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05.09.
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Introduction
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07.09.
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What is
art?
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Lecture
notes
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10.09.
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What is digital
arts?
1. Read handout (excerpt from Steven Knapp and
Walter Benn Michael: Against Theory [1982])
and substitute the waves with a computer. What is
your reaction? Does art need an artist? Email a
sentence or two to the instructor
by Sunday midnight.
2. Lawrence Rinder: Art in the Digital Age -
www.whitney.org/bitstreams/pdf/rinder.pdf
-What is the ramification of digital technology for
art?
3. Alexander Galloway: What is Digital Studies? -
www.medialounge.net/lounge/workspace/nettime/DOCS/zkp5/pdf/maze.pdf;
pp. 32-36
-What is a digital object? Is a protocol part of
it?
-How doe object and user relate?
3. Find an example of digital art you want to be
shown in the class. Why do you like it? (see
URLs)
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minutes
additional readings:
-Noël Carroll (ed.): Theories of Art Today,
2000, ROCK BH39 .T488 2000
-Arthur Danto: Art and Meaning, in: Noël
Carroll, pp. 130-140
-Paul Smith and Carolyn Wilde (ed.): A Companion to
Art Theory, 2002, ROCK N7475 .C662 2002
-Susan Sontag: Against
Interpretation
(1964)
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12.09.
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Aspects of
digital arts
1.Lawrence Rinder: Art in the Digital Age -
www.whitney.org/bitstreams/pdf/rinder.pdf
-What is the ramification of digital technology for
art?
2. Alexander Galloway: What is Digital Studies? -
www.medialounge.net/lounge/workspace/nettime/DOCS/zkp5/pdf/maze.pdf;
pp. 32-36
-What is a digital object? Is a protocol part of
it?
-How doe object and user relate?
3. Tilman Baumgärtel: L'art pour net.art (10
pp.)
-What is l'art pour l'art? Does it apply to
netart?
4. Find an example of digital art you want to be
shown in the class. Why do you like it? (see
URLs)
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minutes
Squid Soup Untitled
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14.09.
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How to review
digital arts
1. Masaki Fujihata: On Interactivity (4
pp.)
-How does Fujihata describe the new type of
art?
-What does Fujihata state about the shift from
document to event?
-What is the grammar of interaction?
2. De-Viewer (1992) (Website)
-Note down all aspects that may be important for a
review of this piece.
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17.09.
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Hyperfiction
1.
Marie-Laure Ryan: Can Coherence Be Saved? Selective
Interactivity and Narrativity (28 pp)
-Point out one aspect you find most
interesting/important in this paper. Email it to
the instructor by Sunday night.
2. Read at least one hour into: Caitlin Fisher:
Waves of Girls www.yorku.ca/caitlin/waves
-Which links did you find most
interesting?
3. Read Olia Lialina: My Boyfriend came home
from the war - www.teleportacia.org/war
-Does this special Hypertext-structure bear any
specific meaning?
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notes
on pre-history of hyperfictions
additional
readings:
Robert
Coover: The
Babysitter
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19.09.
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Hypermedia
Fiction
1.
Markku Eskelinen, Raine Koskimaa: Discourse
Timer.
Towards
Temporally Dynamic
Texts
-What do Eskelinen and Koskimaa mean by the shift
from spatiality to temporality in hypertext?
2. Katherine
Hayles: The Time of Digital Poetry: From Object to
Event (17 pp)
-What are the main arguments of this paper?
3. Examples
of Hyperfiction:
-Hotel (www.hoteloscartangoecholima.com/splash.html)
-ianimate alice (http://inanimatealice.com)
read eposide 2
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21.09
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Asking the
Poet
Guest lecture by John Cayley (Visiting Professor of
Literary Arts at Brown University, poet, author and
scholar of digital literature)
1. John Cayley: Time Code Language. New Media
Poetics and Programmed Signification (26 pp)
2. John Cayley: Overboard (description)
(piece)
3. John Cayley: riverIsland (description)
(download riverIslandQT.zip)
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John
Cayley's Website
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24.09.
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Interactive
Fiction
1.Jill Walker: How I Was Played by Online
Caroline (7 pp.)
2. Play Caroline Online www.onlinecaroline.com
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interesting pieces
found by students:
-Signe: http://www.drunkenboat.com/db4/stanza/soundscraper/intro.html
-Paul: http://objects.100luz.com.ar/autorretrato/
-Evan: http://apocryph.net/site/galleryn01.htm
-Jeremy: http://poignantguide.net/ruby/
-Mauro: http://www.bornmagazine.org/projects/windows/media.html
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28.09.
