NMED01H3S "New Media" Senior Project, Winter 2009
Week 2 - 22 Jan 2009
Jenkins, Nick. A Project Management Primer PDF





NMED20H3 Theory and Practice of "New Media", Fall 2008
MODULE 1 - WEEKS 2-4

Week 2 - 17 Sep 2008
Technology, Participation, Education, Convergence
Brecht, Bertolt. The Radio as an Apparatus of Communication.
http://www.tonisant.com/class/2001/fall/brechtradio.htm
Follmer, Golo. Audio Art
http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/themes/overview_of_media_art/audio/
Read only: Participation (2-3) and Intermedia (12-14)
Arns, Inke. Interaction, Participation, Networking: Art and Telecommunication.
http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/themes/overview_of_media_art/communication
Read only: Reception, participation, interaction-from receptive to active participation (1-3) Electronic space as "communications sculpture" (8-9) and Collective and collaborative authoring in telecommunications projects (14-16)

Week 3 - 24 Sep 2008
Technology, Perception, Democracy
Benjamin, Walter. The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.
http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Modules/MC10220/benjamin.html#Top

Week 4 - 1 Oct 2008
Technology, Knowledge, Information, Imagination
Bush, Vannevar. As We May Think.
http://www.ps.uni-sb.de/%7Educhier/pub/vbush/vbush-all.shtml
Whitehead, Jim. Orality and Hypertext: An Interview with Ted Nelson.
http://www.ics.uci.edu/~ejw/csr/nelson_pg.html

MODULE 2 - WEEKS 5-8 Download as PDF

Concepts of Interactivity
Readings:
Feingold, Ken. The Interactive Art Gambit ("Do not run! We are your friends!")
http://www.kenfeingold.com/feingold-moma4.97.html
For images visit http://tech90s.walkerart.org/kf/index-nj.html
Morse, Margaret. The Poetics of Interactivity. Read only the first two sections under the headings A Hopeless Task? and Defining Interactivity Nevertheless.
http://www.immersence.com/publications/2003-Mmorse-full.html
Manovich, Lev. Interaction as an Aesthetic Event. Download from
http://www.manovich.net/TEXTS_07.HTM
Artworks:
Vera Frenkle, Body Missing http://www.yorku.ca/BodyMissing
David Rokeby, Very Nervous System http://homepage.mac.com/davidrokeby/vns.html
Nell Tenhaaf, UCBM http://www.yorku.ca/tenhaaf/ucbm.html
Vito Acconci, Claim http://www.vdb.org/smackn.acgi$tapedetail?CLAIMEXCER

Digital Photography: Reality and Its Discontent
Readings:
Mraz, John. What's documentary about photography? From directed to digital photojournalism.
http://www.zonezero.com/magazine/articles/mraz/mraz01.html
Paul, Christine. Digital Technologies as a Tool. Chapter 1 from the book "Digital Art."
http://newmedia.opinionware.net/docs/114text_PaulCh1.pdf
On Photomontage
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/davepalmer/cutandpaste/intro.html
Artworks:
Dorothea Lange's Photographs http://xroads.virginia.edu/~UG97/fsa/lang.html
John Heartfield's Photomontage http://www.towson.edu/heartfield/art/art.html
Cindy Sherman, Untitled Film Stills http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/1997/sherman/
Nancey Burson, Composites http://www.nancyburson.com/pages/fineart_pages/earlycomps.html
Lillian Schwartz, Mona/Leo http://www.lillian.com/
Patricia Piccinini, Science Story at http://www.patriciapiccinini.net/
Global Aware, http://photo.globalaware.org/globalaware-cgi/topixx?

