ATS INSTRUCTOR
TIFFANY HOLMES

TEACHING ASSISTANT
JOSH ROSENSTOCK

CALENDAR

SYLLABUS LINKS

INTERACTIVE ART
HISTORY AND CONTEXT

week1_overview
week2_happenings/hci
week3_automated art
week4_vr and simulation

CONTEMPORARY DIRECTIONS IN INTERACTIVE MEDIA

week5_games
week6_data dynamics
week7_biotech and art
week8_wearables

REVOLUTION, RESISTANCE, AND PUBLIC PRACTICE

week9_webtopia/dystopia
week10_public intervention
week11_collectives/activism
week12_open topic_wrapup

week 11 • collectives and activism

Historical context

Adbusters
RTMark
EToy

SCREENINGS/ARTISTS

Chris Doyle
Critical Art Ensemble: Genterra, see tactical media links also.
Surveillance Camera Players
Bureau of Inverse Technology

required reading

From The New Media Reader, by Noah Wardrip-Fruin (Editor), Nick Montfort (Editor):

Critical Art Ensemble, Nomadic Power and Cultural Resistance, 1994, p. 781.

Augusto Boal, Theatre of the Oppressed, p. 339-352.

EAT experiments, p. 211, Skim the four selections.

recommended reading

Suzanne Lacy, The Roof is on Fire, and Critical Art Ensemble's Electronic Civil Disobedience, Simulation, and the Public Sphere (online as .pdf, click 'Book Projects' then click 'Digital Resistance' Chapter 1 link).

homework

Assigned reading and work on web site.