**Note: All reading for classes should be done before the class under which they are listed. Unless links or other books are noted, all readings come from the course reader available at Far Better Printing.

Class 1 , January 27:Class Introduction

• Class introduction.
• Screening: Sans Soleil by Chris Marker
  
  Assignment: Pick up Course Reader and Required books

Class 2 , February 3:What is Postmodernism?

• Frederic Jameson, "Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism" from course reader.
• • optionally, also read Introduction and Chapter 5 from Catherine Lupton, Chris Marker: Memories of the Future

DUE:: Artists Talks: 5 minute presentations by students about their work.

Discussion: Matthew Barney, Mariko Mori, Mongrel
Screening: Mitchell's Death

Technical Demo: Adobe Photoshop CS

Class 3, February 10: What is New Media?

Readings:

• Lev Manovich, "What is New Media? "The Language of New Media.

Screening: Dziga Vertov, Man with a Movie Camera

Readings:

• Lev Manovich, "The Operations "The Language of New Media.

Screening:
Narrative:Oursler, DeJong, Vitiello, Fantastic Prayers
Kristin Lucas
Visualizations: John Klima, FutureFarmers
Computer Culture: Eddo Stern, Cory Arcangel

DUE:: CLASS PRESENTATIONS OF PROJECT ONE

For Next Class: Net Art Presentations

Using the About ART on the NET article by Steve Dietz, Rhizome.org, Gallery 9, or your own research choose a site to review for the next class session.This will be an oral presentation and demonstration. You will be responsible to interpret it for the class (including : describing the interface, the cultural context in which it was made, the artists' background etc). Additional searching may be necessary to provide background information about the art work.

Class 5, February 24: Database as Genre

Readings:

• Lev Manovich,"The Database" The Language of New Media.
• J.G. Ballard, "Project for a Glossary of the 20th Century, "Incorporations.

DUE: NET ART presentations::: make sure your site is working on the class computers before your presentation

Screening: Robert Ashley, Atalanta Strategies
Peter Greenaway, Drowning By Numbers

DEMO:Using/Making the World Wide Web

Class 6, March 3: Histories of Digital Culture

Readings:

• Marshall McLuhan, The Medium is the Massage

McLuhan Links:

DEMO:Using/Making the World Wide Web

Screening: Early Video Art, the work of Woody and Steina Vasulka

Class 7, March 10: The Fictions of Mass Media

•help sessions from 2 - 5:15

Class 8, March 17:The Fictions of Mass Media

DUE: Presentations of PROJECT TWO

Readings:

• Frederic Jameson, "Progress Versus Utopia; or, Can We Imagine the Future?
• Jean Baudrillard, The Precession of the Simulacra

Screenings: early video art

Class 9, March 31 : Image as Ideology

Readings:

• Philip K. Dick, Ubik, p.19-34
• Begin reading Gibson, Neuromancer.
• Scott Bukatman, Terminal Identity: The Virtual Subject in Postmodern Science Fiction , p.69-99.

Screening: excerpts Naked Lunch, VIdeodrome (excerpts) Paul Verhoeven, Total Recall, Starship Troopers
Stephen Speilberg, Minority Report

Class 10, April 7: Spectacle

Readings:

• Guy Debord, "Society of the Spectacle" Chapter One, CLICK HERE!

DEMO:Digital Video

Screening: They Call It Sleep

Internationale Situationiste

Class 11, April 14: Mass Culture and Technology

Reading:

• Crary, Jonathan, "The Eclipse of the Spectacle," Art after Modernism.

DEMO:Digital Video

Videos by Lesley Wahl, Anne McGuire, Cronenberg "Crash"

DEADLINE: Presentations of PROJECT THREE

Class 12, April 21: Technology / Identity

Reading:

• The Critical Art Ensemble, "Post-Human Development in the Age of Pan-Capitalism," Collapsing New Buildings.

Demo:Digital Video and Audio

Screening: VNS Matrix

Class 13, May 5: Technology / Identity

Reading:

• Critical Art Ensemble, "Coming of Age of the Flesh Machine" Electronic Culture.

Screening: Bjorn Melhus, Ain't no Sunshine
Stelarc

Demo: Interactivity/Multimedia

Class 14, May 12: CRITIQUE

DEADLINE: Presentations of PROJECT FOUR