History of Digital Art 476

Penn State University — School of Visual Arts
Spring 2013
ART 476 History of Digital Art
Professor: Eduardo Navas (eduardo@navasse.net)
Th 2:30 – 5:30 PM
Office Hours: Tuesdays 2:30 to 3:30 by Appointment
Please contact me at: ean13@psu.edu
Syllabus: Online
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ASSIGNMENTS WEEKLY SITES
Week 17:
Final Essay due:Monday, April 29, 2013


Week 16:
Thursday, April 25, 2013

Finish Lecture from April 18, and discuss final details for final exam.

 


Week 15:
Thursday, April 18, 2013
Read:
Digital Art, Chapter 3, “Themes in Digital Art,” 139 – 246

Answer questions available on Angel. Discussion takes place from Friday, April 19 to Wednesday, April 16, 2013.

 


Week 14:
Thursday, April 11, 2014Read:
“Introduction” and “Cartographic Imaginaries” from Latin American Identity in Online Cultural Production, by Claire Taylor and Thea Pitman

Answer questions available on Angel. Discussion takes place from Friday, April 12 to Wednesday,  April 17, 2013.


Week 13:
Thursday, April 4, 2013
Final Essay Guidelines Released
Read:
Internet Art, Chapter 4, “Art for Networks,” 173 – 212
Continue discussing Baudrillard

Answer questions available on Angel. Discussion takes place from Friday, April 4 to Wednesday, April 10, 2013.

 


Week 12:
Thursday, March 28, 2013
Read:
Internet Art, Chapter 3, “Themes in Internet Art,” 119 – 168
Jean Baudrillard “Precession of Simulacra” (PDF, To be Discussed on April 4 as well)

Answer Questions on Angel

 


Week 11:
Thursday, March 21, 2013
Read:
Eduardo Navas, “Modular Complexity and Remix: The Collapse of Time and Space into Search,” ( PDF: http://remixtheory.net/?p=678 )
Jean-Francois Lyotard – What is the Postmodern? – The Postmodern Condition, pp. 71 – 82

 


Week 10:
Thursday, March 14, 2013
Read:
Internet Art, Chapter 2: “Isolating Elements,” 73 – 116
Digital Art, Chapter 2: “Digital Technologies,” 67 – 138

 


Week 9:
Thursday, March 7, 2013
Spring Break

 


Week 8:
Thursday, February 28, 2013
Midterm Essay Due
Lecture on Media Art: Postmodernism and Posthumanism

 


Week 7:
Thursday, February 21, 2013

Midterm Essay Released

Finish discussing Vannevar Bush and Billy Kluver

Begin Discussing:
Internet Art, chapter 1: 31 – 72
Digital Art: Chapter 1: 27 – 65

 


Week 6:
Thursday, February 14, 2013

Finish Discussing The Postmodern Condition.

Begin discussing Vannevar Bush, “As we May Think” in the New Media Reader, pp. 35 – 48 (PDF)
Bily Kluver, “Four Selections by Experiments in Art and Technology,” in The New Media Reader, pp. 211 – 226 (PDF)

 


Week 5:
Thursday, February 7, 2013

Finish discussing Fredric Jameson and Jean-Francois Lyotard.

Answer questions available on Angel. Discussion takes place from Friday, February 8, to Wednesday, February 13, 2013.

 


Week 4:
Thursday, January 31, 2013

Read:
Jean Francois Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge, pp.vii – 67

(Will be discussed along with Fredric Jameson’s text on postmodernism,from week 2)

Answer questions available on Angel. Discussion takes place from Friday, February 1, to Wednesday, February 6, 2013.


 

Week 3:
Thursday, January 24, 2013

Read:
Internet Art, “Introduction,” pp. 8 – 28
Digital Art, “Introduction,” pp. 7 – 25
(PDFs available on Angel until you acquire your own copy)

Answer questions available on Angel. Discussion takes place from Friday, January 25, to Wednesday, January 30, 2013.

 


Week 2:
Thursday, January 17, 2013

Lesson online

Complete assigned reading plus online material available on Angel and answer and discuss questions available on Angel Forum for the readings below

Read:
David Hopkins, “The Politics of Modernism: Abstract Expressionism and the European Informel,” After Modern Art: 1945 — 2000, pp. 5 — 34
David Hopkins, “Postmodernism: Theory and Practice in the 1980s,” After Modern Art: 1945 — 2000, pp. 197 — 231
Fredric Jameson “Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism”

Answer questions available on Angel. Discussion takes place from Friday, January 18, to Wednesday, January 23, 2013.


