2025 MAT 200a Art & Technology

2025f Instructor Teaching Assistant		M200a Art & Technology (4 units) George Legrady Shaw Xiao Lecture/lab: Tues-Thurs 1:00-2:50 Lab 2611, Elings Hall Overview of the digital media arts field with an emphasis on technological developments and their integration in art research and production. Students are introduced to contemporary and historical directions and methodologies through seminar lectures, research presentation, and a final project.

[wk 1]........Lecture 09.25		Course Introduction & Overview \| Student Forum is where projects are to be uploaded \| Copyright Agreement



[wk 2]........Lecture 09.30 10.02		Reference Resources \| Library books on Reserve \| Bloomsbury Encyclopedia (selection) Google Scholar \| Library Access The Early References: The First Decade (Dietrich) \| Friede Nake (article) \| Manfred Mohr [artworks] \| Vera Molnar [artnews] \| A. Michael Noll \| Harold Cohen \| Whitney Collection (video) \| The Machine, MOMA \| Catalog (p.207) \| MOMA Press \| Bell Labs Art & Technology \| Deborah Hay's Solo \| E.A.T. \| Computer History Museum (CHM) \| Computer Graphics Art \| Japan \| Kawano \| CTG \| CTG2 \| SF Ken Goldberg Software - Information Technology, at the Jewish Museum, NYC (1970) \| Exhibition Catalog \| Jack Burnham \| System Esthetics \| Structure of Art \| Art in the Information Age (Shanken) LACMA: Art & Technology \| Catalog \| Tuchman (curator) \| Livingston (curator) \| ArtLab \| Dreher: History of Computer Art

[wk 3]........Lecture 10.07 10.09		The Digital Image: Lecture \| Pixel (Annotations) \| Alvy Ray Smith - Digital Light (pages 23-43) \| NASA \| Farid (video Interview) \| Hoy \| Douglas \| Greenaway \| Moeller \| Salavon \| Ruff \| Excavating AI Time/Space/Form: Nam June Paik [2] \| Charlotte Moorman \| Gary Hill [info] \| Bill Viola [weeps] \| Jim Campbell [1][2] \| David Rokeby \| Simon \| Granular Synthesis [long] (Akemi Tayeka) Interativity: HCI\| IBM \| Engelbart \| Myron Krueger \| Steina [visit] \| Lynn Hershman Leeson [Lorna] \| Jeffrey Shaw \| Ulrike Gabriel [1] \| Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau \| Rafael Lozano-Hemmer [pulse index] \| Camille Utterback \| Golan Levin \| Max Dean \| Weidi Zhang [Cangjie's Poetry] \| Rokeby

[wk 4]........Lecture 10.14 10.16		Data: Big Data \| Donath \| Elahi \| Numbers \| Feltron \| Flight Pattern \| Dan Goods \| Wind Map \| Digiti Sonus [article] \| Million $ Block Project \| Data Masks \| Ikeda [critical path][promo][data.tron] \| Archive of Digital Art \| IOT Internet-Based: Telegarden \| 1:1 \| Messenger [video] \| Mori \| Listening Post \| Shadow Stalker (Interview) \| Net Art \| Anthology Legrady Projects: Slippery Traces \| Seattle Library [Whitney] \| Stardust [NASA] [video] \| PFOM [video] [article] \| Macondo [article] \| Simultion Shuffle \| Polyptelic \| Kinetic Flow \| Swarm Vision \| Exquisite \| VOS \| Dynamic Confluence \| Cell Tango \| Equivalents II Information / Noise: Art & Noise \| Claude Shannon \| Russolo \| Menkman [Glitch] \| Casey Reas \| Nechvatal \| Rhea Myers \| Electric Op

