Cultural Theory & Data-Based Art

Demonstrations
readings at a glance

WEEK 3 --
DATA MONTAGE


The Terms we Use:
Archive, Database, Theory, Memory, Culture, Art, Data, History

READ: "Database as symbolic form"
by Lev Manovich (thank you: Amy Alexander)



lecture with excerpts from p43 in READ_ME 2.3 READER, about software art

From William Griffith to Dziga Vertov

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FILM:

"Man With the Movie Camera" Vertov

"Battleship Potemkin" Sergej Eisenstein

"Birth of a Nation" by William Griffith

// Art project of the week:

They Rule by Josh On

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Nine //community project

WEDNESDAY:


INTRODUCTION TO MYSQL
- what is SQL?
- designing table structures from a data model
- setting up a database: CREATE statement
- types of fields
- adding content
- retrieving content

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