MMAS 373
HISTORY OF NEW MEDIA
instructor: curt cloninger
email: curt at lab404 dot com
office: Zeis 211. MW 11:30-1:00
location: university of north carolina asheville
* indicates an offline media object

class-specific | readings & artwork


CLASS-SPECIFIC

intro
syllabus
rough project calendar
MMAS attendance policy
MMAS grading policy

major assignments
culture position paper
artist critique paper

writing resources
writing center handouts [nb: argument and thesis statements] (UNC)
writing a thesis statement [cf: argumentative thesis statements]
the citation machine (warlick)

required text
The New Media Reader (ed. wardrip-fruin, montfort)
New Media in Art [second edition] (rush)


READINGS & ARTWORK

project
McLuhan project

primers
Multimedia: From Wagner to Virtual Reality (ed. packer, jordan)
Cyber_Reader* (ed. spiller)
Overview of Media Art (ed. frieling/daniels)
introducing the book (naerum)

origins of computing
As We May Think (bush) [1945]
eliza


new media & culture theory
The Death of the Author (barthes) [1967]
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (benjamin) [1935]
Understanding Media (mcluhan) [1964]
from "The Eternal Now" (lapham)
The Society of the Spectacle (debord) [1967]
Theory of the Dérive (debord)
Simulacra and Simulations (baudrillard) [1985]
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On The Passage of a Few Persons Through a Rather Brief Period of Time [433 MB, avi]
May 1968 graffiti
No Fun (sex pistols) [1977]
Careering / Poptones (public image limited) [1980]

tactical media
Making Do: Uses and Tactics (de certeau) [1980]
The Temporary Autonomous Zone (bey) [1985]
Electronic Civil Disobedience (critical art ensemble) [1994]
The ABC of Tactical Media (garcia/lovink) [1997]
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Making Changes (walton)
finger gloves (horn)
human browser (bruno)
critical art ensemble tactical media projects
surveillance camera players
documentary on trevor paglen
project chanology (anonymous)

technology
A History of Information Technology and Systems (butler)
Foreseeing the Future: The legacy of Vannevar Bush (malone)
Revenge of the Right Brain (pink)