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 3 • automated artmaking and performative drawing

Historical context

Yves Klein, Anthropometries, about the Anthropometries
Harold Cohen, Aaron Project
Carolee Schneemann, Interior Scroll

SCREENINGS/ARTISTS

Elephant painters
Golan Levin
The Alphabet Synthesis Machine (Levin)
Mauro Annunziato, Relazioni Emergenti, Lia
Institute for Applied Autonomy, GraffittiWriter
Eric Deis, Beauty and Chaos
Fernando Orellana (ATS BFA graduate)
Mark Napier, The Shredder

required reading

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

Ivan E. Sutherland, Sketchpad, 1963, p. 109-126.

William S. Burroughs, The Cut-Up Method of Brion Gysin, , 1978, p.89-91.

Read introduction and skim selections of interest: Six selections by the Oulipo, p.147-189.

homework

Create a drawing or collage or poetic text using a rule-based system. Bring both the art and the rule set to class.