Week 1:
Thursday, January 10, 2013
Introduction | Brief overview of the History of Digital Art
Lecture on Modernism, Postmodernism and New Media

 

Week 16:Links for the Week of April 25, 2013Closing Comments, Reflections on the importance of art:Sweden: October/November 2009
Notes on Sweden’s Approach to Art and Exhibitions:
Fargfabriken: http://remixtheory.net/?p=401
Interactive Institute: http://remixtheory.net/?p=402
Magasin 3: http://remixtheory.net/?p=403
Iaspis: http://remixtheory.net/?p=404
Mejan Labs: http://remixtheory.net/?p=405
Various Museums in Gothenburg: http://remixtheory.net/?p=406The State of Swift Production: Interactivos?’08, Madrid, Spain
Part 1 of 3: http://remixtheory.net/?p=315
Part 2 of 3: http://remixtheory.net/?p=319
Part 3 of 3: http://remixtheory.net/?p=320

Christian Marclay, “The Clock”
http://boingboing.net/2013/02/28/christian-marclays-the-clo.html
http://wexarts.org/exhibitions/christian-marclay-clock
http://vimeo.com/34837140

Matthew Barney, “Cremaster, Part 4”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eR1TUXBdYCQ

Art 21 about Matthew Barney:
http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/matthew-barney

Beatriz da Costa:
http://www.beatrizdacosta.net/

http://www.beatrizdacosta.net/pigeonblog.phphttp://www.beatrizdacosta.net/swipe.php

http://beatrizdacosta.net/Dying_for_the_Other/
http://beatrizdacosta.net/Life_Garden/
http://histcon.ucsc.edu/news-events/profiles/beatriz-da-costa.html

 

 


 

Week 15:

Links for the Week of April 18, 2013

Focus: Artificial Intelligence to Databases

Alan Turing:
Brief Biography
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/people/alan_turing
The Turing Test
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/turing-test/
Turing Test Competition:
http://www.loebner.net/Prizef/loebner-prize.html

Roy Ascott and Telematics
http://telematic.walkerart.org/timeline/timeline_shanken.html

Jaron Lanier, “Agents of Alienation”
http://www.jaronlanier.com/agentalien.html

John McArthy on Artificial Intelligence:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ozipf13jRr4

Article on Moholy Nagy and his paintings made with instructions given by telephone:
http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2009/12/22
/authentic-art-by-telephone/

Eduardo Kac
Rara Avis (1996):
http://www.ekac.org/raraavis.html
Time Capsule (1997):
http://www.ekac.org/figs.html

Stelarc, Ping body, (1999):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTYYJZG0f68

Kenneth Feingold, Self-portrait at the Center of the Universe (1998-2001):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EK-7w56jN0E

Martin Wattenberg, Apartment (2001)
http://www.bewitched.com/apartment.html

Benjamin Fry, Valence (1999)
http://benfry.com/valence/

John Klima, Ecosystm (2000)
http://www.cityarts.com/lmno/ecosystm.html

Lynn Hershman at DAM:
http://dam.org/artists/phase-three/lynn-hershman-
leeson/artworks/2000-04

 


 

Week 14:

Links for the Week of April 11, 2013

Focus: After the Map: narratives of globalization

Netart Latino Database:
http://netart.org.uy/latino/

Eduardo Navas:
Plastico
http://navasse.net/plastico02/index.html

Praba Pilar:
Cyberlandia Project
http://www.prabapilar.com/pages/projects/cyberlabia.htm

Three Junctures of Remix:
http://gallery.calit2.net/

Exhibition, A Modular Framework:
http://navasse.net/modular/

P2P[iece]:
http://navasse.net/p2pF/

 


Week 13:

Links for the week of April 4, 2013

Focus: Simulation and Criticality

The Loud Family:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_American_Family
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sF3bs4xvbYg

The Real World:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Real_World
http://www.mtv.com/shows/real_world/brooklyn/series.jhtml

Wolfgang Staehle:
Untitled, (2001) http://www.e-flux.com/announcements/2001-an-installation-by-wolfgang-staehle/

