Intersections of Art, Technology, Science & Culture - Links

Art Organizations, Journals, Research Centers, Research Organizations, Aternative Science

Online Essays - Theory Resources - Syllabi ****this document ****

Introduction to Emerging Research Areas of Interest to Artists (Technological & Artistic research in GPS,Biotechnology, Biosensors, Materials Science, Wearable Computing, Ubiquitous Computing, etc)

Bibliography focused on intersection of art, science, technology, culture(Stephen Wilson)

Compiled by Stephen Wilson, Professor, CIA Program , Art Dept, San Francisco State University
###Note these links are part of the research for Wilson's new book Informati on Arts (MIT Press,2001). Please see the book for more details about the artists, organizations, and texts listed in these links and for extended analysis of the relationship of art and research. The links are constantly being revised and suggestions are welcomed. Feel free to use these resources but please attribute source. Copyright, 1999-2001 Stephen Wilson.

Online Essays - Theory Resources

Syllabi of Courses
( Note the following list of resources was amlagamated from many syllabi placed on the web. Please check original sources for more information) Art and Technology. Performance & Media (Christa Erickson) Links to essays Gender and Technology (Sherry Turkle MIT) Theories of Technology & Culture (Mark Poster) The Internet (Mark Poster) Net Art Course Natalie Bookchin Assignments in Intro to Computing in the Arts Digtal Revolution ? Natalie Bookchin Introduction to Computing and the Arts (Lev Manovich) Theories of New Media (Lev Manovich) Digital Culture Studies (Manovich) Digital Cultures Course in UK(Sean Cubit - good bibliography, course guide to cyberculture, cyberfemism, luddities, computer tech, hypermedia,etc) Cyberwars - Baudrillard & Problem of Mimesis (Cynthia Haynes-Burton) Interactive Media (Randall Packer) Imaging the Future (Friedman - Duke) Multimedia - History, theory, practice (Randall Packer) Digital Culture Heidi Gilpin Cyberspace Humanities (Arthur Chandler) Sociology of Cyberspace ( Leonardo Salamini and Jim Brazell) Art-Science Course (Marta Lyall) Graduate Electronic Media ( Christa Erickson) Computer Information Links - Jennifer Steinkamp Web Design for the Culture - Goldsmiths college, UK Science Fiction VR course Interactive Media and Lingo (George Legrady) Experimental Media (Sharon Daniels) Art & Emerging Technologies (Stephen Wilson) Art & Telecommunications (Stephen Wilson)

Link Resource Sites (links to texts and other resources)
Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies (includes list of syllabi, bibliography) Voice of the Shuttle Media History Project (telephone, telegraph, mass media, computing) Cultural Studies Readings links Marist Postmodern Theory, Culture Studies and Hypertext U of Colorado Postmodern Theory & Philsophy sites The Cyberspace and Critical Theory Overview (Landow - Brown University, good links, articles) Everything Postmodern (Journals, texts, other links - Broquard) Links to Electronic Texts (Christa Erickson) Montreal Museum Contemporaire Media Center List of theorists Artnetweb links to texts Mobilis in Mobili:theory (Essays by/about Guattari&Deleuze, Baudrilllard, Virillio, Cybertheory Concepts on the Move (Netherlands) Digital Cultures Project - links to critical texts on technology Mots Pluriels ( links to ezines, essays, conferences) V2 Links to Essays ICC InterCommunications - Links to Essays Media Theorists Links Leonardo Electronic Almanac - Links to Articles by author SUNYSB multimedia course list of essays Simon Biggs list of essays vispo links to essays

