Syllabus and Links

Week 1. Introduction: Digital Books: from velum to virtuality

6-25 Introduction: Perfecting Access to the Web

  • CUInfo Home Page
  • Young-Hae Chang, Perfect Artistic Website

    6-26 The Written Word Materialized

  • Maryterese Pasquale-Bowen and D. Fairchild Ruggles, Paper, Leather, Clay, and Stone Paper 1: 2pp.

    6-27 Interactive Hypermedia

  • William Velthoven, The Cultural Challenge of Interactive Hypermedia
  • Sally Pryor, As I May Write

    6-28 The Art of CD-Rom

  • Timothy Murray, Curatorial Preface to Contact Zones:The Art of CD-Rom
  • Murray, Hypertextures
  • Takahiko Iimura, AIEONN, Six Features(CD-Rom)
  • Murray, Electric Delivery Systems
  • Suzanne Treister, Time Travelling with Rosalind Brodsky

    6-29 Cyber-Hyper-Text

  • Gary Zebington, Termite Paper 2: 3pp.

    Week 2. Virtual Borders and Crossings

    7-2 Digital Divides
  • Arthur and Marilouise Kroker, "Code Warriors"

    7-3 Caught in Cyberspace

  • Keith Piper, Relocating the Remains Paper 3: 3pp.

    7-5 Virtual Barrios

  • Guillermo Gómez-Peña, "The Virtual Barrio @ the Other Frontier (or the Chicano interneta)" and Temple of Confessions

    7-6 Internet Border Crossings

  • Horit Herman-Peled, Gaza Checkpoint
  • Andrew Hieronymi and Tirdad Zolghadr, GASHTGARI: the tehran project
  • Jay Murphy and Isabelle Sigal, Privilege Paper 4: revision

    Week 3. Cyborgs: Cultural and Scientific Fantasies

    7-9 Historical Fantasies
  • Bestiaries, The Fantastic in Art and Fiction
  • Michele Barker, Praeternatural

    7-10 Metabody

  • Stelarc
  • Paolo Atzori and Kirk Woolford, Interview with StelarcPaper 5: 3pp.

    7-11 Surgical Transformation

  • Jean Baudrillard, Plastic Surgery for the Other
  • Orlan

    7-12 Hearing Tech Flesh

  • CTHEORY MultimediaTech Flesh: The Promise and Perils of the Human Genome Project
  • Out_of_Sync (Maria Miranda and Norie Neumark), Machine Organs
  • Brad Todd, Hearing Loss Paper 6: 3pp.

    7-13 Genome Machines

  • Robin Parmar, The Genomachine Project

    Week 4. Sexual Identities

    7-16 Feminism and the Web
  • Carolyn Guertin, Gesturing Toward the Visual: Virtual Reality, Hypertext and Embodied Feminist Criticism
  • Catherine Richards

    7-17 The Telerobotic Gaze

  • Lynn Hershman, Tillie the Telerobotic PresencePaper 7: Revision #5 or 6

    7-18 Sexual Differences

  • VNS Matrix, Manifesto
  • -------------, Dirty Work for Slimey Girls

    7-19 The Lesbian Subject

  • Jodi O"Brien, Changing the Subject
  • Holly Willis and Mikki Halpin, When the Personal becomes Digital: Linda Dement and Barbara Hammer Move Towards a Lesbian Cyberspace
  • Linda Dement, Cyberflesh Girlmonster

    7-20 Return of the Sexual Baroque

  • Christina Casanova, Let's Tell LiesPaper 8: 3pp.

    Week 5. Techno-Politics, from machinery to censorship

    7-23 Technological Interventions
  • Jenn and Kevin McCoy, Airworld
  • Critical Art Ensemble Useless Technology

    7-24 Survival Research Laboratories: A Million Inconsiderate Experiments

    7-25 Censorship

  • Maryterese Pasquale-Bowen and D. Fairchild Ruggles, The Forbidden Word
  • The File Room
  • Wm Shakespeare
  • Robert Mapplethorpe
  • NEA Four
  • 2 Live CrewPaper 9: 3pp.

    7-26 Justice on Campus: "75 Reasons"; and The Cornell Feminist Majority

    7-27
    Center for Democracy & Technology: Communications Decency Act; and Text of CDA

    Week 6. Viewer's Choice: Irresolution of Internet Culture

    7-30 Instructors' Choice
  • Slant Artists Against Censorship (Achjadi, Young, Murthy, Eng)Paper 10: Revision #8/9

    7-31 Students Choice Awards, Part One

  • Electronic Frontier Foundation
  • BeeHive Hypertext
  • Art by Megan Kitchenhttp://www.jcrdesign.com/junkemail.html
  • Golf Digest
  • Pitch Weekly Online

    8-1 Students Choice Awards, Part Two

  • Tropical Flame
  • Stop Junk E-Mail
  • Tall Club of NYC
  • Ebay

    8-2 Students Choice Awards, Part Three

  • Blog
  • AOL's Censorship
  • Center for Laboratory Animal Welfare
  • Vieques Libre
  • Hip Hop Articles

    8-3 Students Choice Awards, Part Four

  • Urban 75 e-zine
  • Fortune
  • Okay Player
  • Dance Safe

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