Schedule
Readings are due on the day that they are listed, & weeks Run from Monday - Sunday.
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WEEK 1
/hello world!
Monday Jan 21
In Class:
Hello World!
Tuesday Jan 22
Before Class:
- Read the syllabus
In Class:
- deeper introductions
Thursday Jan 24
Before Class:
- Look at Rhizome.org's Net.Art Anthology. Find 3 artworks that 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.
- ALSO: document your digital communications for 24 hours, collecting at least 7 different pieces of metadata (including platform used) -- use a spreadsheet or some other visual process to track these communications, and bring to class.
In Class:
- Class discussion: identifying some conceptual, technical, and perceptual qualities of digital art
4:00p Picker or Longyear Gallery Opening
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WEEK 2 / networks: rhizomes, protocols, and propagation
Before Class:
Read:
- Johnny Ryan, "How the atom bomb helped give birth to the Internet"
- Starhawk, Intro to Truth or Dare (3 Types of Power Section most important)
Do:
- register for Slack digitalstudio2019 team and say "hi"
- post an image of a propagation technique to tumblr using the appropriate tags (to make sure you can post)
In Class:
- how the internet works, types of networks, power
- here is the example code from class
Thursday Jan 31
Before Class:
Look at/ Read about/ Watch:
- Paolo Cirio, Global Direct
- Mark Lombardi, in Bomb mag
- Young Hae Chang, Traveling to Utopia, With a Brief History of Technology, Artist's Statement N0. 45,730,944: The Perfect Artistic Web Site, Samsung Means to Come, and Samsung
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- download an html editor if you haven't already (like Sublime Text, or TextMate for Mac or Crimson Editor for Windows)
- download an ftp like Filezilla or Cyberduck
- Continue to observe and log your internet activity if you haven't already (ideally do for 24-hour period) -- track whether you follow links deeper into a site, or surf away from a site. What is the best way to visualize these actions? Collect three pieces of metadata associated with each link (time spent on a page, timestamp, location, platform, etc.)
In Class:
- getting to know you exercise cont'd, html and css continued
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WEEK 3 / networks: from audience to participant
Tuesday Feb 05
Before Class:
Look at/ Read/ Read about/ Watch:
- Wafaa Bilal, Domestic Tension (watch videos from the performance -- from beginning and end)
- Yoko Ono, Cut Piece
-- Kit Galloway and Sherrie Rabinowitz, Hole in Space
- DToren
- Augusto Boal, from Theater of the Oppressed
In Class:
- html, css, ftp cont'd, possible networked microcontroller exercise
Feb 06 Prof. Brynn Hatton's talk, "Not Here to be Recognised': Vietnam, Aboriginal Black Power, and the Australian State"
Thursday Feb 07
Before Class:
Look at/ Read:
- Electronic Disturbance Theater, FloodNet
- Keith Obadike, Blackness for Sale
- Ricardo Dominguez, Transborder Immigrant Tool
In Class:
- local networks local systems exercise,
- html, css, ftp cont'd. intro A2
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WEEK 4 / networks: distributed power
Tuesday Feb 12
Before Class:
Read about:
- Yes Men, BLO, RtMark
- Eklund, World Without Oil
- Blast Theory
- https://aksioma.org/networked.disruption/
Do:
- A1 due
In Class:
- Review A1
Thursday Feb 14
Before Class:
Look at:
- 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!
- Zach Blas Contra-Internet Inversion Practice #3: Modeling Paranodal Space
Reread:
- Augusto Boal, from Theater of the Oppressed -- look especially at Fourth Stage: The Theatre as Discourse >> and the different types of Newspaper Theater
Do:
- Work on A2
NO Class -- work on A2
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WEEK 5 / social action: social media and games
Tuesday Feb 19
Before Class:
Look at/ Read about:
- Yes Men, BLO, RtMark
- Eklund, World Without Oil
- Joseph Delappe, Dead in Iraq
- Catlow, Rethinking War Games
Do:
- choose a website you think you want to work with for A2
- work on A2
In Class:
- Studio time: work on A2
Thursday Feb 21
Before Class:
Read:
- Nicolas Bourriaud, Relational Form
- Claire Bishop, Antagonism and Relational Aesthetics
Do:
- Work on A2
In Class:
- look at Warren Sack, etc.
