New Media Theories – Literature Overview

Part I
The Complex, The Changing, and the Indeterminate: The Sixties (Week 2)

Thinking Machines or Machines to Think With?

  • Vannevar Bush, ‘As We May Think’ (1945), pp. 35-48.
  • Douglas Engelbart. ‘Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework’ (1962), pp. 93-109.
  • Norbert Wiener. ‘Men, Machines, and the World About’ (1954), pp. 65-72.
  • Alan Turing, ‘Computing Machinery and Intelligence’ (1950), pp. 49-65.

Links

Wikipedia
Home Page of the Loebner Prize

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Document Week 3 (21-09)

Poetics of Augmented Space Culture and Computers

  • Allan Kaprow. ‘”Happenings” in the New York Scene’ (1961), pp. 83-89.
  • William S. Burroughs. ‘The Cut-up Method of Brion Gysin’ (1963), pp. 89-93.
  • Lev Manovich. ‘The Poetics of Augmented Space: Learning from Prada’ (2002).
  • Ivan Sutherland. ‘Sketchpad: A Man-Machine Graphical Communication System’ (1963), pp. 109-127.
  • Chris Byrne. ‘Space, Place, Interface’ (2005)

Link

* Allan Kaprow: “Happening in 6 parts

* Chris Byrne. “Mobile Realism?”

* Aware – spatio – temporal – moblog
* One Block Radius
* Mass Observation Archive
* Urban Tapestries
* Geografffiti: Way Point Sharing Applications
* Minneapolis and St. Paul are East African Cities

Document Week 4 (26-09)
Virtual visit to Picnic 2006
Document Week 5 (05-10)
Van tekst naar dynamische structuren

  • Roy Ascott. ‘The Construction of Change’ (1964), pp. 127-133.Theodor H. Nelson. ‘A File Structure for the Complex, the Changing, and the Indeterminate’ (1965), pp. 133-146.
  • Raymond Queneau. ‘A Hundred Thousand Billion Poems’ (1961).
  • Paul Fournel. ‘Computer and Writer: The Centre Pompidou Experiment’ (1981)
  • Claude Berger. ‘For a Potential Analysis of Combinatory Literature’ (1973).
  • Jeremy Hight. ‘Floating Points: Locative Media, Perspective, Flight and the International Space Station’ (2006)
  • Marc Tuters & Kazys Varnelis. Beyond Locative Media’

Links

* George Landow: Cyberspace and Critical Theory: An Overview
* Ben Russell, Headmap Manifesto (1999)
* .walk (SocialFiction)
* Ieva Auzina & Esther Polak: MILK (2004)
* We Make Money Not Art
* The Center for Land Use Interpretation

Document Deel 2
Collective Media, Personal Media
Document Week 6 (12-10)
GenerationHere.pdf ( 1593505 Bytes )
LocatingStory.pdf ( 959086 Bytes )
Media en mediatheoriën
Massamedia of Informatietechnologie?

  • Marshall McLuhan (pp. 193-210):
  • ‘The Medium is the Message’ (1964).
  • The Galaxy Reconfigured …(1969)
  • Nam June Paik. ‘Cybernated Art’ (1972), pp. 227-231.
  • Warna Oosterbaan. ‘”We hebben een machine gemaakt die door niemand beheerst wordt’: Socioloog Manuel Castells over de netwerkeconomie’ NRC 8 november 1997.
  • Hans Magnus Enzensberger. ‘Constituents of a Theory of the Media’ (1970), pp. 259-276.
  • Jean Baudrillard. ‘Requiem for the Media’ (1972), pp. 277-288.
  • Raymond Williams. ‘The Technology and the Society’ (1974), pp. 289-300.
  • Theodor H. Nelson. ‘Computer Lib/Dream Machines’ (1970-1974), pp. 301-308.
  • Guy Debord. ‘Theory of the Dérive’
  • Richard Benson, Mark Radcliff, Stephen Armstrong, Rob Levine. ‘Generation Here: Exploring the Impact of 3G Mobile Phone Technology on Global Communities’ (2006)
  • Cl. Miskelly e.a. ‘Locating Story: Collaborative Community-Based Located Media Production’

