Teaching Assistants:
Matt Hope
mhope@ucsd.edu
Friday sections
Jorge Nava
genava@ucsd.edu
Wednesday sections
Joe Winter
jswinter@ucsd.edu
Thursday sections
Lab sections: AP&M B349
W 9-10:50am
&
11am-12:50pm
Th 9:30-11:20am &
11:30am-1:20pm
F 9-10:50am
& 11am-12:50pm
Class Resource Web Page (COMING SOON!)
Course Discussion list (for online
participation/dialogue)
http://webboard.ucsd.edu
COURSE OVERVIEW
Introduction to Computing in the Arts
consists of lectures and labs designed to immerse the student in
the dynamic field of computing arts. The course seeks to provide the student
with a historical, theoretical, aesthetic, conceptual and technical
introduction
to the challenges presented by the relatively recent collision of art,
culture and computing power.
Thoughout the quarter, we will view a broad range of contemporary and historical work by artists who use the computer as subject matter, production tool and artistic medium (sometimes all at once). Lectures are organized around principle areas of inquiry and practice in the field and are intended to provide a framework for considering a wide range of digital and electronic artmaking. During weekly labs, students will be introduced to and have access to software and hardware tools and will be challenged to develop their creative and technical skills through the creation of art projects. Also during labs, students will discuss the required readings and publicly present and critique their art projects.
Inside and outside of class you will see and interact with artwork on CD-ROM, the Web and videos as well as other cultural artifacts of the digital age, from computer console games to online chat rooms.
CLASS REQUIREMENTS and EVALUATION
1. Art projects
Project 1 = 10%
Project 2 = 20%
Project 3 = 20%
2. Final exam 25%
3. reading/participation in discussion
(in lab and on-line) 15%
4. Attendance (lecture and lab) 10%
A (91-100) = excellent, B (81-90) =above average, C (71-80) =average, D (61-70)=below average, F (60 & below) =unacceptable
GRADING POLICY AND GENERAL RULES
All assignments must be turned in on
time at the beginning of section. Failure to complete work on due date
will result in a full letter grade reduction for each subsequent class
in which project is not turned in. Final projects must be turned in on
time to receive credit. No late final projects will be accepted.
There is no make-up time for the final exam.
ATTENDANCE
In the case of an excused absence, student
will provide a written excuse or a doctor's note. Student will be allowed
one unexcused absence for a lecture and one for a lab during the quarter.
After this limit, each unexcused absence will automatically lower your
grade one half a letter grade. During lecture break, students must sign
attendance sheet in order to receive attendance credit.
DISCLAIMER
In this class I reserve
the right to show a broad range of course materials, some of which assume
the audience to be adult in age and demeanor. Should you at any time in
the course of the class feel offended by something you have seen or heard,
we would appreciate you staying to be part of a dialogue. If you feel that
you cannot stay, remove yourself from the classroom as discretely as possible.
You may be asked to report on your response.
REQUIRED MATERIALS
backup media as required for backing up
projects.
REQUIRED TEXT
DIGITAL ART by Christiane Paul,
(2003 Thames and Hudson Ltd. London), 224pps
Additional On-line readings through hyperlinks
on syllabus (below)
OPTIONAL TEXTS
Additional On-line readings through hyperlinks
on syllabus (below)
ON-LINE JOURNALS & LISTSERVES TO
SUBSCRIBE TO OR SURF
Rhizome
Telepolis
Ctheory
Nettime
RunMe
RECOMMENDED Art Sites
Zonezero
the
Remedi Project
turbulence
ArtPort
(Whitney Museum)
HorizonZero
Online Exhibition Archives
Beyond
Interface
shockoftheview
Art
Entertainment Network
010101
Digibodies
Net Animations/Design:
SuperBad
SiteSakamoto
PotatoLand
Omma
*If you have sites you think should be added to the above
list, please pass them on to me so I can share them with the class
*Works listed under "Screening/Surfing"
followed by an asterisk means they are available for viewing in the Art
and Architecture section of the Geisel Library.
