Schedule
Course Overview:Readings are due on the day that they are listed, & weeks Run from Monday - Sunday.
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Half Day Thurs Aug 27, 9:30a
In Class:
- Hello World!
Friday Aug 28
Before Class:
Read/ Watch/ Look at:
- Read the syllabus
Do:
- Register for Slack digitalstudiofall20 team:
download the standalone application and say "hi"
- Download a code editor if you haven't already (like Sublime Text, Atom, or TextMate for Mac or Atom or Crimson Editor for Windows -- see the Resources page)
- Download an ftp application like Filezilla (download the client) or Cyberduck
- Fill out Introductions worksheet (direct message it to me in Slack)
- Sign up for a one-on-one check-in.
In Class:
- No class, one one one checkins instead
**7:00PM Friday**
Q&A with Princeton University's Ruha Benjamin (author of Race After Technology)
Benjamin's work on algorithmic bias and racial discrimintaion is groundbreaking, timely, and urgent. Her recent book, "Race after Technology," won multiple awards and we will be reading from it later in the semester. You can learn more about Benjamin and her work on her website.
JOIN VIA ZOOM
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WEEK 1 /where is the art? who is the artist?
Tuesday Sept 01
Before Class:
Read/ Watch/ Look at:
- Artwork: Look at Rhizome.org's Net.Art Anthology and the recent Chronus Art Center Show. Find 3 artworks tha t intrigue you and spend some time understanding the *conceptual, *technical, and *perceptual elements of the works. Do the works you found differ from traditional conceptions of art? How? Be prepared to present the artworks you investigated in class.
Do:
- Worksheet: Fill out Asset Mapping worksheet. Write answers in your course sketchbook, photograph, and be ready to share.
- Small assignment: Document your digital communications for 24 hours, collecting at least 7 different pieces of metadata (including platform used) -- use a spreadsheet. (due Thursday)
In Class:
- deeper introductions, class agreements
- Set up help/ crit groups
- Class discussion: identifying some conceptual, technical, and perceptual qualities of digital art
- Rubrics
- introduction to html and css
- Discuss assignment for Thursday
Thursday Sept 03
Before Class:
Do:
- Small assignment: Document your digital communications for 24 hours, collecting at least 7 different pieces of metadata (including platform used) -- use a spreadsheet. Direct message spreadsheet to me via Slack by 8am Thursday
In Class:
- zoom link (password in Slack)
- data collection project due (will turn into part of a2)
- getting to know you exercise
- html and css cont'd, intro to a1
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WEEK 2 / networked identity and self care
Before Class:
Read/ Watch/ Look at:
- Artwork: Artist Relief Wellness Videos(watch one or two)
- Artwork: Keith Obadike, Blackness for Sale (read through text on rhizome, then click through to Blackness for Sale specifically);
- Artwork: Michael Mandiberg, Shop Mandiberg;
- Artwork: Young Hae Chang, Traveling to Utopia, With a Brief History of Technology, Artist's Statement N0. 45,730,944: The Perfect Artistic Web Site, and Samsung
- Reading: Simone Browne, Branding Blackness, from Dark Matters
Do:
- Work on a1
In Class:
- zoom link
- html and css cont'd, ftp
- work on a1
7:00p: Zoom information session about COVID diaries art exhibition at Colgate: see call for submissions here
Thursday Sept 10
Before Class:
Read/ Watch/ Look at:
- Reading: Ruha Benjamin
- Artwork: Cory Archangel, Data Diaries
- Artwork: Gabriel Barcia-Colombo
- Artwork: Heather Dewey-Hagborg
- Artwork: Ganesh and Ghani, How Do You See the Disappeared? A Warm Database
- Artwork: Mouchette
- Artwork: Mezangelle
