Teaching Assistants:
Lisa Hutton
Rachel Stevens
COURSE OVERVIEW
The class consists of a weekly lecture and lab. The lectures will cover
the history of computers and computing in the arts, and theories and trends
in new media art and digital culture.We will investigate conceptual strategies
and creative possibilities for artists working in new media and will examine
the immense visual, social, and psychological impact of the "Digital Revolution"
on our culture.Thoughout the quarter, we will view a broad range of work
by artists who use the computer as a medium, as a tool, as subject matter
or all of the above, screening projects on CD-ROMS, the Web and videos
as well as other cultural artifacts of the digital age, from games to chat
rooms. During weekly labs, students will be introduced to the Silicon Graphics
work station and will use some of its basic media and mail tools to develop
art projects. Also during labs, students will discuss the required readings
and present and critique their art projects.
CLASS REQUIREMENTS
1. Art projects
2. Assignments and readings
3. Final exam
4. Attendance and Promptness
GRADING POLICY AND GENERAL RULES
All assignments must be turned on time. Failure to complete work on
due date will result in a full letter grade reduction for each subsequent
class in which project is not turned in . Final projects must be turned
in on time to receive credit. No late final projects will be accepted.
There is no make-up time for the final exam.
ATTENDANCE
In the case of an excused absentee, student will provide a written
excuse or a doctor's note. Student will be allowed one unexcused absentees
for a lecture and one for a lab during the quarter. After this limit, each
unexcused absentee will automatically lower student's grade one half a
letter grade. At the end of the lectures, students must sign attendance
sheet being passed around or held onto by their teaching assistant. Arriving
to class late, forgetting to sign attendance sheet or leaving early will
be counted as absentee on the student's record.
MATERIALS
Zip disk for backing up projects.
ON-LINE JOURNALS TO SUBSCRIBE TO OR SURF
Rhizome
Telepolis
Ctheory
Speed
Hotwired
RECOMMENDED Art Sites
Turbulence
Adaweb
The Thing
Screening:
Olia Lialina
Adib Fricke, Leonardo Da Vinci's Smile*
Julia Scher:
konsent klinik
(Outside of class: )Gary Hill, "Tall Ships" University Art Gallery
Mandville Center
Tu-Sat 11 AM - 4 PM
Reading
Vannevar
Bush, As We May Think (1945)
Screening/Surfing:
UNIX Cheat
Sheet
History of Computers
Historic computer
images
The
Virtual museum of Computing
Timeline
of Events in Computer History
Project 1:
due the week of 10/29 during lab
Reading
Toshiya Ueno, A Preliminary
Thesis Toward The Work of Art in the Age of Cyber Technology
Paul Virilio, Speed and Information:
Cyberspace Alarm!
Mark
Amerika, Surf-Sample-Manipulate: Playgiarism On The Net
Screening/Surfing
General Internet Information
Basic Internet Terms
Internet Timeline
An
Outlined History of the Internet
A
Beginners Guide to HTML
HTML
Quick Reference
Hypertext and Hypermedia
Sample VA40 Student
Project, Spring 97 by Kiera Lofgreen
The
Surrealism Compliment Generator
Paul Vee, Charlotte
Mario
Hergueta, In the Text
Christa Erikson,
Coding Tricks
Paul Vanouse, The Persistant
Data Confidante
Nino Rodriguez, Face
Value
Cyberpoetry
Interactive
Poems
Stuart Moulthrop,
Sketch for a New Interactive Fiction;Stratosphere
Laurie Anderson,
Here
Alexei Shulgin, Form art
Reading
Interview
with Jodi
John
Walker, Through the Looking Glass; Beyond "User Interfaces"
Simon
Penny, Consumer Culture and the Technological Imperative: The Artist in
Dataspace
Screening/Surfing:
Blind Rom*
Calculators, from ID Interactive Design, 1996*
Jodi
Vertical blanking interval
Jeremy Quinn,Future Sound of
London on Line
Reading
Andy Cameron
Dissimulations: Illusions of Interactivity
Grahame
Weinbren, The Digital Revolution is a Revolution of Random Access
Optional Reading:
Jay
David Bolter, Digital Media and Cinematic Point of View
Screening/Surfing
Marcel Duchamp's
Rotoreliefs
Fluxus on Line
Nam June
Paik
Myst*
The Residents: Bad Day on The Midway*
Grahame Weinbren
Nino Rodriguez, Boy*
Adrienne Jenik, Mauve Desert*
George Legrady, Slippery Traces and
Ken Feingold, JCJ -Junkman from Artintact 3, ZKM*
Group Z , I
Confess
Reading
William
J. Mitchell, Intention and Artifice
Lev
Manovich, The Labor of Perception
Optional Reading:
William
J. Mitchell, How to Do Things with Pictures
Screening/Surfing
El Lissitzky,
The Constructor, Self Portrait
Early Computer
Art, Cybernetic Serendipity
David Em
Mariko Mori
More
Markio Mori
(Art)n Laboratory
Digital Reserves
7:30 Museum of Contemporary Art, 700 Prospect Street, La Jolla
Video screening program: "Surveillance Culture/Surveying Culture"
Reading
Harold
Cohen, The further exploits of AARON, Painter
Pattie
Maes, Artificial Life meets Entertainment: Lifelike Autonomous Agents
Optional Reading:
Julian
Dibbell,Viruses Are Good for You;Spawn of the devil, computer viruses may
help us realize the full potential of the Net.
Screening/Surfing
The Turing
Test
Face
Recognition Demo
Chris
Csikszentmihalyi, Character Input
Smart
Chair
Smart
Cameras
Smart
Cloths
Machine Understanding:
Grammatical Analysis
Eliza
Simon
Penny
Craig Reynolds, Boids
Luc Courchesne, Portrait 1, Artintact 2*
Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau projects:
A-Volve
(A
still from project)
Ars Electronic
1993: GENETIC ART - ARTIFICIAL LIFE
Naoko Tosa, Neruo
Baby
Eva Wohlgemuth, the evasys.bodyscan
Lynn Hershman
, Deep Contact
A Room of
Ones Own
The
Visible Human Project
bureau of inverse
technology (BIT)
Is big brother
watching you?
Video: Spies Above: Someone is Watching You
Reading
Thanksgiving recipes
from Aunt Emma: Thanksgiving football cookies
The Family Fun Network - Thanksgiving
Recipes
10. 12/3:Telepresence. VR and other Immersive Environments
Reading
Michael
Heim, The Essence of VR
Sandy
Stone, Will the Real Body Please Stand Up?
Optional Reading
Sandy
Stone, Mondo 2000 Interview
Julian
Dibbell, "Rape in Cyberspace"
Zoe Beloff,
Statement on Beyond (Ideas)
Screening/Surfing
Zoe Beloff, Beyond (1996)
Sheldon
Brown
Telepresence Research,
Inc.
The Telegarden
Eduardo Kac,
Ornitorrinco in Eden
Teleporting an Unknown
State
Construct
The Palace
Survival Research Laboratories
Char Davies
Marshall McLuhan,"The
Playboy Interview"
The
fe.mail data_set
Diane Bertolo, Probing into Science [An Investigation] (1995)
Nobukiro Shibayama, Bio-Morph Encyclopedia *
Net Animations:
John Hudak,
Artifact
Bullseye art
