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Report on the Construction of
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Net Cultures: Art, Politics, and the Everyday by Trebor Scholz e.mail TS | DMS 415 |
Mondays
Reading,
Web-Excursions, |
Wednesdays
Lab Lab Access: find lab schedule on door. |
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Mon 01/13 Wed 01/15 What is a magic cookie?
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Introduction to the syllabus Your Health
Major mailing lists
Subscription to one of these lists is required. optional subscription to magazines "The Bag," Vilem Flusser News |
Setting
up your web space, subscription to mailing list
A Short History of the Internet,
Bruce Sterling Art sites to visit once a month Online journals to visit |
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Wed 01/22
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Martin
Luther King Holiday
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Introduction
to Dreamweaver
Image galleries in Photoshop, droplets, batching Uploading your files to the server (ftp). .. |
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Mon 01/27 Wed 01/29 Web-specific
art
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Quiz #1 (covers week 1 - 2) "Histories" of NetArt: http://www.calarts.edu/%7Eline/history.html
.. .. Optional reading: .. more links to net art
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.. create a hypertext piece also see:
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Mon 02/03 Wed 02/05 Access
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Guillermo Gomez Pena, The Virtual Barrio @ the Other Frontier (or the Chicago Internerta) Listen: How wide is the Digital Divide (RealAudio) The demonization of the immigrant
(mp3) Optional Reading: .. Redundant technology initiative Using Obsolete Technology |
Assignment #1 due Wednesday 2/5 in my e.mail inbox
Create an animation consisting of 15 hand drawn images and upload (ftp) it to your web account. or .
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MON 02/10 WED 02/12 From games, digital narratives and the moving image online
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Quiz #2 (covers week 3- 4)..
Mark America "Grammatron" (1999) When my Boyfriend came back from the War by Olia Lialina, and Anna Karenina Goes to Paradise "The
Intruder," Natalie Bookchin Alex Shulgin "Form" and "Desktop"
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Optional Reading: McKenzie Wark, "The Video Game as Emergent Media Form"
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 |
Class Critique Adapt a Site .. |
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MON 02/17 WED 02/19 Cyborgs? Biopower, bioproperty - Cloning for everyone |
What does it mean to be posthuman? "The Body and bio-technical systems" in "The Body in Late Capitalist USA" by Donald M. Lowe p111-119
Tenacity: Cultural Practices in the Age of Information and Biotechnology Eva Wohlgemuth, the evasys.bodyscan Bioinformatics by Thacker, Eugene Video on reserve: Optional Reading: Harvesting the Net: Memory Flesh .. |
Class Critique
Mouseover Example (Ron Douglas) Example 2 (Chungyul Yu)
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MON 02/24 WED 02/26 Resistance
is Futile:
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informal mid-semster teaching evaluation
Bureau of Inverse Technology (BIT) Crossing Borders
Listen (mp3):
Tactical Media and Tactical Knowledge
Optional Reading:
"Tactical Media" (1997)
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independent lab work |
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MON 03/03 WED 03/05 Micro politics-- spamming as art and the politics of code
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"You're In Bad
Hands With Allstate" Yesrudy.com (offline now) Drink Ceci-Cela!
/ Buvez Ceci-Cela! Communication" Bertold Brecht
Optional Reading: |
Create a web-based work involving sound. Do not use pre-recorded sounds
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MON 03/17 WED 03/19 Bandwidth-
The Evaporating
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Quiz #3 (covers week 5-10)..
'Cyberdemocracy:
Internet
and the Public Sphere.' Mark Poster
Optional Reading: Saskia Sassen, "Urban Economies and Fading Distances" Geert Lovink interview with Herbert Schiller
.. Exposing the global surveillance system
.. Institute for Applied Autonomy
Video: |
class moved to: Tuesday, March 18
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MON 03/24 WED 03/26 Privacy
anyone?
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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: |
assignment #4 due in my inbox |
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MON 03/31
Hacking
as practice
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Quiz #4
Hacking the Border (Fran Ilich)
"Hackers: the political heroes of cyberspace" Stuart Millar Optional Reading: Read selections from Eric Raymond's The Jargon File: An Online Hacker's Dictionary. 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 |
Celebrity Scholars Series. No class. |
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MON 04/07 WED 04/09 From
e.goldrush to dotbomb: Commodification
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.. Poetry:
"The Politics of Consumption" in Consuming Passions by Judith Williamson (1985) "Consumerism versus Citizenship. The Fight for the global common." in "No Logo" by Naomi Klein, p 439-446 "Cyberculture
in the Dotcom Age" p232 THE
SOCIETY OF THE SPECTACLE Chapter 2: Optional Reading: "Casting
a Wider Net," 2001 "Time and space as sources of social power" by David Harvey, in The Condition of Postmodernity "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 |
Present your favorite sites
web work |
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MON 04/14 WED 04/16 "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
"Rape in Cyber Space" Optional Reading: "Violation and Virtuality" Stone, Allucquere Rosanne "Who Am We?" Interview with Sherry Turkle "You are what you see," Jay Bolter
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Quiz
#5 (covers week 10-14) completion of all assignments to date web work |
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Mon 04/21 Wed 04/23 From virtual class to pixel pushers and net slaves: working in the IT sector
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"No-Collar" excerpt, by Andrew Ross (handout) Geert Lovink "Dark Fiber" (handout) .
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Assignment #1 (Your URL due Wednesday
2/5 in my e.mail inbox 