- Artwork: Jonas Lund
Do:
- work on a1
In Class:
- zoom link
- Discuss artworks
- html and css continued
- Work on a1, introduction to a2
Friday Sept 11
- a1 due by 11:59p
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WEEK 3 / data 1: surveillance, sousveillance, dataveillance
Tuesday Sept 15
Before Class:
Read/ Watch/ Look at:
- Reading + Artwork: Artist-Made Tools Resist Algorithmic Racism and Empower Communities
- Reading: Astronoise ed. Laura Poitras, excerpts by Edward Snowden and Kate Crawford
- Artwork: Deep Lab video
- Artwork: Josh On, They Rule;
- Artwork: Hasan Elahi, Tracking Transience
Do:
- Work on a2
In Class:
- zoom link
- html, css, ftp cont'd
- surveillance lecture
- crit groups established
Thursday Sept 17
Before Class:
Read/ Watch/ Look at:
- Artwork/ Project: Immersion (no longer hosted by MIT -- watch video)
- Artwork: Forensic Architecture
- Reading: from Surveillance Capitalism, by Soshannah Duboff
Do:
- work on a2
- explore this introduction to responsive design,
- and mess around with these responsive examples
In Class:
- zoom link
- more on responsive design
- screen Citizen Four
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WEEK 4 / networked power
Tuesday Sept 22
Before Class:
Read/ Watch/ Look at:
- Reading: Johnny Ryan, "How the atom bomb helped give birth to the Internet"
- Reading: Starhawk, Intro to Truth or Dare (3 Types of Power Section most important)
- Reading: Mark Lombardi, in Bomb mag
- Artwork/ Reading: Joseph Beuys, Proceedings at the Bureau for Direct Democracy and I am Searching for a Field Character
- Artwork: Paolo Cirio, Global Direct
- Artwork: bitcoin artworks
Do:
- Work on a2
In Class:
- zoom link
- Lecture and discussion on artist responses to surveillance culture + networked power
Thursday Sept 24
Before Class:
Read:
- Artwork: Kit Galloway and Sherrie Rabinowitz, Hole in Space
- Artwork: Wafaa Bilal, Domestic Tension (watch videos from the performance -- from beginning and end)
- Artwork: Warren Sack, Conversation Map
- Artwork: Warren Sack, Agonistics
- Artwork: Starry Night, Alex Galloway et. al
- Artwork: DToren
- Reading: Claire Bishop, Antagonism and Relational Aesthetics
Do:
- a2 due
In Class:
- zoom link
- Drone workshop! small groups meet outside library at scheduled times:
9:20 ::
crit group 1 :: Cass, Lily, Annika
+ crit group 3 :: Kayla, Emma L, Joe
9:55 ::
crit group 5 :: Elizabeth, Sally, Christopher
+ crit group 4 :: Hanna, Kelly, Annabelle
10:30 ::
crit group 2 ::
C.C., Ana, Amelia, Emma K
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WEEK 5 / data 2: nonlinear and interactive narratives
Tuesday Sept 29
Before Class:
Read/ look at:
- Reading: Garden of Forking Paths
- Artwork: Zach Blas Contra-Internet Inversion Practice #3: Modeling Paranodal Space
- Artwork: Oli Lialina, My Boyfriend Came Back from the War
- Quarantine Stories
- Imagine Otherwise: Margaret Rhee on Queer Feminist Robot Poetry
- archive.org see also prelinger archives
- Documentation of Patchwork Girl by Shelley Jackson
- ELiterature
Do:
- Catch up on tutorials
In Class:
- one-on-one meetings for grades and general check-in. Sign up here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/
Wednesday Sept 30, 5:00
NANCY BAKER CAHILL (AAH Lecture, via Zoom)
Thursday Oct 01
Before Class:
Read/ look at:
- Reading: Augusto Boal, from Theater of the Oppressed
- Artwork: Eklund, World Without Oil
Do:
- Catch up on tutorials
In Class:
- zoom link
- Look at Bilal, Warren Sack, etc.
- Intro to a3
- Look at time code layout, random poetry generator, pop-ups
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WEEK 6 / commons, community, copyleft
Tuesday Oct 06
Before Class:
Look at/ Read about:
- 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!
