Mark Tribe: Net Art Seminar
 

Seminar
Columbia University School of the Arts
Spring 2004


Net Art Session 6: Monday, March 1, 2004

Topic

Performance

 

Class Plan

+ Presentations on Performative Net Art
+ Discuss readings
+ Discuss Chris Csikszentmihalyi lecture
+ Critique Performative Net Art Projects

 

Relevant Sites


+ Wirefire by Entropy8Zuper!: http://www.entropy8zuper.org/wirefire
+ US Dept. of Art and Technology: http://www.usdat.us/
+ Adrift: http://turbulence.org/adrift/
+ minus esse by Nark Bkb, aka Stefano Tolio:  http://rhizome.org/object.rhiz?2546
+ Pingbody by Stelarc: http://www.stelarc.va.com.au/pingbody/index.html
+ Parasite by Stelarc: http://www.stelarc.va.com.au/parasite/index.htm
+ Ada1852, by Chris Fahey: http://rhizome.org/commissions/ada1852.php
+ Durational Performance with Live Internet Broadcast, by Coco Fusco and Ricardo Dominguez: http://www.kiasma.fi/kiasma01/teatteri/dolores/dolores.php
+ Franklin Furnace's Future of the Present residency program for new media performance artists: http://www.franklinfurnace.org/tfotp02
+ Location One: http://www.location1.org

 

Required Readings


+ Philip Auslander: "Live from Cyberspace: or, I was sitting at my computer this guy appeared he thought I was a bot" -

PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art - PAJ 70 (Volume 24, Number 1), January 2002, pp. 16-21
Also available as class file (.rtf or .pdf)

 

Recommended Readings


+ Jordan Crandall: Symposium on Performance & Technology - Also available as class file.

+ Martha Wilson: "Historical Summary of Live Art on the Internet" - Also available as class file.

+ Pershall, Hobart, Murphy, Fearnside: "Performance Art vs. the X=Files" - Also available as class file.

+ Herbert Blau: “The Human Nature of the Bot” - Also available as class file.

+ Caterina Davinio: "Net-Performance: Processes and Visible Forms" - Also available as class file.

 

Files

+ Caterina Davinio: "Net-Performance: Processes and Visible Forms"
+ Philip Auslander: "Live from Cyberspace" PDF
+ Herbert Blau: “The Human Nature of the Bot”
+ Jordan Crandall: Symposium on Performance & Technology
+ Martha Wilson: "History of Live Art on the Internet"
+ Philip Auslander: "Live from Cyberspace"

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