Video/Animation Archive

SDAT04 Reading List

I. Introduction

• a. Geoffrey Rockwell. “Turing Reaction: Dialogue as a model for interactivity in multimedia”. http://www.mith.umd.edu/publications/dss/rockwell.html
• b. Soke Dinkla. “From Participation to Interaction: Toward the Origins of Interactive Art”. Clicking In 1995

II. Project 1: Navigable Structures

• a. Warren St. John. “Quick, After Him: Pac-Man Went Thataway”. New York Times.
• b. Jorge Borges. “The Garden of the Forking Path”. Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings.
• c. Supplemental Readings
  • i. David Rokeby .“Transforming Mirrors”. http://www.interlog.com/~drokeby/mirrorsintro.html
  • ii. Toni Dove. “The Space Between Telepresence, Re-animation and the Re-casting of the Invisible”. New Screen Media: Cinema/Art/Narrative. ED. Martin Rieser/Andrea Zapp. 2002
  • iii. Janet Murray. ‘The Cyberbard and the Multiform Plot”. Hamlet on the Holodack: The Future of the Narrative in Cyberspace. 1997

III. Project II: Remote Presence.

• a. Toni Dove. “The Space Between Telepresence, Re-animation and the Re-casting of the Invisible”. New Screen Media: Cinema/Art/Narrative. ED. Martin Rieser/Andrea Zapp. 2002
• b. Paul Sermon. “From Telematic Man to Heaven in the Net”. http://art.net/~dtz/sermon.html
• c. Supplemental readings
  • i. Roy Ascott. “Turning on Technology.” http://www.eff.org/Net_culture/Cyborg_anthropology/cyberception.paper
  • ii. Eduardo Kac. "Telepresence Art”. http://www.ekac.org/Telepresence.art._94.html
  • iii. Eduardo Kac. “Dialogical Telepresence Art and Net Ecology” http://www.ekac.org/dialtelep.html.
  • iv. Adapt Cord 2001 Panel Discussion http://www.dance.ohio-state.edu/workshops/ips3.html.

IV. Project III: Cyborg

• a. Stelarc “Prothesis, Robotics and Remote Existence”. LEONARDO. Vol 24, No 5. Pp391-593. 1991.
• b. Steve Mann. “Reluctant Cyborg”. Anchor Canada. 2002
• c. Supplemental Readings
  • i. Stelarc. http:www.stelarc.va.com.au/index.html
  • ii. Alluquere Stone. “Introduction: Sex, Death and Machinery”. The MIT Press.1995
  • iii. Katherine Haylas. “Virtual Bodies”. University of Chicago Press. February 1, 1999.
  • iv. Chris Hables Gray. “Cyborgology”. http://www.routledge-ny.com/Cyborgcitizen/cycitpgs/papers.html

V. Project IV: Media as Mirror

• a. David Rokeby .“Transforming Mirrors”. http://www.interlog.com/~drokeby/mirrorsintro.html
• b. Jarka Burian. “The Scenography of Josef Svoboda”. Univ Pr of New England. June 1, 1974.
• c. Bill Viola. “Video Black- The Mortality of the Image”.
  Illuminating Video : An Essential Guide to Video Art. Doug Hall (Editor), Sally Jo Fifer (Editor), Aperture; June 1, 1991.

VI. Max/MSP readings

• a. Max Introduction - Peter Elsea, Director of Electronic Music Studios at the University of California, Santa Cruz. elsea@cats.ucsc.edu
• b. Getting Started – MAX/MSP documentation. http://www.cycling74.com

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