MAT200A SURVEY OF ART & TECHNOLOGY-------- Spring 2001
     
    Prof. George Legrady
     
     
   
    Sarah Zupko's Cultural Studies Site
    Intersections of Art, Technology, Science & Culture
     

4.3 TOPIC INTRODUCTION:
    Propositions; Artistic Practice; Inter-Disciplinary Research and Production
  TEXTS Legrady, "Image, Language & Belief in Synthesis", Berger, chapt.1, "Ways of Seeing"
  LINKS 16th century to the Matrix [code][hugo][tunnel]: Holbein's Ambassadors, Velasquez's Las Meninas, Bruegel's Christ...Cross

4.5 TOPIC PHOTOGRAPHY, TIME, MOVEMENT, PAST & PRESENT
  TEXTS J.Crary, "Modernizing Vision", Dia Publications, G.Lynn, introduction, "Animate Form"
  LINKS Marey; Muybridge; Art + Com; Greg Lynn;Ammar Elouini

4.10 TOPIC MODES OF PRODUCTION: ARTISTS & ENGINEERING WORKING APPROACHES
  TEXT Simon Penny, "Agents as Artwork and Agent Design as Artistic Practice"
    Rich Gold, The Xerox Parc PAIR Artist in Residence Program, Xerox Parc
  LINKS Karl Sims, Simon Penny. Jim Pomeroy

4.12 TOPIC BILL SEAMAN , Media Artist, UCLA
     

4.17 TOPIC JACK LOOMIS, Psychology (Research Center in Virtual Environments)
    Externalization and Presence in Real and Virtual Environments
     

     

4.24 TOPIC SIGNS, SYMBOLS & CULTURE
    Peirce's Semiotics, Barthes and Semiology, Isotype[1][2]
  TEXTS Sebeok "Pandora's Box: How and Why to Communicate 10000 years into the Future" (Enrica Lovaglio),
Markers to Deter Inadvertent Human Intrusion into the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant
  LINKS Toshio Iwai, etc. from Actualizing the virtual,

4.26 TOPIC METAPHOR & THE INTERFACE(Lakoff, the computer environment)
    Lakoff, Metaphors We Live by;, Coyne, Metaphors and Machines
  LINKS Actualizing the virtual Centre Pompidou publication CD-ROM

5.1 TOPIC INTERFACE DESIGN, INTERACTIVE NARRATIVE & INSTALLATION
    Rokeby, "Transforming Mirrors", Winograd. From Computing Machinery to Interaction Design (Emile Al-Hajj)
  LINKS Jean-Luis Boissier, Luc Courschene, Jim Campbell, Agnes Hegedus, Jeffrey Shaw, Perry Hoberman

5.3 TOPIC ALGORITHMIC DESIGN & DATASTRUCTURES, NOISE, SAMPLING
    Mitchell, "Recombinant Architecture"(Yan Wang)
  LINKS Marcos Novak, jodi.org, knowbotic Research, Sharon Daniels

5.8 TOPIC INSTALLATIONS AT THE INTERSECTION OF REAL AND VIRTUAL SPACES
  TEXT

Anders, "Bridging Spaces - Transcending Disciplines" (Brent Yokota)
Mitchell,"ETOPIA, Software New Genius of the Place" (Ying Yan)

  LINKS Asymptote NYSE, Virtual Guggenheim, Artistic Representations in Virtual Reality

5.10 TOPIC ROBOTICS: RESEARCH, ART & SCIENCE (Jesse Dudan)
  LINKS Alan Rath, Woody and Steina Vasulka, Paul Demarinis, Rokeby/Garrin Border Patrol, Eric Paulos

5.15 TOPIC THE ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY: Rides, Theme Parks, Spectacles, Conventions
  TEXT Penny, "Consumer Culture and the Technological Imperative" (Mohammad Battah)
     
  LINKS OMA, Koolhaas, Universal Studios, SRL

5.17 TOPIC SPECIAL EFFECTS INDUSTRY (Brent Lehman)
  LINKS AnimalLOGIC

5.22 TOPIC MAPPING, SYSTEMS & CYBERSPACE
  TEXT Mapping Cyberspace (Bryan Brown)
     
  LINKS Denes, Guenther, Fujihata, WonderWalker

5.24 TOPIC PRESENCE & TELEPRESENCE: Satellites, Avatars, webcams, interactivity
  TEXTS Coyne, "The phenomena of VR"; Campanella, "Eden by Wire: Webcams & Cyberspace"(Gilroy Menezes)
  LINKS Scott Fisher, (Telepresence), Telegarden, Masaki Fujihata, Moeller, Hershman

5.29 TOPIC BIO-ORGANIC, the TECHNOBODY & ARTIFICIAL LIFE (Brian O'Reilly)
    Jonathan Crary "Modernizing Vision"
  LINKS Sommerer/Mignonneau, Stelarc, Artificial Life projects, Ulrike Gabriel

5.31 TOPIC RESOURCES & INSTITUTIONS (Kristoffer Campanale)
    NY Times, Wired
  LINKS Ars Electronica, V2, ISEA, Langlois Foundation, DEAF, ZKM, Siggraph. GMD

6.5 TOPIC SEMESTER PROJECTS
    Emile Al-Hajj, Gilroy Menezes,Telepresence Technology and Performing Arts
    Mohammad Battah, Enrica Lovaglio, Exploring Virtual Reality
    Yang Wang, Ying Yan, Intelligent Human-Computer interaction

6.7 TOPIC SEMESTER PROJECTS
    Brent Lehman, Brent Yokota, Approximating Reality with Interactive Algorithmic Art
    Brian O'Reilly, Jesse Dudan
    Bryan Brown, Kristoffer Campanale, Information Visualization (links)