Wishful Reading: Art as Art, Electronic Media, Theory, Generatif
2014/01/01
Step One: Invent time machine with comfortable reading situation.
Step Two: Acquire the following.
Art and Electronic Media
Walter Benjamin, Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
Walter Benjamin, The Arcades Project
Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore, The Medium is the Massage, 1967
Edward Shanken, Art and Electronic Media, Phaidon, 2009
Edward Shanken, Art and Electronic Media Online Companion, 2013
Lev Manovich, Software Takes Command, 2008-2013
Lev Manovich, Soft Cinema, 2002-2005
Lev Manovich, The Language of New Media, 2001
New Media Art, Mark Tribe, 2006
New Media: A Critical Introduction, 2nd Edition, 2009, Martin Lister
Domenico Quaranta, In Your Computer, 2011
Domenico Quaranta, Beyond New Media Art, 2013
Domenico Quaranta, The F.A.T. Manual, 2013
Expanded Internet Art and Information Milieu, Cici Moss, Rhizome, 2013-12-19
Curating in the Time of Algorithms, Christian Nagler and Joseph del Pesco, Fillip, Issue 15, 2011
Links
Preparation readings from DMA, UCLA and BCNM, UCB
Generative
Design By Numbers, John Maeda
Computational Information Design, Ben Fry, 2004, Dissertation, MIT
Form+Code In Design, Art, and Architecture, Casey Reas, Chandler McWilliams
Generative Design; Visualize, Program, and Create with Processing, Hartmut Bohnacker, Benedikt Grob, Julia Laub, 2012
Visual Grammar, Christian Leborg, 2004
Carsten Nicolai, Fades
Carsten Nicolai, Static Fades
Carsten Nicolai, Moire Index
Grapefruit, Yoko Ono, 1964, 1971
Acorn, Yoko Ono, 2013
Examples
Earth Wind Interactive Graphic
Inkjet is the New Black Painting
Scott Rothkopf discussing Wade Guyton’s eight-panel painting Untitled (2008), 2013-01-11, WhitneyFocus on YouTube
Andrew Fisher and Christine S. Kim discuss Wade Guyton’s painting, 2013-02-28, WhiteneyFocus on YouTube.
“James Kalm” aka Loren Munk on video walkthrough of Wade Guyton’s OS show at the Whitney Museum, 2012-10-05.
Visual Culture, Aesthetics, Perception
James Turrell: A Retrospective, Michael Govan, Christine Y. Kim, Prestel, 2013
Emblemata, James Turrell, 2000, Segura Publishing Company, Tempe, AZ
Emblemata Sacra: Spe, Fide, Charitate, Guilelmus Hesius, 1636
Heraldry Symbols and Meanings, Themes, Achievement Elements, Animal Attitude, List of Heraldic Charges, Variations of the Field, Heraldic Phantasy Creatures
Light and the Artist, Thomas Wilfred, The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, June 1947
Marcel Minnaert, Light and Color in the Outdoors, 1995, ISBN 0387979352
Marcel Minnaert, Light and Color in the Open Air, 1954
Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception, 2013, ISBN 1045834333
James J. Gibson, The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception, 1986, ISBN 0898599598
James J. Gibson, The Senses Considered as Perceptual Systems, 1966
ABC Art, Barbara Rose, October 1965, Art in America
Art and Objecthood, Michael Fried, Artforum, Summer 1967
Robert Morris, Notes on Sculpture, Part 3, Artforum, Summer 1967
Rudolf Arnheim, A Plea for Visual Thinking, Critical Inquiry, Vol. 6, No. 3 (Spring, 1980), pp. 489-497
Rudolf Arnheim, The Power of the Center, 1988
Rudolf Arnheim, New Essays on the Psychology of Art, 1986. Esp. “The Double-edged Mind: Intuition and the Intellect”, “The Tools of Art-Old and New”, “Emotion and Feeling in Psychology and Art”
Agnes Martin:Writings, Agnes Martin, 2005, ISBN 3775716114
Agnes Martin: Paintings, Writings, Remembrances, Arne Glimcher, 2012, ISBN 3775716114
Hal Foster, Vision and Visuality, 1988, Dia Art Foundation
Free is the Only Option
