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Net
Cultures:
Art, Politics, Syllabus Session |
Monday:
Reading, Web-Excursions, Debate |
Wednesday:
Lab
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Mon 08/26 Wed 08/28 What is a magic cookie?
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Introduction to the syllabus, course objectives Your Health Subscription to the course listserv is required. More info here Snapshot of class. Get acquainted with the lab. Setting up your web accounts on UB server. Major mailing lists
Subscription to one of these lists is required. optional subscription to magazines "The Bag," Vilem Flusser News: |
Basic terms of the internet Social definition of technology
A Short History of the Internet "Net_Condition," Timothy Druckerey p20 (course reader = CR) "Culture," Raymond Williams, from Keywords (CR) .. Art sites to visit once a month (notebook entries required) Online journals to visit once a month (notebook entries required) |
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Wed: 09/ 04 History
of Art in the Internet 1990-1999
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Introduction
to Dreamweaver
.. Histories of NetArt: http://www.calarts.edu/%7Eline/history.html
.. .. Art & Language 'Letter to Lucy R. Lippard and John Chandler
(1986) Concerning the Article "The Dematerialization of the Art Object" (1968) "Raymond Williams: The Long Revolution" in An Introduction to Cultural Theory and Popular Culture by John Store, p54- 59 (CR) Lecture by David Ross on net.art, 1999 Art and the corporate world by Tilman Baumgaertel online video: Life after the the Death of Net.art by Vuc Cosic .. optional reading: |
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Mon 09/09 Wed 09/11 Friendship, Solidarity, Community
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IRC
"Introduction" by Peter Murphey in "Friendship," Special Edition of the South Atlantic Quarterly (CR) .. Guillermo Gomez Pena, The Virtual Barrio @ the Other Frontier (or the Chicago Internerta) |
Dreamweaver tutorial continued .. |
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Wed 09/18 Access
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Introduction to Image Ready
More Html authoring includes frames, tables, web browsers, and
finally we learn how to upload your files to the server (ftp). Hands-on
web work.
"Redundant Technology Initiative" in Net_Condition (CR) "Making Technology Democratic" by Richard E. Sclove in Resisting the Virtual Life, ed. by James Brook and Iain A. Boal, p 85-105 (CR) Listen: How wide is the Digital Divide (RealAudio)
.. (due week VI, Wedesday 10/02) Create a simply animation consisting of 15 hand drawn images and upload (ftp) it to your web account. .. Redundant technology initiative |
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MON 09/23 WED 09/25 From games to the data flaneur, digital narratives and the moving image online
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.. Mark America "Grammatron" (1999) Paul Vanouse, The Persistant Data Confidante Zoe BeloffWhen my Boyfriend came back from the War by Olia Lialina, and Anna Karenina Goes to Paradise "The Intruder," Natalie Bookchin and in "Net_Condition" p 86 (CR) Mark Amerika "How to become an Internet Artist Vuk Cosic, History of Art for Airports Netaesthesia, a net art performance rave Victoria Vesna and "Net_condition" p. 302 (CR) Alex Shulgin "Form" and "Desktop" Film: "La Jetee" Chris Marker "Battleship Potemkin" Sergej Eisenstein
"Hypertext: The Alphanumeric Phoenix" in Snap to Grid by Peter Lunenfeld, p 44-54 (CR) "The Navigator and the Explorer" in The Language of New Media by Lev Manovich, p 268-273 (CR) "Hypertext" and "The Author" in From Text to Hypertext by Silvio Gaggi p101-111 (CR) Rhizome and Resistance: Hypertext and the Dreams of a New Culture by Stuart Moulthrop, p 299-319 in Hyper/Text/Theory ed. by George Landow (CR) Optional Reading: "Games and Rides: Surfing the Image" in Virtual Digital Culture by Andrew Darley p 147-162 (CR) Andy Cameron Dissimulations: Illusions of Interactivity Jay David Bolter, Digital Media and Cinematic Point of View Grahame Weinbren, The Digital Revolution is a Revolution of Random Access .. |
Hands-on web work. .. |
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MON 09/30 Excursion WED 10/02 |
excursion
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Department of Ongoing Digital Situations
Host an illegal They Rule by Josh On Film: "Virtual Worlds" by Peter Weibel
"Civil Disobedience" in Civil Disobedience and Other Essays by Henry David Thoreau (1849), p1-18 (CR) |
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MON 10/07 Univ. Convocation class meets WED 10/ 09 Resistance
is Futile:
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Bureau of Inverse Technology (BIT) Crossing Borders
"The DEF of Tactical Media" (1993)
Optional Reading: "Tactical Media" (1997) "Speak for Yourself" in "Who can Speak?". by
Judith Roof and Robyn Wiegman (CR) Raymond Williams "Dominant, Residual, Emergent" (1977) Law and Politics of Internet Activism Tactical Media and Tactical Knowledge "The Undisciplined and Punishment: On-line Resistance to the Prison Industrial Complex in the United States" in Handheld Visions, The impossible possibilities of community media by DeeDee Halleck (CR)
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Hands-on web work.
