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A blog hub for Intermediate/Advanced New Genres Art at Whitman College Spring 2014.

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History of Art: Net Art

Online resource by Thomas Dreher outlining the backround to Net Art from the 1960s onwards, from the design concepts that would make modern computing possible to examples by artists who explored what art could be created by this new technology  - sample quote below:

In the sixties Joseph Carl Robnett Licklider and Douglas Carl Engelbart conceptualise the interface between humans and computers as a cooperation of several participants using the same “intelligence augmenting tool” 4 for operations with “symbols” 5: to store character strings, to retrieve documents from the memory, to process these data and to store the processed data. 6 A keyboard and an electronic pen or a mouse are the means to process characters presented on a monitor. With these means functions can be easily activated. 7 Computers formerly used as calculators can be used with these forerunners of menus´ icons dominantly to process text and graphics.

The website is very simple Web 1.0, but an interesting primer on the subject (and is part of a wider History of Computer Art).

Part One | Part Two | Part Three

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Joi Ito

After reading and agreeing with much of what Joi Ito had to say, I’m left wondering where colleges and universities fit in. I believe that it is about establishing yourself as a node in the larger network but how can a university do this? Will the future universities and colleges look more like MIT’s open courseware?

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MIT's open courseware came into being before Ito got his position. I think that having physical bodies together in a physical space over a course of time still has some importance in the "node" format.

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Mark Frauenfelder’s Introduction to DIY: Becoming a Maker (by Skillshare)

Really enjoying this online class. Skillshare, you have a real winner with this one, as well as Frauenfelder’s Arduino class.

Unfortunately the video doesn’t play embedded in Tumblr.( That’s not such a winning decision for Skillshare in my opinion, but I don’t claim to know their rationale.)  Follow the link to Youtube to view a one minute intro.

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May 5 2014 Agenda

1. Quick intro to Joi Ito.

2. Intro to Minecraft from Sean.

3. Share your work/progress with 2 other people in the class.

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I don’t think education is about centralized instruction anymore; rather, it is the process of establishing oneself as a node in a broad network of distributed creativity. Neoteny, one of my favorite words, means the retention of childlike attributes in adulthood: idealism, experimentation and wonder. In this new world, not only must we behave more like children, we also must teach the next generation to retain those attributes that will allow them to be world-changing, innovative adults who will help us reinvent the future.

Joichi Ito - Innovating by the Seat of Our Pants - NYTimes.com

I keep thinking about Ito’s statements since he took the helm of MIT’s media lab. It’s a wonderfully optimistic bit of writing here.

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Joi Ito of MIT Media Lab:

From a Wired interview:

http://www.wired.com/business/2012/06/resiliency-risk-and-a-good-compass-how-to-survive-the-coming-chaos/

Ito: There are nine or so principles to work in a world like this:

1. Resilience instead of strength, which means you want to yield and allow failure and you bounce back instead of trying to resist failure.

2. You pull instead of push. That means you pull the resources from the network as you need them, as opposed to centrally stocking them and controlling them.

3. You want to take risk instead of focusing on safety.

4. You want to focus on the system instead of objects.

5. You want to have good compasses not maps.

6. You want to work on practice instead of theory. Because sometimes you don’t know why it works, but what is important is that it is working, not that you have some theory around it.

7. Disobedience instead of compliance. You don’t get a Nobel Prize for doing what you are told. Too much of school is about obedience, we should really be celebrating disobedience.

8. It’s the crowd instead of experts.

9. It’s a focus on learning instead of education.

We’re still working on it, but that is where our thinking is headed.

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I continue to think about this list about learning, new media, technology, and networks., When possible I try to apply it, none the less it’s still scary even as I see the value in these suggestions.

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Thanks Galen. This is great. Really pertinent to our discussion.

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Tim Berners-Lee wrote on his browser/editor "WorldWideWeb": I never intended HTML source code...to be seen by users...But the human readability of HTML was an unexpected boon. To my surprise, people [at the CERN] quickly became familiar with the tags and started writing their own HTML documents directly. 17

It is easy to learn to operate with the HTML code. This facilitates the construction of web pages in writing the source code. It is not necessary to write the sign combinations for links, anchors and other commands, because they can be called up per mouse click with easy to use and freely downloadable editors. If editors offer simple to use interfaces as work surfaces hiding the source codes then they can cause traces in the source code demonstrating the user´s inability to control the code. The source codes presented by the browsers show the traces of editors as these include, for example, unnecessary code elements or copyright informations of the programming firm.

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fontBomb - Stylishly destroy the web (by Philippe-Antoine Lehoux)

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History of Art: Net Art

Online resource by Thomas Dreher outlining the backround to Net Art from the 1960s onwards, from the design concepts that would make modern computing possible to examples by artists who explored what art could be created by this new technology  - sample quote below:

In the sixties Joseph Carl Robnett Licklider and Douglas Carl Engelbart conceptualise the interface between humans and computers as a cooperation of several participants using the same “intelligence augmenting tool” 4 for operations with “symbols” 5: to store character strings, to retrieve documents from the memory, to process these data and to store the processed data. 6 A keyboard and an electronic pen or a mouse are the means to process characters presented on a monitor. With these means functions can be easily activated. 7 Computers formerly used as calculators can be used with these forerunners of menus´ icons dominantly to process text and graphics.

The website is very simple Web 1.0, but an interesting primer on the subject (and is part of a wider History of Computer Art).

Part One | Part Two | Part Three

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Monday April 28 2014 Agenda

1. Intro to readings/Homework. Fast and slow net. Net history.Net neutrality.

Respond on your tumblr to the following questions on your blog after reading the associated links.

How one engineers and organizes content online is as much a problem of time as it is of space, aesthetics, or even information. How do you feel about the way we spend time online? Should we slow ourselves and others down, or speed them up? What does it mean that Net Neutrality allows service providers to provide different speeds for different content? Could this have an effect on even the first sites that you make?

2. Work day + one on one meetings. Fill Justin in on how your projects are going. Arrange further meeting times if need be.

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…this is all about making sure that the Internet, which is the most transformative communications technology in all of history, really serves the people and consumers, and we are playing very fast and very loose with it right now and turning it into the playground of the few and turning it over to big companies, consolidated companies, that are able to exact tolls for content producers and their friends and the people who can afford to pay for those fast lanes.

Michael Copps (via azspot)

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"The ever-increasing pace at which we consume images is undoubtedly intesified by websites such as Tumblr and Instagram. On social networks such as these, the extent of our reflection upon each image is limited by the narrow margin of time it takes for it to appear at the bottom of our feed and...

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