Net Art Session
4: Monday, Feburary 16, 2004
Topic
Net Art: Utopia and its Aftermath
Class Plan
+ Discuss readings
+ Present personal web sites
Relevant Sites
+ An Atlas of Cyberspaces: http://www.cybergeography.org/atlas/atlas.html
(be sure to check out the artistic, conceptual and historical maps)
+ Turbulence:
http://www.turbulence.org/
+ Sites mentioned
in Rachel Greene's article:
- Adaweb: http://adaweb.walkerart.org
- Irrational.org: http://www.irational.org
- Jodi.org: http://wwwwwwwww.jodi.org
- Net.Art Per Se: http://www.ljudmila.org/naps/cnn/cnn.html
- Own, Be Owned, or Remain Invisible: http://www.irational.org/heath/_readme.html
- Desktop Is: http://www.easylife.org/desktop
- Form Art: http://www.c3.hu/collection/form
- Documenta Done: http://www.nydigitalsalon.org/salon_10/artwork.php?artwork=30
- MBCBFTW: http://www.teleportacia.org/war
- Web Stalker: http://www.backspace.org/iod/iod4Winupdates.html
- Buy One Get one: http://www.ntticc.or.jp/Collection/Icc/Buy/
- Brandon: http://www.guggenheim.org/exhibitions/virtual/brandon_intro.html
- Old Boys Network: http://www.obn.org/
- Biotech Hobbyist: http://www.irational.org/biotech
- Shredder: http://www.potatoland.org/shredder
- Digital Landfill: http://www.potatoland.org/landfill
- Netomat: http://www.netomat.net
- Mongrel’s
Heritage Gold: http://www.mongrel.org.uk/Natural/HeritageGold/
- Every Icon: http://www.numeral.com/everyicon.html
Required Readings
+ Bruce
Sterling: “A
Short History of the Internet,” The
Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, February 1993
+ Rachel
Greene: “Web Work: A History of Internet Art,” Artforum,
May 2000
Also
available as class file.
+ New Media: A Critical Introduction, by Martin Lister, Jon Dovey, Seth
Giddings, Iain Grant and Kieran Kelly
In course packet and on reserve.
Networks: Communities,
Audiences and Users (pp.
164 - 182)
What
is the Internet?
Networks
and Identity
Learning
to Live in the Interface
Networks
and Communities
Visionary
Communities
Defining
Community Online
Networks
as Public Spheres
The
Net as Postmodern Public Sphere
The
Critique of the Net as Public Sphere
The
Post-Web Internet
+ The
New Media Book, edited by Dan Harries
In
course packet and on reserve.
Jeremy G. Butler:
The Internet and the World Wide Web (pp.
41 – 51)
+ Neuromancer, by
William Gibson
In course packet
and on reserve.
Excerpt from Chapter
1 (pp. 3 – 6)
+ Digital
Art (World of Art), by Christiane Paul
Thames & Hudson,
New York, 2003. Submitted Library purchase request on 12.29.2003.
In course packet and on reserve. Also available at Labyrinth Books.
Internet art and
nomadic networks (pp.
111 – 12)
Recommended Readings
+ Berin
Golonu: "Net
Art's Broadening Reach," Afterimage,
May/June 2001
This
article is not so well-written, but has some good ideas.
Also available as class file.
+ "6
Questions in search of a network: Matthew Fuller Interviews Simon
Pope
Also
available as class file.
Files
+ "6
Questions in search of a network: Matthew Fuller Interviews Simon Pope
+
Berin Golonu: Net Art's Broadening Reach
+
Rachel
Greene: “Web Work:
A History of Internet Art”
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