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Interactive
Computergame
1. Michale Mateas, Andrew Stern: Writing
Facade: A Case Study in Procedural
Authorship (24 pp.)
2. Behind
Façade: An Interview of Andrew Stern and
Michael Mateas
3. Video
Review of
Façade
4. Play Façade (Download
at: www.interactivestory.net)
5. Email your (best) generated script from playing
Façade (option to download at the
end) around by Thursday 8 PM.
6. To what extent does interactive drama require a
simplification of the scenario and what
ramifications does this have? Email your
answer (a paragraph or two) by Thursday 8 PM.
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Facade
Supplement
(doc, 15 MB)
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Week
of 01.10.
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conference week
with special assignments
conference sessions:
-Friday, October 5
4:30pm-6pm in Smith-Buonanno
-Saturday, October 6
9:30am-11:00am
11:30am-1:00pm
3:00pm-4:30pm
5pm-6:30pm
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for details see
conference
website
(www.interfictions.org/readingdigitalliterature)
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08.10.
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Columbus
Day Holiday. No University exercises.
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12.10.
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Kinetic Concrete
Poetry
1. Johanna Drucker: Visual Poetics (36 pp.)
-What is the specific identity of concrete
poetry?
-How does this identity change in digital
media?
2. Write a short review to either
Yatoo or
Fine
View
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slides
on concete poetry
Marvin Bell and Ernesto Lavandera: Why
do you stay up so late
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15.10.
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Digital Dancing
and Performance
1. Steve Dixon: Digital Dancing and Software
Performance (25 pp.)
2. Joe Paradiso: FootNotes: Personal
Reflections on the Development of Instrumented
Dance Shoes and their Musical Applications (15
pp.)
3. Robert Wechsler/Palindrome, Joseph B. Rovan:
Artistic Collaboration in an Interactive Dance and
Music Performance Environment: Seine Hohle Form, a
Project Report (11 pp.)
4. Stelarc: The Involuntary, the Alien & the
Automated. Choreographing Bodies, Robots &
Phantoms (11 pp.)
-Stelarc: Ping Body -
http://www.stelarc.va.com.au/pingbody
5. MTAA: One
Year Performance 1978-1979 (aka Cage
Piece)
-Email an aspect/passage/question (from one of the
readings) you want to talk about in class by Sunday
midnight.
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submit
your profile for cooperation
with Siegen
University by Sunday (go: My Profile)
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19.10.
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Transmedial
Art
1. Write a short review on Rafael
Lozano-Hemmer: Vectorial
Elevation
(video):
2. Have a look at Blinken
Lights
First
Paper is due
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22.10.
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Interactivity
- John Cage: Diary: Audience 1966 (3 pp.)
- Roy Ascott: Behaviourist Art and the Cybernetic
Vision (8 pp.)
1. What is Behaviourist Art? How does is change the
winner–loser-relation in art?
- Lisbeth Klastrup: Paradigms of interaction:
conceptions and misconceptions of the field today -
www.dichtung-digital.org//2003/4-klastrup.htm
2. What is the 'conversational trap' considering
the concept of interactivity?
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pieces
shown:
- avecdetermination
- systemisgesture
- P-Soup
- Nio
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26.10.
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Body Liberation
and Surveillance I
- Camille Utterback: Unusual Positions -
embodied Interaction with Symbolic Spaces (8
pp.)
- Camille Utterback Untitled
and Edward Tannenbaum Recollection
IV
1. What is the (different) role of the
body in Untitled and Recollection IV?
(to be answered in class)
2. Write a short review of David Rokeby's
Taken.
- Compare Rafael Lozano-Hemmer's Body
Movies
and Under
Scan
(to be answered in class)
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29.10.
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Rescheduled for
Friday
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02.11.
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Transcoop-Session
1 (Signe): Text
Rain
-Utterback: Unusual Positions - embodied
Interaction with Symbolic Spaces (Reader,
PDF)
-Evan Zimroth: "Talk, You", in: idem.: Dead,
Dinner, or Naked Poems. Evanston, IL: Northwestern
UP, 1993 (PDF)
-Francisco Ricardo: "Reading the Discursive Spaces
of Text Rain. Transmodally", in: Roberto Simanowski
(ed.).: Reading Digital Literature (forthcoming)
(PDF)
1. How does Utterback transform Zimroth's poem
"Talk, You"? Could this poem be replaced by another
text?
2. What are the main differences between fixed
texts and texts in motion?
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05.11.
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Transcoop-Session
2 (Paul):
Deep
Walls
-Roberto Simanowski: "Scott Snibbe's Deep
Walls: A Close Reading" (online)
-Interview with Scott Snibbe: "Useless
Programs, Useful Programmers, and the production of
Social Interactive Artworks. Interview with Scott
Snibbe" (online)
1. What are the main differences between
traditional ('inter-passive') and interactive
art?
