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Classes/2010/VIS145B

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Schedule
*Discuss: Marie Sester. ACCESS. 2003. http://accessproject.net
*Discuss: Eyewriter.
 
=== Topics ===
'''Performance for the camera, for the web'''
*Discuss Chatroulette. Facebook, Twitter, Youtube. Attention in the social net.
*Discuss telematic perfromance.
*Read: The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (excerpt). Erving Goffman. 1959.
*Read: Performance: A Critical Introduction (excerpt). Richard Carlson. 2004.
*Do: Intervention in social circuits. Chatroulette/Facebook/Youtube exercise.
 
'''Social Networks/Web 2.0'''
*Read: Protocol, Control, and Networks by Alexander Galloway and Eugene Thacker. Grey Room 17, Fall 2004 p 6-29.
*Read: DIGITAL MAOISM: The Hazards of the New Online Collectivism. Jaron Lanier. 2006.
*Watch: MediatedCultures @ Kansas State http://mediatedcultures.net/mediatedculture.htm
*Datamining/Complex Networks, node-edge graphing.
 
'''Digital Memory/Personal Media: Where do we exist and how do we remember?'''
*Read: Mediated Memories in the Digital Age (excerpt). Jose van Dijck. 2007.
*Read: Are you sure you want to do this? Matthias Fuchs 1994.
*Read: Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age (excerpt). Viktor Mayer-Schonberger. 2009.
*Flickr.com, Facebook
*Discuss: My Pocket. Burak Arikan. 2008.
 
'''Cognition + Creativity'''
*Generative Art vs. Computational Creativity
*Casy Reas
*Processing.org
*Read: Triumph of the Cyborg Composer.
*Read: How to draw three people in a garden. 1988.
*Read: Shades of Computational Evocation and Meaning: The GRIOT System and Improvisational Poetry Generation. 2006.
 
'''Artificial Intelligence'''
*Read: Expressive Processing (excerpt), Noah Wardrip Fruin, 2009.
*Read: Elephants Don't Play Chess, Rodney Brooks, 1990.
 
'''Appropriation and Remix'''
*Read: The Fiction of Memory. New York Times, March 12, 2010. Luc Sante
*Read: Jonatham Lethem. The Ecstasy of Influence. Harpers Magazine. 2007.
*Remix Culture. Lev.
*God's Little Toys: Confessions of a cut & paste artist. William Gibson. 2005. *http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.07/gibson.html
*Reality Hunger: A Manifesto. David Shields. 2010.
 
'''Materiality in the information age.'''
*Tangible interfaces, haptic feedback.
*Read: Evocative Objects: Things We Think With (excerpt). Sherry Turkle, 2007.
*Read: New Media and the Forensic Imagination (excerpt). Matthew Kirschenbaum. 2008.
*View: BIT Plane.
*View: Garbage Cubes
*Discuss techniques of markerless tracking, augmented reality, QR codes, etc. *Online/Offline Space.
 
'''Embodiment'''
*Computing with bodies, engineered bodies
*tactile media, haptic interface
*embodied perception
*Read: Stelarc.
 
'''Self-Image'''
*Read: Self/Image: Technology, Representation, and the Contemporary Subject (excerpt). Amelia Jones, 2006.
*Do: Forensic Photoshop Exercise.
*http://www.flickr.com/photos/dryponder/sets/72157623726710218/
*http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2010/02/obama_being_forced_to_look_at.html#photo=1
*http://bubleraptor.tumblr.com/
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