Seminar
Columbia University School of the Arts
Spring 2004

Net Art Session 2: Monday, Feburary 2, 2004

Topic

Cuture, Technology & New Media

Class Plan

+ Check out sample personal web sites
+ Discuss readings
+ Discuss Mary Flanagan lecture
+ View and discuss sample net art projects
+ Work on personal web sites

Required Readings

+ Andrew Murphie and John Potts: Culture & Technology
Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 2003. Available at Labyrinth Books.

What is technology? (pp. 3 – 4)                    
What is culture? (pp. 6 – 9)                     
Culture/technology (pp. 9 – 10)                    
Theoretical Frameworks (pp. 11 – 38)

+ New Media: 1740 – 1915 (Media in transition), edited by Lisa Gitelman and Geoffrey B. Pingree
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2003. In course packet.

Introduction: What’s New About New Media? (pp. xi – xxi)

+ New Media: A Critical Introduction, by Martin Lister, Jon Dovey, Seth Giddings, Iain Grant and Kieran Kelly
In course packet.

What Are New Media? (pp. 9 – 13)                     
The Characteristics of New Media (pp. 13 – 37)     

Recommended Readings

Ken Jordan: Defining Digital Multimedia - Also available as class file.

Assignments Due

+ Find a Personal Web Site

Notes: For the second class meeting, find a personal web site that you really like. This could be an artist's portfolio site, a goofy home page, a blog, whatever. Post the URL with a brief comment via email to the Everybody group and to the relevant discussion topic, and be prepared to present it in class.
 

Files

File Title -- Ken Jordan: Defining Digital Multimedia

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