Prehistories of New Media: 1965 to the Present
ARTHI 2511
1 PM - 4PM THURS
SPRING 2005

jonCates
Assistant Professor (Film, Video & New Media)
Art History Theory and Criticism
JCATES at SAIC dot EDU

Lori Felker
Teaching Assistant
LFELKER at SAIC dot EDU

COURSEWARE: DESCRIPTION ++ SYLLABUS ++ REFERENCE MATERIALS

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2006.09.28: 04. RAM: Random Access Memory

Nam June Paik (1932.07.20 – 2006.01.29)






Random Access - Nam June Paik (1963)









Exposition of Music & Electronic Television - Nam June Paik (1963)



Community Memory - Efrem Lipkin, Lee Felsenstein + Ken Colstad (1972 - 1974)

"ASR-33 Teletype, in acoustic-shielding enclosure, at the entrance to Leopold's Records
in Berkeley, connected by 110-baud line to XDS-940 host in San Francisco."



The World's First Collaborative Sentence - Douglas Davis (1994)





The Fileroom - Antonio Muntadas (1994 - present)



Airworld - Jennifer + Kevin McKoy (1999)




SKYSCRAPER - Roman Minaev (2001 - present)








10 Programs written in BASIC ©1984 - JODI (2003)

READ:

Rewind the Future - Joline Blais and Jon Ippolito (2003)
http://www.electrohype.org/rom/jodi/backtobasic.html

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JODI interview - Tilman Baumgaertel (1997)
http://www.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-9708/msg00112.html

READ REVIEW QUESTIONS:

Email your answers in plain ASCII text format to Lori Felker lfelke@saic.edu before the next Prehystories of New Media class mtg on 2006.09.21

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