7D Network Reading

Due Wednesday Feb 19/Thursday Feb 20

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. Write a couple of paragraphs about what is interesting to you in the texts and how they relate to your project.

Mapping Networks:

• Albert-Laszlo Barabasi "The random universe" (excerpt from Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means, Perseus Books 2002) *
• Albert-Laszlo Barabasi "Six degrees of separation" (excerpt from Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means, Perseus Books 2002) *
• Duncan Watts "Six Degrees of Interconnection" (Wired Magazine June 2003)

Creating Networks:

• Albert-Laszlo Barabasi "The random universe" (excerpt from Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means, Perseus Books 2002) *
• Albert-Laszlo Barabasi "Six degrees of separation" (excerpt from Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means, Perseus Books 2002) *
• Eric Paulos and Elizabeth Goodman "The Familiar Stranger: Anxiety, Comfort, and Play in Public Places" (Computer Human Interfaces Conference ACM,2004)
• Joseph Beuys "I am Searching for Field Character", 1973 (in Participation, edited by Claire Bishop, The MIT Press, 2006) *
• Nicolas Bourriaud "Relational Aesthetics", 1998 (in Participation, edited by Claire Bishop, The MIT Press, 2006) *

Hacking Networks:

• Patrice Riemens "Don't Panic! Hack it!*" (Ars Electronica Festival Catalogue, 1998) **
• Anne-Marie Schleiner "Parasitic Interventions: Game Patches and Hacker Art" (in Mariosofia: Elektronisten pelien kulttuuri, ed Erkki Huhtamo 1999)
• Alex Galloway "Auctonism" (excerpt from Protocol: How Control Exists After Decentralisation, MIT Press 2004) *
• Matthew Fuller "Don't Give Me the Numbers - an interview with Ben Grosser about Facebook Demetricator" (rhizome.org 2012)

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 (which you did not read above).

• Tilman Baugaertel "L'art pour net.art" (excerpt from net.art 2.0, Verlag Fur Moderne Kunst Nurnberg, 2001) *
• Roland Barthes "The Death of The Author" (1977)
• Pierre Levy "The Art of Cyberspace" (in Electronic Culture: Technology and Visual Representation, ed. T. Druckrey, Aperture, 1996) *
• Nicolas Bourriaud "Relational Aesthetics", 1998 (in Participation, edited by Claire Bishop, The MIT Press, 2006) *
• 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.

Texts marked with * require login. Use the same user/password as you use for our web server.
Texts with ** require you to be on campus or to use the library VPN server .