MMAS 330: internet-based art & design

INTERNET-BASED ART & DESIGN

instructor: curt cloninger
email: curt at lab404 dot com
office: Zeiss 211. TR 12:10-1:40
location: university of north carolina at asheville
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CLASS-SPECIFIC

intro
syllabus*
rough project calendar*

major assignments
network project* (+ grant proposal)*
linear animation project*
non-linear narrative project*
open interactivity project*

required texts
Understanding Comics (mccloud)
Pause & Effect (meadows)
Processing (reas/fry)

HISTORY

understanding the web as media: [outline* | presentation*] (cloninger)
net art, web art, online art, net.art* (brøgger)
ten myths of internet art* (ippolito)
links to internet art projects and resources (greene, compiler)
world of ends* (searls/weinberger)
multimedia - from wagner to virtual reality* (packer/jordan)
web work: a history of internet art* [7.5MB .pdf] (greene)
80 percent (frank)

NETWORK

simple net art diagram (mtaa)
complex net art diagram (linkoln)
an exploration of various directions in networked art projects* (weil)
introduction to net.art (1994-1999)* (bookchin/shulgin)
21 distinctive qualities of net.art* (ross)
aesthetic conditions of art on the network* (stalbaum)

conceptualism
conceptual art as it relates to mtaa's art practice* (mtaa)
own, be owned, or remain invisible (bunting)
form art (shulgin)
website unseen (mtaa)
shredder 1.0 (napier)
1:1 (2) (jevbratt)
the market-o-matic (1.0) [fine arts version] (cloninger)

identity
blackness for sale (obadike)
black people love us (peretti/peretti)
mouchette.org (mouchette)
diaryU (penney)
concentric empathy (fahey)
traffic_report (cloninger et al.)
the most wanted paintings on the web (komar and melamid)

performance/hacktivism
joseph beuys: multiples*
the fluxus performance workbook [233K .pdf] (various artists)
100 ways to annoy your roommate (anonymous)
learning to love you more (july/fletcher)
the warhol hijack (various artists)
rtmark.com (®™ark)
the yes men (various artists)
vote auction (baumgartner/extrem)
etoy (various artists)
avante garde - transfigured or dead* (maver)

outsider art
we'll take it from here* (cloninger)
art brut connaissance & diffusion
why have there been no great net artits* (dietz)
a digital quilt project (cloninger et al.)
the letter project (frank)
the million dollar home page (tew)
museum of jurassic technology (curator: wilson)
outsider.net.art (curator: cloninger)

LINEAR COMICS/ANIMATION

mass media vs. art media* (magden)
writing with images* (dillon)

comics
i can't stop thinking* (mccloud)
carl (mccloud)
when i am king (demian.5)
exploding dog (brown)
fun fun fun (robinson)
broken saints (burgess et al.)
ninjai (various artists)
nosepilot (sacui)
august strindberg & helium (paek, bradley, bewley)
l'faux (paek)
the boy (mumbleboy)
bubblesoap (jotto)
strongbad email (the brothers chaps)

not comics
electric posters (szyhalski)
bembo's zoo (de Vicq de Cumptich)
young-hae chang heavy industries (chang)
stop motion studies (crawford)
chroma (loyer)
born magazine (various artists)
volumeone (owens)
oculart (lillemon)
playdamage (cloninger)
prototype #19 (sodeoka)

CLOSED INTERACTIVITY

michel gondry videos
come into my world
sugar water
the denial twist
bachelorette

hypertext literature
victory garden [abridged] (moulthrop)
grammatron (amerika)
hypertextual consciousness 1.0* (amerika)
clicking for godot* (rosenberg)
don't believe the hype(rtext)* (cloninger)
hypertext gardens* (bernstein)

hypermedia literature
on the night of mr. melvyn's murder (kremer/toke/kristensen/mschmidt)
my boyfriend came back from the war (lialina)
graphik dynamo (armstrong/tippett)
the lair of the marrow monkey (loyer)
world of awe (kanarek)
filmtext (amerika)
what we will (perring/waite/cayley/cape)
otnemem (webflow solutions/musth design)
requiem for a dream (hi-res)
drive project (klingensmith)
online caroline (bevan/wright) | how i was played by online caroline* (walker)
meanwhile (clark/howard/mendis/simmons)
memex engine (lafia et al.)
myst/riven (miller bros./cyan worlds/presto studios)
crimson room | viridian room | white chamber (FASCO-CS)
guest house | rental house | terminal house (GUMP)

fugal narrative
a round in part: tracing the countours of fugal narrative (curator: cloninger)
geeks inadvertently making net art* (cloninger)

OPEN INTERACTIVITY

generative software
ghost in the machine: the marriage of software and art* (cloninger)
the aesthetics of generative code* (cox/mclean/ward)
the aesthetics of programming* (napier)
the nature of code* (shiffman)
CODeDOC (various artists)
generator.x* (watz)
processing [software | examples] (reas/fry)
flight404: re: processing (hodgin)
re-move | lia.sil.at | wofbot | .dir source files [cf: "files relating to lia's chapter"] (lia)
singlecell/doublecell (levin et al.)
groupC (reas)
soundtoys.net (stanza et al.)
variability aught the machine (curator: cloninger)
automatic for the people (curator: cloninger)
runme.org [software art repository]

database
database as a symbolic form* [.rtf file. same as chapter 5, part 1 in Language of New Media] (manovich)
soft cinema (manovich)
vitaflo v8 (gustafson)
synesthetic bubblegum cards | bubblegum template (cloninger)
random access mortality (mtaa)
201: a space algorithm (mccoy/mccoy)
pianographique (lamarque et al.)
textArc (paley)
visual complexity (curator: lima)

gaming
immersive art on the web* (samyn/galloway)
wirefire (harvey/samyn)
sixteenpages (harvey/samyn)
tale of tales (harvey/samyn)
triglav (tota/sin)
this spartan life (burke)
facade (mateas/stern)

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

required texts
understanding comics* (mccloud)
pause & effect* (meadows)

supplementary texts
internet art* (greene)
at the edge of art* (blais/ippolito)
new media art* (tribe/jana)
the language of new media* (manovich)
hamlet on the holodeck* (murray)
the new media reader* (wardrip-fruin & montfort, editors)
multimedia: from wagner to virtual reality* (packer & Jordan, editors)
cyber_reader* (spiller, editor)
computers as theatre* (laurel)
the work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction* (benjamin)
new media from borges to html* (manovich)
neuromancer* (gibson)
expanded cinema* [4.6M .pdf] (youngblood)
intermedia seminar: net.art* (clark)
jimmy corrigan (ware)
griffin & sabine trilogy (bantock)

galleries/exhibits/events/communities
bitStreams (whitney)
artPort (whitney)
gallery9 (walker)
010101 (sfmoma)
the new museum
turbulence
ars electronica
FILE
rhizome
new media fix
histories of internet art: fictions and factions (university of colorado)
K10k
curatorial resource for upstart media bliss (university of sunderland)
archiving net art* (tribe)
curating on the web* (dietz)
fluidities and oppositions among curators, filter feeders, and future artists* (schleiner)

tools
free resources: toolbox
pay resources: toolshed

STUDENT WORK