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Instructor: Christiane Paul E-mail: Christiane_Paul@WHITNEY.ORG Course Description: This class will introduce students to the history and critical theory surrounding artworks that utilize computer networks and interactive telecommunications technologies. The course will outline the history of tele- and network communications and basic Internet technologies as well as the forms and concepts of interaction and participation related to them. The seminar will examine aesthetic and technological possibilities for art works in networked environments ranging from the Internet and networked installations to locative media projects using mobile devices such as PDAs, cellphones, and GPS. Through a series of readings, discussions and written assignments, class members will learn to articulate their interests and concerns as artists working with these technologies. Course Objectives: The seminar's goal is to provide context for students' work with networked communication technologies. The class is meant to enable students to critically reflect on their practice and frame it in the larger field of networked technologies and their underlying paradigms of interaction, participation, and collaboration. Attendance Policy: Attendance will be recorded for each class. Unexcused absences and lateness will negatively affect students' grades. Final Grades: Grades will be based on attendance and participation in class discussion; as well as the completed assignments. Required Course Work: The following syllabus is subject to change. Required Books: Week 1 | 9/8Introduction to course: topics and course work.artport (Whitney Museum) Walker Gallery 9 SFMOMA e-space Turbulence Rhizome The Thing Furtherfield Dieter Daniels / Rudolf Frieling, Media Art Net Humboldt University (Berlin), Database of Virtual Art The Upgrade! New York dorkbot-NYC Postmasters Bitforms Eyebeam Bryce Wolkowitz Vertex List Light Industry Assignment for next week: pp. 111-124, "Internet art and nomadic networks" New Media Reader: 02|35 Vannevar Bush, As We May Think 16 | 231: Douglas Engelbart, William English "A Research Center for Augmenting Human Intellect / online information about the presentation Week 2 | 9/15History of art and technology, and telecommunications art.Early concepts of interfaces and hypermedia. Desktop and GUI. Overview of tele- and network communications and Internet technologies. History of Internet art and early net art projects. URLs: Hobbes' Internet Timeline A Little History of the World Wide Web Bruce Sterling, "History of the Internet" Timeline of Computer History From Babbage's Analytical Engine to Aitken's Difference Engine Voder / Vocoder Memex Images: Future of the Book / Bermier, Adventures in Cybersound / animated sketch Overview (Media Art Net) Liza Bear, Willoughby Sharp, Sharon Grace, Carl Loeffler, Two-Way Demo: Send/Receive (1977) Kit Galloway / Sherrie Rabinowitz, Satellite Arts Project 77 Douglas Davis (with Nam June Paik, Joseph Beuys et al.), Last 9 Minutes Robert Adrian,Telecommunications Projects 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: New Media Reader: 43|625 Bill Nichols, The Work of Culture in the Age of Cybernetic Systems Week 3 | 9/22Changing 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 I/O/D, WebStalker Maciej Wisniewski, Netomat Mark Napier, Riot, Web Shredder Mark Daggett, Browser Gestures Mary Flanagan, [search] LAN, tracenoizer Andy Deck, Culture Map Rhizome, Google Art, or How to Hack Google Janet Cohen, Keith Frank, John Ippolito, The Unreliable Archivist Amy Alexander, The Multicultural Recycler Maciej Wisniewski,Jackpot Assignment for next week: New Media Reader: 11|133 Theodor Nelson, A File Structure for the Complex, the Changing and the Indeterminate 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 4 | 9/29Guest lecture: Mary FlanaganBio: Mary Flanagan is an artist, designer, and theorist who investigates everyday relationships in light of contemporary technology, with a particular interest in games and play. Flanagan's digitally driven artworks and installations have been shown internationally at venues