[wk 5]........Lecture 10.21 10.23		Generative, Algorithmic Art: Lecture \| Galanter [Theory] \| Computational Aesthetics \| Lomas \| Sheridan \| Jäger \| Cheng [BOB] Bio Art, Biometrics, Bio Data: Ned Kahn \| Kac \| Dewey-Hagborg [Stranger Visions] [CNN news] [DNA] \| MotherPlant [video] \| Sabina Ahn with Ryan Millett \| Haru Ji, Graham Wakefield \| Raindance \| EdisonEffect \| [deMarinis] \| Code in Ice [NYT] \| ArtData Climate [NYT]

[wk 6]........Lecture 10.28 10.30		Emergence, Self-Organization [web]: Weidi Zhang \| Reas \| Wolfram [chapt 8] \|Shiffman Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality: Osmose [video] \| Golden Calf [recent] [Shaw] \| Coupe [video] \| Deepfake \| Face++ \| Chun Hua Catherine Dong [Paris Exh] \| Nicolas Baier [mappemonde]

[wk 7]........Lecture 11.04 11.06		Digital Object \| Sculptures \| Digital Fabrication: Hauer \| Stanza \| Fujihata \| Oxman \| Mert Toka \| mix3D bridge \| Sketch Chair \| Kinematic Dress \| Computational Craft [Siggraph] \| Nealfeay Robotics \| Automation \| Machine Vision: Alan Rath [Yet Again] \| Stelarc \| Systems Maintenance (Hoberman) \| Max Dean \| Rafaello D'Andrea \| Dinkins \| Giver of Names \| Lozano-Hemmer \| Varvara & Mar [Dream Painter] \| Sougwen Chung [Time] \| Rhea Myers [facecoin] \| Steyerl Tate [Tokyo - Trevor Paglen]

[wk 8]........Lecture 11.11 11.13		Artificial Neural Networks \| CNN \| GANS \| Style Transfer \| Diffusion \| LAION \| Neural aesthetics \| MemoAtken [interview] \| Atken/Quayola [Nude Descending] [Marey] \| Weihao Qiu Artificial Life, Artificial Intelligence: MOMA AI \| Trevor Paglen \| Anadol [Dataland] \| MIT Survey \| Ridler [video] \| Atlas of AI \| Map [explanation] \| \| Intelligence in art \| Kraft \| Hendron [Time] [video] \| Somaini AI \| ChrisMarker 2nd Life

[wk 9]........Lecture 11.18 11.20		Digital Preservation: Smithsonian (TBM interview) \| Variable Media \| ZKM \| Christiane Paul \| Sommerer & Mignonneau [text] \| TechRider \| Github [Allolib] [automata1111] \| Software Doc [pdf] \| Final Project Description M255 courseIntro \| Shaw Stable Diffusion Lab, Research, Individual Meetings \| Final Project Submission

[wk 10]....................11.25 11.27		Lab, Research, Individual Meetings, email deadline for content selection THANKSGIVING

[wk 11]....................12.02 12.04		Final Presentations Final Presentations

Students in Class Hyun Cho Jon Crescendo Ruoxi Du Luc Freiburg Xue Gao Fiona Irving-Beck Gevher Karboga Lucian Parisi Eric Rennie Italo Rojas Diaz Shashank Shivashankar Jintong Yang Felix Yuan Zixuan Zhang		Final Projects Descriptions Ghost Work - The unseen labor behind AI Seek - Cybernetics Visualizing Sound, Sonifying Images (audio focus) The Camera Never Lied?: 185 Years of Photo Manipulation Beyond ALife: Towards Digital Species Chaos Theory: a Tool for Creation and Critical Framework Immersive Sound & the Construction of Presence in Digital Media (audio focus) A Recent History of Immersive Audio Experiences (audio focus) From Analog Abstractions to Digital Systems: A History of Algorithmic Art The Art of Self-Organization: Morphogenesis and Generative Systems Data Visualization: Art, technology & Meaning Emergent Digital Ecosystem: Holon and Holarchy Aesthetics of Rationality in Early Ages of Computational Art From Spatial Perception to Machine Vision