# INPUT

readings, screenings + [aesthetic/technosocial/conceptual/art-hystorical] skills + toolSets to be determined + distributed by jonCates Assistant Professor in the department of Film, Video & New Media.

# INTERWEAVE

students will interweave early moments of Video Art + Artware by becoming familiar with 2 [applications/platforms/sources] of nfo interrelating these moments, namely:

Radical Software - Raindance Corporation (1970 - 1974)
http://radicalsoftware.org

++

criticalartware.net - criticalartware (2002 - present)
http://criticalartware.net

as well as other additional readings on these issues + concerns.

# OUTPUT

students will create {code|concept}-based artware individually [+/or] collaboratively.

# MEDIA

we will be [discussing/developing] New Media as an art hystorical framework in relation to {screen|time|code}-based experimental media art (from Cinema + Film Art to Video Art + Digital Art) + as social technological concept/construct.

# NEW

New Media's new-ness will be [discussed/developed] in relation to artistic innovations, utopian hopes + technopositivist promises, faded glories + various futurisms.

# DEVELOP

students will be expected to use [technologies/systems] which are [demonstrated/discussed] in class for developing Radical Software [+/or] Critical Artware projects

# UPDATES

students will keep blogs, livejournals, or vlogs during the semester. students will make the uri's of these known to the class.

# OVERVIEW

# EVALUATE

all projects will be critiqued. all projects will also be addressed individually throughout the semester. participation in critiues is required.

# PARAMETERS

class will meet every FRI from 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM, with a one-hour break for nutrients, with the exception of Graduate Critique Week.

# MEETINGS

attendance + punctuality are required. 3 absences == NO CREDIT. 2 lates == 1 absence.

# CALENDER

# DATE: 2007.08.31

DISCUSS: intro; art + artware; syllabus + courseware; programming; "Hello World"

DEV: "Hello World"
# DATE: 2007.09.07

RUN: Have Script Will Destroy - Cornelia Sollfrank (2000)

RUN: Baldessari Sings LeWitt - John Baldessari (1972)

RUN: Disappearing Music for Face - Mieko Shiomi (1964)

RUN: Quid Pro Quo - Process Sculpture - Paul Kos (1970)

RUN: Routine - Allan Kaprow (1973)

RUN: Dollar Hack - smartist aka Cathy Davies (2001 - 2002)
http://cathydavies.com/dollarhack.html

RUN: self-execute - Matej Smetana (30.11.2004)
http://sweb.cz/self.execute/index.html

RUN: .walk - socialfiction.org (2003)
http://socialfiction.org/gettags.php?tagski=.walk

RUN: William S Burroughs: Commissioner of Sewers - Klaus Maeck (1986)

DEV: "Hello World"

# DATE: 2007.09.14

DISCUSS: "Hello World"

READ: Artware - Saul Albert (1999)
http://twenteenthcentury.com/saul/artware.htm

# DATE: 2007.09.21

DISCUSS: artware + excecutability

RUN: I/O/D 4 WebStalker - I/O/D (1997)
http://bak.spc.org/iod

RUN: Matthew Fuller interviewed by criticalartware (2004)

RUN: ZNC browser - Peter Luining (2003)
http://znc.ctrlaltdel.org

RUN: Peter Luining interviewed by criticalartware (2003)

READ: Behind the Blip: Software as Culture - Matthew Fuller (2002)
http://www.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-0201/msg00025.html

RUN: Processing intro
http://processing.org

READ: Processing Discourse
http://processing.org

DEV: artware.exe

# DATE: 2007.09.28

RUN: Processing workshop
http://processing.org

DISCUSS: software, hardware + artware cultures + ecologies

RUN: WrongBrowser - JODI.ORG (2001)
http://www.wrongbrowser.com

DISCUSS: browsers + browser art

READ: Exe.cut[up]able statements- Florian Cramer (2003)
http://www.aec.at/en/archives/festival_archive/festival_catalogs/festival_artikel.asp?iProjectID=12319

DEV: artware.exe

# DATE: 2007.10.05

RUN: LOLCODE
http://lolcode.com/

RUN: CRITICALLOLWARE - bensyverson
http://criticalartware.net/~LOL/

READ: 4Rt cR4x0Rz - jonCates ++ jake elliott
http://4rtcr4x0rz.com

DEV: artware.exe

# DATE: 2007.10.12

RUN: LOLCODE workshop
http://lolcode.com/

DEV: artware.exe

# DATE: 2007.10.19

DISCUSS: artware.exe

# DATE: 2007.10.26

RUN: Heritage Gold 1.0 - Mongrel (1998)
http://www.mongrelx.org

RUN: ResEdit

RUN: Xcode - Apple
http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/xcode

RUN: AppleScript Studio - Apple
http://www.apple.com/applescript/studio

DISCUSS: display hacks

RUN: Munching Squares

RUN: C-Trend - Woody Vasulka (1974)

RUN: digital acoustic cartography - daniel rothaug
http://www.acoustic-cartography.com

READ: Utopia (exceprt) - Sir Thomas More (1516)
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2130/2130.txt

DEV: [hack/crack]

# DATE: 2007.11.02

RUN: aPpRoPiRaTe! - Sven Koenig (2005)
http://www.popmodernism.org/appropirate

RUN: DeCSS source code (new language) - Dave Touretzky (?)
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/DeCSS/Gallery/new-language.txt

READ: Read me paper - toplap (2004)
http://toplap.org/index.php/Read_me_paper

DEV: [hack/crack]

# DATE: 2007.11.09

VISITING ARTIST: jake elliott
http://dai5ychain.net/jake/

RUN: connectionist artware - jake elliott

RUN: Python + django

READ: An Instructional Game for 1 to many musicians - Click Nilson (1975)
http://toplap.org/index.php/Click_Nilson%27s_text_piece

DEV: [hack /crack]

# DATE: 2007.11.16

VISITING ARTIST: jake elliott
http://dai5ychain.net/jake/

RUN: connectionist artware - jake elliott

RUN: Python + django

DEV: [hack /crack]

READ: Radical Software - Raindance (1970 - 1974)
http://radicalsoftware.org

# DATE: 2007.11.23

NO CLASS: DESTRUCTION OF FIRST NATIONS OBSERVED

# DATE: 2007.11.30

VISITING ARTIST: tamas kemenczy
http://www.runme.org/person/+forklore/

RUN: Bobcat - tamas kemenczy

RUN: Bobcat + programming Firefox extensions

DEV: [hack /crack]

# DATE: 2007.12.07

CRIT WEEK

# DATE: 2007.12.14

DISCUSS: [hack/crack]
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