- Week 1. Week of January 5, 2009.
- Week 2. Week of January 12, 2009.
- Week 3. Week of January 19, 2009
- Week 4. Week of January 26, 2009
- Week 5. Week of February 2, 2009.
- Week 6. Week of February 9, 2009.
- Week 7. Week of February 23, 2009.
- Week 8. Week of March 2, 2009.
- Week 9. Week of March 9, 2009.
- Week 10. Week of March 16, 2009.
- Week 11. Week of March 23, 2009.
- Week 12. Week of March 30, 2009.
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Make sure you also check the Group Projects page for readings associated with the field trips. You may choose to incorporate these readings into your responses as well, if you wish. Fast-track to the field trip readings.
Week 1. Week of January 5, 2009.
Digital History and Foundations
Readings for Wednesday, Jan. 7 from The New Media Reader
Page 37. "As We May Think" by Vannevar Bush, 1945.
Page 49. "Computing, Machinery, and Intelligence" by Alan Turing, 1950.
Week 2. Week of January 12, 2009.
Philosophers of Technology
For Wednesday. I will be collecting reading responses.
Page 83. "'Happenings' in the New York Scene" by Allan Kaprow, 1961. Intro, Curtis.
Page 89. "The Cut-Up Method of Brion Gysin" by William S. Burroughs, 1963. Intro, Biljana.
Page 133. A File STructure for the Complex, the Changing, and the Indeterminate. By Ted Nelson, 1965. Intro, Rachel.
Page 193. Two Selections by Marshall McLuhan. "Medium is the Message," 1964, and "The Galaxy Reconfigured," 1969. Intro, Tyler.
Week 3. Week of January 19, 2009
Cognition Perception and Emotion
For Wednesday.
We will be looking at these readings from the perspective of Cognition Perception and Emotion.
Page 231. Research Center for Augmenting Human Intellect. by Engelbart and English. 1968.
Page 277. Requiem for the Media. Baudrillard. 1972.
Page 353. From Soft Architecture Machines. Negroponte. 1975.
Fast-track to field trip readings
Week 4. Week of January 26, 2009
New Media Ecologies
For Wednesday. I will be collecting reading responses.
Fast-track to field trip readings
Page 259: Constituents of a Theory of the Media. Enzensberger, 1970.
Re-read Page 277. Requiem for the Media. Baudrillard. 1972.
and Page 193. "The Galaxy Reconfigured," McLuhan 1969. Intro, Tyler.
Week 5. Week of February 2, 2009.
Computers and Culture
Field Trip Reading (Assembly A)- Charles Bernstein - Play it Again, Pac-Man
Page 711. "Time Frames." Scott McCloud.
Week 6. Week of February 9, 2009.
Ethical and Political Implications.
For Wednesday.
(Re-read) Page 711. "Time Frames." Scott McCloud.
pg 515. A Cyborg Manifesto. Haraway.
Optional
"CRASHING THE SPECTACLE: A FORGOTTEN HISTORY OF DIGITAL SAMPLING,
INFRINGEMENT, COPYRIGHT LIBERATION AND THE END OF RECORDED MUSIC"
Kembrew McLeod. Download here.
pg 587. Mythinformation. Winner.
Make sure you also check the Group Projects page for readings associated with the field trips. You may choose to incorporate these readings into your responses as well, if you wish. Fast-track to the field trip readings.
Week 7. Week of February 23, 2009.
Human-Computer Interaction
pg. 73. Man-Computer Symbiosis, Licklider.
pg. 485. Direct Manipulation: A Step Beyond Programming Language, Schneiderman
Week 8. Week of March 2, 2009.
Cyborgs and Synthetic Humans.
In Monday tutorial, assembly one and assembly two will both undertake "Wild Mind" creative writing assignments (as per the ShybaTam paper download pdf). This will be the week's "response paper." A selection of these will be chosen for dramatization in Wednesday's lecture class, location TBA.
ShybaTam_final.pdf | Sample writing here. | 
wild_mind_reading.pdf
Package up your scenarios into your final response journals.
Here are the Sobapro rehearsal and performance photos I took.
Week 9. Week of March 9, 2009.
Humanistic Informatics.
Read: Page 303. Ted Nelson's "Computer Lib".
Week 10. Week of March 16, 2009.
Computers in Education.
For Wednesday. I will be collecting reading responses.
Week 11. Week of March 23, 2009.
Paradigm Shifts and Revolution.
Class cancelled due to my awful cold. Work on your papers.
Groups will present on paradigm shifts and revolution next Wednesday, March 30.
For Wednesday: Read Kuhn's article found here for Josh, Lou, and Curtis's group (Assembly B)
Week 12. Week of March 30, 2009.
Wrap up week. No Tutorial.
Read! Janet Murray's "Inventing the Medium" on pages 3 - 11 of the New Media Reader.
Also, review the CD ROM and choose YouTube videos that correspond to the readings as well.
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