Course Overview:
Readings are due on the day that they are listed.
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WEEK ONE/ Introduction
March 31
- Intro to Class, Syllabus, Attendance, Crashers, etc. - Reading groups.
Reading:
- Course Syllabus for FDM 194c
Recommended:
- Paolo Friere, excerpt from the Pedagogy of the Oppressed (the 'Banking Model' of education...)

Apr 2
Before Class
Reading:
- Augusto Boal,excerpt from Theater of the Oppressed
- Joseph Beuys, Proceedings at the Bureau for Direct Democracy and I am Searching for a Field Character
- Rosalind Krauss, Sculpture in the Expanded Field
Look at:
- Marina Abramovic, Art Must Be Beautiful
- Allan Kaprow, Happenings
Please choose two of the artworks listed below and spend some time understanding the pieces so that you can adequately make connections between them and the readings.
- Wafaa Bilaal, Domestic Tension
- Mary Walling Blackburn, Radical Citizenship: the Tutorials
- Natalie Bookchin, The Intruder
- Natalie Bookchin, agoraXchange
- Ruth Catlow, Three Player Chess
- Ricardo Dominguez & Coco Fusco, Dolores from 10h to 22h
- Ricardo Domingue, Transborder Immigrant Tool (see also: Electronic Disturbance Theater generally.)


In Class
- Artworks, social engagement, participation. Dialogues and contexts.

WEEK TWO / Art and Power, Participation, Social Engagement
Apr 7
Before Class
Reading:
- Ricardo Dominguez, Gestures.
- Nicolas Bourriaud, from Relational Aesthetics
- Claire Bishop, Antagonism and Relational Aesthetics
Artworks:
- Rikrit Tiravanija, Local Source, and Pad Thai
- Networked Disruption (look at exhibition)
- Warren Sack Agonistics

In Class
- Artworks, social engagement, participation. Dialogues and contexts.

Apr 9
Before Class
Reading:
- Gilles Deleuze, Postscript on Societies of Control
- Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Intro to Control and Freedom
- Starwhawk, from Truth or Dare
- Adrian Piper, Notes on Funk,I-II/1985/83
Artwork:
- Mongrel
- Wolchen Klausur (familiarize yourself with one project)

WEEK THREE / Code, Formal Aesthetics, Challenges of the Screen
Moderators: Spencer Jay and Meadow Rhodes
Apr 14
Before Class
Reading:
- Daniel Shiffman, Algorithms
- Form and Code, Intro through Transform
- Galloway, intro to the Interface Effect (just intro, not preface)
Artwork:
- Art in Form and Code
- Yoko Ono Cloud Piece
- Casey Reas Software Structures

Apr 16
Before Class
Reading:
- rest of Form and Code, Parameterize through Simulate
Artwork:
- Art in Form and Code
- Book review: Printing things - visions and essentials for 3d printing.

WEEK FOUR / Our Inheritance, PAST and FUTURE
Moderators: Sarah Barrios, Daniel Cuadras and Gabrielle Rulon
Apr 21
Before Class
Reading:
- Benjamin, on Angelus Novus from On the Concept of History
- Deborah Bird Rose, Recuperation from Reports from a Wild Country
- Chun, ch 4 from Programmed Visions
Artwork:
- Uncommon Grounds, 3rdi by Waffa Bilal, p97
- A Dystopian Performace for Drones

Apr 23
Before Class
Reading:
- Uncommon Grounds, 30-39, 70-85, 103-105, 117-121, 163-168, 201-212
Artwork:
- in UG

In Class
- We will be attending the DANM MFA show "New Alchemy." Let's convene outside the DARC building at 4:00p. We'll tour the show and then discuss the readings in the sunshine.

