Due Wednesday Feb 20/Thursday Feb 21
Part 1.
Read 2 texts from the list below. The texts you choose should relate to your project idea
in some way. You can select any text but to help you choose I have loosely organized the texts
into categories reflecting the project assignment categories (some texts are in several categories).
Write a couple of paragraphs about what is interesting to you in the texts and how they relate to your project.
Mapping Networks:
- Duncan Watts "Six Degrees of Interconnection" (2003)
- Uri Dowbenko "Mark Lombardi: Global (Conspiracy) Networks" (2003)
- Albert-Laszlo Barabasi "The random universe" (excerpt from Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means) (2003)
- Albert-Laszlo Barabasi "Six degrees of separation" (excerpt from Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means) (2003)
Creating Networks:
- Eric Paulos and Elizabeth Goodman "The Familiar Stranger: Anxiety, Comfort, and Play in Public Places" (2004)
- Albert-Laszlo Barabasi "The random universe" (excerpt from Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means) (2003)
- Albert-Laszlo Barabasi "Six degrees of separation" (excerpt from Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means) (2003)
Hacking Networks:
- Alex Galloway "Auctonism" (excerpt from Protocol: How Control Exists After Decentralisation) (2004)
- Patrice Riemens "Don't Panic! Hack it!*" (1998)
- Anne-Marie Schleiner "Parasitic Interventions: Game Patches and Hacker Art" (1999)
And...
Part 2.
Write a couple of paragraphs comparing the different and changing views on the role of art and artists in 2 of these texts.
- Tilman Baugaertel "L'art pour net.art" (excerpt from net.art 2.0) (2001)
- Roland Barthes "The Death of The Author" (1977)
- Pierre Levy "The Art of Cyberspace" (1994)
- Joseph Beuys "I am Searching for Field Character" (1973)
- Nicolas Bourriaud "Relational Aesthetics" (1998)
- Artie Vierkant "The Image Object Post-Internet" (2010)
If applicable comment on how these roles are related to the development of network technologies (such as the internet).
Make an html page with your four paragraphs. Link to the page from your 7D homepage.