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The parts which are blank will be filled in throughout the quarter as we receive readings and other information

from the
visitors
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)

Death of the Author


by Roland Barthes
What is an Author
by Michel Foucault
Muntadas's File Room:
Recommended: www.thefileroom.org/
The Turntable Brocker-Cohen's Bumplist:
by Charles Mudede artport.whitney.org/gatepages/june03.shtml
April 6 Eduardo Navas, UCSD MTAA's One Year Performance:
The Gift Economy
by Richard Barbrook www.turbulence.org/Works/1year/
On Curating Codedoc by Christiane Paul
by Steve Dietz artport.whitney.org/exhibitions/index.shtml
Conceptual Art
in Wikipedia

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

John Jannone, Brooklyn www.balibay.com


College, New York Stillframe respam (Special presentation by Tim
April 27 by James Keepnews Jaeger)
timjaeger.com
Tim Jaeger

World in Chaos/ For DJ History:


May 4 MIDTERM Modulations Screening Conversation with Lara Lee (director)/ djhistory.com
Caught in the web/ Modulations Website

creas/
May 11 Casey Reas, UCLA reas.com
Softwarestructures/

Editorial Notes for "Large Data Sets and the


Sublime" /
May 18 Brett Stalbaum, UCSD clui.org /
Remote Location
Remote Location 1:100,000
Wendover Journal, Paula Poole/

Lecture titled: "Public CulturalProduction


Art(Software) -- Software Art, Database, and Data
Visualization"

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)
-
http://www.gamestudies.org/0302/lee/

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