DXARTS 200: Digital Media - History, Theory and Practice

READING LIST

Required Text:

Wilson, S. 2002, Information Arts, MIT Press, Cambridge.

Recommended Texts:

Bourriaud, N. 2002, Relational Aesthetics, Les Presses du Reel, Dijon-Quetigny.
Kuhn, T. 1962, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
Wardrip-Fruin, N., 2003, The New Media Reader, MIT Press, Cambridge

Supplemental Texts:

Art and the Future:
Davis, D. 1973, Art and the Future, Praeger, New York
Fry, E. (ed.) 1970, On the Future of Art, Viking Press, New York

Art and Technology Movement:
Bijvoet, M. 1997, Art as Inquiry, Peter Lang Publishing , New York.

Artificial Intelligence / Cybernetics:
De Landa, M. 1991, War in the Age of Intelligent Machines, Zone Books, New York
Wiener, N. 1965, Cybernetics, MIT Press, Cambridge

General:
Cubitt, S 1998, Digital Aesthetics, SAGE, London.

Hacking:
Stocker, G. & Schopf, C. (eds.) 1998, Infowar, Springer, New York.
Taylor, P. 1999, Hackers, Routledge, London.

Interdisciplinarity:
Coles, A. & Defert, A. (eds.) 1998, The Anxiety of Interdisciplinarity, Black Dog Publishing, London
Klein, J. 1990, Interdisciplinarity: History, Theory and Practice, Wayne State University Press, Detroit
Klein, J. 1996, Crossing Boundaries, The University Press of Virginia, Virginia.

Internet Art
Green, R. 2004, Internet Art, Thames & Hudson, London.
Stallabrass, J. 2004, Internet Art: The Online Clash of Culture and Commerce, Tate Publishing, London.

Networks / Telematics:
Davis, E. 1998, TechGnosis, Serpent's Tail, New York
Hassan, R. 2004, Media, Politics and the Network Society, Open University Press , Maidenhead
Posey, E. (ed.) 2003, Remote, Bloc Press, Cardiff
Shanken, E. (ed.) 2003, Roy Ascott: Telematic Embrace, University of California Press, Berkeley.

Quantum Mechanics
Eco, U. 1989, The Open Work, Hutchinson Radius, London
Heisenberg, W. 1958, Physics and Philosophy, Penguin, London

Sound Art :
Kahn, D. 2001, Noise Water Meat, MIT Press, Cambridge
Toop, D. (ed.) 2000, Sonic Boom, Hayward Gallery Publishing, London

Systems Art:
Bertalanffy, L. 1967, Robots, Men and Minds, George Braziller, New York.
Bertalanffy, L. 1968, General Systems Theory, George Braziller, New York.
Burnham, J. 1971 The Structure of Art, George Braziller, New York.
Burnham, J. 1974, Great Western Salt Works, George Braziller, New York.
Flam, J. (ed.) 1996, Robert Smithson: The Collected Writings, University of California Press, Berkeley.
Hanhardt, J. (ed.) 1986, Video Culture: A Critical Investigation, Visual Studies Workshop Press, New York.
Luhmann, N. 2000, Art as a Social System, Stanford University Press, California.
Railing, P. 1989, From Science to Systems of Art, Artists Bookworks, Sussex.

Links

Online Essays
Davis, D., The Work of Art in the Age of Digital Reproduction
Donath, J., Identity and Deception in the Virtual Community
Foucault, M., Panopticism
Ross, D., Art and the Age of the Digital
Shanken, E., The House that Jack Built: Jack Burnham's Concept of Software as a Metaphor for Art

Resources
Machinista 2004 http://www.machinista.org
Maps of Cyberspace http://www.mappingcyberspace.com
Rhizome net art database/community http://www.rhizome.org
Tactical Media Network http://www.waag.org/tmn/
V2_lab http://www.v2.nl