The GNU Manifesto, Richard Stallman, 1985-2014
Guerilla Open Access Manifesto, Aaron Swartz, 2008
Copy Culture in the US and Germany, 2013, ISBN 978-1481985925
Piracy is the Future of Television, Abigail De Kosnik, Convergence Culture Consortium, 2010
Online Piracy And China’s American TV Drama Fanatics, Ousha Yang, Disintermediators, 2013-05-01
In Praise of Copying, Marcus Boon, 2010, ISBN 978-0-674-04783-9
Peter Lunenfeld, The Secret War Between Downloading and Uploading, 2011, MIT Press
Copyright, Permissions, and Fair Use among Visual Artists and the Academic and Museum Visual Arts Communities: An Issues Report, A Report to the College Art Association, February 2014
Pew Internet Libraries, Pew Internet & American Life Project. See: The Rise of E-Reading, 2012. E-Reading Rises as Device Ownership Jumps, 2014. Reading Habits in Different Communities, 2012. Library Services in the Digital Age, 2013. From Distant Admirers to Library Lovers and Beyond: A typology of public library engagement in America, 2014
Simon Parkin, The $5.7 Million Magazine Illustration, The New Yorker, 2014-02-20
Randy Kennedy, Richard Prince Settles Copyright Suit With Patrick Cariou Over Photographs, NYT, 2014-03-18
Randy Kennedy, Court Rules in Artist’s Favor, NYT, 2013-04-13
Anne Burdick, Johanna Drucker, Peter Lunenfeld, Todd Presner, Jeffrey Schnapp, Digital Humanities, 2012, MIT Press
Virtueel Platform Research: Born-Digital Kunstwerken In Nederland, English summary and recommendations, 2012 Project Conservation Media Art Collection, Netherlands.
Institutional Critique, Commodity Fetishism
Institutional Critique: An Anthology of Artists’ Writings, Alexander Alberro and Blake Stimson, 2009, MIT Press
Thoughts on Art Education, Rudolf Arnheim, 1990
Alternatives, Coco Fusco, Brooklyn Rail, Feb 5, 2013
Race in the Land of MFA, Alex Gallo-Brown, May 28, 2013
Art Schools: A Group Crit, AIA, 2007
An Artist’s Education, Thomas Lawson, The Core Program, catalogue, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2008
9.5 Theses on Art and Class, Ben Davis, 2013
After Art, David Joselit, 2013, ISBN 978-0-691-15044-4
What Is a Warhol? The Buried Evidence, Richard Dorment, NYT, June 20, 2013
Red Obsession: The vintage of the century in the year of the Dragon, 2012
The Global Contemporary and the Rise of New Art Worlds, Hans Belting/Andrea Buddensieg/Peter Weibel, 2013, MIT , ISBN 0262518341
Michael H. Miller, Ways Forward: What’s Next for the Dia Art Foundation?, 2014-02-04, galleristny
Michael H. Miller, Philippe Goes to Hollywood: With Vergne In Place as New Director, L.A. MOCA Looks to the Future, 2014-02-05, galleristny
Visual Forms of Gentrification vs. Ruin
Rosalyn Deutsche, Evictions: Art and Spatial Politics, 1996, MIT press
The Fine Art of Gentrification, Rosalyn Deutsche and Cara Gendel Ryan, October, Vol. 31, Winter 1984
Rebecca Solnit, Get Off the Bus, London Review of Books, Feb 20, 2014.
Kim Velsey, It’s Not About Yuppies Anymore: Gentrification Has Changed and So Has New York, New York Observer, 2014-02-06.
How to Write About Tax Havens and the Super-Rich: An Interview with Nicholas Shaxson, Longreads, The Atlantic, 2014
Andy Rachleff, You Need Equity To Live In Silicon Valley,May 22 2013
Mission 20th Street Neighborhood Group, various email correspondence
The Embedded Landscape of Gentrification, Jason Patch, Visual Studies, October, Vol. 19, No. 2, 2004
Residues of a Dream World: The High Line, 2011, Michael Cataldi, David Kelley, Hans Kuzmich, Jens Maier-Rothe and Jeannine Tang, Theory Culture Society, 2011
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