing Research: Methodological approaches to game analysis" Tiffany Holmes, "Arcade Classics Spawn Art? Current Trends in the Art Game Genre" Ben Hourigan, "The Utopia of Open Space in Role-Playing Videogames" Mikael Jakobsson, "The Sopranos Meets EverQuest: Social Networking in Massively Multiplayer Online Games" Eddo Stern, "A Touch of Medieval: Narrative, Magic and Computer Technology in Massively Multiplayer Computer Role-Playing Games" Week 13 (12/1)Presentation: Chun-Chia Ho(gaming).Networked multi-user environments, MUDs, MOOs; 3D-Worlds and VRML. Gaming URLs: Active Worlds Adobe Atmosphere Digital Space web3Dart Melinda Rackham, Empyrean Meet Factory / Conversations with Angels The Palace Desktop Theater Yahoo MUD, MOO Directory LambdaMOO Programmer's Manual Unofficial LambdaMOO Beginners Quick Reference The Lost Library of MOO Will Wright/Electronic Arts, The Sims Everquest Firstdraft Gallery, Sydney, Australia, Plaything Games, curated by Tilman Baumgäertel Institute for Contemporary Art, Cape Town, South Africa, (re:Play), curated by Radioqalia New Museum of Contemporary Art, Killer Instinct Natalie Bookchin, Intruder / Metapet Eric Zimmerman + Word, Sissyfight 2000 John Klima, ecogame / Jack & Jill Feng Mengbo, Q4U Anne-Marie Schleiner, Velvet-Strike JODI, SOD / Untitled Game / Wolfenstein version of My Boyfriend... Tom Betts, q-q-q Escape from Woomera Bush Mechanics www.playability.de Assignment for next week: Week 14 (12/8)First presentation of final projectsPresentation: Keunyoung Oh. Immersive environments and interactive installations. Virtual Reality. Sound projects. URLs: Eduardo Kac, Uirapuru, Rara Avis, Darker than Night, Teleporting an Unknown State Jeffrey Shaw John Klima, Go Fish Bill Seaman, Projects Masaki Fujihata, Projects Perry Hoberman, Projects Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Projects George Legrady, Pockets Full of Memories Camille Utterback Sommerer/Mignonneau Char Davies, Osmose / Ephemere John Klima, glasbead Stephen Vitiello, Tetrasomia Golan Levin, Dialtones, Scribble, Audio-Visual Environment Suite Tom Betts, BitmapSequencer ixi software, Connector G.H. Hovagimyan & Peter Sinclair, Soap Opera for Laptops MIT Aesthetics + Computation Group Assignment for next week: Week 15 (10/15)Final presentation of projectsPresenting and preserving new media art, the virtual museum, collecting and storing visual data. Technologies of the Future. URLs: Image Collections: Mark Harden, Artchive ("texas.net Museum of Art") Nicholas Pioch, "WebMuseum" ("Le WebLouvre") Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO) Virtual Tours: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Brancusi's Mademoiselle Pogany Frick Collection Virtual Tour Sydney Opera Virtual Tour Mini MOMA Virtual Museum Models: Guggenheim Virtual Museum Whitney Artport Rhizome Artbase Switch Magazine, Collaborative Curatorial Models in Theory and Practice Connections Your Show Here Student projects: Heayeon Yoon, http://class.sva.edu/~heayeon/WorldNews/test/opentest.html Yen Chiao Tu, http://www2.sva.edu/~yenchiao/inhabit_domain.html Keunyoung Oh, http://www2.sva.edu/~Keun/miss.html Sang Joon Han, http://www2.sva.edu/~sangjoon/telecom/final/main.swf / http://mfaca.sva.edu/~sangjoon/telecom/final/al_experiment.html Yuli Ziv http://www.yuliziv.com/memory.html Previous student projects: |