CYBERNAUT: The Artist and Technology
HUAS 6320.501 Issues in Contemporary Art
Dr. Charissa N. Terranova
The University of Texas at Dallas
Fall 2008
Monday 6-4:45
terranova@utdallas.edu
Course Syllabus (Word Doc)
Writing Tips (Word Doc)
SCHEDULE
Monday August 25: Introduction
- Syllabus
- Sign up for presentations
Monday September 1: No class, Labor Day
Monday September 8: The Telegenics of Sound and Sight
- Siegfried Zielinksi, Deep Time of Media: Toward an Archaeology of Hearing and Seeing by Technical Means
Monday September 15: In Class Viewing
- E.A.T. and ARTPIX: Open Score by Robert Rauschenberg (1966)
Monday September 22: Text as Extension
- Roland Barthes, Mythologies, 15-25; 36-38; 53-55; 68-69; 84-87; 97-99; 109-159
- Marshall McLuhan, The Mechanical Bride: Folklore of Industrial Man, v-vi; 3-4; 55-56; 64-65; 98-101; 113-116; 117-118
- Marshall McLuhan and Barrington Nevitt. “The Argument: Causality in the Electric World.” Technology and Culture. Vol. 14, No. 1 (Jan. 1973) 1-18
Monday September 29: Printing Press, Typewriter, and TV
- Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media, 3-76; 81-105; 123-130; 157-163; 217-225; 265-274; 308-360
- Friedrich Kittler, Gramophone, Film, Typewriter, 1-21; 183-263
Monday October 6: Cybernetics
- Norbert Wiener, “On Learning and Self-Reproducing Machines,” Cybernetics, Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine, 169-180
- Peter Galison, “The Ontology of the Enemy: Norbert Wiener and the Cybernetic Vision.” Critical Inquiry, Vol. 21, No. 1 (Autumn 1994), 228-266
Monday October 13: Telematics
- Edward A. Shanken, “Introduction,” Telematic Embrace: Visionary Theories of Art, Technology, and Consciousness by Roy Ascott, 1-96
- Roy Ascott, “Behaviourist Art and the Cybernetic Vision (1966-67),” Telematic Embrace: Visionary Theories of Art, Technology, and Consciousness, 109-156
- Roy Ascott, “Telenoia,” Telematic Embrace: Visionary Theories of Art, Technology, and Consciousness, 257-275
Monday October 20: Embodied Virtuality
- N. Katherine Hayles, How We Became Posthuman, 192-291
Monday October 27: Cyborg
- Donna Haraway, “Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century,” 149-182
Monday November 3: Prosthetic as Thing and Ontology
- Elizabeth Grosz, Time Travels, 131-145+
- N. Katherine Hayles, How We Became Posthuman, 113-130.
Monday November 10: Robo-Sapiens
- Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Monday November 17: Cybersprawl
- William Gibson, Neuromancer
Monday November 24: Presentations
Monday December 1: Presentations
Monday December 8: Presentations
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