Performing Interactivity • Course Overview

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 2 • happenings and human computer interfaces

HISTORICAL CONTEXT • important dates and terms

"Military-industrial complex"
New collaboration instigated by Vannevar Bush that linked academics, scientists, and the military (without congressional or other overt oversight). The group was begun under FDR in 1940. The term was coined by Dwight Eisenhower.

Doug Engelbart
Read Bush's article in a Red Cross library for US soliders in the Phillippines and began to work that would ultimately result in the creation of the mouse, demonstration of the first videoconferencing, mixed text/graphic displays, etc.

Allan Kaprow
Organized performance events in the 1960s and 1970s called "Happenings."

Screenings

Sarah Drury's Listening Microphone
Camille Utterback
Gillian Brown and Inga Frick
Jeffrey Shaw, Place, Legible City, Golden Calf
Studio Azzurro, The Garden of Things,Tavoli
Toni Dove
Interaction '99: Exploring the Human Interface

VIDEO

Allan Kaprow: An Interview (VDB-0172), David Rokeby, Very Nervous System, Toni Dove, Artificial Changelings (Evolving Traditions), Interaction '99: Exploring the Human Interface

required reading

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

Allan Kaprow, "Happenings in the NY Scene," 1961, p. 83.

Vannevar Bush, As We May Think, 1945, p. 35-47. (web link to Atlantic Monthly archive)

ONLINE: David Rokeby, Subjectivity and control in interactive media (Pay attention to models of interactivity).

homework