including the Laboral Art Center, the Whitney Museum of American Art, SIGGRAPH, Beall Center, Steirischer Herbst, Ars Electronica, Artist's Space, The Guggenheim New York, Gigantic Art Space, and others. Her over 20 essays and articles on digital culture have appeared in periodicals and books, and her own books in English include reload: rethinking women + cyberculture (with A. Booth, MIT 2002), re:SKIN (with A. Booth, MIT 2007), and Critical Play (MIT 2009). Flanagan also prioritizes her role as an activist designer, founding and directing the Tiltfactor Laboratory, a research and creation lab dedicated to socially conscious games and software development. She created the first internet adventure game for girls, The Adventures of Josie True, in the 1990s and has helped change the discourse on gender, gaming, and technology. One of her current efforts, Values at Play, is dedicated to developing innovation techniques which support human values in the game design process in order to fully realize the potential of games to shape learning, power, and social change. Flanagan is a MacDowell Fellow and the PI or Co-PI on six National Science Foundation awards. She holds an MFA in Film and Video and a Ph.D. in Computational Media with a focus on game design from Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, and is the Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Professor in Digital Humanities at Dartmouth College. URLs: www.maryflanagan.com Tiltfactor Laboratory Values at Play Week 5 | 10/6Presentation: Tigi Kuttamperoor.Hypertext, hyperlinked environments and "instrumental texts." Wikis. Blogging. WikiWikiWeb WikiPedia Martin Wattenberg, Wiki History Flow Darcey Steinke, Blindspot Yael Kanarek,World of Awe Mark Amerika, Projects Judd Morrissey, The Jew's Daughter Eastgate Hypertext Resources Grand Text Auto Electronic Literature Organization Noah Wardrip-Fruin, David Durand, Brion Moss, Elaine Froehlich, News Reader / Regime Change John Cayley Camille Utterback, Text Rain Masaki Fujihata, Beyond Pages / Digital Salon Info Tom White and David Small, Stream of Consciousness Margot Lovejoy, Turns Vivian Selbo, Carl Skelton, Tree Part 2: Before & After Geography, Ralph Lemon Patrick Lichty, Sprawl 360 Degrees Visual Thesaurus Mary Flanagan, [search] Assignment for next week: Week 6 | 10/13Presentation: Valerie Guinn, Jung Kim (interactive installation) / Hanna Alvgren (virtual reality).Networked immersive environments and interactive installations. Virtual Reality. Sound projects. URLs: Jeffrey Shaw Michael Naimark Rafael Lozano-Hemmer George Legrady John Klima Perry Hoberman Eduardo Kac Sommerer/Mignonneau Bill Seaman Masaki Fujihata Camille Utterback Marie Sester Char Davies, Osmose / Ephemere Golan Levin, Dialtones, Scribble, Audio-Visual Environment Suite Zach Lieberman & Golan Levin, Tmema, Scribble / Manual Input Sessions / Drawn (video) / Scrapple John Klima, glasbead Tom Betts, BitmapSequencer ixi software, Connector Stephen Vitiello, Tetrasomia MIT Aesthetics + Computation Group Assignment for next week: Introduction to the exhibition Ctrl [Space] at ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany Week 7 | 10/20Telepresence and telerobotics.URLs: Exhibition: Telematic Connections: The Virtual Embrace Ctrl [Space] at ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany Early projects: Parkbench, Alice sat here June Houston, Ghost Watcher [not functional any more] Steve Mann, Wireless Wearable Webcam Fakeshop Ken Goldberg et. al., Telegarden Eric Paulos, John Canny, PRoP -- Personal Roving Presence Adrianne Wortzel, Camouflage Town Lynn Hershman, Tillie, the Telerobotic Doll Bureau of Inverse Technologies, Bang Bang Eduardo Kac, Rara Avis / Uirapuru / Teleporting an Unknown State Web cams: Wolfgang Staehle, Empire 24/7 / Artnet Review Tina LaPorta, voyeur_web Xavier, Carnegie Mellon telerobot.mech.uwa.edu.au Assignment for next week: 03|49 Alan Turing, "Computing Machinery and Intelligence" 24|367 Joseph Weizenbaum, From Computer Power and Human Reason New Media Reader: 04|65 Norbert Wiener, "Men, Machines, and the World About" 05|73 J.C.R. Licklider, "Man-Computer