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45. Reading and discussion with Sean Dockray - The Scan and The Export, Facebook Suicide Bomb Manifesto, There is Nothing Less Passive Than the Act of Fleeing, Further Notes on an Escape Act
44. Discussion at Brian Holmes lecture at 16 Beaver - Notes on Three Crises
43. Reading and discussion with Claire Bishop - Antagonism and Relational Aesthetics,The Social Turn: Collaboration and Its Discontents, Participation and Spectacle: Where Are We Now?
42. Reading and discussion with Alexander Galloway - The Unworkable Interface
41. Beryl Graham and Sarah Cook - Rethinking Curating (Art After New Media). Chapter 5 Participative Systems + Chapter 7 On Interpretation, On Display, On Audience
40. Anton Vidokle - Art Without Artists
39. Edward Shanken - Historicizing Art and Technology: Forging a Method and Firing a Canon + Art in the Information Age: Technology and Conceptual Art + Missing in Action: Agency and Meaning in Interactive Art + Response to Domenico Quaranta’s ‘The Postmedia Perspective + Cybernetics and Art: Cultural Convergence in the 1960s +Contemporary Art and New Media: Outline for Developing a Hybrid Discourse?
38. Readings and discussion with Triple Canopy editors Molly Kleiman and Sarah Resnick. Bob Stein and Dan Visel - Mao, King Kong, and the Future of the Book, Anja Utler trans by Kurt Beals - Sibyl and Marsayas, Ellie Ga - A Hole to See the Ocean Through, Joe Milutis - R, Adieu
37. Readings and discussion with Gabriella Coleman - The Hacker Conference: A Ritual Condensation and Celebration of a Lifeworld + An unpublished essay about the the role of Lulz in Anonymous’s activities.
36. Hans Ulrich Obrist interview with Wikileaks’ Julian Assange
35. Nicolas Bourriaud - Relational Aesthetics, The Radicant
34. Readings and discussion with Christiane Paul - Context and Archive: Presenting and Preserving Net-based Art + Challenges for a Ubiquitous Museum: Interfacing New Media—From the White Cube to the Black Box and Beyond
33. Domenico Quaranta - In Your Computer - Lost in Translation. Or, Bringing Net Art to Another Place? + The Unbearable Aura of a Website. Originality in the Digital Age
32. Reading and discussion with Jacob Lillemose - ”It’s Contemporary Art, Stupid” Curating computer based art out of the ghetto
31. School Nite reading courtesy of Collective Show at 233 Mott St. Carson Chan - Measures of an Exhibition + Jennifer Allen - HARK! Does Art Have a Second Life Online?
30. Viewing of the film Network (1976), written by Paddy Chayefsky and directed by Sidney Lumet
29. Readings and discussion with Gregory Sholette – Dark Matter
28. Readings and discussion with Ben Davis – “Social Media Art” in The Expanded Field
27. Bruno Latour - What is Iconoclash? Or Is There A World Beyond The Image Wars?, Some Experiments in Art and Politics
26. Readings from Video Vortex Reader #2. Geert Lovink - Engage in Destiny Design: Online Video Beyond Hypergrowth + Stefan Heidenreich - Vision Possible: A Methodological Quest for Online Video + Natalie Bookchin and Blake Stimson interview - Out in Public: Natalie Bookchin in Conversation with Blake Stimson + Cecilia Guida - YouTube as a Subject: Interview with Constant Dullaart
25. Discussion at Bard’s CCS Hessel Museum as part of the Constant Dullaart and Laurel Ptak-organized event Public Interfacial Gesture Salon.
24. JstChillin week. Ceci Moss Interview with Parker Ito and Caitlin Denny + Gene McHugh catalogue essay + Brian Droitcour - In New Media Res
23. Readings and discussion with Ed Halter - The Centaur and the Hummingbird + After the Amateur: Notes + The Matter of Electronics + Television for the People
22. Julian Dibbell - A Rape in Cyberspace; or How an Evil Clown, a Haitian Trickster Spirit, Two Wizards, and a Cast of Dozens Turned a Database into a Society + Howard Rheingold - Daily Life in Cyberspace: How the Computerized Counterculture Built a New Kind of Place + Humdog - Pandora’s Vox
21. Various essays on internet fame from the Video Vortex Youtube Reader
20. Liam Gillick - Prevision, Contemporary Art Does Not Account for That Which Is Taking Place
19. Carson Chan - The Territory of Versions + Karen Archey - Internet Art in The Present Tense
18. Readings from the Digital Folklore reader. Dennis Knopf - Defriending The Web + Helene Dams - I Think You Got Cats On Your Internet + Olia Lialina - A Vernacular Web + Preface essays by Cory Arcangel, Olia Lialina, Dragan Espenschied
17. R Gerald Nelson - DDDDoomed
16. Jaron Lanier - You Are Not a Gadget
15. Rosalind Krauss - Two Moments From The Post Medium Condition
14. Friedrich Kittler - There Is No Software
13. Lauren Cornell - Walking Free, Brian Droitcour - All Together Now
12. Discussion about selected works: Oliver Laric - Versions + Harm Van Den Dorpel - Ethereal Self / Ethereal Others + Jon Rafman - Koolaide Man in Second Life + Eva and Franco Mattes - Darko Maver + Ryan Trecartin - Riverthe.net
11. Unpublished readings and discussion with Geert Lovink
10. Hito Steryl - On The Poor Image + Hubert Dreyfus - Kierkegaard On The Internet
9. Jack Burnham - Systems Aesthetics, + Geert Lovink - 10 Theses On Wikileaks
8. Martin Heidegger - The Question Concerning Technology
7. Lewis Hyde - The Gift, Trickster Makes The World
6. Donna Harraway - The Cyborg Manifesto
5. Alex Galloway - Language Wants To Be Overlooked: On Software and Ideology
4. Boris Groys - The Weak Universalism + On The New + Self Design and Aesthetic Responsibility
3. David Joselit - Feedback + Chris Anderson and Michael Wolf - The Web Is Dead. Long Live The Internet
2. Critical Art Ensemble - Electronic Civil Disobedience + Keller Easterling - Zone
1. Hakim Bey - Temporary Autonomous Zone