WEEK FIVE / CONFLICT
Moderators: Christian Gooddell and David Rosenberg
Apr 28
Before Class
Reading:
- Olia Lialina, Rich User Experience, UX and Desktopization of War
- Suzanne Treister, Networks in Reverse - From the Interplanetary Internet via the ARPANET
- Manuel DeLanda, War in the Age of Intelligent Machines
Artwork:
- Uncommon Grounds, Artists' Inserts 97-129 ('Wafaa Bilal' through 'Roy Samaha')
- Martha Rosler, Bringing the War Home

Apr 30
Before Class
Reading:
- Gabriella Coleman, "Our Weirdness is Free"
- Elaine Scarry, Citizenship in Emergency
- Tiziana Terranova Network Dynamics
- watch: Anatomy of a Computer Virus
Artwork:
- in UG , 225-257 ('Tarzan and Arab' through 'Rabih Mroue')
- Ben Fry on Mark Lombardi
Visiting artist Abram Stern


WEEK SIX / Landscape, Labor, Tricksters and Ghosts
Moderators: Michael Diaz and Hayden Steele
May 05
Before Class
Reading:
- Undermining, vii-36; 76-120
- Workers of the World, Faint!
Artwork:
- Artwork in Undermining
- Review Uncommon Grounds 241-245
- Yes Men
- Chilean artist steals and destroys $500 million worth of student debt papers
Screening:
- Yes Men

May 07
Before Class
Reading:
- Undermining, 177-190
Artworks:
- Andrea Polli, Ground Truth
- Public Smog
- Center for Land Use Interpretation
Screening:
- Manufactured Landscapes

Week SEVEN / Commons, Digital Commons, DIY
Moderators: Nicolas Campolito and Cynthia Lara
May 12
Reading:
- Neal Gorenflo, from Shareable, Michel Bauwens, from the P2P Foundation and John Robb, from Global Guerrillas, interview las Indias' David de Ugarte Translated/Re-edited * by Stacco Troncoso, edited by Jane Loes Lipton - Guerrilla Translation!
- Tradgedy of the Commons
- Richard Stallman, Chapter 18, page 121, "Why Software Should Be Free"
Artwork:
- Gallery of DCSS Descramblers
- Copie Copains Club
Screening:
- Spectres of the Spectrum
- for your reference: (http://www.theguardian.com/film/2000/nov/14/artsfeatures)

May 14
Before Class
Reading:
- Undermining
Artwork:
- Future Farmers
- Fallen Fruit
- Guerrilla Grafters
- Hayes Valley Farm
- Farm Hack

WEEK EIGHT / Bio Art
Moderators: Connor Hajimori and Marcel Toorians
May 19
Before Class
Reading:
- From the Multispecies Salon: Plumpiņon by Lindsay Kelley,
- Anna Tsing, Blasted Landscapes
- Bio hacking Hobbyist
Artwork:
- DIYsect. A series about the DIY Biology & Biology-Art intersection
- Critical Art Ensemble
- Martha Rosler
- Deanna Pindell Receipe III from Multispecies Salon
- Phil Ross
- Symbiotica

May 21
Before Class
Reading:
- Donna Haraway
Artwork:
- Life Cycle of a Common Weed, Caitlin Berrigan
Screening:
- Strange Culture

WEEK NINE / Transnational Circuits and Networked Representations
Moderators: Cher Chang and Michael Rabinovitch
May 26
Before Class
Reading:
- Donna Haraway, "Cyborg Manifesto"
- Lisa Nakamura, "Economies of Digital Production in East Asia: iPhone Girls and the Transnational Circuits of Cool"
Artwork:

May 28
Before Class
Reading:
- Uncommon Grounds
- Galloway, from Interface Effect
Artwork: - in UG

WEEK TEN / Formal Aesthetics 2
Jun 1
Before Class
Reading:
- Social media aesthetics and distributed protocols
Artwork:
- Dirtstyle

Jun 3
Before Class
Readings:
- Burger
- Ranciere
Artwork:
- Review works from course

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Final Exam: We will probably use this time for our final presentations