Network Reading

7D Reading 3: Network

Due Wednesday Feb 17/Thursday Feb 18


Part 1.
Read 2 texts from the list below. The texts you choose should relate to your project idea in some way. You can select any text but to help you choose I have loosely organized the texts into categories reflecting the project assignment categories (some texts are in several categories). Write a couple of paragraphs about what is interesting to you in the texts and how they relate to your project.

Mapping Networks:

&bull Duncan Watts "Six Degrees of Interconnection" (2003)
&bull Uri Dowbenko "Mark Lombardi: Global (Conspiracy) Networks" (2003)
&bull Albert-Laszlo Barabasi "The random universe" (excerpt from Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means) (2003)
&bull Albert-Laszlo Barabasi "Six degrees of separation" (excerpt from Linked: How Everything Is
Connected to Everything Else and What It Means) (2003)

Creating Networks:

*Eric Paulos and Elizabeth Goodman "The Familiar Stranger: Anxiety, Comfort, and Play in Public Places" (2004)
&bull Albert-Laszlo Barabasi "The random universe" (excerpt from Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means) (2003)
&bull Albert-Laszlo Barabasi "Six degrees of separation" (excerpt from Linked: How Everything Is
Connected to Everything Else and What It Means) (2003)


Hacking Networks:

&bull Alex Galloway "Auctonism" (excerpt from Protocol: How Control Exists After Decentralisation) (2004)
&bull Patrice Riemens "Don't Panic! Hack it!*" (1998)
&bull Anne-Marie Schleiner "Parasitic Interventions: Game Patches and Hacker Art" (1999)


And...

Part 2.
Write a couple of paragraphs comparing the different views on the role of art and artists in 2 of these texts.

&bull Tilman Baugaertel "L'art pour net.art" (excerpt from net.art 2.0) (2001)
&bull Roland Barthes "The Death of The Author" (1977)
&bull Pierre Levy "The Art of Cyberspace" (1994)
&bull Joseph Beuys "I am Searching for Field Character" (1973)
&bull Nicolas Bourriaud "Relational Aesthetics" (1998)

If applicable comment on how these roles are related to the development of network technologies (such as the internet).



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