courses /fall 07 /danm 249 /schedule

DANM 249 Faculty Seminar Meets Wednesdays 4-5:30pm Porter 245

This course is an introduction of DANM faculty members and their research to the new cohort of DANM MFA students. One or more faculty members will present research to the seminar each session, allowing plenty of time for questions and discussion. To facilitate discussion, students are asked to read a text or view a website (or the like) designated by the speaker.

1. October 3 - Ralph Abraham, Math emeritus, mathematician, chaos theorist Teaching DANM 220 Winter 07 Programming Assigned reading: MS#80, The Electronic Rose Window, 1993, http://www.ralph-abraham.org/articles/MS%2380.Rose/ Recommended: MS#85, Webometry, 1996, http://www.ralph-abraham.org/articles/MS%2385.Web1/, MS#120, Electric Sheep, 2006, http://www.ralph-abraham.org/articles/MS%23120.Electricsheep/sheepdim06.pdf

2. October 10 - Jim Whitehead and Michael Mateas, Computer Game Design SOE Mateas is project group leader for Mike Treanor of the 2006 cohort Assigned reading: "Build It to Understand It: Ludology Meets Narratology in Game Design Space" http://arts.ucsc.edu/sdaniel/danm_249/MateasSternDIGRA05 1.pdf Talks about Facade as an empirical investigation within the Ludology/Narratology debate, and positions the development of Facade within an experimental game research practice that explores design space. This paper was published at DIGRA 2005 (and included in a book anthology of papers from that conference). Recommended read int: "Expressive AI: A Hybrid Art and Science Practice" http://arts.ucsc.edu/sdaniel/danm_249/Michael Mateas Art & Culture.pdf An older paper that positions my research and art practice (Expressive AI) in relation to traditional AI research and in relation to the top-down vs. bottom-up debate within AI. This paper provides brief descriptions of three pre-Facade experiments. A version of this was published in the journal Leonardo.

3. October 17 - Sharon Daniel, Chair of DANM, Film and Digital Media Teaching the Project Group in Participatory Culture, Reading/Viewing Assigned: http://arts.ucsc.edu/sdaniel (overview of practice), http://publicsecret.net (Public Secrets) and http://palabrastranquilas.net (palabras_)

Recommended essays: http://arts.ucsc.edu/sdaniel/publications_all/redefining_pubart.pdf http://arts.ucsc.edu/sdaniel/publications_all/PublicSecrets_documenta.pdf

4. October 24 Elliot Anderson, Art, Project Group Leader in Mechatronics/Bioart

http://www.elliotanderson.com/

5. October 31 - Donna Haraway (Peter Elsea and Ed Osborn rescheduled below)

6. November 7 - Donna Hunter and Isabel Reichert

Donna Hunter, HAVC 4:00 to 4:45 - Teaching DANM 202

assignment: Websites to examine for D. Hunter’s presentation, “1000+ Coffins”

• ONE THOUSAND COFFINS

http://www.newdepression.com/onethousandcoffins/

• THE MEMORY HOLE

http://www.thememoryhole.org/war/coffin_photos/dover/

• IRAQ BODY COUNT

http://www.iraqbodycount.org/ - “IBC builds on innovative uses of new technologies without which this citizens’ initiative would be impossible. The project was founded in January 2003 by volunteers from the UK and USA who felt a responsibility to ensure that the human consequences of military intervention in Iraq were not neglected.”

• THE ARLINGTONS

http://www.arlingtonwestsantamonica.org/ (Arlington West Santa Monica) http://www.veteransforpeace.org/Memorial_vigils.vp.html

• EYES WIDE OPEN—American Friends Service Committee

http://www.afsc.org/eyes/

• NEW YORK TIMES—interactive graphics - “A LOOK AT 1000 WHO DIED” 1000 American military dead http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/national/20040909_THOUSAND_GRAPHIC/index_GRAPHIC.html
• ARMY TIMES—interactive graphics - “HONOR THE FALLEN” http://www.militarycity.com/valor/honor.html

and,

Isabel Reichert, conceptual artist, 4:50 –5:30 - Teaching DANM 217 Concepts in Electronic Arts

assignment:

• read - Allan Kaprow, “The Real Experiment”
• view - http://www.life-art.org with special attention to the project http://www.mydeathandtaxes.com

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7. November 14 - Ted Warburton, Dance Program, Theater Arts Project Group in Performative Culture

assignment: read Jester in the Router: The Aesthetics of Rupture in Telematic Performance - by Bob Giges and Edward C. Warburton http://arts.ucsc.edu/sdaniel/readings/LL102507.doc

this is from Lindsay:

re performative language, see J.L. Austin, How to Do Things with Words (Oxford, 1976). You might also look at the work of John Searle, Austin's student.

the book on amazon

and Austin on wikipedia

8. November 21 Thanksgiving Eve—Happy Turkey Day!

9. November 28 - Ed Osborn and Aphid Stern

Ed Osborn, Art, Sound Art and Mechatronics Teaching DANM 210 Fall 2007 and current Mechatronics Project Group

assignment: read - "Sound Art?" http://arts.ucsc.edu/sdaniel/readings/SoundArt.pdf, Short Circuit: Sound Art and The Museum, http://www.sonic.mdx.ac.uk/research/brandon.html, and http://eamusic.dartmouth.edu/~kov/soundArt/PaperIntro.html

Aphid Stern, DANM alumnus 2004-06 on his project with Michael Dale, Metavid

assignment: browse, read and use http://metavid.ucsc.edu/

and, Beth Stephens will announce and give details on the Interventionist Conference and Exhibition in Spring 08. Reading on “interventionism” (Start with Claire Bishop, "The Social Turn: Collaboration and Its Discontents" 5m pdf)

10. December 5 - Peter Elsea and Dard Neuman

MEET IN MUSIC ELECTRONICS LAB (Music Building room 223)

Peter Elsea, Art, Electronic Music Teaching DANM 223 Winter Quarter

assignment: explore the following url and investigate the software links - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_visualization

Dard Neuman, Music, North Indian Musicology Teaching DANM 228

assignment: "SEM: The Production of Aura"