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Art 7D Reader 2016

Introduction

• Claire Bishop "Digital Divide" (Artforum Sept. 2012) *
• Marshall McLuhan (Chapter 1 from Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, 1964)

History

• Christiane Paul (excerpt from Digital Art, Thames & Hudson, 2003) *
• Rachel Greene (excerpt from Internet Art, Thames & Hudson, 2004) *
• Vannevar Bush "As We may Think" (The Atlantic, 1945) *

Science

• Jonah Lehrer "The Future of Science is Art?" (Seed, 2007)
• Ariane Koek "Cern: Where Art and Science Collide", The Art Newspaper (Oct. 2011)
• Natalie Jeremijenko and Lawrence Krauss Interview (Seed Magazine, 2007) *
• Sian Ede "Ambiguities and Singularities" (excerpt from Art & Science, I. B. Tauris, 2006) *
• Hans H Diebner "Performative Science" (excerpt from Performative Science and Beyond - Involving the Process in Research, Springer Vienna Architecture, 2006) *
• Stephen Wilson "Elaboration on the Approach of Art as Research" (excerpt from Information Arts, The MIT Press, 2001) *
• Stephen Wilson "Artists Working with Microbiology" (excerpt from Information Arts, The MIT Press, 2001) *
• Stephen Wilson "Plants and Animals" (excerpt from Information Arts, The MIT Press, 2001) *
• Tom Vanderbilt "The Body Electric: Tom Vanderbilt on Christian Nold" (Artforum, March 2007) *
• Carsten Höller "The Baudouin Experiment: A Deliberate Non-Fatalistic Large Scale Experiment in Deviation", 2000 (in Participation, edited by Claire Bishop, The MIT Press, 2006) *

Software

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

Hardware

• Eduardo Kac "The Origin and Development of Robotic Art" (Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, 2001) **
• Erkki Huhtamo and Machiko Kusahara "Robo Renga Or a Tele-Discussion about Art and Robotics" (2002) **
• Donna Haraway, "A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century," (excerpt from Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Nature, Routledge, 1985)
• Machiko Kusahara "Device Art: A New Form of Media Art from a Japanese Perspective" (Intelligent Agent vol. 6 no. 2, 2006) *
• Robert L Herbert "The Arrival of the Machine in Europe 1910-1925" (chapter from From Millet to Leger: Essays in Social Art History, Yale University Press, 1997) *
• Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby (excerpts from Design Noir: The Secret Life of Electronic Objects, Birkhaeuser, 2001) *
• Valentino Braitenberg Vehicles: experiments in Synthetic psychology (A Bradford Book, 1986) *
• Gustav Metzger "Auto Destructive Art Manifesto" (1961) *

Network

• 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)
• Eric Paulos and Elizabeth Goodman "The Familiar Stranger: Anxiety, Comfort, and Play in Public Places" (Computer Human Interfaces Conference ACM,2004)
• Roland Barthes "The Death of The Author" (1977)
• 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)
• Artie Vierkant "The Image Object Post-Internet" (2010)
• Matthew Fuller "Don't Give Me the Numbers - an interview with Ben Grosser about Facebook Demetricator" (rhizome.org 2012)
• Tilman Baugaertel "L'art pour net.art" (excerpt from net.art 2.0, Verlag Fur Moderne Kunst Nurnberg, 2001) *
• Alex Galloway "Auctonism" (excerpt from Protocol: How Control Exists After Decentralisation, MIT Press 2004) *
• 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) *
• Joseph Beuys "I am Searching for Field Character", 1973 (in Participation, edited by Claire Bishop, The MIT Press, 2006) *
• Lev Manovich "The Practice of Everyday (Media) Life: From Mass Consumption to Mass Cultural Production?", 2009 (Critical Inquiry, Vol. 35, No. 2 Winter 2009, pp. 319-331)