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 7 • biotechnology, Recombinant Poetics, and art

Historical context

DNA
visible human project

SCREENINGS/ARTISTS

Peter Gena
Eduardo Kac
Bill Seaman
Natalie Jeremijenko
Christa Sommerer and Laurent Migneou
Paul Vanouse
Adam Zaretsky
subrosa
critical art ensemble, genterra
Karl Sims, Galapagos
plant anima
perma kitten
Joe Davis's Microvenus

required reading

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

Marshall McLuhan, The Medium is the Message, 1964, p. 193.

Donna Haraway, A Cyborg Manifesto, 1985, p.515.

ONLINE: E.Kac, Transgenic Art

homework

Read and annotate the artist statements you receive in class.

Bring a link to class to bookmark that deals somehow with the artistic or scientific side of biotechnology--- utopian and/or dystopian angles welcome.