Art 1C - Spring '13 Part II: "Cyberspace"

Description: A combination of lecture and discussion. Course materials are available online. 
The final exam will be 25 T/F and multiple choice questions created by you. Each week 
you will post 1 thoughtful T/F or multiple choice candidate question *HERE* The exam will be
constructed from the best of those.

Week 1 - Computing

Cyberspace (what and where?)
Computing
Memex
Hypertext
Sutherland's 1963 Sketchpad (YouTube) and 1965 'The Ultimate Display' (Essay, JPG)
Engelbart's NLS system shown in his 1968 'mother of all demos' (YouTube)
Alan Kay at Xerox PARC, the GUI and personal computing

Long Watch: "The Machine that Changed the World: Part III" ca. 1992 (YouTube)
Long Watch: "Triumph of the Nerds" ca. 1996 (YouTube Part 1, YouTube Part II, Archive.org Part III)

Projects:
Donald Judd, (Google image)
Sol Lewitt , (Google image)
John Whitney, Catalog, Matrix III
Manfred Mohr, Square Roots, Interview
David Antin The Conversationalist
Architecture Machine Group Seek
Linda Berris Tactile Film
Agnes Denes Triangulate Your Thoughts
Carl Fernbach-Flarsheim The Boolean Image/Conceptual Typewriter
Guerilla Radio Giorno Poetry Systems
John Goodyear Level of Heat
Hans Haacke Visitor's Profile
Douglas Huebler You're the Art!
Les Levine Systems Burn-Off X Residual Software
Allen Razdow/Paul Conly Composer
Evander Schley Software Films
Sonia Sheridan Interactive Paper Systems
Theodosius Victoria Solar Audio Window Transmission
Ned Woodman/Ted Nelson Labyrinth

Exhibition: Software ca. 1970 (PDF)

Concepts: non-linearity, seriality, combinatorics, instruction sets/algorithms

Week 2 - Networking

1950s SAGE (YouTube)
History of the Internet (YouTube, Computer History Museum, Hobbes, AVG)

Long Watch: "Nerds 2.0.1" ca. 1998 (YouTube Part 1, YouTube Part II, YouTube Part III)

Projects:
Kit Galloway and Sherrie Rabinowitz Hole in Space (YouTube)
David Blair Waxweb (YouTube)
Ken Goldberg Telegarden (YouTube)
Lynn Hershman The Difference Engine #3)
IAA Contestational Robots, GraffitiWriter
I/O/D Web Stalker
JODI CTRL-SPACE
Eduardo Kac Teleporting an Unknown State, A-positive, Time Capsule
Lev Manovich/Norman Klein Freud-Lissitsky Navigator
Mongrel Natural Selection (V2, Tate FAQ, Lovink Interview)
®TMARK
Preemptive Media Swipe
Jeffrey Shaw The Distributed Legible City (Vimeo)
Stelarc Projects
Victoria Vesna et al. Bodies INC
Maciej Wisniewski netomat (Wired)

Exhibition: Net Condition ca. 1999, Whitney Artport ca. 2002

Concepts: connecting, physical/virtual, human/machine, alternative interfaces, masquerade, identity

Week 3 - Gaming

Tennis for Two ca. 1958 (YouTube), Pong ca. 1969 (YouTube)
Spacewar! ca. 1962 (YouTube, Interview)
Colossal Cave Adventure ca. 1972 (YouTube)

Long Watch: History of Video Games: Discovery Channel

Projects:
Natalie Bookchin The Intruder, Metapet, agoraXchange
Brody Condon (Vimeo)
Mary Flanagan Giant Joystick
Garnet Hertz OutRun
John Klima Go Fish
Jane McGonigal Games (TED I ca. 2010, TED II ca. 2012) 
Robert Nideffer PROXY, unexceptional.net, AddOns, WTF?!, SPEW
Paolo Pedercini Molleindustria
Kevin Ponto Tangled Reality
Anne-Marie Schleiner opensorcery.net
Eddo Stern eddostern.com
wcl ARQuake
Blast Theory Can You See Me Now?

Exhibition: Cracking the Maze ca. 1998; Shift-Ctrl ca. 2000; Game On ca. 2002 (ACMI ca. 2008); Alt-Ctrl ca. 2004

Concepts: play, productivity, heterogeneity, un/healthy, hacking, physical interfaces

Week 4 - Locating

Locative Media
The Center for Locative Media

Long Watch: Bill Buxton Whereable Media ca. 2011, Bruce Sterling and Vernor Vinge Augmented Reality ca. 2011

Projects:
Blast Theory Uncle Roy Is All Around You
Murmur
Urban Tapestries
Jeremy Wood GPSDrawing.com
Jeff Knowlton and Naomi Spellman interUrban
squidsoup Come Closer
Masaki Fujihata Feild Works
Terri RuebThe Choreography of Everyday Movement
Ester Polak Amsterdam Realtime
Ieva Auzina and Esther Polak Milk
Ricardo Dominguez and Brett Stalbaum The Transborder Immigrant Tool

Exhibition: The C5 Landscape Initiative ca. 2001, GPS Museum ca. 2010, LA Re.Play ca. 2012

Concepts: space, movement, proximity, context, surveillance

Week 5 - Visualizing

Long Watch:

Projects:

Ben Fry All Streets, Aligning Humans and Mammals, Emrun
Futurefarmers They Rule
Lisa Jevbratt Projects
George Legrady Pockets Full of Memories, Making Visible the Invisible, Data Flow
Lev Manovich Software Studies: Projects (Tools)
Mark Napier Potatoland
Brad Paley TextArc
Scott Snibbe Cabspotting, Projects
Martin Wattenberg and Marek Walczak someprojects
Maciej Wisniewsi Netomat, 

Tools:

Google Ngram Viewer (NYTimes, Cultureomics), Analytics
GPSVisualizer
Eye Tracking tobii, DIEM Eye Tracking
Twitter twtrland, twitonomy
Many Eyes

Exhibition: ArtPort ca. 2000 >

Concepts: data, collection, mining, representation, scale