books : history and criticism
Aesthetic Computing, edited by Paul A. Fishwick,
MIT Press, 2006.
From Technological to Virtual Art, Frank Popper, MIT Press,
2007.
Creative Code: Aesthetics + Computation, John
Maeda, Thames & Hudson, 2004.
Lev Manovich's online
archive of articles.
Information Visualization: Design
for Interaction (2nd
Edition), Robert Spence, Prentice Hall, 2007.
Envisioning Information, Edward R. Tufte, Graphics Press,
1990.
Abstracting Craft: The Practiced
Digital Hand, Malcolm
McCullough, MIT Press, 1997.
How Images Think, Ron Burnett, MIT Press, 2004.
Windows and Mirrors: Interaction
Design, Digital Art, and the Myth of Transparency, Jay David Bolter and Diane
Gromala, MIT Press, 2003.
Soft Cinema: Navigating the Database, Lev Manovich and
Andreas Kratky, MIT Press, 2005.
Readings in Information Visualization:
Using Vision to Think, Stuart K. Card (Editor),
Jock Mackinlay (Editor), Ben Shneiderman (Editor),
Morgan Kaufmann Series in Interactive Technologies, 1995.
Digital Biology, Peter J. Bentley, Simon & Schuster,
2002. (An excellent overview of how cutting edge research
in the fields of biology and computing are crossing over).
Patterns in Design, Art and Architecture, Petra
Schmidt, Birkhauser, 2006.
Practices of Looking: An introduction to visual culture,
Marita Sturken and Lisa Cartwright, Oxford University Press,
2002. (Very useful as an introduction to visual culture).
The New Media Reader, editors Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Nick
Montfort, MIT Press 2003. (This is a general reference;
less specific to algorithmic drawing).
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books : technical
Macromedia Director MX 2004 for Windows & Macintosh (Visual QuickStart Guide), Mark Schaeffer, Andre Persidsky,
Peachpit Press, 2004.
Macromedia Director MX and Lingo: Training from the Source
(Paperback)
by Phil Gross, Macromedia Press, 2003.
HTML, XHTML, and CSS, Sixth Edition (Visual Quickstart
Guide), Elizabeth Castro, Peachpit Press, 2006.
Physical Computing: Sensing and Controlling
the Physical World with Computers, Tom Igoe, Dan O'Sullivan, Course
Technology PTR, 2004.
Computer Vision, Linda G. Shapiro, George C.
Stockman, Prentice Hall, 2001. (A great intro text on programming
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some artworks in AIC's prints and drawings
collection
Part of class field trip to AIC
Lewitt's wall study, and All Ends Connected
Rembrandt's Three Crosses
Hugnet's Exquisite corpse
Boetti's ballpoint pen drawing
Hammond's Double Blind
Heckel's Girls on Shore
Sage, Blood Machine
McReynolds, Landscape
Lanyon, Third Doll
Ernst, The Stallion
Puchler, Joseph I
Halstead, Argus Pheasant
Basaldella, Tumults
Barnet, Study for Portrait
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