Cultural Theory & Data-Based Art

Demonstrations
Resources

WEEK 11 --
THE BODY AS ARCHIVE



(Genetic databases as surveillance systems)

--the Human Genome Project

READ: Database/Body by Eugene Thacker on Jan 20 2000 http://switch.sjsu.edu/nextswitch/switch_engine/front/front.php?artc=243

READ: "The Body and the Archive" by Allan Sekula, in "The Contest of Meaning," Cambridge, Massachussetts, 1992, pp. 342-388

WEBSITE: Exhibition; Body and the Archive Exhibition

// Art project of the week:

Databank of the Everyday by Natalie Bookchin (CD ROM, 1999) http://contactzones.cit.cornell.edu/artists/natalie_bookchin.html

Lynn Hershman

WEDNESDAY:


FORM INPUT
- form syntax
- where does the data go?
- GET vs. POST methods
- checking user input LOOPS
- why loops are important
- for & foreach statement syntax
- loop counters
- exiting a loop

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