Cultural Theory & Data-Based Art

WEEK 6 --
THE DATABASE AS A GENRE OF NEW MEDIA

READ: Database as a Genre of New Media [1] Lev Manovich http://time.arts.ucla.edu/AI_Society/manovich.html

Database as a Genre of New Media [2] http://rhizome.org/thread.rhiz?thread=287&text=1303

READ: SWITCH interview with Manovich on Databases
http://switch.sjsu.edu/nextswitch/switch_engine/front/front.php?artc=250

// Art project of the week:

SOFT CINEMA by Lev Manovich
http://www.manovich.net/cinema_future/toc.htm

WEDNESDAY:

30 min Quiz about lectures to date

DATA TYPES
- numbers, text, binary information
- constants, variables
- assigning values to variables
- changing the content of variables