Following are various sources of recommended readings relevant to the class. Actual required reading for each class will be posted to the blog on a weekly basis. The list will be occasionally updated, new pdf’s will be made available on the class saic portal.
Key New Media books (relevant to most subjects below):
- Lev Manovich / The Language of New Media (LNM)*
- Noah Wardrip-Fruin & Nick Montfort (editors) / The New Media Reader (NMR)
Embodiment
- N. Katherine Hayles / How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature and Informatics
- N. Katherine Hayles / Boundary Disputes: Homeostasis, Reflexivity, and the Foundations of Cybernetics*
- Antonin Artaud / The Theater and it’s Double
- Hakim Bey / T.A.Z (Temporary Autonomous Zones)
- Hakim Bey / Immediatism (manifesto)*
- Judy Mitoma, Elizabeth Zimmer, Dale Ann Stieber (editors) / Envisioning Dance on Film and Video
- Sarah J.; Bremner, Ann (ed) Rogers (Author) / Body mécanique: artistic explorations of digital realms
- Rudolf Frieling / Reality/Mediality: Media Performance essay on MediaArtNet
Expanded Cinema / Media / Time
- Gene Youngblood / Expanded cinema*
- Morten Sondergaard / Get Real: Real Time + Art + Theory + Practice + History
- Paul Virilio – The Vision Machine*
Expanded Architecture , Liquid + embodied space
- Elizabeth Grosz / Architecture from the Outside*
- Geoff Manaugh / The BLDBLOG Book
- Eyal Weizman / Lethal Theory* (article)
Fiction
- William Gibson / Neuromancer
- Jeff Noon / Pixel Juice
- Daniel Suarez / Daemon
^ = Buy this already. It’s important.
* = Available as pdf on class portal
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