Syllabus Spring 2003

Description

Requirements

Grades

E .mail

Mon 01/13

Wed 01/15

Introductions

Syllabus // required book

student web space

Requirements

Subscribe to nettime-l (English)

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Participants in this class are encouraged to also take
Chris Eggert's Introduction to Programming for the Web.

Short presentations of your past work.
URLs, visual material, texts.

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Assignment #1
due Wednesday 02/03 in my e.mail inbox:
Conceptualization, Design of Interface

From cyber elite to pixel pusher, from net artist to technohobbyist

Mon 01/20

Wed 01/22

Martin Luther King Day

"Cyberculture in the Dotcom Age" p330

and

"Portrait of the Virtual Intellectual" in
"Dark Fiber" by Geert Lovink p 30-40

Poetry:

Lynval Golding, 'Do Nothing'

Vladimir Mayakovsky:
On the Democratization of Art

Summary by Alison Farrell &
Matthew Jacobson

From assembly line to data flow

Mon 01/27

Wed 01/29

"The Rise and Fall of the Dotcom Mania" p350-368
in "Dark Fiber" by Geert Lovink

"Radical Media Pragmatism"p 219-225
in "Dark Fiber" by Geert Lovink

Summary by Michael Roth & Colin Yu

"Hi-Low: The Bandwidth Dilemma" p 372-377 in "Dark Fiber" by Geert Lovink

Summary by Nathan Whidden &
Ron Douglas

Individual consultation on the progress of your interface

Net art
Mon 02/03

Wed 02/05

Assignment #1 due in my e.mail inbox

QUIZ #1 on texts weeks 2 & 3

Class critiques of your work.

Rehersal for web cast (February 10)

..

Lecture on:

.. Rachel Greene, Introduction to Net.Art

Case studies, site seeing:

When my Boyfriend came back from the War by Olia Lialina, and Anna Karenina Goes to Paradise

Mark America "Grammatron"

"The Intruder," Natalie Bookchin

David Blair, Wax Web

360degrees.org

Alex Shulgin "Form" and "Desktop"

Bureau of Inverse Technology (BIT)

McSpotlight

Zapatista floodnet

ReclaimThe.Net

Resource:

Intersections of Art, Technology, Science & Culture

Optional Reading:

"Modernist painting" by Clement Greenberg (1960)

MON 02/10

WED 02/12

Live at Munich Theatre and Bauhaus University

...In class Assignment #2

On Wednesday, February 10, in class from 2-4pm we will perform a live web cast that will be projected in the New Theatre in Munich (Germany) and simultaneously at Bauhaus University, Weimar. This live web streaming event is part of an exhibition called "BorderZap" and our stream takes place as part of this thematic exhibition by the group "No One Is Illegal."

We covered some of their work last semester in this class. You will each perform a 2 minute long personal narrative that you will describe your experience crossing an international border (ie. US/Canada, US/Mexico or others). You will be joined by students and faculty from other classes and departments.

Continue work

Java Script Slide Show

Rollover link sound

Sound
Example
http://www2.arnes.si/~ljintima3/revolution/

Resources:

Sound Guide

MON 02/17

WED 02/19

"Jobs in Candyland: An Introduction"
in "No-Collar. The Human Workplace
and its Hidden Costs." by Andrew Ross

"Speaking Truth to Power"
in "Representations of the Intellectual"
by Edward Said p85-102

Summary byBenjamin Shepard & Nathan Whidden

Listen (mp3):

Lecture by Richard Stallman:
Free Software Movement

Case studies

Hacktivism.org

http://rtmark.com

Surveillance Camera Players

FreeSpeech TV

Virtual Palestine

Independent Media Center

http://easylife.org/netart/

http://www.calarts.edu/%7Eline/history.html

Netartistas Latinoamericanos

Search engine for net art

Cultural Terrorist Agency

Adbusters

News Hour

MON 02/24

WED 02/26

Bring news clips

S-11, by GNN (Quicktime, 46.9 MB)

Aliens (Real Audio, 1.9 MB)

State of the Union (Quicktime, 550 KB)

Wired

Hotwired

Nettime

NY Times Technology section

Daily news sources

QUIZ #2 on material of week 4 (case studies) and week 5 (reading)

Independent lab work, start assignment # 3

Resistance is Futile. Tactical media activism?

MON 03/03

WED 03/05

Assignment #3 due WED 03/26 in my inbox

Build a site that emphasizes its web-specificity by linking to outside sites in a meaningful way.

Flash Sites

http://www.actionscript.org/
Getting Started with action script
http://www.memexengine.com/
http://crca.ucsd.edu/~rmayeri/gene531.html
http://www.mobilegaze.com/utopia/
http://ctheorymultimedia.cornell.edu/issue002/2/intro.html
http://wundernet.cofa.unsw.edu.au/
http://www.incident.net/
http://www.muzzle.org/smartchild/main.html
http://www.e-2.org/word_perhect.html

Screening

MON 03/10

WED 03/12

Spring Recess

Spring Recess

MON 03/17

WED 03/19

Net art news

"Insider Guide to Tactical Media"
in "Dark Fiber" by Geert Lovink p 256-273

"The DEF of Tactical Media" (1993)

The ABC of Tactical Media

Summary byFrancisco Velasquez & Loren Sonnenberg

Critical Art Ensemble

Class moved to: Tuesday, March 18
12:30 - 1:50 pm
205 Natural Sciences Complex

Lecture:

Barry Wellman, University of Toronto
THE INTERNET IN EVERYDAY LIFE:
Living Networked in a Wired (and Wireless) World

MON 03/24

WED 03/26

QUIZ #3 on week 6

"Network, Fears and Desires"
in "Dark Fiber" by Geert Lovink

"Electronic Surveillance in the Workplace"

Summary by Michael Roth & Andrew Celestino

Assignment #3 due WED 03/26 in my inbox

Net.art news

"Information Warfare:
From Propaganda Critique to Culture Jamming"
in "Dark Fiber" by Geert Lovink

.."Organized Innocence and War
in the New Europe: Adilkno, Culture and
Independent Media" p 278-295
in "Dark Fiber" by Geert Lovink

"Community" in "Keywords"
by Raymond Williams

Summary by Alison Farrell & Paul Visco

MON 03/31

WED 04/02

Lab work

individual conferences

Celebrity Scholars Series. No class.

MON 04/07

WED 04/09

Lab work

Visiting Artist: Valerie Tevere

MON 04/14

WED 04/16

Lab work

Grade for project-- mid-production period

QUIZ #4 on readings of semester

Lab work

Mon 04/21

Wed 04/23

Lab work

Class critique

Lab work

Mon 04/28

 Final group critique

The grade for the final result of your project will be based on artistic quality 25%, technical functionality 25%, applying of meta data /search results 25%, thoughtfulness 25%

Web hosting:

http://free.prohosting.com/
http://www.freeservers.com/
http://www.TopHosts.com/
http://www.digitalspace.net/

Recommended Reading:

Cyberactivism
Online Activism in Theory and Practice
Routledge Press, New York, NY. 2003

The Internet in Everyday Life
Barry Wellman and Caroline Haythornthwaite, eds.
Oxford: Blackwell Publishing. November 2002.

Uncanny Networks
Geert Lovink, MIT. 2003