Week 1. 01/05 : Introduction
Intro to me
Intro to you
Intro to course
Screening:
Video: The Machine that Changed the
World
The
Machine that Changed the World: Giant Brains
History of Computers
Timeline
of Events in Computer History
Historic
computer images
The
Virtual museum of Computing
Computer
Access/Cartographies:
Digital
Divide Network
Mapping
the Internet
Week 2. 01/12: hypertext to net.art
Reading
Required:
DIGITAL ART by Christiane Paul,
pages 66 - 124
Optional:
Introduction
to net.art by Alexei Shulgin and Nathalie Bookchin
Why
Have there been no great Net Artists? by Steve Dietz
Net.art
in the Age of Digital Reproduction by David Ross
Interview
with Jodi
Screening/Surfing
General Internet Information
A
Beginners Guide to HTML
HTML
Quick Reference
Hypertext, Hypermedia, &
net.art
Mark
Amerika, Hypertextual Consciousness 1.0
World's
Largest Collaborative Sentence
Alexei
Shulgin - Form Art and Others
Olia lialina, My
Boyfriend came home from the War
Vuk Cosic, History
of Art for Airports
Heath Bunting,readme.html_own,
be owned or remain invisible
Lev Manovich, Little
Movies
Shelley Jackson, A Patchwork Girl*
How
to be an Internet Artist
Young
Hae Chang
Hell.com
jodi.org
Archives & journals
Beehive
ebr -
Electronic Book Review
revista
electronica
Netartistas
Latinoamericanos
Women's
new media art gallery
Project
1: Hypertext artwork
due the week of
01/19 during lab section
Week 3. 01/19:
Dr. Martin Luther King's Birthday - NO LECTURE (Home or Lab study)
Week 4. 01/26: Some Art/Computing History
Reading
Required:
DIGITAL ART by Christiane Paul,
pages 7-65
Vannevar
Bush, As We May Think (1945)
Optional:
Interview
with Ellen Ullman
Grahame
Weinbren, "The Digital Revolution is a Revolution of Random Access"
Screening/Surfing:
SIGGRAPH Early Computer Animation
SLIDES - Digital Visions
Grahame Weinbren, "Sonata"
Billy
Kluver and Robert Rauschenberg, EXPERIMENTS
in ART & TECHNOLOGY (E.A.T.)
!!!EXTRA
CREDIT!!!
Attend at least
one session or performance of POWERING UP/POWERING DOWN Festival
and write a thoughtful
review (1-2 pages typed)
schedule of
events:
http://www.teknikaradica.org/
Week 5. 02/02 - Telepresence, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality and other Immersive Environments
Reading
Required:
DIGITAL ART by Christiane Paul,
pages 125-132 and pages 154-164
Optional:
Julian
Dibbell, "Rape in Cyberspace"
Sandy
Stone, Will the Real Body Please Stand Up?
Screening/Surfing
Telepresence
Research, Inc.
The
Telegarden
Jeffrey
Shaw, ZKM video
Sheldon Brown, Mi Casa es Su Casa
Myron Krueger, "VideoPlace"
Char
Davies' "OSMOSE"
MAUVE DESERT - by Adriene Jenik
RTMark
Brody Condon - Chinatown
Thomas Walizcy animations: The Garden,
The Forest
Catherine IKAM - Portraits
Luc Courchesne - vision
systems
Simon Penny (CAVE)
M.I.T. - Augmented Reality
Tamiko
Thiel, Beyond Manzanar
Rebecca Allen, Bush
Soul
Marko Peljan, Polar
Ageuda
Simo
Project
2 - Virtual Environments
due the week of
2/16 during lab section
Week 6. 02/09: Computers & Music & Sound
Reading
Required:
DIGITAL ART by Christiane Paul,
pages 132-137
John
Cage quotes
Screening/Surfing:
Negativland
Modulations*
Craig Baldwin, Sonic Outlaws*
Ding An Sich,
Cantos
John
Klima, Glassbead
Noodle
by
Josh Portway
Beth Coleman
FreeRadio
San Diego
Histories
Electronic
Music Timeline 1
More
Electronic Music Links
Contemporary Inventors/Composers
Miller
Puckette, MAX and PD
Peter Otto, SPAT
David Rokeby The
Very Nervous System
George E. Lewis
Ben Rubin, Listening
Post
Golan Levin, Telesymphony
Pamela Z
Toshio Iwai
George Sarah
Popular Pioneers
Laurie Anderson, Puppet Motel*
Brian Eno
Public
Enemy
djspooky.com
Distribution
MP3
i-Tunes
Boombox
(go through On the Air)
RIAA = Recording Industry
Association
of America
napster.com
Week 7. 02/16:
Presidents' Day - NO LECTURE (home study
or lab)
AESTHETICS OF THE DATABASE , THE ALGORITHM
& THE CODE
self-exploration of the following
artists:
Jennifer & Kevin McCoy, Every Shot,
Every Episode
George Legrady, Pocketful of Memories
Victoria Vesna, Bodies, Inc.