Technoculture
Speed and Information: Cyberspace Alarm ! by Paul Virillio Code Warriors by Arthur and Marilouise Kroker Mark Poster (links to interviews, papers) Mark Poster, CyberDemocracy Julian Dibbell, Rape in Cyberspace Pierre Levy, Toward Superlanguage home site From Appearance to Apparition: Communications and Consciousness in the Cybersphere by Roy Ascott Introduction to Consciousness Reframed Roy Ascott The Architecture of Cyberception Roy Ascott Implicate Art - Roy Ascott Telematic Embrace and other papers Edward Shanken Online Papers on Consciousness - links David Chalmers The Connective State: Europe's technoetic dimension Roy Ascott Distance and Aura Lev Manovich Cinema as Cultural Interface Lev Manovich Computer as a Filter to Culture Lev Manovich An Archeology of a Computer Screen Lev Manovich Californian Ideology Richard Barbrook and Andy Cameron Response to Californian Ideology Louis Rosetto Cheap, Fast, and Out of Control Tim Druckrey TELEKPHRASIS Tim Druckrey Schematic differences between modernism and postmodernism (Hassan) MediaMente (Italian resource of interviews on topics in digital culture) Digital Imaging Forum (excerpts from various theorists) Society of the Spectacle Guy Debord Peter Marshall, Guy Debord and the Situationists from Demanding the Impossible Reflexionism & Diffusionism Steve Mann (surveillance) City of Bits (William Mitchell) Switch E-zine special issue on data and informaiton structures (Slayton, Thacker, Manovich, Deiitrich) Katherine Hayles(textuality, science, Virtual Bodies and Flickering Signifiers Katherine Hayles , Prolog to How we became posthuman; "From Hyphen to Splice: Cybernetic Syntax in Limbo : "Liberal Subjectivity Imperiled: Norbert Wiener and Cybernetic Anxiety" Francisco Varela Manual DeLanda Other writings S witch Interview s Critical Art Ensemble - essays on Technoculture Technophrophets - analysts of the technofuture - Grobin Surveillance Systems - Towards an electronic panoptical society? - Interview David Lyon Being in Cyberspace (links to readings) Technoromanticism Marcos Novak (interview - Poetiecs of Cyberspace) Richard Wright - Art & Science in Chaos (Comments on Visualization) quickstepping through digiland - Amanda Steggell Beyond The Orality/Literacy Dichotomy: James Joyce And The Pre-History Of Cyberspace (Donald F. Theall ) The Cultural Roots of Globalization - Annick Bureaud Critic as Curator - interview Peter Lunenfeld

General Art & Technology
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction by Walter Benjamin Digital Digressions: Art at the End of the Millenium by Edward Earle techno.seduction: There is nothing alarming in this situation by Berta M. Sichel, 1997 techno.seduction: Turning on Technology by Roy Ascott No Go Zone Hakim Bey Culture, Technology, Creativity by Simon Biggs Artist in Dataspace by Simon Penny Web Schmeb - The Death of Computer Art by Lev Manovich Cinema and Digital Media Lev Manovich Death of Computer Art Lev Manovich What is Digital Cinema Lev Manovich William J. Mitchell, How to Do Things with Pictures William J. Mitchell, Intention and Artifice Dark & Light Visions Stephen Wilson Critical Issues in Electronic Media Simon Penny Paul Brown Home Site The Art Mainstream as the Enemy; New media - an emergent paradigm What is digital studies? Alex Galloway Review of McLuhan theories MULTIMEDIA: FROM WAGNER TO VIRTUAL REALITY Randall Packer & Ken Jordan Telematic Manifesto Randall Packer The Electronic Word: Democracy, Technology, and the Arts - Richard A. Lanham Database of Virtual Art - Oliver Grau CRUMB (papers for those who curate, exhibit, organise, or archive new media art) links to artists' papers Ken Rinaldo Collecting the UnCollectable (problems of archiving new media art) - Michele Thursz Pour une typologie des interfaces artistiques - Annick Bureaud Open_Source_Art_Hack - Jenny Marketou and Steve Dietz Promoting E-Literature by Ethnic Writers -Jaishree Odin Media Arts Project Louise Poissant English

Art and Research/Science
Art as Research (Stephen Wilson) Virtual Art as a Socio-Technical Interface (Thierry Bardini & Michael Century) Pathways of Innovation (Michael Century) Links to Papers Role of Artist in Defining New Spaces Soulliac Charter (Don Foresta) Review of Tauber PhilosophyArt/Science book Art in an age of science and technology Amy Ione New Media Art \| New Funding Models - Pamela Jennings Code Zebra - Sara Diamond (Banff) Innovation as Music: A Non-Materialistic Perspective. - Bill Buxton