Bang Lab Drones at home:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/07/drone-crash-uc-san-diego_n_2258323.html?ir=College

Bang Lab’s Transborder Immigrant Tool:
http://post.thing.net/node/1642

Exhibition, A Modular Framework:
http://navasse.net/modular/

Michael Mandiberg:
Shop Mandiberg
http://mandiberg.com/shop/
After Sherrie Levine:
http://www.aftersherrielevine.com/
After Walker Evans
http://www.afterwalkerevans.com/

Keith Obadike:
“Blackness for Sale”
http://obadike.tripod.com/ebay.html

Damali Ayo
“Rent-a-Negro”
http://www.salon.com/2003/05/14/ayo/
http://damaliayo.com/book%20promos/pages/How%20to%20Rent.htm

Jonnah Peretti and Chelsea Peretti:
“Black People Love Us”
http://www.blackpeopleloveus.com/


Week 12:

Links for the week of March 28, 2013

Focus: Simulation and Networks

etoy.com:
http://etoy.com/

Mongrel:
Heritage Gold, http://v2.nl/archive/works/heritage-gold-1-0
Uncomfortable Proximity, http://www2.tate.org.uk/intermediaart/entry15266.shtm

Futurefarmers:
They rule, http://www.theyrule.net/2001/theyrule.html

Lisa Jevbratt:
1:1, http://128.111.69.4/~jevbratt/1_to_1/index_ng.html

Jodi:
SOD, http://www.leonardo.info/gallery/gallery351/jodi.html

Runme.org: http://runme.org/

Turbulence.org: http://turbulence.org


Week 10:

Links for the Week of March 14, 2013

Focus: Network, film, and space

Netart Latino Database:
http://netart.org.uy/latino/

Ben Benjamin’s Superbad (1995 – 97):
http://superbad.com/

@rtmark (1995 – 2003):
http://rtmark.com/history.html
e-toy:
http://www.etoy.com/

John F Simon Jr.(1997 – Present)
http://www.numeral.com/

Web Stalker, Matthew Fuller (1997):
http://bak.spc.org/iod/
http://artelectronicmedia.com/artwork/the-web-stalker
http://v2.nl/archive/works/the-web-stalker

The Shredder, Mark Napier (1998):
http://www.potatoland.org/shredder/shredder.html

Heavy Industries (2001 – Present):
http://www.yhchang.com/

World of Awe, Yael Kanarek:
http://www.worldofawe.net/index.html

Film Text, Mark Amerika (2001-02):
http://www.markamerika.com/filmtext/

Mouchette (1996 – Present):
http://www.mouchette.org/

Jeffrey Shaw:
http://www.jeffrey-shaw.net/

Rafael Lozano Hemmer:
http://www.lozano-hemmer.com/

Wax web, David Blair (1993):
http://www.waxweb.org/

201 a space algorhithm, Jennifer and Kevin McCoy (2001):
http://www.mccoyspace.com/project/48/

No Ghost, Just a Shell, Phillippe Parreno and Pierre Huyghe (2000):
http://www.noghostjustashell.com/

Peter Horvath:
http://www.peterhorvath.net/

 


Week 8:

Links for the Week of February 28, 2013

Focus: Posthumanism

2045: The Year Man Becomes Immortal
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2048299,00.html

Singularity: How Scared Should We Be?
http://www.time.com/time/video/player/0,32068,
784887564001_2048332,00.html

Ray Kurzweil on “I’ve Got a Secret”:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4Neivqp2K4

The Singularity (documentary) Trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_
embedded&v=kJDvdEQJOew#!

Ray Kurzweil TED Talk – Singularity University:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJsHRltEVBc

 

Artists:

Stelarc, Ping body, (1999):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTYYJZG0f68

Kenneth Feingold, Self-portrait at the Center of the Universe (1998-2001):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EK-7w56jN0E

Eduardo Kac, Time Capsule (1997):
http://www.ekac.org/figs.html

Adrianne Wortzel, Camouflage Town (2001):
http://vimeo.com/34525688

Natalie Jeremijenko:
http://www.nyu.edu/projects/xdesign/onetrees/

 


Week 7:

