While the ultimate emphasis is on the work and critique of peer-participants, weekly topics and readings are selected to inform an\u00a0understanding and articulation of contemporary practice that may stimulate responses\u00a0within one’s own set of concerns and activities. Readings will be distributed, though you may wish to purchase some books or kindle texts for further engagement with\u00a0writings unavailable online. Please not that this outline is subject to flux.<\/p>\n
Week 1: August 29: Aesthetics and Conditions of Entanglement<\/strong><\/p>\n Screenings: Cybernetic Serendipity <\/a>(1968); David Rokeby: n-cha(n)nt<\/a>; Ben Ruben and Mark Hansen: Listening Post<\/a>; Aaron Koblin: Bicycle Built for 2000<\/a>; \u00a0Shawn Decker: Prairie<\/a>; Christopher Baker: Hello World! Or: How I Learned to Stop Listening and Love the Noise<\/a>; Anatomical Theatres of Mixed Reality: The Operature<\/a>; Tiffany Holmes: darkSky<\/a>; Heather Dewey-Hagborg:\u00a0Stranger Visions<\/a>; Eduardo Kac: Genesis<\/a>; Peter Gena: Red Blood Cells<\/a>; John Manning: Spouting Faces<\/a><\/p>\n Writing & Thinking: What makes sand your concern?<\/p>\n Assigned Readings: N. Katherine Hayles, How We Became Posthuman: Prologue<\/a>; Chris Salter: Entangled: Introduction<\/a>;<\/p>\n Resource: Jim Campbell: Formula for Computer Art<\/a>; Interview with Katherine Hayles<\/a>; Fritz Kahn: The Life of Man <\/a>(1922 – 1933)<\/p>\n Assigned Presentation: Hello World: Portrait of the Artist as a Circuit<\/a><\/p>\n Week 2: September 5: The\u00a0Performance\u00a0of Digital Media<\/span><\/p>\n discussion of Hayles and Salter; introductory (up to 8 minute) presentations<\/p>\n Assigned Readings: Chris Salter, Entangled: Scene\/Machine<\/a>;<\/p>\n Historical: Oscar Schlemmer: Triadic Ballet<\/a>;\u00a0From Wagner to Virtual Reality<\/a>;\u00a0Eisenstein: Montage of Attractions<\/a>;\u00a0Artaud’s Theater of Cruelty<\/a><\/p>\n Screenings:\u00a0Kurt Hentschlager: Zee<\/a>; And some see god…<\/a>; Claudia Hart<\/a>; Alan Sondheim: What Remains<\/a>; JODI: Max Payne Cheats Only<\/a>; Granular Synthesis: Modell 5<\/a>;\u00a0Alan Sondheim & Foofwa D’Imobilite<\/a><\/p>\n Augmented “Theaters”: EMPAC<\/a>; Electronic Visualization Lab<\/a><\/p>\n Week 3: September 12:\u00a0Imitation\u00a0and Mirrors<\/strong><\/p>\n discussion of readings; screening of relevant works; open discussion welcoming responses, interventions, sharing of links, etc.<\/p>\n Assigned Readings: Alan Turing: Computer Machinery and Intelligence<\/a>; \u00a0Simon Penny: Why do we want our Machines to seem alive?<\/a>; David Rokeby: Transforming Mirrors<\/a><\/p>\n Screenings: Simon Penny: Phatus<\/a>; David Rokeby: The Very Nervous System<\/a>; Myron Krueger: videoplace<\/a>\u00a0&& in Pioneers of Media Art<\/a><\/p>\n Resources:The Human Computer<\/a>;\u00a0Eugene Goostman<\/a>;\u00a0The Chinese Room<\/a>; cv dazzle<\/a><\/p>\n Week 4: September 19: \u00a0<\/span>Cybernetic Serendipity<\/strong><\/p>\n discussions of readings & works; introductions cont.<\/p>\n Assigned Readings: N. Katherine Hayles: How We Became Posthuman, Chapter 1, Toward Embodied Virtuality<\/a>; \u00a0Norbert Weiner: Men Machines and The World About<\/a><\/p>\n Week 5: September 26:\u00a0Feedback & Homeostasis<\/span><\/p>\n discussion; work-in-progress presentations<\/p>\n Assigned Readings: Chris Salter: Entangled: Media Scenographies;<\/p>\n Visiting Artist Lecture: Lindsey French<\/a><\/p>\n Task<\/strong>: Loci<\/p>\n Assigned Readings: Edward Shanken:\u00a0The House that Jack Built: Jack Burnham’s Concept of “Software” as a Metaphor for Art\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n Resources: Sonia Sheridan and Generative Systems<\/a>; Interviews<\/a><\/p>\n Task: MicroLecture for week 8 + 9<\/p>\n Week 7: October 10:\u00a0The Feast & The Telephone<\/strong><\/p>\n Assigned