Virtual/Immersive Environments: Interactive Illusions
Readings:
Grau, Oliver. Immersion and Interaction: From Circular Frescoes to Interactive Image Spaces. Translated by Gloria Custance. Read up to screen 20, stop at Telepresence.
http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/themes/overview_of_media_art/immersion/
Morse, Margaret. The Poetics of Interactivity. Scroll down the page and read only the section under the heading Immersion.
http://www.immersence.com/publications/2003-Mmorse-full.html
On 'cave' in VR
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave_Automatic_Virtual_Environment
Artworks:
Jeffrey Shaw, The Legible City http://www.jeffrey-shaw.net/html_main/show_work.php3?record_id=83
Michael Naimark, Be Now Here http://www.naimark.net/projects/benowhere.html
Victoria Vesna, Bodies INCorporated http://www.bodiesinc.ucla.edu/history.html
Char Davis, Osmos http://www.immersence.com/osmose/index.php

Installation: Space and Public
Readings:
Frieling, Rudolf. Form Follows Format: Tensions, Museums, Media Technology, and Media Art. Translated by Michael Robinson. Also, take the time to look at the art work linked to in this article.
http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/themes/overview_of_media_art/museum/
Artworks:
Shu Lea Cheang, Bowling Alley http://bowlingalley.walkerart.org/
Victoria Scott, Permitted Space http://www.redhotcoil.com/Projects/PermittedSpace/PermittedSpace.html and Negative Vibes http://www.redhotcoil.com/Projects/NegVibes/NegVibes.html
Janet Cardiff, Muriel Lake Incident http://www.tate.org.uk/liverpool/exhibitions/janetcardiff/muriellakeincident.htm
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Subtitled Public and Standards and Double Standards http://www.lozano-hemmer.com/eproyecto.html (both are on the same page, you have to scroll down the page to find them)
Coco Fusco and Guillermo Gomez-Pena, Couple in the Cage http://www.thing.net/~cocofusco/subpages/videos/subpages/couple/couple.html
Gita Hashemi, Ephemeral Monument http://ephemeralmonument.opinionware.net

Digital Video and Tactical Media: Democracy and Technology
Readings:
Lovink, Geert. Interview with Stephen Marshall: Guerrilla News Network's Digital Documentaries.
http://amsterdam.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-0312/msg00018.html
Arns, Inke. Social Technologies: Deconstruction, subversion and the utopia of democratic communication.
http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/themes/overview_of_media_art/society/1/
Garcia, David and Geert Lovink. The ABC of Tactical Media.
http://www.ljudmila.org/nettime/zkp4/74.htm
Artworks:
Guerilla News Network http://www.guerrillanews.com/
PsyOp art http://artcontext.org/act/03/PsyOP-art/index.html
The Yes Men, Halliburton Solves Global Warming http://www.theyesmen.org/agribusiness/halliburton/
The Surveilance Camera Players http://www.notbored.org/the-scp.html
Paper Tiger Television http://www.papertiger.org/index.php
Free Speech Tv, http://www.freespeech.org/
Video Compilation, Blah, Blah, Blah http://urbannation.com/blah.htm
Nam Jun Paik, Global Groove http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/works/global-grove/video/1/
The Next 5 Minutes http://www.next5minutes.org/
Indymedia, http://Indymedia.org

Locative Media and Surveillance Networks: In the Panopticon
Readings:
Wikipedia entry for Locative Media
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locative_media
Hemmet, Drew. Locative Dystopia.
http://www.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-0401/msg00021.html
Medosch, Armin. Not Just Another Wireless Utopia developing the social protocols of free networking
http://www.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-0406/msg00032.html
Debord, Guy. An Introduction to a Critique of Urban Geography
http://library.nothingness.org/articles/SI/en/display/2
Artworks:
Dave Mandl and Christina Ray (Glowlab), One Block Radius http://oneblockradius.org/obr.html
Murmur Collective, Murmur Toronto http://murmurtoronto.ca/
Janet Cardiff, Eyes of Laura http://eyesoflaura.org/index3.php?bandwidth=hi
Masaki Fujihata, Field-Works http://www.field-works.net/
Erika Lincoln, Liquid Prairie http://lincolnlab.net/LPforPlatform/liquidprairie.html
Institute for Applied Autonomy, i SEE http://www.appliedautonomy.com/isee.html
Institute for Applied Autonomy, TXTmob http://www.appliedautonomy.com/txtmob.html
Surveillance Camera Players, http://www.notbored.org/the-scp.html
Year 01, TeleTaxi http://www.year01.com/teletaxi/index2.html
0100101110101101.org, VOPOS http://www.0100101110101101.org/home/vopos/concept.html
The Other Path, http://www.c5corp.com/projects/otherpath/index.shtml