Links for the Week of February 21, 2013

Introduction to Concepts of New Media and Net Art

Olia Lialina:
http://art.teleportacia.org/olia.html
My Boyfriend Came Back from the War: http://www.teleportacia.org/war/

Heath Bunting:
http://irational.org/
Bunting CV: http://irational.org/cgi-bin/cv2/temp.pl
Refresh: http://www.irational.org/fresh.html
Cybercafe: http://www.irational.org/cybercafe/
Readme: http://www.irational.org/heath/_readme.html

Jodi.org: http://wwwwwwwww.jodi.org/

Alexei Shulgin:
http://www.easylife.org/
Performance:
http://www.easylife.org/386dx/
http://video.dma.ucla.edu/video/alexei-shulgin-performance-with-386dx/12

Vuk Cosic:
http://www.ljudmila.org/~vuk/

Douglas Davis:
The World’s First Collaborative Sentence:
http://artport.whitney.org/collection/davis/Sentence/sentence1.html

Ken Goldberg:
Tele-Garden: http://goldberg.berkeley.edu/garden/Ars/

Next 5 Minutes: http://www.next5minutes.org/about.jsp
Nettime: http://www.nettime.org/
Rhizome: http://rhizome.org/
Turbulence: http://turbulence.org

Charles Cohen:
http://www.promulgator.com/

Alexander Apostol:
http://s107238961.onlinehome.us/07_residente.php

Andreas Muellerpohle:
http://www.muellerpohle.net/projects/facecodes.html

Jochem Hendricks:
http://www.jochem-hendricks.de/_englisch/w_augen/non_index.htm

Robert Lazzarni:
http://www.robertlazzarini.com/

 


Week 6 & 7:

Links for the week of February 14, 2013

Preliminary History, part 3

“As We May Think” as it appeared in The Atlantic:
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-may-think/303881/

Douglas Engelbart’s Demo:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfIgzSoTMOs
The Original Files:
http://sloan.stanford.edu/mousesite/1968Demo.html

John Cage, Variations V:
http://www.ubu.com/film/cage_variations5.html

Jean Tingueley, Omage to New York and other recordings:
http://www.ubu.com/sound/tinguely.html

Philip Glass and Robert Wilson, “Einstein on the Beach”
http://www.ubu.com/film/glass_einstein.html

 

current context of knowledge

College Inc:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/collegeinc/


Week 3:

Links for the weeks of January 24, 2013

Preliminary History, part 2

Charles Babbage: http://www.charlesbabbage.net/

ENIAC: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/computinghistory/eniac.html

UNIVAC: https://www.census.gov/history/www/innovations/technology/univac_i.html

History of the Internet: http://www.internetsociety.org/internet/what-internet/history-internet/brief-history-internet

Marcel Duchamp: http://www.marcelduchamp.net/artworkspage.php?show=all

Nam June Paik: http://www.paikstudios.com/

Alan Kaprow: http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/works/18-happenings-in-6-parts/

Sol Le Witt: http://remixtheory.net/?p=403
http://www.massmoca.org/lewitt/

Jon Whitney: http://computer-arts-society.com/static/cas/computerartsthesis/index.html%3Fpage_id=117.html

Douglas Davis: http://whitney.org/www/artport/collection/index.shtml

Jeffrey Shaw: http://www.jeffrey-shaw.net/


Week 1:

Links for the weeks of January 10, 2013

Preliminary History

Marcel Duchamp: http://www.moma.org/collection/artist.php?artist_id=1634

Art & Language:
(Frieze, October 2005) http://www.frieze.com/issue/review/art_language1/

Jackson Pollock:
Biography http://www.biography.com/people/jackson-pollock-9443818
Jackson Pollock Documentary: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4G5hQWPP74s

Mark Rothko: Mark Rothko: http://www.markrothko.org/

Jasper Johns: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/episodes/jasper-johns/about-the-painter/54/

Robert Rauschenberg: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/episodes/robert-rauschenberg/about-the-artist/49/

Andy Warhol: http://www.biography.com/people/andy-warhol-9523875

Conceptual Art: http://www.theartstory.org/movement-conceptual-art.htm

E.A.T. Billy Kluver: http://www.fondation-langlois.org/html/e/page.php?NumPage=237

New Media and Internet Art Resources:
http://turbulence.org
http://rhizome.org
http://furtherfield.org

 

 

 

 

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