Anne-Lise François, "'O
Happy Living Things': Frankenfoods
and the Bounds of Wordsworthian
Natural Piety" (.pdf
| .doc)
[requires course login] [Note:
unpublished MS. courtesy of author;
not to be quoted for publication
without permission)
Dario Gamboni, The Destruction of
Art (1997), Ch. 13 "Modern Art and
Iconoclasm," Ch. 14 "Mistaking Art for
Refuse" (pp. 287-302), Ch. 15 "Disqualification
and Heritage"
Warren Weaver, "Recent Contributions
to the Mathematical Theory of Communication"
(1949), pp. 95-109, 114-17
Marshall McLuhan, "The Medium is the
Message" (1964) (in New Media Reader,
pp. 203-209)
Lev Manovich, The Language of
New Media (2001), pp. 18-48
Charlotte Davies, Osmose (1995)
[See Osmose
Web site ; see also Christiane Paul, Digital
Art, pp. 125-27; and excerpt
from Oliver Grau, Virtual Art, From
Illusion to Immersion (2003)]
Rita Raley, "Statistical Material:
Globalization and the Digital Art of
John Klima" (2003) [also available
online
through UCSB domain or UCSB library
proxy server; how
to set up library proxy server access]
Spacewar (1962) (play the "first
modern video game," emulated on
CD-ROM accompanying The New Media
Reader [start with file "index.html"
on the CD-ROM])
Douglas Engelbart's demo of the Graphical
User Interface (GUI) and mouse at the
Fall Joint Computer Conference, San
Francisco on Dec. 9, 1968 ("the mother
of all demos"). Browse the Stanford
Science & Technology site about
"The
Demo" and sample some of the demo
videos in Realmedia streaming format,
including the following in the series:
nos.2,
3,
8,
12,
13,
(maximize your video window for these
clips) (if needed, download free RealOne
Player from Real.com)
Steven Johnson, Interface Culture
(1997), pp. 11-45
Margaret A. Boden, The Creative Mind
(1990/2004), pp. 233-55
N. Katherine Hayles, How We Became
Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics,
Literature, and Informatics (1999),
"Conclusion: What Does It Mean to Be
Posthuman?"
Allan Kaprow, "'Happenings' in the
New York Scene" (1961) (in New Media
Reader, pp. 83-88)
M. D. Coverley (Marjorie Luesebrink),
Califia (2000) (read the first
of the four journeys, the journey to
the "South"; available on
CD-ROM in Transcriptions studio) [note:
open "califia.exe" on CD-ROM
to begin]
= Reader | 
= Online Reading
=
likely focal point for class discussion