Technology/Body/Biology/Physical Computing
Cyborg Manifesto Donna Haraway Will the Real Body Please Stand Up? Sandy Stone CyberIntimacy: From Net Nookie to Coffee Talk Kathy Rae Huffman Orlan and the Transgrssive Act Barbara Rose The Virtualisation of Art Practice Simon Penny Transgentic Art Eduardo Kac We Sing the Body Electronic Imaging the Body in the Electronic Media Josephine Anstey Body Noise Thecla Shiphorst Bodies Connected in Space** Stahl Stenslie Dance & Technology Zone (links to articles) Bodies in the age of Electronic Reproduction (Nicky West) Cybernetic Bodies (links to articles) Natalie Bookchin Biotech course links Ruth West - Genetics and Art course links Eugene Thacker Bioinfomatics Nina Czegledy, Digitized Bodies Art and BiomedicineDigitized Bodies Show George Gessert, Bibliography on Art & Genetics Bettyann Holtzmann Kevles & Marilyn Nissenson Picturing DNA David. Saltz, The Art of Interaction: Interactivity, Performativity and Computers Tom Igoe Bibliography in Physical Computing

Virtual Reality
Aesthetics of Virtual Worlds Lev Manovich Avant-Garde, Cyberspace, and Architecture of a Future Lev Manovich Virtual Reality as the End of the end of the Enlightenment Project Simon Penny Without Interaction we Live in Absurdity Jaron Lanier Links to Interviews on VR & Culture (Meidamente Italian e-resource) Enthralling Spaces - The Esthetics of Virtual Environments Margaret Morse Philosophonics of Space: Sound, Futurity and the End of the World Frances Dyson The Architecture of Cyberception Roy Ascott art hsitory and virtual reality Oliver Grau Frame and Excess Joseph Nechvatal Avatar and the Power Grid - Michael Heim links to other essays

Hypertext/ Interactivity
MultiMedia: CD-ROM and the Internet by Simon Biggs, 1994 Art on the CD-ROM Frontier - a Mirage, a Fly in the Eye, or a real Thing? by Erkki Huhtamo The History of the Interface in Interactive Art by Soke Dinkla Bill Seaman - Recombinant Poetics Bill Buxton - papers on interactivity and interface Thoughts on Narrative** by Toni Dove Jodi - essays on hypertext Marie-Laure Ryan, Immersion and Interaction Jump over Proust: Toward Multimedia Writing Lev Manovich Totalitarian Interactivity Lev Manovich Vannevar Bush "As We May Think" (1945) Alexei Shulgin Art, Power, and Communication Andy Cameron Dissimulations: Illusions of Interactivity Grahame Weinbren, The Digital Revolution is a Revolution of Random Access Simon Penny From A to D and back again: The Emerging Aesthetics of Interactive Art Stephen Wilson The Aesthetics and Practice of Designing Interactive Computer Events Stephen Bell How can we talk about the aesthetics of Interaction Erkki Huhtamo Seven Ways of Misunderstanding Interactive Art Martin Ryder Links to hypertext history and theory Steve Wilson Links to Hypertext, interactivity theory, design theory Jim Campbell "Delusions of Dialogue: Control and Choice in Interactive Art" Sakane Interactions97 Essay on Interactivity George Legrady Interface Metaphors and New Narrative in Interactive Media Paul Brown the ethics and aesthetics of the user interface Language of Interactivity (Australian symposium) Robin Petterd Tom Igoe List of Articles on Interactivity Mark Amerika Hypertextual Consciousness Hypertext & hyperfiction site - theory George Landow Critical Theory:Overview in Hypertext Katherine Hayles Textuality Hayles, N. Katherine. "Hypertext Hamlet." :http://www.usis.usemb.se/sft/sf14108.htm Czedgandy, Nina. Interactivity conference Pamerla Jennings - Narrative Structures for new Media Philippe Codognet THE SEMIOTICS OF THE WEB Larry Wendt Narrative as Genealogy: Sound Sense in an Era of Hypertext essays Jenkins, Henry. "From Home[r] to the Holodeck: New Media and the Humanities http://media-in-transition.mit.edu/articles/australia.html Joyce, Michael. Afternoon, a story Joyce, Michael "Forms of Future." presentation at the Transformations of the Book Conference http://media-in-transition.mit.edu/articles/joyce.html Murray, Janet. "The Cyberbard and the Multiform Plot." Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace. New York: The Free Press, 1997. Eastgate Systems links to texts, examples, products, people Hyperizons: Theory and Criticism of Hypertext Fiction 4x4 Generative Design -Gavin Sade A Fresh Understanding for Interactive Media Design - Rick Bennett Strings - Dan Weber (experimental hypertext essay) MIT Hypertext Theory links Hypertext Now Journal

