Internet-Age Writing Syllabus

“As print takes its place alongside smoke signals, cuneiform, and hollering, there has emerged a new literary age, one in which writers no longer need to feel encumbered by the paper cuts, reading, and excessive use of words traditionally associated with the writing trade.” Robert Lanham



academia, digital poetics, web 2.0, writing

Jim Lambie


“You put a record on, and it’s like all the edges disappear. You’re in a psychological space. You don’t sit there thinking about the music, you’re listening to the music. You’re inside that space that the music’s making for you.” Jim Lambie @ SMFA, Boston



abstract, anomalies, art

Cory Doctorow

With a Little Help


“Free e-books work for me.”



activist, web 2.0, writing

Mr. doob



pv3d Compute Spectrum Test 01



audio, web 2.0

FASHEMATICS!!!



algorithm, images

Allan McCollum | Artist Statement



academia, art, generative, writing

F-Shaped Pattern

Reading Web Content (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox)


“Heatmaps from user eyetracking studies of three websites. The areas where users looked the most are colored red; the yellow areas indicate fewer views, followed by the least-viewed blue areas. Gray areas didn’t attract any fixations.”



eyes, reading, web, writing

NeuroGLIA

neuroglia

“…the brain should no longer be regarded solely as a neuronal network, but instead as a circuit of interactive neuron and glial cell networks.”



brain, glia, neuroscience

The Dark Matter of the Human Brain

“… radial glia, serve as a scaffolding in the embryonic brain. Neurons climb along these polelike cells to reach their final location. Another kind of glia, called microglia, are the brain’s immune system. They clamber through the neurological forest in search of debris from dead or injured cells. A third class of glia, known as Schwann cells and oligodendrocytes, form insulating sleeves around neurons to keep their electric signals from diffusing….”



brain, glia

Mat Collishaw

Tate Channel: Meet the Artist: Mat Collishaw



sculpture, video, violence

Ice Fishing in Gimli
by Rob Kovitz
8 volumes, boxed set
4750 pages, 6″ x 8″
ISBN 978-0-9812869-0-7



appropriation, flarf, generative, literature

Wordnik

“Wordnik is billions of words, 300 million example sentences, 4.5 million unique words, and over 177,000 comments, 93,000 tags, 74,000 pronunciations, 21,000 favorites and 22,000 lists created by 27,245 Wordniks.”



archive, epistemology, web 2.0

Bokode


“… a new camera based interaction solution where an ordinary camera can detect small optical tags from a relatively large distance.” – Camera Culture Group, MIT Media Lab



augmented, research, tangible

Sketch2Photo

“… a system that composes a realistic picture from a simple freehand sketch annotated with text labels.”



drawing

Michael Johansson


Strövtåg i tid och rum, 2009
(Strolls through time and space)
Armchair, books, bags, boxes, radio, clock, etc.
Dimensions: 0.55 x 0.85 x 0,6 m.



art, book, sculpture

Jerszy Seymour



viva la utopia



activist, art, design, diy, utopia

Workspace Unlimited


“Workspace Unlimited organzation, founded by Thomas Soetens [new media artist] and Kora Van den Bulcke [architect], is a mobile laboratory and creation space dedicated to experimental new media production and research, situated at the point where art, architecture and digital technologies converge to create new contexts of hybrid and augmented reality. “



3D, augmented, game, immersion, installation, typography