7D Reading 1: Software |
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Due Wednesday Jan 20/Thursday Jan 21
Identify a specific idea put forth in each of the required text and one of the texts from the "select one" list. Find an artwork, new/digital media or traditional media, not mentioned in the readings that you think exemplifies the idea in an interesting way. Look in books or on the web by searching in a searchengine for things like "interactive art", "database art", or search on sites listed under resources on the 7D homepage. Write a paragraph describing each of the artworks /ideas and how they are related. Make an html page with the four paragraphs. Link to the page from your 7D homepage. Required texts: 1. Erkki Huhtamo "Trouble at the Interface or the Identity Crisis of Interactive Art" (2004) 2. Lev Manovich "Database as Symbolic Form" (1999) 3. Florian Cramer "Concepts, Notations, Software, Art" (2002) + select one of these texts: 1. Casey Reas "Software Structures" (2004) 2. Excerpts from Ursula Meyer Conceptual Art (1972) 3. Marga Bijovoet Hans Haacke: Systems Artist (excerpt from Art as Inquiry)(1997) 4. Janet Zweig "Ars Combinatoria: Mystical Systems, Procedural Art, and the Computer" (1997) 5. Marvin Minsky, Excerpts from Society of Mind (1988) |
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