Symbiosis" Jaron Lanier, "Agents of Alienation" Week 8 | 10/27Presentation: Kim Noori.Artificial intelligence and artificial life. URLs: Art projects: Karl Sims, Galapagos Rebecca Allen, Emergence Dave Kerr, AI Planet Kenneth Rinaldo, Autopoiesis Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau, Life Spacies Tom Ray, Tierra Eduardo Kac, Genesis Technosphere The Gene Media Forum Cellular Automata / Particle Worlds etc.: Mirek's Java Cellebration Particle World Computer Visualization of the Marine Environment The Computational Beauty of Nature Chat bots: Eliza Eliza, Computer Therapist Alice IA Foundation Art projects: Adrianne Wortzel, Eliza Redux Lynn Hershmann, Agent Ruby 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 Autonomous Characters / Behaviors: Craig Reynolds, Steering behaviors for autonomous characters Noah Wardrip-Fruin + Adam Chapman, Impermanence Agent / Agent Intro Robert Nideffer, PROXY Portal / Agent Application / overview Jenny Marketou, Smell.Bytes Amy Alexander, The Bot MIT Medialab Agents group MIT AI Lab Assignment for next week: Benjamin Fry, Organic Information Design Christiane Paul, Public CulturalProduction Art(Software) Week 9 | 11/3Presentation: Jenny Lin, David Mikolajczyk.Mapping and database visualization; database aesthetics. Software art. URLs: The Art Of Memory Giulio Camillo, Memory Theater maps.google.com 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 John F. Simon Jr., Every Icon Mary Flanagan, [collection] Alex Galloway & RSG, Carnivore Text Mapping Projects: Ben Fry, Valence Bradford Paley, TextArc Schoenerwissen, txtkit - Visual Text Mining Tool Financial Data Sets: Smart Money's Map of the Market (Martin Wattenberg) Nancy Patterson, Stock Market Skirt Lynn Hershman, Synthia John Klima, ecosystm Exhibition: Database Imaginary Mapping Transitions Casey Reas (with Robert Hodgin, William Ngan, Jared Tarbell), {Software} Structures runme software art repository Processing Exhibition (software art): CODeDOC Assignment for next week: Lev Manovich, Cinema and Telecommunication/Distance and Aura (1999) New Media Reader: 44|643 Lynn Hershman, "The Fantasy Beyond Control" Week 10 | 11/10Presentatio: Jennifer Goya.Streaming media. Database cinema and new forms of cinematics. Exhibition: ZKM, Future Cinema: The Cinematic Imaginary After Film Witte de With center for Contemporary Art, Satellite of Love Immersive film installations: Michael Naimark, Interactive and Immersive Film Installations | 1977-1997 Jeffrey Shaw, Place Ruhr / Place - A User's Manual / Eve 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 "Database Cinema" / "Template Cinema": Thomson & Craighead, Short Films about Flying Lev Manovich, Soft Cinema Marc Lafia & Fang-Yu Lin, The Battle of Algiers Perry Bard, Man with a movie camera Jennifer & Kevin MCoy, Soft Rains ( Flickr) / Every Shot, Every Episode / Every Anvil / How I learned "Visceral Cinema" / Non-Narrative Film Installations: Scott Snibbe, Visceral Cinema: Chien Camille Utterback, Liquid Time Marie Sester, BE[AM] / Threatbox.us Narrative Film (Installations): Raduz Cincera, Kinoautomat Lynn Hershman, Lorna Graham Weinbren, Erl King, Sonata Toni Dove, Artificial Changelings / Spectropia / Sally Julia Heyward, Miracles in Reverse Luc Courchesne, The Visitor, Living by Numbers (go to Installations) AI / Bots in Filmmaking: Heide, Onesandzeros, Pocock, Stehle, Unmovie Michael Mateas, Facade Web Cinema / Internet as Distribution Medium: Ravi Jain, Three Abreast New Venue Daniel Garcia Andujar, Technologies to the People Video Collection Resources: Ambient TV / Rachel Baker, Unscheduled TV V2, TANGENT_TV::DIY_TV Assignment for next week: New Media Reader: Patrick Lichty, Why Art in Virtual Worlds? E-Happenings, Relational Milieux & "Second Sculpture" New Media Reader: 35|515 Donna Haraway, "A Cyborg Manifesto" Mary Flanagan "navigating the narrative in space: gender and spatiality in virtual worlds" Koan Jeff Baysa, Passing and Peril in the Information Superhighway Jiayi Young, Representations of Chinese Identity in Cyberspace Week 11 | 11/17Presentation: Rita Sa Mendes.Networked multi-user environments, MUDs, MOOs, graphic