Internet/Web / Virtual Communities / Telecommunications
Joachim Blank, What is netart ;-)? Andreas Broeckmann,Net.Art, Machines, and Parasites Tactical Art Media netart on nettime Critical Art Ensemble,Mythos Information: Welcome to the Wired World The Mythology of Terrorism on the Net Tilman Baumgaertel Art on the internet - part 1, Tilman Baumgaertel art on the internet - part 2 Jack Miles and Douglas McLennan Digital Goes Critical Paul Brown Networks and Artworks Lev Manovich Detour to the East Howard Rheingold Virtual Communities Links Howard Rheingold Virtual Communities Book (on-line version) Randall FarmerPaper on Habitat Virtual Communities also links to habitat pages Annick Bureaud Pour une typologie de la création sur Internet Knowbotics Research collection of essays Pierre Levy Collective Intelligence and its Objects: Many-to-Many Communication in a 'Meaning World' Mark Pesce Proximal and Distal Unity Geert Lovink Interview with Web Stalker creators Fred Forest essays Derrick de Kerckhove Webness Tmothy Druckrey Networked Identity first monday - essays on internet culture Randal Packer Telematic Manifesto

Cyberfeminist Critique
Cyberfeminism The world, the flesh, and the woman-machine relationship by Zoe Sofoulis Old Boys Network F E M I N I S A T I O N S by Sadie Plant Switch Journal on cyberfeminism GENDER SWAPPING ON THE INTERNET by Amy S. Bruckman other papers Notes on the Political Condition of Cyberfeminism Faith Wilding and Critical Art Ensemble riding the meridien - women and technology

Artificial Life / Artificial Intelligence/ Robotics/ Generative Art
The Darwin Machine: Artificial Life and Art by Simon Penny Embodied Cultural Agents Simon Penny Agents as Artworks and Agent Design as Artistic Practiceas (Simon Penny) Essays on Alife, Conciousness Eddie Shanken Artificial Intelligence Research as Art Stephen Wilson Life as We Know It and/or Life as It Could Be: Epistemology and the Ontology/Ontogeny of Artificial Life Edward Shanken As Att is Lifelike Evolution, Art, and the Readymade Nell Tenhaaf Implications of Intelligent Agents (Howard Rhinegold) emergent behaviours - towards computational aesthetics (Paul Brown) Alien Intelligence Show Interview - Erkki Hutamo Papers on AI - Victoria Vesna Theories of AI - Marc Bohlen Switch Article research on alife artists Mitchell Whitelaw Ramos, Vitorino , Filipe Almeida, Artificial Ant Colonies in Digital Image Habitat Ramos, Vitorino - On the Implicit and on the Artificial - Morphogenesisand Emergent Aesthetics in Autonomous Collective Systems l inks to papers - gnerative art conference Why The Future Doesnt Need Us - Bill Joy Physical Computing essays

Art & Mathematics, 4th Dimension
4th Dimension Articles, art, other links

Sound Art
Aesthetic Issues in Sound Art Review of Kahn & Whitehead Wireless Imagination (Timothy Taylor) Doug Kahn - theory writings Audio Art in the Deaf Century Audio Hyperspace Frances Dyson - Circuits of the Voice Radio Art Sound Culture - links to essays

Bibliography
Books and articles focused on intersection of art, science, technology, culture(Stephen Wilson) VR and Art Bibliography Ann otated bibliogrpahy in cyberculture General Bibliography in technological Art - Annick Bureaud bibliography on cyberspace

Art/Theory Organizations/Archives/E-zines
Rhizome C-THEORY C-Theory archives Teleopolis Alternative net org & web art Postmodern Culture Tables of Contents for all issues Panic Encyclopedia altx Cultronix SPEED_Home Difference Engine: memorie histories futures** Intelligent Agent (print and web zine on art and new media) Nettime ZKP Archive Leonardo Electronic Almanac Article Archive Welcome to Leonardo (Journal of Art & Science) CIAC's Electronic Art Magazine Digital Creativity Metal and Flesh Postmedia Convergence

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