- Project: Creative Commons
- Artwork(s): Critical Art Ensemble
- Watch Revolution OS, or RIP: A Remix Manifesto
Do:
- work on a3
In Class:
- zoom link
- Intro to php, mysql
Wednesday Oct 07, 5:00
JOSH MACPHEE (AAH Lecture, via Zoom)
Thursday Oct 08
Before Class:
Read/ look at:
- Reading: Juan Freire, From the Analogue Commons to the New Hybrid Public Spaces
- Project: Welcome to Solidarity Is, a project that generates tools, trainings, and narratives to facilitate transformative solidarity practices for movement building
- Artwork: Bioplastic Cookbook for Ritual Healing from Petrochemical Landscapes
Do:
- work on a3
In Class:
- zoom link
- In process crits
- Introduction to free software, copyleft, open source, Creative Commons
- Screen Strange Culture
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WEEK 7 / mapping and countermapping
Sunday Oct 12
COVID DIARIES CALL FOR ARTWORKS - Due date OCT 12
(to be streamed Oct 23-25)
Tuesday Oct 13
Before Class:
Read:
- Reading: Catherine, D'Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein, Unicorns, Janitors, Ninjas, Wizards, and Rock Stars from Data Feminism
Do:
- work on a3
In Class:
- NO CLASS: midterm break
Thursday Oct 15
Before Class:
Read about/ Look at:
- Reading: Ingrid Burrington, Above Ground from Networks of New York
- Artworks: Situationists
- Artwork: nine eyes
- Artwork + reading: Ricardo Dominguez, Transborder Immigrant Tool
- Artwork: Anti-eviction Mapping Project
- Artwork: Coming Home to Indigenous Place Names in Canada (2017)
Do:
- Consider: if you could map one thing, what would it be?
In Class:
- zoom link
- studio time
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WEEK 8 / commons 2
Tuesday Oct 20
Before Class:
Read/ Watch/ Look at:
- Fallen Fruit
- Future Farmers
- Guerrilla Grafters
- Natalie Jeremijienko
- Donna Haraway and Anna Tsing on the Plantationocene
In Class:
- The commons and the plantationocene, creative responses...
- intro to a4
Wednesday Oct 21, 5:00p
::Art & Art History Lecture:: Queering the Future:
A conversation between Thea Quiray Tagle and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
Register here
Thursday Oct 22
Before Class:
Read about/ Look at:
- Ars Electronica 2020: In Keplers Gardens
Do:
- a4 (due Friday Oct 23)
In Class:
- zoom link
- screen some of Strange Culture. introduction to mapping
- introduction to a5
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WEEK 9 / mapping and countermapping 2
Early voting in NY state starts on Saturday. also, the Colgate Vote Project is working to modify the cruiser route on Election Day to drop people off by the library, which is the nearest polling place.
Tuesday Oct 27
Before Class:
Read/ Watch/ Look at:
- Reading: Catherine, D'Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein, The numbers don't speak for themselves from Data Feminism
Do:
- Make an account at https://www.openstreetmap.org/ once you've followed the prompts and verified your email address, click 'Start Mapping' and then 'edit' and follow the tutorial on how to make changes in Open Street Maps.
- Visit your assigned site notice different roadways paths, public space, businesses, etc. Compare with information on Open Street Map and, after going through the tutorial, try adding something that is not mapped yet.
In Class:
- zoom link
- mapping studio
Thursday Oct 29
Before Class:
Read about/ Look at:
- https://native-land.ca/
- Countermap Collection
- Coming Home to Indigenous Place Names in Canada
- ** You are invited to review readings from week 7 for a Reading Response this week.
Do:
- work on a5
In Class:
- zoom link
- introduction to Adobe Illustrator
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WEEK 10 / games and play
Tuesday Nov 03
Before Class:
Read/ Watch/ Look at:
- Eklund, World Without Oil (please watch video)
- HOT COMPOST!
- micha cardenas
- Joseph Delappe, Dead in Iraq
- Catlow, Rethinking War Games
- Cory Archangel, Lee Walton
- Wafaa Bilal, Domestic Tension
Do:
- work on a5
In Class:
- No Class: VOTE!
