Bibliography and Related Art Projects
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Media Theory Foundations
Benjamin, "The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility"
Crary, "Modernity and the Problem of the Observer"
W. J. T. Mitchell, What Do Pictures Want? : The Lives and Loves of Images
Ellul, J. (1964) The Technological Society. New York: Vintage Books. Ellul's classic warns of the social implications of technology, in fact arguing that technology's internal logic and efficiency may not meet real human needs.
Adorno / Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment (Continuum)
Standage, T. (1998) The Victorian Internet. The remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's Online Pioneers. New York: Berkley Books. Going beyond the Internet hype, this book examines the way in which people have communicated across distances for centuries.
Winner, L. (1977) Autonomous Technology. Technics-out-of-Control as a Theme of Political Thought. This book deals with uncontrolled technological development, the relationship between society and technology.
Kittler, Literature, Media, Information Systems (G & B Arts International)
Heidegger, The Question Concerning Technology
The Radio As An Apparatus of Communication by Bertolt Brecht <http://telematic.walkerart.org/telereal/bit_brecht.html>
Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus, trans. Brian Massumi (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1987)
Gitelman, L. (1999) Scripts, Grooves, and Writing Machines. Representing Technology in the Edison Era. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
This study of machines for writing at the end of the 19th century in America explores the relationshiop between textuality and technology.
Feenberg, A. (2002) Transforming Technology. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Feenberg addresses the question of neutrality of technology and renders the influence that technology has on our daily lives.
Jean Baudrillard: Selected Writings (Poster, ed)
The Virilio Reader
Lyotard. The PostModern Condition trans. Geoff Bennington and Brian Massumi (Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 1984)
Walter Benjamin, Illuminations
Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation (The Body, In Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism)
Suggested:
Youngblood Gene. Expanded Cinema. New York P.Dutton CO. 1970.
Cooperation
Axelrod, R. (1997) The Complexity of Cooperation, Princeton University Press, Princeton.
Rheingold, H. (2000 [1993]) Virtual Communities, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
Rheingold, H. (2002) Smart Mobs. The Next Social Revolution, Perseus Publishing, Cambridge.
Rheingold, H. (2005) Technologies of Cooperation: A Map to a Toolkit, TheFeature.com Archives <http://www.thefeaturearchives.com/101608.html>.
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Civil Society
Gatewatching: Collaborative Online News Production by Axel Bruns, Peter Lang Publishing, 2005
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Collaboration
Green, C. (2002) In The Third HandUniversity of Minnesota Press, USA, pp. 125-138.
Putnam, R. (2000) Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community, New York: Simon & Schuster, <http://www.bowlingalone.com/data.php3>.
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FLOSS
[http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue3_3/raymond/ Eric Raymond. The Cathedral and the Bazaar]
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Labor
Lazzarato, M. (1996) ‘Immaterial Labour’, in Paolo Virno & Michael Hardt (eds.) Radical Thought in Italy: A Potential Politics, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
The Rise of the Creative Class (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0465024777/qid=1139517557/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/102-6886845-4830519?s=books&v=glance&n=283155) by Richard Florida, Basic Books, 2004
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Language
Mark Warschauer’s “Language, Identity, and the Internet,” in Race in Cyberspace, Ed. Beth E. Kolko, Lisa. New York, Routledge, 2000
Net Art
Greene, Rachel. Internet Art (Thames and Hudson world of art: New York, 2004)
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http://www.thomson-craighead.net/
Net Critique
Geert Lovink (ed.) Uncanny Networks: Dialogues with the Virtual Intelligentsia (Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2002)
Lovink, G. (2003) My First Recession: Critical Internet Culture in Transition, V2Publishing/ NAi Publishers, Rotterdam.
Mulder, A. (2004) Understanding Media Theory, V2/NAi Publishers, Rotterdam. Nettime (Ed.) (1997) Netzkritik. Materialien zur Internet-Debatte, Edition ID Archiv, Berlin.
Lenhart, A. & Madden, M. (2005) Pew American and Internet Life Project Study <http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/166/reportdisplay.asp>.
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Identity- Race, Virtual Ethnicity
Nils Zurawski. Virtual Ethnicity. Studies on Identity, Culture and the Internet.
Ed. with Beth Kolko and Gilbert B. Rodman. Race in Cyberspace. NY: Routledge, 2000.