Perry Hoberman, BarCode Hotel
Lev Manovich, Soft Cinema
John Simon, Jr.
John Maeda
Amy Alexander
Mark Daggett, browsers
Lisa Jevbratt, 1:1
Mark Napier, Flag
Matthew Fuller
Week 8. 02/23: Networked Conceptions of Performance
Reading
Required:
DIGITAL ART by Christiane Paul,
pages 165-173, and pages 189-195
Optional:
Scott
Rosenberg, "Clicking for Godot"
Simon
Frith, "LIVE! from my bedroom"
Screening/Surfing
Desktop
Theater
Stelarc
- Ping Body
Performance
The
Palace
Plaintext
Players
Blasttheory
- Desert Rain
SEEMEN
Survival
Research Laboratories
Naomi Spellman, Jeff Knowlton
Keith Obadike
Cinema Performance
Electronic Disturbance Theater
Quake Friends
SnapMeat
Coco Fusco & Ricardo Dominguez,
Dolores
Surveillance Cam Players
Guillermo Gomez-Pena
Institutions/Archives
Franklin
Furnace
Digital
Performance Archive
Week 9. 03/01: The Art of Play
Reading
Required:
DIGITAL ART by Christiane Paul,
pages 196-211
Optional:
Mary Flanagan, The
Sky is Falling: Why are Virtual Worlds so Desolate?
Game
Theory
Ann Marie Schneider,
Does Lara Croft Wear Fake Polygons?
Amy Jo Kim, Ritual
Reality: Social Design for Online Gaming Environments
Rhizome, Interview with Brody Condon
Screening/Surfing:
c-level,
Tekken Torture Tournament,
Anne-Marie Schleiner, Madame
Polly
Brody Condon & Anne-Marie Schleiner,
Velvet-Strike
John
Klima, Tierra
BlastTheory
Purple Moon, "Rockett's First Day of
School"*
Toshio Iwaii, "Compositions on the
Table"
Cory Arcangel
Natalie Bookshin, The
Intruder
Sissyfight
2000
BabyWorld
Josephine Starrs & Leon Cmielewski,
Dream
Kitchen
Eddo Stern, Summons
to Surrender
Eddo Stern, Shiek Attack*
Bang
Bang (you're not dead?)
Blacklash
Alex Dragulescu, Suspended
Gardens
memebots
//
LUCKYKISS_XXX > adult kisekae ningyou sampling ^_^
Lara
Croft Stripped Bare
Industry Games
Myst*
Riven*
Bad Mojo*
TombRaider
Zelda
Tekkan
Ultima Online
Everquest
HalfLife
The
Sims
Gaming
Exhibitions/Archives/Resources
gameart
SWITCH issue
SHIFT_CONTROL
GamaSutra
Final
Project: Collaborative Final Project
due the week of
03/07 during lab section
Week 10. 03/07: Artists Using Innovations in Science & Engineering as subject, tool, medium
Reading
Required:
DIGITAL ART by Christiane Paul,
pages 212-end
Optional:
Politics
of the Artificial by Victor Margolin
emergence:
an active essay
Screening/Surfing
ActiveCampus
Christa
Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau projects
LifeSpacies
Creature
Labs
Eduardo
Kac
Heatseeking
by Jordan Crandall
Adrienne
Wortzel
Ken Feingold
Rachel Mayeri
Leah Gilliam
Critical Art Ensemble
Alex Galloway, Carnivore
Natalie
Jerimijenko, One Trees, Feral Pets
Chris Csikszentmihalyi, DJ
I-ROBOT
Marko Peljhan, MAKROLAB
Exhibitions/Archives
Paradise Now
ARS
ELECTRONICA 99: LifeScience
Institutions
MIT
Media Lab Research
CAL-IT2
Final Exam: Thursday, March
18, 7-10pm CH214
bring 2-3 blue books & writing implement
Thank you for your participation and enthusiasm toward learning!