chat rooms and 3D-Worlds, Second Life. Cyberbodies, avatars, self, and identity in the networked environment. URLs: Yahoo MUD Directory / Yahoo MOO Directory LambdaMOO Programmer's Manual Unofficial LambdaMOO Beginners Quick Reference The Lost Library of MOO The Palace Habbo Hotel Robert Nideffer, PROXY Portal / Agent Application / overview Active Worlds Second Life Digital Space Commons / Traveler [also see Donato Mancini, Jeremy Turner and Flick Harrison, Avatara] Jakob Senneby & Simon Goldin, The Port Eva and Franco Mattes, 13 Most Beautiful Avatars / Annoying Japanese Child Dinosaur / 7000 Oaks Second Front, Spawn of the Surreal and Imaging Place SL: The U.S./Mexico Border Will Pappenheimer and John Freeman, Virta-Flaneurazine-SL web3Dart Melinda Rackham, Empyrean John Klima, Earth Tamiko Thiel & Zara Houshmand, Beyond Manzanar Victoria Vesna, Bodies, Inc. / Notime / Datamining Bodies: online version (under construction) Tina Laporta, Distance / eye2ear / Dystopia / Re:mote Corporealities Stelarc Eduardo Kac, Time Capsule Mark Daggett, Analysis Engine Mouchette, mouchette.org / Flesh&Blood Desktop Theater The ABC Experiment Assignment for next week: 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" Lee M. Sherlock, When social networking meets online games: the activity system of grouping in world of warcraft Eddo Stern, "A Touch of Medieval: Narrative, Magic and Computer Technology in Massively Multiplayer Computer Role-Playing Games" Week 12 | 11/24Presentation: Chris Antonucci, Vanessa Rees, Anis Haron.Game art. ID Software, Doom / Quake / Castle Wolfenstein Will Wright/Electronic Arts, The Sims Will Wright/Electronic Arts, Spore [video] Everquest World of Warcraft America's Army Kuma\War HTTP Gallery, London, Game/Play Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (NL), Next Level: Art, Games & Reality Mediateca Caixaforum, Game as Critic As Art Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, SF, Bang the Machine: Computer Gaming Art and Artifacts Firstdraft Gallery, Sydney, Australia, Plaything Games, curated by Tilman Baumgärtel 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 Josh On, Anti-Wargame Ben Langlands & Nikki Bell, The House of Osama Bin Laden John Klima, The Great Game (Epilogue) / ecogame / Jack & Jill Paul Johnson, Budaechigae et al. Brody Condon, tmpspace / Worship C-Level, Waco Resurrection Eddo Stern, Vietnam Romance et al. / Summons to surrender Joan Leandre, nostalG / RC100 Sid Meier, Civilization IV Jennifer Government: NationStates Quake Feng Mengbo, Q4U JODI, Untitled Game Tom Betts / Nullpointer, q-q-q Joseph DeLappe, Quake/Friends Playstation Alex Galloway & RSG, Prepared Playstation (2004/5) Counter-Strike Anne-Marie Schleiner, Velvet-Strike Castle Wolfenstein JODI, Wolfenstein version of My Boyfriend... / SOD Unreal Engine Mary Flanagan, [domestic] Margarete Jahrmann, Max Moswitzer, nybble-engine-toolZ Half-Life Escape from Woomera SIMS intervention Tony Walsh, Big Mac Attacked selectparks www.playability.de Assignment for next week: Guy Debord + Gil Wolman, A User's Guide to Detournement Drew Hemment, The Locative Dystopia Alison Sant, Redefining the Basemap Week 13 | 12/1Mobile and locative Media (location-based; Wifi, Bluetooth, GPS etc.)Steve Dietz, Locative Media link collection Dr. Reinhold Grether, Directory to mobile art and locative media ISEA 2006 selections "Urbanity": Julian Bleecker, Scott Paterson, Marina Zurkow, PDPal / Zurkow Documentation Carbon Defense League, MapHub: Urban Storytelling Q.S. Serafijn, D-tower / Project info Proboscis, Urban Tapestries Nature Inquiry Group, Invisible Ideas Eric Paulos et al., Urban Atmospheres / Jabberwocky / Familiar Strangers Mixed Reality Blast Theory, Can you See Me Now? / Uncle Roy All Around You Frank Lantz at al., PacManhattan Wifi / Wireless Julian Bleecker, wifi.ArtCache / wifi.Bedouin NodeRunner Michelle Teran, Life: A User's Manual Jonah Brucker-Cohen Katherine Moriwaki, UMBRELLA.net GPS C5, The Landscape Initiative / The C5 GPS Media Player Jeremy Wood, GPS Drawing Teri Rueb, The Choreography of Everyday Movement / article Other Usman Haque, Sky Ear Julian Bleecker, Scott