"After/Images of Identity: Gender, Technology, and Identity Politics." Paper presented at Discipline and Deviance: Gender, Technology, Machines, Duke University, October 2-4,1998
"Race In/For Cyberspace: Identity Tourism and Racial Passing on the Internet." Works and Days: Essays in the Socio-Historical Dimensions of Literature and the Arts, Indiana, PA 13:1-2 (25-26) Spring-Fall 1995, 181-93.
Where am I and who are 'we'?: Self-representation and the intersection of gender and ethnicity on the Web by Linda Leung http://www.firstmonday.dk/Issues/issue8_10/leung/index.html
Turkle, Sherry. Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet (New York: Touchstone, 1995)
Cameron Bailey “Virtual Skin: Articulating Race in Cyberspace”
Mark B.N. Hansen. “Digitizing the Racialized Body or the Politics of Universal Address,” Substance, Vol. 33, No. 2, 107-133
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Public Sphere
The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0262581086/sr=1-1/qid=1138729539/ref=pd_bbs_1/102-5008841-5524902?%5Fencoding=UTF8) by Jurgen Habermas, The MIT Press, 1991
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Digital Art
Paul, Christiane. Digital Art (Thames & Hudson world of art: New York, 2003)
Rutsky, R.L. High Techn_: Art and Technology from the Machine Aesthetic to the Posthuman (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999)
The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective by Arjun Appadurai (ed.)
Media Ecologies : Materialist Energies in Art and Technoculture by Matthew Fuller, The MIT Press, 2005
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HCI
Ed. Peter Denning. Talking Back to the Machine: Computers and Human Aspiration (New York: Copernicus, Springer-Verlag, 1999)
Suchman, L. A. (1987) Plans and Situated Actions: The Problem of Human Machine Communication, Cambridge University Press.
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Blogging
Handbook for Bloggers and Cyberdissidents <http://www.rsf.org/IMG/pdf/handbook_bloggers_cyberdissidents-GB.pdf>
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Abe and Mo Sing the Blogs (http://www.linkoln.net/abeandmosingtheblogs/) ("transcoding" blog entires into song)
Universal Acid (http://universalacid.blogspot.com/) (performative elements of video, blogging and remix)
[http://www.zoilus.com/ Zoilus (sometimes has a good discussion of music distribution politics and issues)
TEAM YACHT (http://teamyacht.com/) (convergence between laptop glitch music and just jumping around)
David Antin (http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/antin/) (improvised monologue / "improvisational poetics")
Justin Kat!ko (http://www.users.muohio.edu/katkojn/) ("reading" video clip as a poem, "reading" images as sound)
Joey Casio (http://bumpidee.com/joeycasio.html) (performing against programmed technolog
Gender
On "Bob," "Thomas," and Other New Friends: Gender in Cyberspace, Laura J. Gurak
Donna Haraway. “A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century” in Simians, Cyborgs, Women: The Reinvention of Nature (New York: Routledge, 1991), 149-181
Haraway, Donna. Simians, Cyborgs, and Women. NY: Routledge, 1991.
Miller, Laura. "Sexing the machine. Three digital women debate gender, technology and the Net."
Binary Sexes, Binary Codes by Sadie Plant
Plant, Sadie. "An Interview with Sadie Plant and Linda Dement."
A Cyberfeminist Manifesto for the 21st Century (1991)
Ed. Lynn Cherny and Elizabeth Reba Wise. Wired Women: Gender and New Realities in Cyberspace (Seattle: Seal Press, 1996)
Wajcman, Judy. Feminism Confronts Technology (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State Press, 1991)
Cutting Edge, the Women’s Research Group. Desire by Design: Body, Territories and New Technologies (New York: I.B. Tauris Publishers, 1999)
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Embodiment
N. Katherine Hayles “Embodied Virtuality: or How to Put Bodies Back into the Picture”
Claudia Springer. Electronic Eros: Bodies and Desire in the PostIndustrial Age (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1996)
Anne Balsamo. Technologies of the Gendered Body: Reading Cyborg Women (Durham: Duke UP, 1997)
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Participatory Cultures
Ed. Amy Scholder with Jordan Crandall . Interaction: Artistic Practice in the Network (Distributed Art Publishers: New York, 2001)
Vicente, Kim. The Human Factor: revolutionizing the way people live with technology (New York: Routledge, 2004)
The Rise of the Participatory Panoptikin
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The City
Muller, Roswitha. Valie Export: Fragments of the Imagination. Indianapolis Indiana University Press. 1994.
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http://straddle3.net/context/03/en/2005_01_28.html
Free Culture
Lawrence Lessig, Free Culture http://www.free-culture.cc/freecontent/
Lessig, L. (2001) Free Culture. New York: The Penguin Press.
