7D Software Reading

Due Wednesday Jan 23/Thursday Jan 24

In each of the 2 required texts and 1 of the elective texts, identify an idea/method/concept that the author believes is integral to the artistic practice they describe. Then find an artwork (not mentioned in the reading) that exemplifies each of the 3 ideas/methods/concepts. Search for artworks in magazines, old class notes, in books or on the web. Write a paragraph describing each of the artworks and ideas and how they are related. Make an html page with the four paragraphs. Link to the page from your 7D homepage.

Required texts:

• Erkki Huhtamo "Trouble at the Interface or the Identity Crisis of Interactive Art" (2004)
• Lev Manovich "Database as Symbolic Form" (1999) **

+ select one of these texts:

• Florian Cramer "Concepts, Notations, Software, Art" (2002)
• Casey Reas "Software Structures" (2004)
• Janet Zweig "Ars Combinatoria: Mystical Systems, Procedural Art, and the Computer" (Art Journal. Volume, 56. Issue, 3. Pages, 20-29, 1997)
• Marga Bijvoet Hans Haacke: Systems Artist (excerpt from Art as Inquiry: Toward New Collaborations Between Art, Science, and Technology, Peter Lang, 1997) *
• Marvin Minsky, (excerpts from The Society of Mind, Simon & Schuster, 1988) *

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