2. How are we to understand the grammar of
interaction, the (spatial and temporal) structure
and the applied symbols of Deep
Walls?
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09.11.
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2
PM: Cave
Visit
3 PM: Transcoop-Session 3 (Jeremy):
News
Reader
- Noah Wardrip-Fruin: "Playable Media and
Textual Instruments", in: Peter
Gendolla/Jörgen Schäfer (eds.): The
Aesthetics of Net Literature: Writing, Reading and
Playing in Programmable Media. Bielefeld, 2007, pp.
211-253. (PDF)
1. How does Wardrip-Fruin define "playable media"?
What are the differences to computer games on the
one hand, to literary texts on the other hand?
2. How are "instrumental texts" differentiated from
"textual instruments"?
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12.11.
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Cave-Literature
Noah Wardrip-Fruin: Screen
Second
Paper is due
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16.11.
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Transcoop-Session
4 (Signe): Face
Code
- Anne-Marie Willis: Digitisation and The Living
Death of Photography (10 pp., Reader)
- Peter Lunenfeld: Digital Photography: The
Dubitative Image (14 pp., Reader, PDF)
- Hubertus v. Amelunxen: Photography
After Photography. The Terror of the Body in
Digital Space
(PDF)
1. What are roles, features, functions of
photography in traditional literature?
2. Is the text imprinted on the faces the 'genetic'
makeup of the image itself or rather the
fingerprint of the photographer?
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19.11.
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Transcoop-Session
5 (Evan): Mapping Art
- Christiane Paul: Mapping Transitions:
The
Topography of
Searches
-www.altx.com/mappingtransitions/main.html
- Christiane Paul: Databases, data visualization,
and mapping, in: Christiane Paul: Digital Art,
Thames and Hudson 2003, pp.
174-189 (download)
- Rachel Greene: DataVisualisation and Databases
(12pp., Reader, PDF)
- Lev Manovich: The Database (25 pp., Reader,
online,
PDF)
- Matthew LeMay: Reconsidering Database Form:
Input, Structure, Mapping (online)
1. Are there relationships between maps in general,
mind maps, concept maps and mapping art?
2. What is the relationship between content and
form in Mapping Art?
3. What is the common ground, what the difference
between the aesthetics of Mapping Art and the
aesthetics of Readymades and
Photography?
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Examples:
- George Legrady: Making
Visible the
Invisible
- Mark Napier: Black
and White
- Josh On and Futuremore: They
Rule
- Golan Levin: The
Secret Lives of
Numbers
- Martin Wattenberg: Shape
of Song
- Greyworld: The
Source
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21.11.
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Thanksgiving
Recess, no class
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23.11.
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Thanksgiving
Recess, no class
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26.11.
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Cannibalising
Text:
Re:Positioning
Fear
- "Text repository" http://rhizome.org/artbase/2398/fear/repository.html
- Maria Fernández: "Illuminating Embodiment:
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer's Relational Architectures",
in: Architectural Design 77 (2007), no. 4: 78-87.
(digital reader)
- What role does the text created in this project
and presented at the wall within the interactor's
shadow play in the process of perception?
- What are the common grounds and what are the
differences of Lozano-Hemmer's RE:Positioning Fear
and his later work Body
Movies
(2001)?
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28.11.
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Transcoop-Online-Session
1.
Peter Gendolla/Jörgen Schäfer: "Playing
With Signs: Towards an Aesthetic Theory of Net
Literature", in: Peter Gendolla/Jörgen
Schäfer (eds.): The Aesthetics of Net
Literature: Writing, Reading and Playing in
Programmable Media. Bielefeld, 2007, pp. 17-42.
(PDF, 25 pp.)
2. Roberto Simanowski: "Holopoetry, Biopoetry and
Digital Literature: Close Reading and
Terminological Debate", in: Peter
Gendolla/Jörgen Schäfer (eds.): The
Aesthetics of Net Literature: Writing, Reading and
Playing in Programmable Media. Bielefeld, 2007, pp.
43-66. (PDF, 23 pp.)
3. Espen Aarseth: Cybertext. Perspectives on
Ergodic Literature. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP,
1997, pp. 1-23, 62-65 (PDF, 26 pp.)
4. Susan Sontag: "Against Interpretation" (1964),
http://www.cis.vt.edu/modernworld/d/sontag.html
Research questions:
1. What role does text play in digital art?
2. How do meaning and the sensual relate to each
other in digital art?
3. What are the elements of a "digital
hermeneutics"?
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03.12.
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Final
Session: Recapitulation
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13.12.
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Final
Essay is due
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