Lessig, L. (2001) The Future of Ideas. New York: Vintage.
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Sound
Douglas Kahn. Noise Water Meat: A history of sound in the arts (Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 2001)
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"New Media"
Noah Hardrip-Fruin & Nick Montfort (2003) The New Media Reader, Cambridge Mass:. MIT Press.
McLuhan, Marshall & Powers, Bruce. The Global Village: Transformations in World Life and Media in the 21st Century (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989)
Lev Manovich The Language of New Media.Cambridge Mass.: MIT Press
Simon, P. (1995) Critical Issues in Electronic Media, SUNY Press, Buffalo.
Manovitch, L. (2001) The Language of New Media, MIT Press, Cambridge.
Collecting, the Archive
Wolfgang Ernst "Visual Archiving: Sorting and Storing Images." 1998.
Lev Manovich "Database As a Symbolic Form"
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Internet Access
Bolt, David B. Digital Divide: Computers and Our Children's future. New York: TV Books, 2000.
William Wresch Disconnected: Haves and Have-Nots in the Information Age (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1996)
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Science and Technology
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Group Formation Online
Rheingold, Howard. The Virtual Community. NY: HarperPerennial, 1993.
Tracing the Evolution of Social Software by Christopher Allen <http://www.lifewithalacrity.com/2004/10/tracing_the_evo.html>
Technologies of Cooperation by Howard Rheingold <http://molodiez.org/tech_coop.pdf>
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Media Archeology
Chun, W., Keenan, T. (2005) New Media, Old Media. Cambridge: MIT.
Bell, D.A. Intelligent Machines: an introduction to cybernetics (1962)
K. Ludwig Pfeiffer (1994) "The Materiality of Communication" in Gumbrecht, H. U. & Pfeiffer, K. (eds.). Materialities of Communication. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Gere, Charlie (2002) The Digital Avantgarde. in "Digital Culture." London: Reaktion Books.
Web Companion to "Contol and Freedom" by Wendy Chun http://www.controlandfreedom.net//index.php
Burroughs, W. (1961) The Cut-Up Method by Brion Gysin. in Wardrip-Fruin, W., Montfort, N., eds. (2004) The New Media Reader. Cambridge: The MIT Press, pp. 89-91.
Mattelart, Armand (1996) The Invention of Communication. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Siegert, B. (1999) In the Presence of Noise in Relays. Literature as An Epoch of the Postal System. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Gitelman, L. (1999) Scripts, Grooves, and Writing Machines. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Elsaesser: Early Film History & Multimedia
Foucault: Archaeology of Knowledge
Michel Foucault. The Order of Things; An Archaeology of the Human Sciences trans. of Les Mots et les choses (New York: Random House, 1970)
Zielinski: An Anarchaeology of Hearing and Seeing Through Technical Means
Zielinski: Media Archaeology
Crary: Techniques of the Observer. On Vision and Modernity in the Nineteenth Century (Cambridge, Mass: The MIT Press, 1990)
Zielinski, Siegfried: Audiovisions. Cinema and Television as Entr'Actes in History. Amsterdam: University of Amsterdam Press, 1999.
Kittler, Friedrich: Gramophone, Film, Typewriter. Stanford: Standford University Press, 1999.
Foucault, The Archaeology of Knowledge - http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/fr/foucault.htm
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Billy Klüver : Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.)
Network Culture
Terranova, T. (2004) Network Culture. Politics for the Information Age, Pluto Press, Ann Harbor/London.
Taylor, M. (2001) The Moment of Complexity. Emerging Network Culture, The University of Chicago Press, London.
Barabási, A.-L. (2002) Linked: The New Science of Networks, Perseus Publishing.
Pasquinelli, Matteo "Radical machines against techno-Empire. From utopia to networks" MakeWorlds Paper 4, 4 Apr. 2004. 11, Feb, 2006 <http://www.makeworlds.org/node/74>.
Tedeschi, Bob "It's Like Lending to a Friend, Except You'll Get Interest" New York Times, 13 Feb, 2006. 8 Mar, 2006 <http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/13/technology/13ecom.html>.
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Game Theory
Jenkins, H. (2003) Games, The New Lively Art in Hartley, J. (2005) Creative Industries. London: Blackwell, pp. 313-327.
