nm 330: internet art

INTERNET ART

instructor: curt cloninger
email: curt at lab404 dot com
office: Zeis 214. Monday 1-2:30. Tuesday 12-1:30.
location: university of north carolina asheville
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CLASS-SPECIFIC

intro
syllabus*
rough project calendar*
attendance and grading policies*

major assignments
network project* (+ grant proposal)*
non-linear project*

micro-projects
google image link collage
youTube triptych
animated gif quilt
datamoshed/databent video
generative bubblegum card

optional 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)
world of ends* (searls/weinberger)
vademecum of digital art* (gratin.org)
links to internet art projects and resources (greene, compiler)
80 percent (frank)

NETWORK

net art diagrams: 1997 (mtaa) | 2003 (linkoln) | 2007 (mtaa)
| 2008 (bewersdorf) | 2010 (cates) | 2011 (fino-radin)
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)

tactical consumption
oliver laric
surf clubs: spirit surfers | loshadka | double happiness | computers club
dump.fm
GogolChat (bruno / jimpunk)
infinite glitch (baker-smith)
time-lapse homepage (slocum)
dreamlines (solaas)
Collect the WWWorld: artist as archivist in the internet age (curator: quaranta)
art website sales contract .com (rozendaal)
google's greatest hits (cloninger)
micro-project: google image link collage
micro-project: youTube triptych
of & to the databse* (south)
hacking vrs. defaults* (lonergan) | internet art in perspective* (cloninger)
spirit surfing* (bewersdorf)
Commodify Your Consumption* (cloninger)

surreal capitalism
PHILIPS 2013
E N E R G Y : P A N G E A
networking * FlowSpot^SM (wilson)

conceptualism
Rhizome Artbase tags*
conceptual art as it relates to mtaa's art practice* (mtaa)
own, be owned, or remain invisible (bunting)
form art (shulgin) | the389.com (YAzev) | SOUR/MIRROR (kawamura et al.)
the spleen (szyhalski)
website unseen (mtaa)
shredder 1.0 (napier)
net.flag (napier)
shiftSpace (phiffer, zer-aviv, et al.)
1:1 (2) (jevbratt)
beacon (thompson & craighead)
0100101110101101 projects (mattes/mattes)
the european graduate school [under erasure] (cloninger)
the market-o-matic (1.0) [fine arts version] (cloninger)

identity
blackness for sale (obadike)
black people love us (peretti/peretti)
mouchette.org (mouchette)
concentric empathy (fahey)
traffic_report (cloninger et al.)
i love alaska (engelberts/plug) [cf: AOL search data scandal * full list of search terms by user #711391]
Best Flamewar Ever (stern)
the most wanted paintings on the web (komar and melamid)

performance
the fluxus performance workbook [233K .pdf] (various artists)
1 year performance video [aka samHsiehUpdate] (MTAA)
learning to love you more (july/fletcher)
wirefire (harvey/samyn)
human browser (bruno)
double blind [love] (abrahams/cloninger)
in Bb 2.0 (solomon)
infomera.net ephemeral match: redsmoke vs. superbad * jimpunk vs. d2b (curator: constantini)

hacktivism
From "Radical Software" to Netactivism* (dreher)
the yes men (various artists)
rtmark.com (®™ark)
face to facebook (cirio/ludovico) | [cnn essay]
vote auction (baumgartner/extrem)
etoy (various artists)
avante garde - transfigured or dead* (maver)

outsider.net.art
why have there been no great net artits* (dietz)
a digital quilt project (cloninger et al.)
micro-project: animated gif quilt
the letter project (frank)
FOUND Magazine
Cold Bacon Groupdraw Super Public (cold bacon et al.)
the million dollar home page (tew)
What happens if you ask Google Images what's most similar, starting with a blank image, repeating the process 2951 times? (schmieg)

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)
nosepilot (sacui)
august strindberg & helium (paek, bradley, bewley)
hero (hwei)
l'faux (paek)
the boy (mumbleboy)
strongbad email (the brothers chaps)

not comics
The Fall of the Site of Marsha (wittig/king/valicenti)
electric posters (szyhalski)
bembo's zoo (de Vicq de Cumptich)
young-hae chang heavy industries (chang)
stop motion studies (crawford)
GRRRR
hollowbound book (loyer)
chroma (loyer)
oculart (lillemon)
the fragile circus (campbell)
playdamage (cloninger)
prototype #19 (sodeoka)
micro-project: datamoshed/databent video

CLOSED INTERACTIVITY

agency* (murray)
interaction and narrative lecture: interactive, storytelling, cross channel, user experience* (arnall)

