| DM 7104 LECTURE SERIES SEMINAR, SPRING 2006 | |
| LECTURE SERIES SEMINAR Tuesdays from 7PM - 10PM in CIT Rm 413 and Auditorium | |
Catherine D'Ignazio
IMPORTANT INFO: LATE POLICY: ATTENDANCE POLICY: You can only miss 1 class session. Otherwise you risk failing the course. LAPTOP POLICY: NO LAPTOPS. Because the quality of this course is predicated on your full mental presence, there are no open laptops allowed during class. No exceptions, even for googling and blogging. If you open your laptop you risk a failing grade. |
1. Schedule:Class 1 (02/21): Hello World
Class 2 (02/28): Scott Snibbe LectureBody, Space and Cinema Lecture: 7pm, Lecture Hall 165, Brown University,
CIT Building Scott Snibbe will present recent works that explore interaction between cinematic projections and viewers' bodies along with his most recent work, "Blow Up", which amplifies human breath as a large field of wind. Snibbe's works are designed to have specific social effects: to create a sense of interdependence, to promote friendly interaction among strangers, and to increase viewers' concentration. Snibbe's work has been exhibited internationally and installed permanently in public and private locations worldwide, including New York, Germany, France and San Francisco. He has been awarded the Prix Ars Electronica, and a Rockefeller New Media Fellowship. Lecture presented by RISD Digital + Media in conjunction with Brown
University, Wayland Seminar and German Studies DUE 2/28: ANNOTATED READING LISTS SCOTT SNIBBE: Bo, Sarah ERKKI HUHTAMO: Christopher Robbins, Rachelle, Lisa SAL RANDOLPH: John E, Emily, Carmen KATJA KWASTEK: John Baca, Peter MONGREL: Chris M., Ebe SPURSE: Leon, Elliott, Geon
Class 3 (03/07): Erkki Huhtamo LectureMedia Archeology Lecture: 7PM, RISD Auditorium Professor Erkki Huhtamo's recent work has dealt with media archaeology, an emerging approach he has pioneered since the early 1990's. Media archaeology excavates forgotten, neglected or suppressed media-cultural phenomena, providing us with a powerful_tool for assessing the phenomena underlying media history. What is "new" in media culture can often be discovered by excavating what is self-evident and obsolete. In recent years, Professor Huhtamo has applied this approach to phenomena like peep media, the notion of the screen and mobile media. Professor Huhtamo teaches at the Department of Design & Media Arts at UCLA. http://dma.ucla.edu/people/faculty.php?ID=9 Class 4 (03/14): Presentations/Projects
Class 5 (03/21): Katja Kwastek LectureAesthetics of Spatial Interaction Lecture: 7PM RISD Auditorium Katja Kwastek is a RISD Visiting Scholar in Digital + Media and Liberal Arts during Spring 2006. She is an assistant professor in the art history department of the University of Munich. In September she will be joining the New Ludwig Boltzmann Institute Media.Art.Research. Her research focuses on digital media, especially on changing spatial conceptions due to the rise of communication technologies and on the aesthetics of media. She has curated exhibition projects, lectured widely in international contexts, and published many books and essays, including Ohne Schnur. Art and Wireless Communication, Frankfurt 2004, and Global Games and Mobile Feelings, (Transmitter, Osnabrück 2004). She recently participated in a summit on the future of media art organized by the Ars Electronica in Madrid. http://www.fak09.uni-muenchen.de/Kunstgeschichte/dozenten/kwastek
No Class (03/28): NO CLASS - Spring BreakClass 6 (04/04): Presentations/Projects
Class 7 (04/11): Sal Randolph LectureFree Culture! Lecture: RISD Auditorium, 7 p.m. Sal Randolph lives in New York and produces independent art projects involving internet-mediated gift economies and social architectures. She is the founder of Opsound, an open sound exchange of copyleft music (opsound.org). Other recent projects include The Free Biennial (freebiennial.org) and Free Manifesta (freemanifesta.org) which brought together several hundred artists in open shows of free art in the public spaces of New York and Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Randolph's work has been presented in public environments as well as in gallery and museum exhibitions including Manifesta 4, the Palais de Tokyo, La Box in Bourges, Art Interactive, and Pace Digital Gallery. Class 8 (04/18): Presentations/Projects
Class 9 (04/25): Presentations/Projects
CANCELLED! --> Class 10 (05/02): Mervin Jarman and the Mongrel Artist Collective LectureHacktivism and Community Lecture: RISD Auditorium, 7 pm Mervin Jarman is a Digital Artist and a core member of the Mongrel Artist Collective in the UK. Mongrel creates socially engaged culture projects using a wide range of media technologies. Recent projects include “The Container Project”, a non-profit mobile access space providing new technology for marginalized urban and rural communities, and “mongrelStreet Lightz”, a collaborative production mixing new media art activism and community arts. These projects are designed to open up situations and make way for those locked out of the mainstream to gain strength without getting locked into the power structure. Class 10 (05/02): Wendy ChunProgrammable Visions: On the Emergence of Computer and Biological Code-Scripts Lecture: RISD Auditorium, 7 pm Why are images proliferating at a time when their power to index reality is waning? How and why have non-transparent technologies, such as computers, become conflated with transparency? This talk argues that the answer to these questions lies in the unforeseen emergence of programming languages. Drawing connections between early genetics and computer engineering, this talk argues that digital computing's "programmability"-its return to a "clock-work" universe-encapsulated mid-twentieth century dreams of biological heredity. Rather than foreshadowing DNA, as many have argued, early ruminations on the existence of a genetic code-script that conflated execution and legislation, such as Schrodinger's What is Life?, foreshadowed the emergence of a code-based causality, which software-not DNA-would, and could only, instantiate. About Wendy Chun More information: Class 11 (05/09): Presentations/Projects
Class 12 (05/16): spurse LectureArtificial Life is Impossible in a Computer Lecture: RISD Auditorium, 7PM Spurse is an international collective composed of individuals with experience in a wide variety of fields. spurse has no (fixed) content or members rather it is a viral multiplicity that is continuously reforming itself as it becomes new projects and new events. In this, it is open to change, contradiction, multiplicity, tangents, infection, and betrayal. Spurse is interested in considering the public as that which must be continually constructed as a part of the invention of public space. In this we are interested in emergent forms of individuality swarms, crowds, the person, groups, and ecosystems.
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1. Course DescriptionThis lecture series presents artists and critics who research:
Students will create projects, reading lists, presentations and primary source research in relation to the lecturers' work and these themes of the class. Class discussions and readings will also be an important aspect. [ top]
2. Course Requirements & Grading:READING & WRITING: 30%
PRESENTATIONS & ART-MAKING: 45% ON-GOING: 25%
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4. Some Rules and Hints for Students and Teachers or Anybody ElseBy John Cage Rule 1 Rule 2 Rule 3 Rule 4 Rule 5 Rule 6 Rule 7 Rule 8 Rule 9 Rule 10 [ top
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