Foundations of American Cyber-Culture (WMA)

Foundations of American Cyber-Culture (WMA)
Server-based art course introduces principles of digital media creation from program to poetry through a combination of lectures, creative projects, and studio seminars. Topics: basic units of digital media, video, audio, and interactivity authoring, digital cinema, scripting, interactive art, web cam and net art. Final project is a web-based ambient/dramatic performance. All courses resources, projects, and reviews are web-based. Students must own networked computer.

Lesson content


Lec 1 Onomastics: Names as Media

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Lec 3 Storage, Logic, Code

Lec 4 Enigma, Singularity, Betrayal

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Lec 9 Enter the Cyborg

lec 10 Cyborg Maifesto

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Lec 13 Reference Points

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Lec 16 1740 hack

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Lec 20 Points of View

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Lec 24 Moral Panic

Lec 25 Moral Panics

Lec 30 Cross of the Digital Divide

Lec 31 Cross the Digital Divide

Lec 33 Data, Self & Other: Three is a Crowd

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Lec 42 Solidarity

Lec 43 Origin Myth or Web 3.0: Neophilia, Technoromanticism & Global Optimization