David Myers The nature of computer games: play as semiosis (New York: Peter Lang, 2003)
Digital Play: The Interaction of Technology, Culture, and Marketing (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2003)
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Gift Economy
Coyne, R. (2005) Cornucopia Limited, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
Richard Barbrook “The High Tech Gift Economy”
Barbrook, R. (1999) Cyber-Communism: How the Americans are Superseding Capitalism in Cyberspace, The Hypermedia Research Center, University of Westminster, <http://www.hrc.wmin.ac.uk/theory-cybercommunism.html>.
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Activism
Kidd, D. "Indymedia.org: A New Communications Commons" in McCaughey, M., and Ayers, M. (2003) Cyberactivism: online activism in theory and practice. New York: Routledge, pp. 47-70.
Wark, M. (2002) The Weird Global Media Event and the Tactical Intellectual [version 3.0] in Hui Chun, K., Keenan, T. (2005) New Media. Old Media. A history and Theory Reader. London: Routledge, pp.265-275.
Richardson, J. (Ed.) (2003) An@rchitexts. Voices from the global digital resistance, Autonomedia, New York.
Paolo Virno & Michael Hardt (eds.) (1996) Radical Thought In Italy: A Potential Politics, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Mueller, M., Kuerbis, M. & Pagé, C. (2004) Reinventing Media Activism: Public Interest Advocacy in the Making of U.S. Communication-Information Policy, 1960-2002, a report, July <http://dcc.syr.edu/ford/rma/reinventing.pdf>. Minnesota: Amherst H. Wilder Foundation.
Kester, G. (2004) Conversation Pieces, University of California Press, Berkley.
Holmes, B. (2005) ‘The Flexible Personality: For a New Cultural Critique’, in Geoff Cox, Joasia Krysa & Anya Lewin (eds.) Economising Culture, New York: Autonomedia (DATA Browser 01)
The History of Protest Art (http://www.molodiez.org/history_protest_art.pdf)
Lazzarato, Maurizio (2004) ‘Struggle, Event, Media’, trans. Aileen Derieg, MakeWorlds Paper 4 (http://www.makeworlds.org/book/view/103)
Holmes, Brian "Liar's Poker" 16 Beaver Group 5 Sept. 1994. 4 Mar. 2006 <http://www.16beavergroup.org/mtarchive/archives/000943.php>.
Sholette, Gregory. " Dark Matter: Activist Art and the Counter-Public Sphere." Journal of Aesthetics and Protest. Aug. 2003. 26 Mar. 2006 <http://www.journalofaestheticsandprotest.org/3/sholette.htm>.
Sholette, Gregory "Rise Up You Lovely Children of Saturn" Jun., 2005. 13 Apr. 2006. <http://www.art.uiuc.edu/grads/mfa_05/critic/>
Holmes, Brian (2006) ‘Coded Utopia’, MuteBeta: Culture and Politics after the Net (January) (http://www.metamute.org/en/node/7069)
Unleashing the Collective Potential by Brian Holmes (http://www.molodiez.org/holmes_unleashing.pdf)
Sholette, Gregory "Rise Up You Lovely Children of Saturn" Jun., 2005. 13 Apr. 2006. <http://www.art.uiuc.edu/grads/mfa_05/critic/>
Technology Dependent Activism (http://www.molodiez.org/tech-dependent-activist.pdf)
Sassen, Saskia (2004) ‘Electronic Markets & Activist Networks’, MakeWorlds Paper 4 (http://www.makeworlds.org/book/view/101)
A Hacker Manifesto by McKenzie Wark (http://www.molodiez.org/wark_hackerm.doc)
Speaking Truth to Power by Edward Said (http://www.molodiez.org/speakingtruthtopower.PDF)
Brian Holmes' book in pdf form (http://ut.yt.t0.or.at/site/index.html)
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http://www.massmoca.org/visual_arts/interventionists.html
The Commons
Lessig, L. (2003) Commons on the Wires. in Hartley, J. (2005) Creative Industries. London: Blackwell.
Wireless Imagination: Sound, Radio, and the Avant-Garde (Cambridge, Mass: The MIT Press, 1992)
Virtual Reality
Grau,Oliver. Virtual Art The MIT Press. Cambridge Massachusetts. 2003.
Aukstakalnis, Steve, and David Blatner. Silicon Mirage: The Art and Science of Virtual Reality. Berkeley, CA: Peachpit Press, 1992.
Chesher, Chris. "Colonizing Virtual Reality: Construction of the Discourse of Virtual Reality, 1984-1992." Cultronix. Vol. 1, Issue 1, Summer 1994.
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