Paterson and Marina Zurkow, Mobile Scout tsunamii.net, alpha 3.8 translocation RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) Sara Smith, Attention Please General RFID Info, spychips.com Global Guerillas, WEAPONS: The RFID zapper Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering Couple's implant chips take love to a new level US Dept of Agriculture National Animation Identification System stopanimalid.org Assignment for next week: Curt Cloninger, Geeks Inadvertently Making Net Art: SXSW 2005 Warren Sack, Discourse Architecture and Very Large-Scale Conversation Trebor Scholz, The Participatory Challenge: Incentives for Online Collaboration Week 14 | 12/8Final Project Presentation I.Web 2.0, social networking and large-scale online communication. URLs: friendster myspace Flickr / Flickr Vision YouTube Twitter / Twitter Vision Delicious Digg / Digg Labs / Digg Tools Warren Sack, Agonistics - A Language Game / Conversation Map Judith Donath, Chat Circles Golan Levin with Kamal Nigam and Jonathan Feinberg, The Dumpster Doug McCune, Political Friendster Marcos Weskamp, Flickr Graph Annina Rüst, Sinister Social Network Angie Waller, Myfrienemies.com George Legrady, Cell Tango Marek Walczak and Martin Wattenberg, No Place Free Culture Group, YouTomb Oliver Laric, Touch my Body Aaron Koblin, The Sheep Market / Ten Thousand Cents Olia Lialina et al., Web 1.0 (login: olia | password: netart) Ian Bogost, Bloomsday on Twitter Mongrel, Linker / nine(9) (Help) < KOP >, DIVE Michael Breidenbruecker, Felix Miller, Martin Stiksel, Thomas Willomitzer, LAST.FM Assignment for next week: Patrick Lichty, Grasping at Bits Robbin Murphy, Art and the Legal Ambiguity of the Internet" Week 15 | 12/15Final Project Presentation II.Net activism, tactical media, hacktivism and cultural hacking. Intellectual Properties.Artware / artist-created tools. URLs: RTMark etoy Heath Bunting, irational.org Ricardo Dominguez / Electronic Disturbance Theater, floodnet Mongrel Josh On & Futurefarmers, They Rule 0100101110101101.ORG Institute for Applied Autonomy Critical Art Ensemble Bureau of Inverse Technologies Tony Walsh, Big Mac Attacked Anne-Marie Schleiner, Joan Leandre, Brody Condon, Velvet-Strike Institute for Applied Autonomy, iSee Michelle Teran, Life: A User's Manual Annina Rüst, Track-The-Trackers / SuperVillainizer - Conspiracy Client Preemptive Media (Beatriz da Costa, Jamie Schulte and Brooke Singer), We Swipe / Zapped! Bureau of Inverse Technology [B.I.T.], Antiterror Line Institute for Applied Autonomy / Trebor Paglan, Terminal Air Preemptive Media, AIR Beatriz da Costa, Pigeon Blog Eric Paulos / Intel Research, Urban Atmospheres / Participatory Urbanism Brooke Singer, Superfund Natalie Jeremijenko, Feral Robots Steve Lambert, Add Art / Anti-Advertising Agency xtine burrough, Delocator Krzysztof Wodiczko, Homeless Vehicles Gabriel Zea, Andres Burbano, Camilo Martinez, Alejandro Duque, berebere Ricardo Miranda Zuniga, The Public Broadcast Cart / Vagamundo Marko Peljhan, Makrolab Mongrel, Media Shed Mongrel, Container project Critical Art Ensemble Mongrel, nine(9) (Help) Ricardo Dominguez / Electronic Civil Disobedience Corporate Identities Etoy RTMark / Dow Chemical - Yes Men Cloning / Mirroring Vuk Cosic, Documenta Done Harwood, Uncomfortable Proximity Eyebeam's Open Lab, OGLE: The OpenGLExtractor UCSC, Metavid De Waag Society, KEYWORX VJ-ing / performance software: Amy Alexander, WJ-s Avatar Body Collision, UpStage open_source_art_hack I LOVE YOU - computer_viruses_hacker_culture Irational, "Reward" Vuk Cosic, Documenta Done Antonio Muntadas, The File Room Creative Commons Berkman Center for Internet & Society Final project proposals:Valerie GuinnJennifer Goya / Promotional video Jungyeob Kim Vanessa Rees To be discussed:Networked art related to biotechnology / nanotechnologyReading: URLs: Eduardo Kac, Genesis / Transgenic Works: GFP Bunny / Eighth Day / Move 36 Natalie Jeremijenko, One Trees Natalie Jeremijenko and Eugene Thacker, Biotech Hobbyist SymbioticA, MeArt Nanotechnology: Victoria Vesna, Nano Particles of Interest, Tales from the Matter Market Bang Lab Nanotechnology Group Nanower (Butterflies) |