- Work on A2
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WEEK 6 / print: seeding action
Tuesday Feb 26
Before Class:
Read/ look at:
- Adrian Piper, Notes on Funk
- House of Ladosha
- Stephanie Syjuco
Do:
- Download Ai and Ps one week trials (optional)
- Work on A2
In Class:
- Studio time
Thursday Feb 28
Before Class:
Read:
- Future Farmers
- EPA
In Class:
- look at some advanced css and js examples
- Vector and Raster programs (Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop)
- Intro to A3
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WEEK 7 / print: seeding action
Tuesday Mar 05
Before Class:
Read:
- Fluxus
- Joseph Beuys, Proceedings at the Bureau for Direct Democracy and I am Searching for a Field Character
Do:
- Work on finishing A2 and coming up with an idea for A3
In Class:
- Meet in Greenhouse in Ho
Mar 06 Ken Landauer's talk "Functure"
Thursday Mar 07
Before Class:
Read about/ Look at:
- Bioplastic Cookbook for Ritual Healing from Petrochemical Landscapes
- Dawn Weleski
- Stephanie Syjuco
Do:
- Finish A2, work on A3
In Class:
- A2 crits
- Artist Dawn Weleski visits
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/midterm break mar 9-17
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WEEK 8 / seeding action
Tuesday Mar 19
Before Class:
In Class:
- no class
Thursday Mar 21
Before Class:
Read:
- Ricardo Dominguez, Gestures
Do:
- make sketches/ diagrams/ notes toward seeding action project
In Class:
- illustrator and laser cutter demo
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WEEK 9 / seeding action
Tuesday Mar 26
Before Class:
Read:
- Walter Benjamin, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
In Class:
- studio time -- work on A3
Wednesday, Mar 27 :: Museum Conversations: Digital futures 11:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m., Case-Geyer Library, Batza Meeting Room
Thursday Mar 28
Before Class:
Read/ look at:
- Refiguring the Future exhibit See also artist describtions here
- Moreshin Allahyari esp. She Who Sees the Unknown, 3D Addivist stuff, Material Speculation: ISIS
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In Class:
- studio time -- work on A3
Mar 28 :: Gregory Shollete and Chloë Bass' talk "Art as Social Action"
Mar 29+30 :: please attend part of Grafters X Change: Branches and Networks
- Please commit to 1-2 hours of event see schedule here: http://mhaughwout.colgate.domains/graftersxchange/schedule/. If you are doing something connected to Out of Pocket, please plan to be in attendance for it from 3-4 on Saturday at Rogers Nature Center (note shuttle schedule if you don't have a car), and if connected to seed packets, please plan to dedicate one hour to the seed packet table on Friday or Saturday.
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WEEK 10 / seeding the commons
Tuesday Apr 02
Before Class:
Rest
In Class:
- crits
- useful ways to display your work online
Thursday Apr 04
Before Class:
Read:
- Juan Friere, From the Analogue Commons to the New Hybrid Public Spaces
In Class:
- crits continued, an introduction to the commons
(April 4, 5 & 6, 700 pm, April 6, 200 pm matinee, Ho Tung Visualization Lab, Ho Science Center, Room 401 One of the Paul Catanese "Century of Progress/Sleep" performances
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WEEK 11 / seeding the commons
Tuesday Apr 09
Before Class:
Watch:
- Revolution OS
Do:
- be ready to share with the class an original song and a cover of that song
In Class:
- Lawrence Lessig, RIP: Remix Manifesto, CC, assignment 4a, songs.
Thursday Apr 11
Before Class:
Do:
- Put a Creative Commons license on each of your project pages: https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/
Read/ look at:
- the Pool
- artworks: public smog, farm hack, CLUI, fallen fruit, future farmers, Josh On
- optional reading: The Biohacking Hobbyist
In Class:
- more on the creative commons
- portfolio materials -- image galleries, menues, WordPress, etc.
- review slideshows, galleries, lightbox, etc. on w3schools (everything under 'Images') to implement portfolio materials for your website.
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WEEK 12 / inter-activity: electronics + fabrication2
Tuesday Apr 16
Before Class:
Read:
- Richard Brautigan, All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace
- Donna Haraway, The Cyborg Manifesto (read up to at least pg 16)
In Class:
- electronics tutorial
Apr 17Margaretha Haughwout: "Sowing Against Systems, Branches vs Networks, Unearthing Slowness"
Thursday Apr 18
Before Class:
Review:
- Allahyari, especially Material Speculation
In Class:
- 3D printing workshop -- meet in DMLRC -- 5th floor of library.
- see 3D_Print_Introduction.pdf
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WEEK 13 / inter-vention + drones
Tuesday Apr 23
Before Class:
Read:
- http://we-make-money-not-art.com/drone2000/#.VS8b8RPN_R8
In Class:
Thursday Apr 25
Before Class:
Read:
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Look at:
- Jill Magid
- Joseph DeLappe
- Machinima
- Instagram
- Emma Sulkowicz
In Class:
- Drone workshop with Ahmad Khazee
- discussion of leverage points, in class derives, on & offline.
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WEEK 14 / studio & final crits
Tuesday Apr 30
Before Class:
- Work on A4
- read: Astronoise - Snowden and Crawford essays
In Class:
- Studio time -- in process feedback
May 01Ara Merjian's "Prehistory, Primitivism, and the Aesthetics of 'Contamination': Pier Paolo Pasolini and Arte Povera"
Thursday May 02
Before Class:
- Work on A4
In Class:
- A4 due
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May 06 12-2p
ARTS 202 events outside of class time:
talks are @ 4:30pm in Golden Auditorium unless otherwise specified
Lectures last an hour (more or less)
Jan 24, 4:00p Picker Gallery Opening
Feb 06 Prof. Brynn Hatton's talk, "Not Here to be Recognised': Vietnam, Aboriginal Black Power, and the Australian State"
Mar 06 Ken Landauer's talk "Functure"
Wednesday, Mar 27Museum Conversations: Digital futures 11:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m., Case-Geyer Library, Batza Meeting Room
Mar 28Gregory Shollete and Chloë Bass' talk "Art as Social Action"
Mar 29+30part of Grafters X Change: Branches and Networks
(April 4, 5 & 6, 700 pm, April 6, 200 pm matinee, Ho Tung Visualization Lab, Ho Science Center, Room 401 One of the Paul Catanese "Century of Progress/Sleep" performances
Apr 17Margaretha Haughwout's "Sowing Against Systems, Branches vs Networks, Unearthing Slowness"
May 01Ara Merjian's "Prehistory, Primitivism, and the Aesthetics of 'Contamination': Pier Paolo Pasolini and Arte Povera"