Design With Computers (ars162)

CITATIONS AND SUPPLEMENTAL LINKS
(additions made on a weekly and ongoing basis)

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sept.8, 10

• Graham Harwood, Scotoma website, Eye Test (circa 2002)
• Keith Obadike, sonic art at audiophfile website, Sex Machines (circa 2000)
  
  
• Koffi Kouakou (Cote d'Ivoire), Portable Computer (woodcarving, 1990)
  • other 'tourist art' genre by Koffi Kouakou, Pair of Shoes, 1990, and Gentleman's Suit, circa 1990.
• Gabriel Orozko (Mexico-US), Island Within an Island , assemblage and photo document, 1993.
• Terrors of the Telephone (1877 newspaper cartoon)
• Douglas Englebart (U.S.) , excerpt of public demo- Augmentation Research Center video documentation, 1968.
• VNS Matrix (Australia), Manifesto and Bitch Mutant Manifesto (Active from 1991-97, VNS Matrix included Josephine Starrs, Francesca da Rimini, Julianne Pierce and Virginia Barratt)
• public/private space of the web:
  • Natalie Bookchin (US) Male, and Desktop Is..., from the "Desktop Is" online exhibition, circa 1996.
  • Yael Kanarek (US), World of Awe, including Love Letters Dispatcher, begun 2001 ongoing
  • regarding the "I love you" virus, 2000
  • Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries (South Korea), ARTIST'S STATEMENT N0. 45,730,944: THE PERFECT ARTISTIC WEB SITE (circa 1998)
• branching metaphor of abstract categorical knowledge as cited by art historian, Barbara Stafford:
  • Arteries and Veins (18th century illustration, re:Computer File Structure)
  • Organization of Knowledge (16th century illustration, re: Computer File Structure)
• HOW DOES DIGITAL MEDIA CHANGE OUR ENGAGEMENTS WITH AESTHETIC FORM?
  ... List cultural references for word LINE suggested by some of the citations for this week, including:
  
  • Cameroon hairstyle (cited by Ron Eglash, African Fractals, published 1994).
  • Julian C. Sprott, Sprott's Fractal Gallery (at the Univ. of Wisc.-Madison)
  • Paul Sermon (England), Telematic Dreaming, telematic video installation (1992)

sept.15, 17

• global digital divide (some statistics relevant to the survey from our first class meeting)
• International Art Blog, by Center of Attention gallery in London, is a collaborative blog project that has means for contributions as well as visiting/reading material posted by others.
• Olia Lialina is a Russian-born artist, currently living in Germany. An early interview with her can be found on the "nettime" discussion group archives. She created the early "net art" work, My boyfriend came back from the war!
• Ken Knowlton (US), portrait of Helen Keller and several other ASCII images circa mid-1960s [also see pg.15 of Spalter textbook]
• F.T. Marinetti + Futurist typographic works - example 1, example 2, example 3 (here are links to other resources related to the futurist movement - manifestoes, sonic art, cinema,etc.)
• Connective lines and vectors of hypermedia - also between cybergeographies and actual geographies. Public/private spaces, itinerary maps and contestational maps, the dérive and "rules for a dérive", psychogeographies, cybergeographies, heterotopias (counter-sites).
• The Atlas of Cyberspaces (especially the branch called "Artistic Representations")
• Guggenheim Musuem, NYC. Cyberatlas - a curated selection of maps

sept.22, 24

• Urban Drift - listed here not an example of "net art', but as exploration of physical urban space as both "medium" and "interface".
• Alan Sondheim Y2K Traceroute project
• Kristin Lucas (US), Between a Rock and a Hard Drive (circa 1997)
• The Apartment by Marek Walczak and Martin Wattenberg with Jonathan Feinberg.

sept.29, oct.1

-a few portal websites (museums and artist-run organizations) for researching Net Art

-- Turbulence is a NYC based organization focusing on the web as a medium for art

-- Rhizome is also NYC-based, artist-run organization that has a free membership to enter the website to view net art works and to read essays on net culture and to read announcements about exhibition and festival opportunities, etc.

-- Walker Art Center is a contemporary museum located in Minneapolis which is one of the earliest museums to devote serious attention to the emergence of net art forms. Its website has hosted a number of ground-breaking exhibitions over the years. Its new media archives are still available to view. Check out their online exhibition "Art and Entertainment Network",also "Beyond Interface" as well as other online projects and Net Art commissions at their projects listings page.

--Artport is a relatively recent portal to Net Art produced by the Whitney Museum of American Art, with commissioned works by artists.

--Dia Art Center has a long history with showcasing experimental works by artists on the Internet, including artist commissions such as Between a Rock and a Hard Drive by Kristin Lucas, and Wake by Gary Simmons. Many other projects are listed there.

oct..6, 8

oct..13, 15

oct..20, 22

oct..27, 29

nov.3, 5

• Metapet - a critique of corporate culture in the form of an animated Flash game, billed as the "World's First Transgenic Virtual Pet Game" by the collaborative art group Action Tank (Natalie Bookchin, Cathy Davies, Mark Allen)
• Gary Simmons(US), Wake (circa 1999)
• Entropy8Zuper the net art entity Entropy8Zuper is comprised of artists Auriea Harvey and Michael Samyn
• Superbad by Ben Benjamin
• Mark Napier (US), The Shredder/Digital Landfill
• John Simon (US), Every Icon and Color Balance

nov.10, 12

nov.17, 19

Some website focusing on technical processes and news about Flash software:

• Macromedia's Flash support website, including tutorials and sample files
• Macomedia's own weblinks page of websites devoted to Flash
• Flazoom is a blog dealing with Flash
• Actionscript Toolbox - tutorials and code for the Flash scripting language "Actionscript"
• Alexis Trepanier's Flash MX examples
• Tutorials for Flash at the Webmonkey Web Developer Resource
• Actionscript on-line book
• Actionscript.org - Flash resources and tutorials

nov.24, 26

dec.1, 3

dec.8, 10