Presentations New Media Theories 2007

Course Description

Week 2 (14-09) – Thinking Machines or Machines to Think With?

Vannevar Bush, ‘As We May Think’ (1945), pp. 35-48.
by Paulien Dresscher

Douglas Engelbart. ‘Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework’ (1962), pp. 93-109.
by Tjerk Timan

Norbert Wiener. ‘Men, Machines, and the World About’ (1954), pp. 65-72.
by Carolien van der Vorst

Presentation on Alan Turing, ‘Computing Machinery and Intelligence’ (1950), pp. 49-65.
by Erik Borra

Week 3 (21-09) – Culture and Computers

Presentation on William S. Burroughs ‘The Cut-up Method of Brion Gysin’ (1963), pp. 89-93.
by Bas Bisseling

Presentation on ‘Sketchpad’ by Ivan Sutherland (1963), pp.109-126; due to technical aspect of the article , I made use of a movie instead of using a ppt. Movie can be found here. by Minke Kampman

Week 5 (05-10) – Van tekst naar dynamische structuren

Paul Fournel. ‘Computer and Writer: The Centre Pompidou Experiment’ (1981)
by Paulien Dresscher

Roy Ascott. ‘The Construction of Change'(1964)
by Fleur Dujardin

Week 6 (12-10) – Media en mediatheoriën, Massamedia of Informatietechnologie?

Jean Baudrillard. ‘Requiem for the Media’ (1972), pp. 277-288.
by Paulien Dresscher

Guy Debord. ‘Theory of the Dérive’
by Tjerk Timan

Hans Magnus Enzensberger. ‘Constituents of a Theory of the Media’ (1970), pp.259-275. . Summary
by Minke Kampman

Week 7 (19-10) – Van desktop naar aardappels

Weizenbaum. ‘Computer Power and Human Reason (1976), pp.367
by Laura

Negroponte. ‘Soft Architecture Machines’ (1975), pp.353. PDF
by Minke Kampman

Week 8 (02-11) – Mens-machine-interactie

Presentation on Gilles Deleuze. Society of Control (1998)
by Erik Borra

Week 9 (09-11) – Mens als machine

Presentation on Donna Haraway. ‘A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century’ (1985), pp. 515-542
by Bas Bisseling

Sherry Turkle. ‘Video Games and Computer Holding Power’ (1984), pp.499
by Minke Kampman

Week 10 (16-11) – Staging Interaction

two by laurel presentation
by Tjerk Timan

Bill Nichols.’The Work of Culture in the Age of Cybernetics'(1988)
by Fleur Dujardin

Week 11 (23-11) – Transforming Culture(s)

Negroponte: A Laptop for Every Kid Wired News, 17 nov. 2005.
by Carolien van der Vorst

presentatie_joyce.ppt
by Laura

Langdon Winner. ‘Mythinformation’ (1986), pp.587
by Minke Kampman

Week 12 (30-11) – Parallel Universes

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by Rikus Wegman

Week 13 (07-12) – Revolution, evolution, or what?

J. David Bolter. ‘Seeing and Writing’ (1991), pp. 679-690.
presentation by Tjerk Timan