Reading:\u00a0Marshall McLuhan: The Medium is the Massage<\/a>;<\/p>\n Resource: Victoria Vesna: Seeing the World in a Grain of Sand: The Database Aesthetics of Everything<\/p>\n Week 8: October 17: Unnatural Language<\/strong><\/p>\n Assigned Readings: Florian Kramer: Words Made Flesh: Computations of Totality<\/a><\/p>\n Resource: Golan Levin: More Than Pretty Pictures: Three Questions for Generative Artists<\/a><\/p>\n Microsymposium, pt. 1: Orron Catt’s Lecture, 2pm<\/p>\n Week 9: October 24: Queer Computing<\/strong><\/p>\n discussion; work-in-progress presentations<\/p>\n Assigned Readings: Jacob Gaboury:\u00a0A Queer History of Computing<\/a>; As Queer Listening<\/a><\/p>\n See also: Incompleteness Theorum<\/a>; Christopher Strachey: The First Digital Artist?<\/a><\/p>\n Resource: Judith Butler on Gender Performativity<\/a> (video); Sandy Stone: The Empire Strikes Back<\/a><\/p>\n Microsymposium, pt. 2 Week 10: October 31: Cyberfeminism<\/strong><\/p>\n Assigned Readings: Donna Harroway:\u00a0Cyborg Manifesto<\/a>;\u00a0<\/i>Sadie Plant: Zeroes and Ones<\/p>\n EVENT: CHRISTOPHER BAKER ARTIST’S TALK ON WEDNESDAY, NOV. 5 @ 4:30PM<\/p>\n discussion of Queer Computing\/Listening ++ 2 studio visits: Alicia, Jarad<\/p>\n Week 11: November 7: Growth of the New Machines<\/span><\/p>\n Assigned Readings: The Xenotext and the gift of death<\/a>; Eduardo Kac: Transgenic Art<\/a><\/p>\n Resources: Pieces of You: Interview with Heather Dewey-Hagborg<\/a>; Christian Bok: The Xenotext Experiment<\/a><\/p>\n Week 12:\u00a0<\/span>November 14<\/span>:\u00a0All Reality is Mixed Reality<\/span><\/p>\n Assigned Readings:\u00a0\u00a0Mark Hansen: All Reality is Mixed Reality\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Resources: Alan Sondheim:\u00a0Threshold<\/a>;\u00a0Jay David Bolter, Maria Engberg & Blaire McIntyre,\u00a0Media Studies, Mobile Augmented Reality, and Interaction Design\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n discussion of Plant, Harroway, Bok, Kac<\/p>\n studio visits: Greko, Laura, Michael<\/p>\n Task: CLOSE or DISTANT reading: Formulate a short (creative or critical) response to the Hansen reading for next week that utilizes either close<\/em> or distant<\/em> reading, considering distant reading as a materially-driven conceptual or computational process (Cage’s mesostic serves as an example). Example of response using close reading<\/em>: a paragraph of writing that emerges from your reading of the text; sharing a piece of work that resonates with the text.\u00a0Example of response using distant\u00a0reading:\u00a0<\/em>a reading produced by a conceptual or computational process using the Hansen text or another source appropriate to its themes. The result should be something that can be shared in 3-5 minutes.<\/p>\n Link:\u00a0On Distant Reading<\/a><\/p>\n Week 13:\u00a0<\/span>November 21<\/span>:\u00a0Quantum Bodies<\/span><\/p>\n Assigned Reading: Karen Barad: Nature’s Queer Performativity<\/a><\/p>\n \u00a0discussion ++ 3 studio visits: Bryn, Victor, Nathan<\/p>\n Week 14:\u00a0December 5<\/span>: CRITIQUE WEEK – NO MEETING<\/span><\/p>\n Week 15:\u00a0December 12<\/span>:\u00a0EXIT() Compose a message to yourself describing three goals you have for the next year, 1 personal, 1 creative and 1 professional.<\/p>\n Devise a method for receiving this message in 1 year. For example:\u00a0http:\/\/www.labnol.org\/ While the ultimate emphasis is on the work and critique of peer-participants, weekly topics and readings are selected to inform an\u00a0understanding and articulation of contemporary practice that may stimulate responses\u00a0within one’s own set of concerns and activities. Readings will be distributed, though you may wish to purchase some books or kindle texts for further engagement … Continue reading Plan<\/span>
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