Links

* Mobile Bristol
* Incite: Urban Journeys

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

  • Nicholas Negroponte.’Soft Architecture Machines’ (1975), pp. 353-366.
  • Joseph Weizenbaum. ‘Computer Power and Human Reason’ (1976), pp. 367-376.
  • Myron W. Krueger. ‘Responsive Environments’ (1977), pp. 377-390.
  • Alan Kay & Adele Goldberg. ‘Personal Dynamic Media’ (1977). pp. 391-404.
  • Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari. ‘A Thousand Plateaus’ (1980), pp. 405-411.
  • Gilles Deleuze. Society of Control
  • Gilles Deleuze. ‘Postscript on the Societies of Control’ (1990).

Links

* Amsterdam Realtime: Dagboek in Sporen

Document Deel 3
Design, Activity, and Action
Document Week 8 (02-11)
Mens-machine-interactie

  • Seymour Papert. ‘Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas’ (1980), pp. 413-432.
  • Richard A. Bolt. ‘”Put-That-There”: Voice and Gesture at the Graphics Interface’ (1980), pp. 433-440.
  • Theodor H. Nelson. ‘Proposal for a Universal Electronic Publishing System and Archive’ (1981). 441-462.
  • Ben Shneiderman. ‘Direct Manipulation: A Step Beyond Programming Languages’ (1983), pp. 485-498.

Document Week 9 (09-11)
Mens als machine

  • Bill Viola. ‘Will There Be Condominiums in Data Space?’ (1982), pp. 463-470.
  • Ben Bagdikian. ‘The Endless Chain’ (1983), pp. 471-484.
  • Sherry Turkle. ‘Video Games and Computer Holding Power’ (1984), pp. 499-514).
  • Donnna Haraway. ‘A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century’ (1985), pp. 515-542.

Document Week 10 (16-11)
Staging Interaction

  • Richard Stallman. ‘The GNU Manifesto’ (1985), pp. 543-550.
  • Brenda Laurel, pp. 563-574.
  • ‘The Six Elements and the Causal Relations Among Them’ (1991)
  • ‘Star Raiders: Dramatic Interaction in a Small World’ (1986)

Links

Document Deel 4
Revolution, Resistance, and the Launch of the Web
Document Week 11 (23-11)
Transforming Culture(s)

  • Langdon Winner. ‘Mythinformation’ (1986), pp. 587-598.
  • Lucy A. Suchman. ‘Plans and Situated Actions’ (1987), pp. 599-612.
  • Michael Joyce. ‘Siren Shapes: Explorative and Constructive Hypertexts’ (1988), pp. 613-624.
  • Bill Nichols. ‘The Work of Culture in the Age of Cybernetic Systems’ (1988), pp. 625-642.

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Document Week 12 (30-11)
Parallel Universes

  • Lynn Hershman. ‘The Fantasy Beyond Control’ (1990), pp. 643-648.
  • Pelle Ehn & Morten Kyng. ‘Cardboard Computers’ (1991), pp. 649-662.
  • Chip Morningstar & F. Randall Farmer. ‘The Lessons of Lucasfilm’s Habitat’ (1991), pp. 663-678).
  • Scott McCloud.’Time Frames’ (1993), pp. 711-732.
  • Critical Art Ensemble. ‘Nomadic Power and Cultural Resistance’ (1994), pp. 781-790.

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

  • J. David Bolter. ‘Seeing and Writing’ (1991), pp. 679-690.
  • Stuart Moulthrop. ‘You Say You Want a Revolution? Hypertext and the Laws of Media’ (1991), pp. 691-704.
  • Robert Coover. ‘The End of Books’ (1992), pp. 705-710.
  • Philip E. Agre. ‘Surveillance and Capture: Two Models of Privacy’ (1994), pp. 737-760.
  • Espen J. Aarseth. ‘Nomadic Power and Cultural Resistance’ (1994), pp. 761-780.
  • Tim Berners-Lee e.a. ‘The World Wide Web’ (1994), pp. 791-798.

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