7D Reading 3: Network |
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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). Make an html page with your four paragraphs. Link to the page from your 7D homepage. |
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