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ART 696: Lecture Schedule
Please note that this schedule is subject to change.
Week 1: Course Introduction
- Introductions
- Course syllabus
- Overview of historical precedents in Art & Technology
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Week 2: Neo-Luddism & The Virtual Barrio
- Group discussion: How has digital/electronic media and other emerging technologies affected/infected your own practice? Do they positively/negatively impact your work? Why all the fuss?
Readings:
- Cyber Reader, edited by Neil Spiller (read Introduction & pp. 22-38)
- Information Arts: Intersections of Art, Science, and Technology, Stephen Wilson (read Chapter 1)
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* Links for all ATC Colloquim lectures are alphabetized by speaker's last name to the left.
Week 3: (I'm in NYC)
- Screening: McLuhan's Wake
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Week 4: Digtial Cinema & Image
- Screenings: Melies the Magician & The Man With the Movie Camera
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Week 5: The Projected Image: Experimental Cinematic Approaches
Readings for next week:
- Information Arts, Stephen Wilson, pp.406-423, 729-748, 774-785
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Week 6: Digital Music, Sonic Art and Sound Installation
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Week 7: Kinetics, Robotics & Machine Performance
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Week 8: Bio/Transgenic Art
Readings for next week 10:
- The Senses Have No Future, Hans Moravec (Cyber Reader)
- A Cyborg Manifesto, Donna Haraway (Cyber Reader)
- Terminal Resistance/Cyborg Acceptance, Scott Bukatman (Cyber Reader)
- Robocopulation: Sex Times Technology Equals the Future, Mark Dery (Cyber Reader)
- Memories of Being: Orlan's Theater of the Self, David Moos
- Towards the Post Human, Stelarc (Cyber Reader)
Week 9: Artist Research Presentations
ARTIST RESEARCH PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS DUE TODAY!
Week 10: Cyborgs & Human/Machine Interface
Readings for next week:
- Constructions and Reconstructions of the Self in Virtual Reality, Sherry Turkle (Cyber Reader)
- When I Enter Virtual Reality, What Body Will I Leave Behind? Karen A Franck (Cyber Reader)
- Video Games and Computer Holding Power, Sherry Turkle (reader)
- The Pearly Gates of Cyberspace, Margaret Wertheim (Cyber Reader)
- Neuromancer excerpt, William Gibson (Cyber Reader)
- Simulacra and Simulations, Jean Baudrillard
Week 11: Virtual Realities & Gaming
THESIS PROPOSALS FOR FINAL PAPERS ARE DUE TODAY!!
- Screening: eXistenZ
- Group discussion: How do simulated environments (both virtual and physical) affect our sense of the real? Do humans prefer (or are learning to prefer) simulated environments over the 'real' thing? And if so, what are the advantages/disadvantages to society?
Readings for next week:
- As We May Think, Vannevar Bush (Cyber Reader)
- Techgnosis: Magic, Memory, and the Angels of Information, Erik Davis (Cyber Reader)
- From A Thousand Plateaus, Gilles Deleuze & Felix Guattari (Cyber Reader)
- Read Zeppelin: Davis Does Zoso, Mary Dery interview of Erik Davis
- A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace, John Perry Barlow (Cyber Reader)
Week 12: NET.art
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Week 13: Locative Technologies & GPS Art
- Locative Media Guest Speaker: Naomi Spellman
Week 14 &15: FINAL PRESENTATIONS
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