Software Art: Code, the Virulent Master
Readings:
Cramer, Florian. Concepts, Notations, Software, Art.
http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~cantsin/homepage/writings/software_art/concept_notations/concepts_notations_software_art.html
Transmediale 01. Artistic software jury statement.
http://www.transmediale.de/01/en/s_juryStatement.htm
Arns, Inke. Read_me, run_me, execute_me. Code as Executable Text: Software Art and its Focus on Program Code as Performative Text.
http://www.mediaartnet.org/themes/generative-tools/read_me/
Artworks:
Dragan Espenschied and Alvar Freude, Insert_Coin http://www.mediaartnet.org/works/insert-coin/
I/O/D, The Webstalker http://bak.spc.org/iod/iod4.html
Carnivore, http://r-s-g.org/carnivore/about.php
Google Will Eat Itself, http://www.gwei.org/index.php
Select from ReadMe http://readme.runme.org
Select from RunMe http://runme.org/

Netart: This Way Is the Highway
Readings:
Lichty, Patrick. Grasping at Bits
http://www.voyd.com/gab/
Bookchin, Natalie and Alexei Shulgin. Introduction to Net.art
http://easylife.org/netart/
Amerika, Mark. Avant-Pop Manifesto
http://www.altx.com/manifestos/avant.pop.manifesto.html
Artworks:
Tamara Vukov, Balkan Mediations http://www.pomgrenade.org/BM/
Gita Hashemi, PostCoitus http://strictlypersonal.net/postcoitus/
Eduardo Navas, Diary of a Star http://www.navasse.net/star/
The Center of Attention, E-mail Art Exhibit http://www.thecentreofattention.org/exhibitions/emailart.html
View and select from some of the following portals to netart (there are tons more):
http://artport.whitney.org/
http://www.artcontext.com/
http://adaweb.walkerart.org/
http://www.guggenheim.org/internetart/welcome.html
http://r-s-g.org/carnivore
http://www.turbulence.org/
http://newmediafix.net/
http://rhizome.org
http://www.nmartproject.net/
http://www.javamuseum.org/

Audio Works: Noise, Art, Radio
Readings:
Lander, Dan. Introduction to Sound By Artists (1989)
http://www.soundculture.org/texts/lander_sba_intro.html
Holmes, Ashley and Martin Francis. Audio for Audio's Sake: Audio Art.
http://www.infocom.cqu.edu.au/Courses/2002/T3/MMST12016/course_site/lecture7.htm
Whitehead, Gregory. Drone Tones and Other Radiobodies: Gregory Gangemi and Jason Quarles in conversation with Gregory Whitehead.
http://www.ubu.com/papers/ Downloadable PDF, link at bottom of list of articles under the section 'radio'
Grundmann, Heidi. But is it radio?
http://subsol.c3.hu/subsol_2/contributors0/grundmanntext.html
Kogawa, Tetsuo. From Mini-FM to Polymorphous Radio
http://subsol.c3.hu/subsol_2/contributors0/kogawatext.html
Artworks:
Select from http://www.kunstradio.at/
Select from Radio Kinesonus, http://anarchy.k2.tku.ac.jp/kinesonus/index.html
John Cage, 4' 33" A recorded performance by staff of Guardian Newspaper http://stream.guardian.co.uk:7080/ramgen/sys-audio/Guardian/audio/2004/01/16/silence.ra
Dan Lander, Room http://cec.concordia.ca/Radio/Long/Lander.html#english
Annabelle Chvostek and Anna Friz, Automated Prayer Machine http://kunstradio.at/SPECIAL/LIVE/08_02_04/
Hidekazu Minami, Infrasonic Soundscape http://www.thejetty.org/thesis/
Arcangel Constantini, Bakteria.org http://www.bakteria.org/
Fatima Lasay, Algorithm-generated Music for Rituals of Life and Death http://digitalmedia.upd.edu.ph/digiteer/music/
Matt Rogalsky, Two Minutes Fifty Seconds Silence for the USA http://mrogalsky.web.wesleyan.edu/gwb170303/
David Rokeby, Very Nervous System http://homepage.mac.com/davidrokeby/vns.html
Golan Levin, Dialtones (A Telesymphony) http://www.flong.com/projects/telesymphony/

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