Sol Lewitt: "Sentences on Conceptual Art"

Alexei Shulgin: "Art, Power, and Communication"

Harry Polkinhorn: "Manifesto of Negativity"

Jerome Rothenberg: "A Personal Manifesto"

"Make Your Own Manifesto"

Also: Start reading the basic technical manual as an introduction to HTML:

"A Beginner's Guide To HTML" (Parts 1-3)

This is a must read. This is the site where the first Web browser, Mosaic, was developed (and later, in Silicon Valley, turned into Netscape).

Learning the basics of html.
What does it mean to "mark-up" language? Is there more "there" than meets the eye?
Yes. Lots more.

"A Beginner's Guide To HTML" (Parts 1-3)

Also check out: Mikodocs Guide to HTML

Applying early html lessons to web designwriting.
Text as Image.
Text as Graphic.
On the web, everything comes down to ones and zeroes:
text, links, music, images, code, narrative, rhetoric, email...
what's the difference?
Herigascope (what if the word will not be still?)

Amerika: "Grammatron 1.0"

Eisen: "Six Sex Scenes"

Hypertext, a term coined by Theodor H. Nelson in the 1960s, refers to (1) a form of electronic text, (2) a radically new information technology, and (3) a mode of publication. "By 'hypertext,'" Nelson explains, "I mean non-sequential writing -- text that branches and allows choices to the reader, best read at an interactive screen. As popularly conceived, this is a series of text chunks connected by links which offer the reader different pathways."
The dream of http has a history. It starts with the Vannevar Bush essay you read a couple of weeks ago. We will briefly look at others who have contributed to this history and also examine some of the theory behind hypertext.
Then we'll take this historical/theoretical context, and start experimenting with LINKS.
Get Ready.

An image grabbing exercise.
An image mirroring exercise.
Putting images in their proper place.

How is interacting with a hypertext similar to reading a book? How is it different? Is it more like channel surfing? WebTV? Gaming? None of the above?

Shelley Jackson: "My Body"

Bobby Rabyd: "Sunshine 69"

Take one: "The artist as pseudo-autobiographical work-in-progress."
Take two: "The artist as Historical Metafiction."
Take three: "The artist as Conceptual Designer."

Let's consider cognitive mapping and multi-linear navigational spaces. Exactly how complex will your web site be?

In addition to this, you will want to continue developing your midterm project, finding ways to integrate all you have learned up to this point into the conceptual design and overall I-art strategy you are pursuing when constructing your online projects. Details of your project assignments will be discussed throughout the first part of the semester as well as in individual one on one sessions during our lab hours and outside of class.

And: Teleconference to Finland.

Collaboration.
Exhibition.
Publication.
Web presence.
Going public. Ezines (electronic magazines) are all the rage of both the cultural overground and alternative underground. On the net, the playing field is leveled as both individuals and collectives create some of the wildest, weirdest sites on the web.
For your final in-class projects, you are to work in small teams of fellow students so that you can put together a mini-zine on the subject of your choice. The key here will be in immediately narrowing your range of options, thinking through a conceptual plan outlining exactly what you want your zine to look like, what material you want to include in the premiere publication/exhibition, and how best to take advantage of the unique skills-sets your team brings to the table. Your zines can take on any or all of the following characteristics

No class on Thursday due to the holiday.

Thing

Rhizome

"Digital Studies"

"beyond interface"

"net_condition" at ZKM

Show Us The E-Zines.