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EVENTS AND NOTES

We will convene in Clemons 407 before repairing to the Clemons Digital Media Lab for a 6.15 tutorial on New Media Applications by lab director Michael Tuite.

At 7.30, we will re-convene in Wilson 306 for a collaborative hour with Seth Hunter's ARTS 223 Introduction to Digital Art Seminar.

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MAIN READINGS

Benjamin, Walter. "The Work of Art in an Age of Mechanical Reproduction." Illuminations. Trans. Harry Zohn. New York: Schocken, 1968.
    [In the Materials Section of Elizabeth Birdsall's ARTH 491-2 Photography As In Art 1960 to Now, Spring 2004]

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SELECTED TEXTS

Baudrillard, Jean. "The Precision of Simulacra." Art After Modernism: Rethinking Representation. Ed. Brian Wallis.
    Boston: David R. Godine, 1984.
    [In the Materials Section of Johanna Drucker's MDST 511 Visual Theory, Fall 2002]

Byrne, David. Envisioning Emotional Epistemological Information. Steidl: Göttingen, 2003.

Helfand, Jessica. Screen: Essays on Graphic Design, New Media, and Visual Culture.
    New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2001.

Joyce, Michael. Othermindedness: The Emergence of Network Culture.. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 2001.

Lunenfeld, Peter. The Digital Dialectic: New Essays on New Media. Cambridge: MIT P, 1998.

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SUGGESTED ASSIGNMENTS

1. Final Project: Begin to master the new media application(s) you find most appealing, planning to use this knowledge when creating your final project.

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LINKS

Seth Hunter coordinates uvanewmedia.com

A site called combinFormation descibes itself as a generative space for browsing, authoring and collecting.

David Byrne   |   PowerPoint Arrows   |   2003

Finally, David Byrne made a recent splash with an exhibition of PowerPoint Art at LACMA. Qu'est-ce que c'est?

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