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: Finish Lecture from April 18, and discuss final details for final exam.
Week 15: Answer questions available on Angel. Discussion takes place from Friday, April 19 to Wednesday, April 16, 2013.
Week 14: Answer questions available on Angel. Discussion takes place from Friday, April 12 to Wednesday, April 17, 2013. Week 13: Answer questions available on Angel. Discussion takes place from Friday, April 4 to Wednesday, April 10, 2013.
Week 12: Answer Questions on Angel
Week 11:
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Week 7: Midterm Essay Released Finish discussing Vannevar Bush and Billy Kluver Begin Discussing:
Week 6: Finish Discussing The Postmodern Condition. Begin discussing Vannevar Bush, “As we May Think” in the New Media Reader, pp. 35 – 48 (PDF)
Week 5: 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: Read: (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: Read: Answer questions available on Angel. Discussion takes place from Friday, January 25, to Wednesday, January 30, 2013.
Week 2: 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: Answer questions available on Angel. Discussion takes place from Friday, January 18, to Wednesday, January 23, 2013. Week 1:
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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” Matthew Barney, “Cremaster, Part 4” Art 21 about Matthew Barney: Beatriz da Costa: http://www.beatrizdacosta.net/pigeonblog.phphttp://www.beatrizdacosta.net/swipe.php http://beatrizdacosta.net/Dying_for_the_Other/
Week 15: Links for the Week of April 18, 2013 Focus: Artificial Intelligence to Databases Alan Turing: Roy Ascott and Telematics Jaron Lanier, “Agents of Alienation” John McArthy on Artificial Intelligence: Article on Moholy Nagy and his paintings made with instructions given by telephone: Eduardo Kac Stelarc, Ping body, (1999): Kenneth Feingold, Self-portrait at the Center of the Universe (1998-2001): Martin Wattenberg, Apartment (2001) Benjamin Fry, Valence (1999) John Klima, Ecosystm (2000) Lynn Hershman at DAM:
Week 14: Links for the Week of April 11, 2013 Focus: After the Map: narratives of globalization Netart Latino Database: Eduardo Navas: Praba Pilar: Three Junctures of Remix: Exhibition, A Modular Framework: P2P[iece]:
Week 13: Links for the week of April 4, 2013 Focus: Simulation and Criticality The Loud Family: The Real World: Wolfgang Staehle: Bang Lab Drones at home: Bang Lab’s Transborder Immigrant Tool: Exhibition, A Modular Framework: Michael Mandiberg: Keith Obadike: Damali Ayo Jonnah Peretti and Chelsea Peretti: Week 12: Links for the week of March 28, 2013 Focus: Simulation and Networks etoy.com: Mongrel: Futurefarmers: Lisa Jevbratt: Jodi: 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: Ben Benjamin’s Superbad (1995 – 97): @rtmark (1995 – 2003): John F Simon Jr.(1997 – Present) Web Stalker, Matthew Fuller (1997): The Shredder, Mark Napier (1998): Heavy Industries (2001 – Present): World of Awe, Yael Kanarek: Film Text, Mark Amerika (2001-02): Mouchette (1996 – Present): Jeffrey Shaw: Rafael Lozano Hemmer: Wax web, David Blair (1993): 201 a space algorhithm, Jennifer and Kevin McCoy (2001): No Ghost, Just a Shell, Phillippe Parreno and Pierre Huyghe (2000): Peter Horvath:
Week 8: Links for the Week of February 28, 2013 Focus: Posthumanism 2045: The Year Man Becomes Immortal Singularity: How Scared Should We Be? Ray Kurzweil on “I’ve Got a Secret”: The Singularity (documentary) Trailer: Ray Kurzweil TED Talk – Singularity University:
Artists: Stelarc, Ping body, (1999): Kenneth Feingold, Self-portrait at the Center of the Universe (1998-2001): Eduardo Kac, Time Capsule (1997): Adrianne Wortzel, Camouflage Town (2001): Natalie Jeremijenko:
Week 7: Links for the Week of February 21, 2013 Introduction to Concepts of New Media and Net Art Olia Lialina: Heath Bunting: Jodi.org: http://wwwwwwwww.jodi.org/ Alexei Shulgin: Vuk Cosic: Douglas Davis: Ken Goldberg: Next 5 Minutes: http://www.next5minutes.org/about.jsp Charles Cohen: Alexander Apostol: Andreas Muellerpohle: Jochem Hendricks: Robert Lazzarni:
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: Douglas Engelbart’s Demo: John Cage, Variations V: Jean Tingueley, Omage to New York and other recordings: Philip Glass and Robert Wilson, “Einstein on the Beach”
current context of knowledge College Inc: 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 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: Jackson Pollock: 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:
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