3 October - 12 December 2000, Helsinki, Finland
Media Lab | University of Art and Design Helsinki
The rapidly shifting landscape of technologically networked space is the locus for new and old cultural productions, collisions, battles, and collaborations that are dynamically redefining many social values and institutions while reinforcing other traditional systems. This seminar will explore as many aspects of this topography as possible, as well as contemporary and historical concepts of presence, movement, living, and working as a networked being. Through a series of critical dialogues, case-studies, readings, discussions, guest artists, and exercises, participating students are encouraged to explore existing modes of thought concerning the net-cultural scene as well as develop their own point of view. The seminar will attempt to answer the question "What does it ALL mean?"
This seminar will require concentrated presence combined with attentive and sensitive focus. Students will be required to participate in all discussions and collaborative presentations or projects. A final project or presentation on a specific topic will conclude formal aspects the seminar. There is a mailing list netcult@mlab.uiah.fi that will be active for the duration of the seminar, attention and participation on the mailing list is as much a part of the course as in-class meetings. Attendance is mandatory for all sessions, one absence puts study credits in question, two will result in zero credits. No exceptions.
KEYWORDS (this list to be added to following the start of the seminar): art, telepresence, broadcast, technology, mediation, creativity, Fluxus, Int'l Networker Congress, mail art, community, email, usenet, IRC, list-servs, majordomo, industrial networks (electric power, telephone, telegraph and precursors), architecture of cyberspace, borders, globalization, MUD, MOO, edges, navigation, WWW, browsers, interactivity, streaming media, hypertext, avatars, demo-scene, Y2K, surveillance, suppression, control, hacking, code-warriors, cyberpunks, network politics, media activism, economics, economy of attention, dot.com, information warfare, digital audio/video, digital divide, expert systems, knowledge management, A-to-D, database architectures, data-filtering, data-mining, interpretation, participation, cyberfeminism, copyright, copyleft, open-platform, database, archiving, mp3, napster, ICANN, INTERNIC, immersive environments, bandwidth, AARPANET, privacy, cryptography, Linux, open source, threads, filters, etc...
Facilitator: John Hopkins
Contact information:
email: jhopkins (at) uiah.fi
gsm: +358 (0)40 555 4893
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| date | content/structure | links/references/resources |
| Session 1 | 3.10 | introductions, background, identifying people, roots, resources, and possibilities Exercise 1: develop a comprehensive mapping of personal energy sources and flows: your network (online documentation) | Fundamental Physical Scientific Unification, Richard Savage |
| Session 2 | 10.10 | a universal model for connection and interaction defining terms: network, culture, art, technology, communications, new media, language, interactive, virtual, useability, identity, simulation, multimedia, globalization
| Fluxus online |
| Session 3 | 17.10 | network histories and archaeology 5-minute presentations of personal networks
| TAZ, Overcoming Tourism, Hakim Bey the computer underground digest the Geneaology of Virtual Worlds, Julian Dibbell case studies: |
| Session 4 | 24.10 | network technology and convergence 5-minute presentations of personal networks | The Mind has no Firewalls Virtual Reality and the Tea Ceremony, Michael Heim Towards a Superlanguage, Pierre Levy Internet Philosophy and Psychology, Alan Sondheim case studies: |
| Session 5 | 31.10 | network structures | What is netart ;-)?, Joachim Blank case studies: |
| Session 6 | 7.11 | network economics, commerce, and politics | mapping the dot.com space (check intreractive "quick links") the electronic disturbance, critical art ensemble cluetrain manifesto media, technology, and democracy, Drazen Pantic The Napster Revolution and the Law, Michael H. Goldhaber case studies: |
| Session 7 | 14.11 | network culture and learning Video Conference with students from the University of Colorado, Department of Fine Arts/Media Studies | a finished work of art is a thing of the past, Tom Sherman case studies: |
| Session 8 | 21.11 | network media Exercise 2: based on your understanding of your own network, plan and implement a significant extension of the network (online documentation) | net radio, Josephine Bosma speed and Information: Cyberspace Alarm!, Paul Virilio case studies: |
| Session 9 | 28.11 | network organizations | case studies: |
| Session 10 | 5.12 | network projects | networking the network, Phil Agre case studies: |
| Session 11 | 12.12 | closing session final presentations, planning strategies for continuing action | dinner party during/afterwards? |
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Books: The Virtual Community, Howard Rheingold
art links:
John's Bookmark file with endless Art, Education, and Technology links...
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| Anna Maria Joakimsdóttir |
| Mari Keski-Korsu |
| Koray Tahiroglu |
| Riikka Puustinen |
| Isaac Tuffour |
| Tiina Kristoffersson |
| Hanna Harris |
| Taina Myöhänen |
| Aleksi Nuuja |
| Katri Palomäki |
| Tarja Kaskela |
| Simona Schimanovich |
| Egon Randlepp |
| Kiia Kallio |
| Mika Meskanen |
| Marcel Kuster |
| Jenni Alasuutari |