online video: .. Formulate four questions that relate to the piece...by... Film: "Sans Soleil" by Chris Marker |
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MON 10/ 14 WED 10/ 16 Appropriation: Look-alike web sites; spamming as art and the politics of code
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.. "You're In Bad Hands With Allstate" American Express
Microsoftedu.com
Jet-tour.com
Wendy's
Billionaires for Bush (or Gore)
Drink Ceci-Cela! / Buvez Ceci-Cela! The Rise and Decline of the SyndicateMailinglist C-Spam, a gift to the American public
"Zapatistas: The Recombinant Movie," Ricardo Dominguez Look-Alike Web Site Mocks Giuliani's Senate Ambitions Optional Reading: |
Hands-on web work.
Work on group assignment. Preparation for group interview with net artist ...... then: Interview Listen: Free Software Movement , Richard Stullmann at Ruckus (MP3, 30 MB) |
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MON 10/ 21 WED 10/ 23 Cyborgs,
biopower, bioproperty - Cloning for everyone
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Tenacity: Cultural Practices in the Age of Information and Biotechnology Eva Wohlgemuth, the evasys.bodyscan Bioinformatics by Thacker, Eugene Bureau of Inverse Technology (BIT) Cloning for everyone Genetic Engineering Action Network Bio-Trans Biotic Baking Brigade Orlan (Some images of the surgery) Lynn Hershman, Deep Contact The Visible Human Project
"Cyborging the Body Politics. Obsolete Bodies and Posthuman Beings" in Escape Velocity by Mark Dery (CR) "What does it mean to be posthuman?" in How we Became Posthuman by N. Katherine Hayles (CR) Video on reserve: "Bladerunner," Ridley Scott Optional Reading: Harvesting the Net: Memory Flesh .. |
Hands-on web work. Individual assistance
with your project. .. then: interview ...... |
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MON 10/28 WED 10/30 The
Evaporating
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'Cyberdemocracy:
Internet
and the Public Sphere.' Mark Poster Geert Lovink interview with Herbert Schiller "Spectres of Cyberspace" by Geoffrey Batchen in The Visual Culture Reader, ed. by Nicholas Mirzoeff (CR) .. Optional Reading: Exposing the global surveillance system "Taking Back the Streets" in Tearing Down the Streets. Adventures in Urban Anarchy by Jeff Ferrell, p91-147 (CR) .. Institute for Applied Autonomy
Video: |
How to record, digitize and attach sound
to a web site?
Individual assistance with your project. Preparation for group interview with ... Interview |
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MON 11/04 WED 11/06 Privacy anyone ?From Panopticum to Pancodicon
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.. Censored "JennyCam" by Jenny http://www.surveillance-and-society.org
Playgiarism On The Net, Mark America, Privacy Won't Help Us (Fight Surveillance) by Felix Stalder and Jesse Hirsh
Optional Reading: |
Individual assistance with your project. Image: |
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MON 11/11 WED 11/13 Hacking
as practice
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Hacking the Border (Fran Ilich)
Read selections from Eric Raymond's The Jargon File: An Online Hacker's Dictionary. "Hackers: the political heroes of cyberspace" Stuart Millar Optional Reading: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier. Urbana: Project Gutenberg, 1994. "The Hacker Crackdown: Sterling, Bruce "For the Millennium," Harold Jaffe "Viruses Are Good for You," Julian Dibbell |
Interview with... |
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MON 11/18 WED 11/20 Red
Dot: Commodification
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.. Consumerama
"The Politics of Consumption" in Consuming Passions by Judith Williamson p229-233 (1985) (CR) THE
SOCIETY OF THE SPECTACLE Chapter 2: "Casting
a Wider Net," 2001 Optional Reading: "Time and space as sources of social power" by David Harvey, p226 - 239 in The Condition of Postmodernity (CR) "So Much for the Magic of Technology and the Free Market: The World Wide Web and the Corporate Media System" Robert McChesney .. "Green Card Lottery," 1994 |
Individual assistance with your project. |
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MON 11/25
Fall Recess until Fri 11/ 29 "We are Teen, We’re Queer, and We’ve got E-mail." or "RUMorF?"
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"Will the Real Body Please Stand Up?" Allucuere Rosanne (Sandy) Stone "So Please Stop, Thank You': Girls Online" Michele Evard Optional Reading: "Violation and Virtuality" Stone, Allucquere Rosanne "Who Am We?" Interview with Sherry Turkle "You are what you see," Jay Bolter "Sex and Death among the Cyborgs" Interview with Sandy Stone
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Mon 12/ 02 Wed 12/ 04 "If I can't dance I don't want to be part of your revolution" Sound and DIY Radio
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Listen: John Hudak Radio: Airwave anarchy Discussion and critique of final projects. Lab: ---
"Questions for Steven Vitiello" "Waves in the Web," JJosephine Bosma "Net Radio," Josephine Bosma Communication" Bertold Brecht |
 Final Exam
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