- Come by HOT COMPOST! at the Food Forest Studio, corner of Montgomery and Eaton:: we will be setting up and preparing for the day
Thursday Nov 06
Before Class:
Read about/ Look at:
- Michael Mateas, Facade
- UCSC game program, Critical Realities Studio
- Conor Sherlock, The Rapture Is Here and You Will Be Forcibly Removed From Your Home
- https://itch.io/
- Kitty Horror Show don't look at these if you are feeling gloomy or vague :)
Do:
- work on a5
In Class:
- zoom link
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WEEK 11 / intervention and multiples
Tuesday Nov 10
Before Class:
Read/ Watch/ Look at:
- Walter Benjamin, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (first 5 sections most important)
- Moreshin Allahyari esp. She Who Sees the Unknown, 3D Addivist stuff, Material Speculation: ISIS
- House of Ladosha
- Stephanie Syjuco esp. Afghanicraftistan
https://queersbuilt.vice.com/queersbuilt/p/1
In Class:
- zoom link
Thursday Nov 12
Before Class:
Read about/ Look at:
- Neri Oxman here
- Tobias Klein Soft Immortality
Do:
- a5 due Saturday Nov 14 by the end of the day
In Class:
- zoom link
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WEEK 12 / intervention 2
Tuesday Nov 17
Before Class:
Read/ Watch/ Look at:
- Ricardo Dominguez and Electronic Disturbance Theater, Floodnet
- Ricardo Dominguez, Gestures
- Joseph Delappe, Dead in Iraq
- Yes Men
- Cassie Thornton The Hologram
Do:
- work on a6
Sign-up for one-on-one meeting
In Class:
- zoom link
- intro to a6
Thursday Nov 19
Before Class:
Read about/ Look at:
- Reading: Augusto Boal, from Theater of the Oppressed (review)
- Yes Men, BLO, RtMark
Do:
- work on a6
- finish photoshop exercise and submit in #assignments channel on Slack
In Class:
In person meetings
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WEEK 13 /
Thanksgiving Recess, recognizing unceded Oneida territory upon which Colgate resides
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WEEK 14 / Variable Media and the Remix
Tuesday Dec 01
Before Class:
Read/ Watch/ Look at:
- Ippolito and Rinehardt, from Re-Collection
- Jon Ippolito, Variable Media Questionaire
- The Art Happens Here: Net Art's Archival Poetics
- Archive.org, Prelinger Archives, Wayback Machine
Do:
- work on a6
In Class:
- zoom link
Thursday Dec 03
Before Class:
Read about/ Look at:
- xtine burroughs, An Archive of Unnamed Women
- Joseph DeLappe
- aphid dot org (see esp. metavid)
- Christian Marclay, Clockwork
Do:
- work on a6
In Class:
- zoom link
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WEEK 15 /
Tuesday Dec 08
Before Class:
Read/ Watch/ Look at:
- no new readings or artwork -- review preceding weeks
Do:
- If you still owe a reading/ art response, you may choose any week above to review that you haven't written about already
In Class:
- zoom link
- in process crits
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FINAL CRITS
Monday Dec 14
9-11:: a6 due. final gathering. happy break and stay safe!!
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Required Activities outside of class:
September 30, 5:00: NANCY BAKER CAHILL (AAH Lecture, via Zoom)
October 7, 5:00: JOSH MACPHEE (AAH Lecture, via Zoom)
October 23-25, 2020 COVID Diaries: a Festival Gallery
-- streaming October 23-25, 2020 (more info coming soon)
November 4, 5:00: Queering the Future: THEA QUIRAY TAGLE WITH ZULFIKAR ALI BHUTTO (AAH Lecture, via Zoom)
November 6: BlackStar Film Festival Various filmmakers, 2020: Post-screening Discussion with Curator Maori Holmes. Film available the week prior to the Nov 6 talk
Since 2012, the BlackStar Film Festival has celebrated the visual and storytelling traditions of the African diaspora and global indegenous communities, showcasing films by black and brown people from around the world. Lauded as a “Black Sundance” by Ebony Magazine, the four-day event has become a highly visible platform for introducing independent filmmakers creating aesthetically challenging and genre-defying work to new audiences. This special program will feature a selection of some of the most compelling work from the 2020 edition, including narrative, documentary, and experimental work.
November 13: Coded Bias Dir. Shalini Kantayya, 2020, 90 min: Post-screening Discussion with Director Shalini Kantayya. Film available the week prior to the Nov 6 talk
Coded Bias reveals the groundbreaking research of MIT researcher Joy Buolamwini, proving that facial recognition algorithms have the power to disseminate racial bias at scale. In June 2020, IBM, Amazon, and Microsoft said they would pause the sale of facial recognition to police. In a pivotal moment for racial equality, and a decisive moment for how big tech will yield power, Coded Bias is a trailblazing film for public understanding and engagement with the algorithms that impact us all. Co-sponsored by the Department of Computer Science and the Benton Scholars Program.