• September 12: Bob Arellano (Ashland) and Scott Rettberg (Oslo)
• September 26: Allison Parrish (New York)
• October 10: John Simon (New York)
• October 17: Yael Kanarek (New York)
• October 24: Chad Mossholder (Austin/Dallas)
• October 26: Trevor Paglen (New York)
• November 2: Ralph Lemon (New York)
• November 28: Antonia Pinter (Portland)

Here is a tentative schedule of weekly events:

• August 22: Roll Call + Syllabus Reading + Course Introduction + overview of student-built HIAFF website

  Readings for next week:

  Walter Benjamin: "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction." (pdf or html)

  Vannevar Bush: "As We May Think"

  Also:

  Introduction to digital narrative, electronic literature (or e-lit), and hypertext.

  Begin survey of various works of online/digital narrative.

  Here is the link to the first assignment.

  FIRST BLOG ENTRY DUE AT 5:30 ON AUGUST 28th.

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• August 29: Discussion of Benjamin and Bush texts as well as your blog entries + introduction to key concepts and examples of early hypertext and electronic literature

  Here is the link to the second assignment.

  SECOND BLOG ENTRY DUE AT 5:30 ON SEPTEMBER 11th.

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• September 5th: Labor Day

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• September 12:

  Confirmed visiting artists: Bob Arellano and Scott Rettberg

  Hypertext, hypermedia, electronic literature and publishing.

  Bob Arellano's 20-year anniversary of the release of Sunshine 69. S69 was the first major multimedia hypertext fiction published on the Web.

  Discussion on the relationship between digital writing and:
  Experimental forms of literature.
  Conceptual art.
  Art + Language.
  net art.

  Readings for next week's discussion on net art:

  Introduction to Net Art (1994-1999)

  Fluidities and Oppositions among Curators, Filter Feeders, and Future Artists

  Net Results

  Here is the third assignment.

  You will need to read the two essays above and begin surveying these very early Internet art exhibitions relevant to the course including (some of these sites are old and will have many "dead links" - think about that in relation to the longevity of net art and its archival potential [or not]):

  1. adaweb
  2. Digital Studies: Being in Cyberspace
  3. beyond interface
  4. turbulence
  5. net_condition
  6. Desktop Is
  7. Whitney Biennial 2000 & 2002
  8. tate modern
  9. SFMOMA's e.space
  10. Rhizome's ARTBASE
  11. Art Entertainment Network
  12. 010101
  13. TECHNE Lab's Histories of Internet Art: Fictions and Factions (HIAFF)

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• September 19

  Discussion of assigned readings and early exhibitions of net art.

  Introduction to early net art and the online exhibition context

  • What is Internet or net art?
  • How do we exhibit it?
  • Where do we find it?
  • How does it relate to the traditional gallery and museum culture?
  • What is "Post-Internet" art?
  • What is the historical relationship between pioneering works of early work net art and the new crop of work being exhibited by so-called "Post-Internet" artists?
  • Is the Internet a creative media space for the new forms of avant-garde practice to flourish into the 21st century?
  • What are the (social / personal / artistic) risks of engaging ones practice in the field of net art?
  • What are the potential rewards?

  Overview of the student-built Histories of Internet Art: Fictions and Factions (HIAFF) website.

  Assignment: collaborative Net art reports (due October 3rd)
  

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• September 26

  Confirmed visiting artist: Allison Parrish

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• October 3:

  Presentations of collaborative "Net Artist" reports.

  Readings for October 10:

  Works by and about artist John Simon.

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• October 10: Confirmed visiting artist: John Simon

  Readings for next week:

  Works by and about artist Yael Kanarek.

  Online DIY zine from Kanarek's recent solo exhibition at bitforms gallery in New York.

  Essay on Kanarek's work by former TECHNE lab student and bitforms Associate Director Kerry Doran

  NOTE: Midterm assignment: Net Art Curatorial Projects

  THE MIDTERM PROJECT IS DUE AT NOON ON OCTOBER 24.

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• October 17th:

  Confirmed visiting artist: Yael Kanarek

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  October 24: Electronic sound art

  Overview of the history of electronic sound art.

  Demo the Professor VJ Playlist.

  Visiting artist Chad Mossholder (Senior sound designer at Sony Online Entertainment and ID Software, electronic sound artist under the name Twine, and live DJ performer)

  Readings for October 31:

  1) The first New Aesthetic tumblr site
  2) Bruce Sterling's closing keynote at SXSW: "An Essay on the New Aesthetic"
  3) Vanity Fair's mainstream take on The New Aesthetic
  4) "The New Aesthetic Needs to Get Weirder" by Ian Bogost

  Next blog assignment: write about the New Aesthetic as detailed here.

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• October 31: The New Aesthetic

  Discussion and screenings.

  Readings for November 7:
  1) Methods of Detournement
  2) The Hacker Manifesto
  3) VNS Matrix: An Oral History of the First Cyberfeminists

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• November 7:

  Hactivism / Culture Jamming / Cyberfeminism

  Discussion of readings. View The Yes Men

  Discuss The Yes Men movie in relation to hactivism, Situationism (detournement), remix culture and the politics of (meta)data.

  Next blog assignment: write about hactivism, culture jamming, detournement and cyberfeminism as detailed here.

  Readings for November 14:
  1) What People Mean When They Talk About 'The Cloud', Ingrid Burrington:
  2) The Cloud is Not the Territory, Ingrid Burrington
  3) NOTES FROM A TALK. 11 DECEMBER 2014., Jen Lowe (Read Chapter 1 in the Deep Lab book)
  4) Intimate Surveillance, Karen Levy

  OPTIONAL:

  1) Xenofeminism, Let a Hundred Sexes Bloom!, Katarzyna Piasecka
  

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• November 14:

  Feminism, data art and surveillance culture

  Visiting lecturer: Maya Livio, PhD Candidate in IAWP and co-curator of MediaLive

  FINAL PROJECT IS HERE FINAL PROJECT IS DUE THE LAST DAY OF CLASS: December 5th

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• November 21:

  FALL BREAK

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• November 28:

  Confirmed visiting artist and publisher: Antonia Pinter Introduction to artist books, publication studio/design practice, and workshop for final project: A DIY net art zine / book / print object

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• December 5:

  Presentation of final publication projects and release party