Resources & Bibliography

 

Textbooks

 

systems
From Whitechapel: Documents of Contemporary Art
Edited by Edward A. Shanken
On 3-hour hold at library.
Mass Effect Art and the Internet in the Twenty-First CenturyAvailable in class.
Assorted website bookmarks
Pdf archive (includes lectures from 2011 Networks course)
Suggested Readings
Ascott, Roy. Behaviorist Art and the Cybernetic Tradition. (1968)
Burnham, Jack. Systems Esthetics. Artforum (September, 1968)
Galloway, Alexander R. Global Networks, Annals AAPS 967 (January 2005)
Hayles, Katherine N. Contesting for the Body of Information: The Macy Conferences on Cybernetics (1946-1953). (from How we Became Posthuman 1999)
Meadows, Donella, Dancing with Systems. Whole Earth, winter 2001 and The Systems Thinker, Vol. 13, No. 2 (March 2002)

Tentative Bibliography

Anna Munster. 2011. “Data Undermining » Data Undermining: The Work of Networked Art in an Age of Imperceptibility.” The Networked Book on Turbulence. Accessed February 21 URL.

Ascott, Roy. 2007. Telematic Embrace: Visionary Theories of Art, Technology, and Consciousness by Roy Ascott. 1st ed. University of California Press.

Barabasi, Albert. 2003. Linked. Reissue. Plume.

———. 2010. Bursts. Dutton.

Barabási, Albert-László, and Réka Albert. 1999. “Emergence of Scaling in Random Networks.”

Science 286 (5439): 509–12. doi:10.1126/science.286.5439.509.

Boden, Margaret. 2006. Mind as Machine: A History of Cognitive Science. Oxford University Press.

Borgatti, Stephen P., Ajay Mehra, Daniel J. Brass, and Giuseppe Labianca. 2009. “Network

Analysis in the Social Sciences.” Science 323 (5916): 892–95. doi:10.1126/science.1165821.

Castells, Manuel. 2009. The Rise of the Network Society: The Information Age: Economy, Society, and Culture Volume I. 2nd ed. Wiley-Blackwell.

Dunbar, Prof. Robin. 1997. Grooming, Gossip, and the Evolution of Language. Harvard University Press.

Galloway, Alexander R., and Eugene Thacker. 2007. The Exploit: A Theory of Networks. Univ Of Minnesota Press.

Hopfield, J. J. 1982. “Neural Networks and Physical Systems with Emergent Collective Computational Abilities.” Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 79: 2554–58. doi:10.1073/pnas.79.8.2554.

Lima, Manuel. 2011. Visual Complexity: Mapping Patterns of Information. Princeton Architectural Press.

Mills, A. P. 2001. “Experimental Aspects of DNA Neural Network Computation.” Soft Comput. 5:10–18. doi:10.1007/s005000000061.

Mitra, Sugata. 2013. “School in the Cloud.” https://www.ted.com/participate/ted-prize/prize-winning-wishes/school-in-the-cloud.

Newman, Mark, Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, and Duncan J. Watts. 2006. The Structure and Dynamics of Networks: 1st ed. Princeton University Press.

Simon, Herbert A. 1962. “The Architecture of Complexity.” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 106 (6): 467–82.

Sporns, Olaf. 2010. Networks of the Brain. 1st ed. The MIT Press.

Tanenbaum, Andrew S., and David J. Wetherall. 2010. Computer Networks. 5th ed. Prentice Hall.

Terranova, Tiziana. 2004. Network Culture: Politics for the Information Age. London: Pluto Press.