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Questions in midterm and final will include references to (1) lectures; (2) required readings; (3) required material from the
web sites.
The exams are "open book" so you should bring with you your lecture notes/recordings; the required book; printouts of
required texts; printouts of the assigned texts from the web sites.
date lecturer reference URL required readings required material from the websites
www.softcinema.net/form.htm
March 30 Lev Manovich, UCSD www.manovich.net Christiane Paul. Digital Art, pp. 67-111; 174-189. Database Imaginary exhibition (go through
all projects; read their curatorial
summaries and artists' statements)
Read:
Petite Mort Interview
Interview
by Erik Salvagio
Emulator to play Super Mario Bros
April 13 Cory Archangel, New York Beige Records/Cory Introduction to Data Diaries hacked game
by Alex Galloway Data Diaries
SuperMario Hack
by Cory Arcangel
Recommended:
Emulation and Curatorial Practice
Dogma 95
Russian Ark -- Alekandr Sokurov
April 20 Lev Manovich, UCSD www.manovich.net Metadata Mon Amour Timecode -- Mike Figgis
Lecture Notes Cosmopolis -- Maurice Benayoung
My Life Bits
Eavesdrop --Jeffrey Shaw
creas/
May 11 Casey Reas, UCLA reas.com
Softwarestructures/
Required:
Christiane Paul, Digital Art:
Databases, Data visualization and Mapping,
Cristiane Paul, Whitney artport.whitney.org/ pp.174-189. Links for Christiane Paul's Lecture:
May 25
Museum, New York intelligentagent.com/ Software_Database
Recommended:
Database as Symbolic Form / by Lev Manovich
The Anti-Sublime Ideal in Data Art/ by Lev
Manovich
Game Theory:
Simulation vs. Narrative
Required:
Introduction to ludology (Gonzalo Frasca,
2003)
http://ludology.org/articles/VGT_final.pdf /
Games:
Suggested:
June 1 William Huber, UCSD Computer game studies, year one (Espen Darwinia/
Aarseth, 2001): Civilization IV: Age of Empire/
mario_battle_no. 1/
http://www.gamestudies.org/0101/editorial.html mario_battle_no. 1/
Neither gaze nor glance, but glaze: relating to Velvet Strike/
console game
screens (Chris Chesher, 2004) -
http://scan.net.au/scan/journal/display_article.php?
recordID=19
I lose, therefore I think: (Shuen-shing Lee, 2003)
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http://www.gamestudies.org/0302/lee/