ATS INSTRUCTOR TEACHING ASSISTANT SYLLABUS LINKS INTERACTIVE ART week1_overview CONTEMPORARY DIRECTIONS IN INTERACTIVE MEDIA week5_games REVOLUTION, RESISTANCE, AND PUBLIC PRACTICE week9_webtopia/dystopia
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week 8 • WEARABLE COMPUTINGHistorical contextSteve Mann, Smart Clothing: The " Wearable Computer" and WearCam... An older article, but excellent overview of Mann's contribution to the field of wearables. SCREENINGS/ARTISTSStelarc (PingBody and endosculpture), Steve Mann (WearCam research), Maggie Orth (musical jacket), Krzystof Wodiczko's Mouthpie ce and Alien Staff, Steve McClintock, Keith Obadike, Michael Mandiberg, John Freyer, Cary Peppermint See also: Sandy Stone's website: http://sandystone.com/ Stone is a transgendered performance artist and theorist—among many topics she has written about sexual identity as a "wearable" layer of self that can be manipulated, reconstructed and transformed. Border Crossings, nice list of links to articles on the cyborg body http://www.uiowa.edu/~commstud/resources/bordercrossings/cyborgs.html required readingFrom The New Media Reader, by Noah Wardrip-Fruin (Editor), Nick Montfort (Editor): Nicholas Negroponte, Soft Architecture Machines, p.353-365. Pelle Ehn and Morten Kyng, Cardboard Computers, p.649-662. Recommended readingYou are Cyborg by By Hari Kunzru An interesting overview of Donna Haraway's contribution to the field Donna Haraway, "A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century," in Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Nature (New York; Routledge, 1991), pp.149-181. homeworkPlease bring a homemade or readymade wearable computer to class or bring an interesting web link related to this topic. |