QUESTIONING NEW MEDIA
READINGS
Doug Aitken
- Sleepwalkers website
- Saul Anton, "Doug Aitken talks about Electric Earth," Artforum 38:9 (May 2000), 160
- "Preface: Doug Aitken and Noel Daniel" from Broken Screen: 26 Conversations with Doug Aitken: Expanding the Image, Breaking the Narrative, ed. Noel Daniel (New York: Distributed Art Publishers, 2006)
- "Interview: Pierre Huyghe and Doug Aitken" from Broken Screen: 26 Conversations with Doug Aitken: Expanding the Image, Breaking the Narrative, ed. Noel Daniel (New York: Distributed Art Publishers, 2006)
Laurie Anderson
- Introduction to Laurie Anderson (2000) by RosaLee Goldberg
- Introduction from Steve Dixon's Digital Performance: A History of New Media in Theater, Dance, Performance Art, and Installation (2007)
Cory Arcangel
- Susan Valdez, "Open Source Art," Art in America 93, no. 8 (Sept 2006) 146
- Caitlin Jones, "My Art World Is Bigger Than Your Art World," The Believer (Dec 2005/Jan 2006) 3-13
- Cory's Blog
http://www.beigerecords.com/cory/ - A lecture at Columbia
http://www.columbia.edu/itc/soa/dmc/cory_arcangel/ - "Legacy Hackster: An interview with Cory Arcangel," petitMort (2003)
http://www.petitemort.org/issue01/02.shtml
Candice Breitz
Joe DeLappe
- "America's Diplomat"
- Iraqimemorial.org
- "Memorializing Iraq" (2008)
- New York Times parody
- "Reenactment: The Salt Satyagraha Online"
- "Shoot to thrill" (2007)
- "The ABC of Tactical Media" (1997)
- "The Salt Satyagraha" (2008)
- "Virtually dead in Iraq" (2006)
R. Luke DuBois
- Lawrence Lessig, Free Culture
- Paul Lansky, "The Importance of Being Digital"
- Sven Lutticken, "The Art of Theft"
- Sven Lutticken, "The Feathers of the Eagle"
- Interview at the 2008 Democratic National Convention
Hasan Elahi
- Introduction to Wendy Chun's Control and Freedom: Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber Optics (2006)
- "The Visible Man" (2007)
- "To Foil Prying Eyes, His Life is an Open Book" (2007)
- Elahi on The Colbert Report
Bill Fontana
- Bill Fontana, "Resoundings," Resoundings website
- Bill Fontana, "The Relocation of Ambient Sound," Resoundings website
- Jøran Rudi, "'From a musical point of view, the world is musical at any given moment' - An interview with Bill Fontana," Organized Sound 10:2 (2005), 97-101.
- Alan Riding, "The Sound Artist Bill Fontana Amplifies the Tate Modern's Millennium Bridge," New York Times (June 20, 2006)
Rudolf Frieling
- Rudolf Frieling, "Form Follows Format: Tensions, Museums, Media Technology, and Media Art," Media Art Net website (2004)
- Rudolf Frieling, "Reality/Mediality: Hybrid Processes Between Art and Life," Media Art Net website (2004)
- Rudolf Frieling, "The Archive, the Media, the Map and the Text," Media Art Net website (2004)
David Harrington
Mark Hosler
- Art in America review (February 2006)
- Electronic Musician interview (September 2005)
- Excerpt from Lawrence Lessig's Remix (2008)
Naut Humon & V. Vale
- Eric Smillie, "Almost Humon: Pioneering local music curator opens a new world-class venue in SOMA," SF Chronicle (September 20, 2006)
- XLR8R TV Episode 10: Asphodel and Recombinant Media Labs video
- Bela Belasz, "Theory of the Film: Sound" (1930)
- Oliver Grau, "Immersion," from Introduction to Virtual Art: From Illusion to Immersion, (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2003) (Only read the section titled "Immersion," p 13-18.)
