Writing

READING SCHEDULE (Please complete all the readings prior to the date for which they are assigned)

WEEK 1: June 23 & 25 Art and the Connected World Part I • Respini, Eva. “Preface” and “No Ghost Just a Shell.” Art in the Age of the Internet: 1989 to Today, 2018, p. 11-41. • Jones, Caroline A. “Cybercultural Servomechanisms: Modeling Feedback around 1968.” Art in the Age of the Internet: 1989 to Today, 2018, p. 42-49. • Conaty, Kim. “Machines, Tools, and Blueprints: Charting a Connected World.” Art in the Age of the Internet: 1989 to Today, 2018, p. 50-57. • Sutton, Gloria. “CTRL ALT DELETE: The Problematics of Post-Internet Art.” Art in the Age of the Internet: 1989 to Today, 2018, p. 58-64.

WEEK 2: June 30 & July 2 Art and the Connected World Part II • Griffin, Tim. “Gaming Reality.” Art in the Age of the Internet: 1989 to Today, 2018, p. 66-72. • Lax, Thomas J. “Modern Problems.” Art in the Age of the Internet: 1989 to Today, 2018, p. 74-81. • Jones, Caitlin. “IT’S A WEBSITE: The Enduring Promise of Art Online.” Art in the Age of the Internet: 1989 to Today, 2018, p. 82-88. • Cornell, Lauren. “Professional Surfers.” Art in the Age of the Internet: 1989 to Today, 2018, p. 90-95.

WEEK 3: July 7 & 9 Art, Cybernetics and the Digital Divide • Gronlund, Melissa. “Challenges to Immateriality: Posthumanist Thought and Digitality.” Contemporary Art and Digital Culture, 2017, p. 88-119. • Joselit, David. “What to do with Pictures.” Mass Effect: Art and the Internet in the Twenty-First Century, 2015, p. 267-284. • Bishop, Claire. “Digital Divide: Contemporary Art and New Media.” Mass Effect: Art and the Internet in the Twenty-First Century, 2015, p. 337-351. • Groys, Boris. “Art Workers: Between Utopia and the Archive.” Mass Effect: Art and the Internet in the Twenty-First Century, 2015, p. 357-368. • Kelsey, John. “Next-Level Spleen.” Mass Effect: Art and the Internet in the Twenty- First Century, 2015, p. 329-336. • Gronlund, Melissa. “Introduction: Beyond the Visible Image.” Contemporary Art and Digital Culture, 2017, p. 1-16. • Gronlund, Melissa. “Reproducibility and Appropriation in the Twentieth Century: Precursors to the Digital Age.” Contemporary Art and Digital Culture, 2017, p. 17-55.  • Gronlund, Melissa. “Cybernetics and the Posthuman: The Emergence of Art Systems.” Contemporary Art and Digital Culture, 2017, p. 56-87.

WEEK 4: July 14 & 16 Art and Art After the Internet • Kholeif, Omar. “HELLO WORLD, GOODBYE WORLD, AND HELLO AGAIN!: Looking at Art After the Internet.” Art in the Age of the Internet: 1989 to Today, 2018, p. 96- 104.

• Gronlund, Melissa. “The Art World Infrastructure Post- Internet.” Contemporary Art and Digital Culture, 2017, p. 188-217. • De Blois, Jeffrey. “Networks and Circulation.” Art in the Age of the Internet: 1989 to Today, 2018, p. 108-109. Catalog Images p. 110-147. • Leeson, Lynn Hershman and Hito Steyerl. “CONVERSATION: Lynn Hershman Leeson and Hito Steyerl.” Art in the Age of the Internet: 1989 to Today, 2018, p. 148- 151. • Sluis, Katrina et al. “The Canon After the Internet.” Aperture, No. 213 (Winter 2013), p. 36-41. • Blume, Jonas. “Exploring the Potentials and Challenges of Virtual Distribution of Contemporary Art.” Ethnographic Perspectives Across Global Online and Offline Spaces, 2017, p. 98-115.