ATS 5010 : Graduate Seminar
Performing Interactivity
Wednesday, 1:00 - 4:00
MI 517
Ben Chang, ben (at) bcchang (dot) com
This seminar course investigates the use of interactivity in electronic art - its aesthetic possibilities, conceptual issues, limitations, and relations to larger questions of human-machine interactions. A survey of historical connections and current practices provides the framework for different theoretical approaches to the complex and rapidly evolving art and technology field.
Course Requirements
2 in-class presentations or studio visits (for example, one on past work, one on current work).1 short paper
Many weekly readings are online; others will be available for download via the SAIC Portal (go.artic.edu)
- 9/6 Introduction
Overview of art and technology, new media, electronic art, and human-computer interaction. rhizome
wemakemoneynotart
ctheory.net
selectparks.net
pasta and vinegar
San Jose ZeroOne - ISEA 2006
Ars Electronica
SIGGRAPH
- 9/13 Branching and Multiplicity
Read:
Jorge Luis Borges, The Garden of Forking Paths, The Library of Babylon
Raymond Queneau, A Story as You Like It
Claude Berge, For a Potential Analysis of Combinatory Literature
Paul Fournel, The Theater Tree: A Combinatory Play
- 9/20 Chance and Indeterminacy
Read:
David Miller, The Shapes of Indeterminacy: John Cage's "Variations I" and "Variations II" (http://www.8ung.at/fzmw/2003/2003_2.htm)
William Burroughs, Trak Trak Trak, Cross the Wounded Galaxies, from The Soft Machine
Show Work: Gwenn-Ael Lynn
- 9/27 Hypertext --> net.art
Read:
Espen Aarseth, No Sense of an Ending: Hypertext Aesthetics from Cybertext: Perspectives on Ergodic Literature
Walter Benjamin, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/benjamin.htm)
Screen:
mouchette
JODI
0100101110101101.org
olia lialina
mark napier
yael kanarek, world of awe
young hae chang heavy industries
lisa jevbratt
amy alexander
futurefarmers
Show Work: Jan-Pieter Fokkens
- 10/4 Ben in Athens (MediaTerra), guest lecturer TBA
Event: 10/5: Joan Heemskerk and Dirk Paesmans (JODI) @ Conversations at the Edge at the Siskel Film Center - 10/11 Level Up: Narrative vs. Ludology
Read:
Gonzalo Frasca, Simulation versus Narrative: Introduction to Ludology
Mia Consalvo, Hot Dates and Fairy Tale Romances: Studying Sexuality in Video Games
Screen:
JODI, Untitled Game
Natalie Bookchin, The Intruder (http://www.calarts.edu/~bookchin/intruder/
Feng Mengbo, Q4U
Ann-Marie Schleiner, Velvet Strike, O.U.T. (http://www.opensorcery.net/)
Michael Mateas and Andrew Stern, Facade (http://www.interactivestory.net
Carlo Zanni, Average Shoveler, (http://www.zanni.org/average.htm)
Show Work: Mark Anderson, Eric Gelehrter
- 10/18 Hacks, Cultural Resistance, Everyday Practices
Read: Mackenzie Wark, A Hacker Manifesto (http://subsol.c3.hu/subsol_2/contributors0/warktext.html)
Critical Art Ensemble, Nomadic Power and Cultural Resistance from The Electronic Disturbance (http://www.critical-art.net/books/ted/)
Screen: RTMark
The Yes Men
Radical Software Group
illegal-art.org
Cory Arcangel
See Also:
Street Use hack-a-day 2600 phrack textfiles.com
Show Work: Margarita Benitez
- 10/25 Mobile/Locative/Wearable/Cyborg
Presentation:Gwenn-Ael Lynn
MakroLab
Stelarc
Cab Boots pedestrian guidance system
ImprovEverywhere Cellphone Concert
Blast Theory
more links Gisell Beiguelman, art for cellphones, installations with SMS
Golan Levin's short catalogue of cellphone artworks
Amsterdam Realtime
Whisper, wearable computing performance, Thecla Schiphorst and Susan Kozel. (more)
Jeremy Wood's GPS Drawings
Sound Mapping, GPS Urban Music Interface
C5 Corporation. GPS mapping of the Great Wall of China onto California, among other things.
Show Work: Ji-Hyun Yoon
Visiting Artist: Peter Sinclair, Sound artist and professor at the Ecole d'Art in Aix-en-Provence
nujus.net || locus sonus - 11/1 Artificial Reality, Mirror Spaces and Interfaces
Read: Myron Krueger, Videoplace from Artificial Reality II
David Rokeby, Transforming Mirrors: Subjectivity and Control in Interactive Media (http://homepage.mac.com/davidrokeby/mirrors.html
Andy Cameron, Dinner With Myron from Art & D
Screen:
David Rokeby, Very Nervous System
Camille Utterback, Text Rain
Golan Levin, Manual Input Sessions, Messa di Voce
setpixel
Show Work: Alan Strathmann, Aaron Henderson
- 11/8 Virtuality, Immersion, and Embodiment
Read: Mark Hansen, Framing the Digital Image: Jeffrey Shaw and the Embodied Aesthetics of New Media
Screen:
Jeffrey Shaw, Place - Ruhr, Place - A User's Manual, ConFIGURING the CAVE
Maurice Benayoun,World Skin
Char Davies,Osmose
Show Work: Mark Anderson, Ji-Hyun Yoon
- 11/15 Precession of Automata : A.I., A-Life, and Generative Systems
Read: Simon Penny, The Darwin Machine : Artificial Life and Interactive Art
Mitchell Whitelaw, System Stories and Model Worlds: A Critical Approach to Generative Art
Screen:
runme.org
Ken Rinaldo, AutoPoiesis, Mediated Encounters, The Flock
Sommerrer & Mignonneau. Interactive Plant Growing, A-Volve, PicoScan, Still A-Life, Life Writer
Martin Wattenberg
Casey Reas
Mark Napier
Karsten Schmidt
Will Wright, SPORE, (video on Google Video), The Sims
Also:
Sol LeWitt, Sentences on Conceptual Art
Show Work: Yun-Jeong Bae, Eric Gelehrter
- 11/22 Data, Visualization, Sonification, Infosynaesthesia
Read:
Ben Fry, Computational Information Design, (http://acg.media.mit.edu/people/fry/phd/)
Martin Wattenberg, again
Andrea Polli, T2, datareader, Atmospherics
Josh On & FutureFarmers, They Rule
Show Work: Margarita Benitez, Jan-Pieter Fokkens
- 11/29 R & D, Art and Science
art + engineering collaborations; E.A.T. to the Media Lab to Eyebeam. Open Source, developing platforms for artists, approaches to code, seizing the means of production ...
EVENT: telepresentation, Douglas Stanley, Aix-en-Provence
Sensorium, 10:00 AM Chicago, (17:00hr Aix-en-Provence)
Electronic artist and theorist Douglas Stanley will give a presentation live from Aix in the midst of the ENIAROF, a weeklong event that's a cross between an art show, a living studio, a carnival, and a video arcade.
Show Work: Alan Strathmann, Aaron Henderson
- 12/6 CRITIQUE WEEK
- 12/13 Final Class, Wrapup