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

hypertext literature
hypertext gardens* (bernstein)
victory garden [abridged] (moulthrop)
hyper hypertext* (saul)
grammatron (amerika)
hypertextual consciousness 1.0* (amerika)
clicking for godot* (rosenberg)
don't believe the hype(rtext)* (cloninger)
A Dark Journey Into A Killer's 'Personal Effects'* (hutchins/weisman)

hypermedia literature
my boyfriend came back from the war (lialina)
the hard way (ritchie)
graphik dynamo (armstrong/tippett)
the lair of the marrow monkey (loyer)
world of awe: traveler's journey (kanarek)
filmtext (amerika)
what we will (perring/waite/cayley/cape)
otnemem (webflow solutions/musth design)
requiem for a dream (hi-res)
how i was played by online caroline* (walker)
meanwhile (clark/howard/mendis/simmons)
memex engine (lafia et al.)
guest house | rental house | terminal house (GUMP)

expressive characters/environments
JODI
Arcangel Constantini [automatic drawings]
snarg
the shy picture (reeders/macleod)
reverse flash back (jimpunk)

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

OPEN INTERACTIVITY

ghost in the machine: the marriage of software & art (curator: cloninger)

generative texts
Hundred Thousand Billion Poems (queneau)
Names and Naming Tool Center (curator: noemata)
random name generator | abstract art titlegenerator (noemata)
Instant Art Critique Phrase Generator
wtf is my mashup | wtf is my social media strategy
postmodernism generator | essay generator | SCIgen

generative software
mitchell whitelaw interview* (whitelaw/prudence)
Conceptual Art and Software Art: Notations, Algorithms and Codes* (dreher)
the aesthetics of generative code* (cox/mclean/ward)
the aesthetics of programming* (napier)
the nature of code* (shiffman)
CODeDOC (curator: paul)
generator.x* (watz)
processing [software | examples | more examples] (reas/fry)
time().mt_rand (noemata)
flight404: re: processing (hodgin)
re-move | liaworks.com | wofbot | .dir source files [cf: "files relating to lia's chapter"] (lia)
singlecell/doublecell (levin et al.)
groupC (reas)
soundtoys.net (stanza et al.)
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)
synesthetic bubblegum cards (cloninger)
micro-project: Generative Bubblegum Card
random access mortality (mtaa)
textArc (paley)
robot flaneur (bridle)
bicycle built for 2,000 (koblin/massey)
we feel fine (harris/kamvar)
concrete poetry generator (norridge)
visual complexity (curator: lima)

gaming
immersive art on the web* (samyn/galloway)
realtime art manifesto* (harvey/samyn)
unity game engine | documentation
world of world of warcraft (onion news network)
tale of tales (harvey/samyn)
i made this. you play this. we are enemies (nelson)
auditorium (cipher prime studios)
samorost (1 * 2) / machinarium
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purposefully futile gaming
the graveyard (harvey/samyn)
is it time? (fraina)
dinner date (stout games)
sixteenpages (harvey/samyn)
Rafaël Rozendaal | Angelo Plessas
works while you sleep! (bowers)
christian | budhist | atheist (frank)
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AI gaming
ELIZA (weizenbaum)
facade (mateas/stern)

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

supplementary texts
archiving net art* (tribe)
curating on the web* (dietz)
Collecting New Media Art: Just Like Anything Else, Only Different* (dietz)
Challenges for a Ubiquitous Museum: Presenting and Preserving New Media* (paul)
fluidities and oppositions among curators, filter feeders, and future artists* (schleiner)
Lost in Translation. Or, bringing Net Art to another Place ? pardon, Context.* (quaranta)
Bibliography: Curating (New) Media and Internet-based Art (editors: ochrieser, kargl,thalmair)
internet art* (greene)
at the edge of art* (blais/ippolito)
new media art* (tribe/jana)
neuromancer* (gibson)
expanded cinema* [4.6M .pdf] (youngblood)
jimmy corrigan (ware)
griffin & sabine trilogy (bantock)

exhibits/events/communities/galleries
bitStreams (whitney)
artPort (whitney)
gallery9 (walker)
010101 (sfmoma)
turbulence
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ars electronica
transmediale
FILE
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furtherfield
rhizome
variable media network
net-art.org
new media fix
histories of internet art: fictions and factions (university of colorado)
curatorial resource for upstart media bliss (university of sunderland)
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319 Scholes

tools
photo to ascii text converter
flowchart/site map software
ExtraFile (asendorf)

STUDENT WORK