Pierre Huyghe
- Nancy Princenthal, "Reasons to be Happy: Huyghe's 'Celebration Park,'" Art in America 94:8 (September 2006), 125
- George Baker, "An Interview with Pierre Huyghe," October 110 (Fall 2004), 80-106
- Tom McDonough, "No Ghost," October 110 (Fall 2004), 107-130
Yael Kanarek
- Yael Kanarek, World of Awe website
- Elizabeth Bard, "A Video Game With Awe as Its Quest" New York Times (Mar 21, 2004)
- T.Whid, "Interview with Yael Kanarek," Rhizome website
Jonathon Keats
- Kathleen Richards, "Some Call It Art," East Bay Express (August 2, 2006)
- Alien Art exhibit at Judah L. Magnes Museum, Berkeley
- Lessley Anderson, "God of the Flies," S.F. Weekly (August 18, 2004)
- Ryan Singel, "He Thinks, Therefore He Sells," Wired News (October 10, 2003)
Steve Kurtz
- "Biocollage" (2000)
- "Critical Art Ensemble Tactical Media Practitioners: An Interview" (2000)
- "Critical Art Ensemble Timeline (2000)
- "Steve Kurtz Waiting" (2006) by Jim Fetterley and Angie Waller
Golan Levin
- Golan Levin, "Artist Statement, October 2005" FLONG website
- Joanna Heatwole, "Interview with Goland Levin," Afterimage (March 2007)
- Golan Levin, "Responses to Five Questions Posed by Lev Manovich" FLONG website (July 20, 2005)
Geert Lovink
- Geert Lovink, "New Media Art and Science," Scott McQuire/Nikos Papastergiadis (ed.), Empires, Ruins + Networks (Melbourne: University of Melbourne Press, 2005)
- Geert Lovink, "Dawn of the Organized Networks," Fibreculture Journal 5 (2005)
Kristin Lucas
- Beatrice Ruf, "Kristin Lucas in Conversation," Are you still blam? exhibition catalogue, O.K. Center for Contemporary Arts Upper Austria, Linz, Austria (2000)
- Kristin Lucas, You're still here and so are we exhibition catalogue, Or Gallery, Vancouver, BC (2007)
- Kristin Lucas, "Name Change Hearing Transcript," Superior Court of California Case No. RG07336497 (2007)
Optional: - Kristin Lucas, Involuntary Reception website (2000)
- Yvonne Volkart, "Unruly Bodies. The Effect Body As a Place of Resistance," Media Art Net website
Greg Lynn
- Greg Lynn, excerpts from Folds, Bodies and Blobs (Brussels: La Lettre Volée, 1998)
- Nicholas Negroponte, "Introduction to Soft Architecture Machines," New Media Reader, ed. Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Nick Montfort (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2003)
- Studio Lynn website, including Studio Lynn Video
Matmos
- Daniel Handler, "Matmos Interviewed by Daniel Handler," The Believer 2:11 (November 2004), 72-81
- Jan Tumlir, "Band Apart," Artforum 42:7 (March 2004), 69
- Marc Flanagan, "Aural Surgeons," Artbyte (September/October 2004), 59
New Media
- Wendy Chun, "Did Somebody Say New Media?"
Optional: - Lev Manovich, "What Is New Media: Principles of New Media"
New Media Curating
- Christiane Paul, "The Myth of Immateriality: Presenting and Preserving New Media," Media Art Histories, ed. Oliver Grau (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2007)
- The Whitney Museum’s Artport
- Christiane Paul, "Flexible Contexts, Democratic Filtering and Computer Aided Curating," Curating Immateriality: the Work of the Curator in the Age of Network Systems, ed. Joasia Krysa (Brooklyn: Autonomedia, 2006)
- The New Museum’s Montage: Unmonumental Online
- SFMOMA’s ESPACE
Trevor Paglen
- Amy Goodman, "Interview with A.C. Thompson and Trevor Paglen," Democracy Now website, September 15th, 2006
- Trevor Paglen, "Groom Lake and the Imperial Production of Nowhere," Violent Geographics, ed. Derek Gregory and Allan Pred (New York: Routledge, 2006)
Optional: - Walter Benjamin, "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction"
- Karl Marx, The German Ideology
Anne Pasternak
- Excerpt from Miwon Kwon's One Place After Another: Site-specific Art and Locational Identity
- Foreword to Creative Time: The Book - 33 Years of Public Art in New York City
Ben Rubin
Kaja Silverman
- "James Coleman Projected Images 1972-1994" website: Essay by Lynne Cook and Exhibition Images (1994)
- Kaja Silverman, "Live Vocals," James Coleman (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2003)
Optional: - M. Pachmanova, "Interview with Kaja Silverman: The World Wants Your Desire," n.paradoxa online 19 (May 2006)
- Kaja Silverman, "Girl Love," October 104 (Spring 2003), 4-27
Mark Tribe
- Excerpt from New Media Art
- Tribe's web site
Camille Utterback
- Utterback's web site
- "Unusual Positions - Embodied Interaction with Symbolic Spaces" in First Person: New Media as Story, Performance, and Game
Marianne Weems
- Maurya Wickstrom, "Data Bodies and the Awesome Apparatus of Technology," PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art 28, no. 2 (May 2006) 95-102
- Nick Kaye, "Marianne Weems, SUPER VISION Interview (NYC, 5 December 2005)" The Presence Project website
Pamela Z