Seminar
Columbia University School of the Arts
Spring 2004

Net Art Session 5: Monday, Feburary 23, 2004

Topic

Hacktivism & Tactical Media

Class Plan

+ Presentations on hacktivism and tactical media
+ Discuss readings
+ Screen "The Hacktivists"
+ Critique hacktivist/tactical media projects

Relevant Sites

+ Electronic Disturbance Theater: http://www.thing.net/~rdom/ecd/ecd.html
+ RTMark: http://www.rtmark.com
+ Institute for Applied Autonomy's iSee: http://www.appliedautonomy.com/isee 
+ Government Information Awareness: http://opengov.media.mit.edu
+ TheyRule: http://www.theyrule.net
+ Miltos Minetas' whitneybiennial.com: http://www.whitneybiennial.com
+ Etoy TOYWAR: http://toywar.etoy.com
+ Open Source Art Hack: http://netartcommons.walkerart.org/article.pl?sid=02/04/10/0515240&mode=thread

Required Readings

+ Alex Galloway, “Possibility” - Also available as class file.

+ Beryl Graham: "New media, 'community art', and net.art activism--Interviews with Natalie Bookchin and Brendan Jackson" - Available as class file.

+ Luther Blissett: The XYZ of Net Activism - Also available as class file.

+ Stefan Wray: “On Electronic Civil Disobedience” - Also available as class file.

+ Luther Blissett: “0100101110101101.ORG--art.hacktivism" - Also available as class file.

Recommended Readings

+ Hakim Bey: Art Sabotage - Also available as class file.

+ Niall McKay: "The Golden Age of Hacktivism" - Also available as class file.

+ A Hacker Manifesto [version 4.0], by McKenzie Wark - Also available as class file.

+ Two Texts on the exhibition “Hackers: The Art of Abstraction,” at The Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (MNCARS) in Madrid:

1) "Hacking = Labor = Art," by Christine Smallwood, Rhizome Net Art News, March 3, 2004
http://rhizome.org/netartnews/story.rhiz?timestamp=20040303 

2) "Every Bit is a Work of Art," by Michelle Delio, Wired News, Feb. 27, 2004
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,62452,00.html - Also available as class file.

Files

+ Two Texts on the Hackers Exhibition in Madrid
+ A Hacker Manifesto [version 4.0], by McKenzie Wark
+ Alex Galloway: "Possibility"
+ Art Sabotage, by Hakim Bey
+ Beryl Graham: "New Media, Community Art, and Net.art Activism"
+ Duna Maver: "Avant.garde - Transfigured or Dead?"
+ Luther Blissett, The XYZ of Net Activism
+ Luther Blissett: "0100101110101101.ORG--art.hacktivism"
+ Niall McKay: "The Golden Age of Hacktivism"

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