instructor | tiffany holmes | fall 2005 | mi-517 | wednesdays 5-8 pm

LINKS + SCREENINGS

CLASS 1
overview

screenings/artists

• Art 21's Paul Pfeiffer + Tim Hawkinson
Interaction Biennial '99
Scott Snibbe

venues for interactive/responsive work

ars electronica • austria
siggraph • usa
isea • international venues
deaf (2003) • holland
icc • japan
transmediale • germany

 

 

CLASS 2
myth, metaphor, meaning

Historical context

• Brief history of computer and web
JenniCam
Lev Manovich

SCREENINGS/ARTISTS

Mark Amerika
Mark Napier
• Walczat/Wattenburg, The Apartment
• John Freyer, All My Life for Sale
Chris Barr is available on Thursdays
Keith Obadike
Miranda July and Harold Fletcher, LLYM
Lee Walton
Shelly Silver

video

fluxus compilation

 

 

CLASS 3
hci

David Rokeby
• Doug Engelbart: references
Jeffrey Shaw
• Toni Dove
Camille Utterback
• Sarah Drury's Listening Microphone
• Sketchpad, Grail, and the Dynabook, discussed by Alan Kay (NMR CD)
• Stelarc (PingBody and endosculpture)
Steve Mann (WearCam research)
Maggie Orth (musical jacket)
• Krzystof Wodiczko's Mouthpiece and Alien Staff

screenings/artists

Allan Kaprow: An Interview (VDB-0172), David Rokeby, Very Nervous System, Toni Dove, Artificial Changelings (Evolving Traditions), Interaction '01

 

 

CLASS 5
vr+hci

Historical context

Myron Krueger, Glowflow, Videoplace

screenings/artists

Bill Viola
Char Davies
Maurice Benayon
Dan Sandin
Diane Gromala

 

 

CLASS 6

robotics + ai

• Eliza/Doctor, Joseph Weizenbaum
Adrianne Wortzel
Beatriz da Costa
Continuous Paper by Nick Montford
Survival Research Laboratory

 

 

CLASS 7

art online: chat, blog, game

• "Izme Pass" by Carolyn Guyer and Martha Petry (NMR CD)
• Victoria Vesna, Bodies Incorporated
• Morrissey and Talley, The Jew's Daughter
• Maciej Wisniewski, Jackpot
Mouchette
Sissyfight
Perry Hoberman, Cathartic User Interface (1995-2000)
• "forking paths" by Stuart Moulthrop (NMR CD)
• Walczat/Wattenburg, The Apartment
Sawad Brooks and Beth Stryker
• Geoffrey Thomas, Storybeat
• Natalie Bookchin, Metapet, Intruder
Tropical America • On Ramp Arts,
• Ricardo Miranda Zuniga
• Hyper-X Online Gallery, blog art exhibition

 

 

CLASS 8

software art + information visualization

Golan Levin
lecielestbleu
• Joshua Davis
• Institute for Applied Autonomy, GraffittiWriter
• Fernando Orellana
• Mark Napier’s potatoland.org
• Martin Wattenberg and Map of the Market
• GPS art + locative media- Teri Rueb and others
• Pall Thayer, main site and Dashboard level widget
Jason Salavon
• Sabrina Raaf
• runme.org • various software art projects
• data dynamics net art show
• CODEDOC at the Whitney's Artport
• whitney museum's artport
• Muntadas The File Room
• John Klima
• Josh On, They Rule

 

 

CLASS 9

electronic activism

Rtmark
Processing open source beta project
• CAE-Main site + GenterraSpleen
Adbusters' campaigns • Buy Nothing Day
PED • Paul Vanouse, Milli Chen, Andrew Johnson
Alexei Shulgin • 386dxMoscow street installation
Jenny Holzer • MarqueesGuggenheim
Peggy Diggs • Milk Cartons
Guerrilla Girls
Etoy
Subrosa
Surveillance Camera Players
Institute for Applied Autonomy • Streetwriter
• Ricardo Miranda Zuñiga, Dentimundo
Tropical America • On Ramp Arts, Los Angeles, California
Street Level Youth Media
• Esther Polak, Ieva Auzina und RIXC - MILKproject
theyrule.net (2004) and thisisthepublicdomain.org (2003)

 

 

CLASS 10

surveillance + monitoring in art

Surveillance Camera Players
Swipe
Carnivore artworks
Police State by Jonah Brucker-Cohen
Rafael Lozano-Hammer, Vectorial Elevation
• Bureau of Inverse Technology, suicide box and bitplane
open-loop.org

 

 

CLASS 11

biotechnology + art

Historical context

DNA
visible human project

SCREENings/artists

• Peter Gena
Natalie Jeremijenko
Eduardo Kac
• Christa Sommerer and Laurent Migneou
• Paul Vanouse
• Adam Zaretsky
• subrosa
• critical art ensemble, genterra
• Karl Sims, Galapagos
• plant anima
• perma kitten
• Joe Davis's Microvenus
• CAE: CAE Defense Fund
Paradise Now exhibition documentation

final project

1) Current artist's statement (20 copies)

2) Create an application for one of the following exhibitions or residencies. You may or may not want to actually submit the project for review.

Isea 2006
Siggraph 2006
Skowhegan residency
Kohler residency
Ragdale residency