Required Reading for BFA Electonic Arts students all patterns
Information Arts: Intersections in art, science, and technology, Stephen Wilson, MIT Press, 2002
Reading Digital Culture, ed. David Trend, Blackwell Publishers, 2001. ISBN: 0-631-22301-0
Snap to Grid: A User's Guide to Digital Arts, Media, and Cultures, Peter Lunenfeld, MIT Press, 2000. ISBN: 0-262-12226-X
Essential McLuhan, eds.Eric McLuhan & Frank Zingrone
Understanding Media, Marshall McLuhan, reprint MIT Press, 1994.
"The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" Walter Benjamin. Found in Illuminations, ed. Hannah Arendt, Schoken Books: NY, 1968.
Postmodern Currents: Art and Artists in the Age of Electronic Media, 2nd Edition, Margot Lovejoy, Prentice Hall: 1996. ISBN: 0131587595
Art in the Electronic Age, Frank Popper ,Thames & Hudson: 1997. ISBN: 0500279187
Recommended Reading
MULTIMEDIA from Wagner to Virtual Reality by Randall Packer (Editor) Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company; 1st edition (January 15, 2001) ISBN: 0393049795
Hamlet on the Holodeck : the future of narrative in cyberspace by Janet H. Murray. New York : Free Press, c1997
Art on the Edge and Over: Searching for Art's Meaning in Contemporary Society 1970s-1990s, Linda Weintraub & Thomas McEvilley, Art Insights, Inc., 1997. ISBN: 0965198804
Art with a Difference: Looking at Difficult and Unfamiliar Art, Diepeveen & Van Laar, Mayfield, 2001. ISBN: 076741909X
Utopian Entrepreneur, Brenda Laurel, MIT Press, 2001.
Computers as Theater, Brenda Laurel
The Language of New Media by Lev Manovich, MIT Press; 2001 ASIN: 0262133741
VIRTUAL ART From Illusion to Immersion by Oliver Grau, The M.I.T. Press, 2003, ISBN 0-262-07241-6
Being Digital, Nicholas Negroponte, Knopf, 1995.
The Medium is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects, Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore, Gingko Press Inc. ISBN: 1584230703
Reflections On and By Marshall Mcluhan: Forward Through the Rearview Mirror, Eds. Paul Benedetti and Nancy DeHart, Prentice Hall, 1997. ISBN: 0-26252233-0
LEONARDO, journal--in Meriam Library and online
Simulacra and Simulalation, Jean Baudrillard, trans. Sheila Faria Glaser, University of Michigan , 1994, ISBN: 0-472-06521-1
The Vision Machine, Paul Virilio, 1994.
On Longing : Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection, Susan Stewart, Reprint edition (May 1993) Duke Univ Press; ISBN: 0822313669
Inside the White Cube:
The Ideology of the Gallery Space, Brian O'Doherty, University of California
Press; ISBN: 0520220404
Art on My Mind: Visual Politics, Bell Hooks, New Press, 1995; ISBN: 1565842634
Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations, Bell Hooks, Routledge, 1994; ISBN: 0415908116
Organizations & Publications
ACM Siggraph, dedicated to the generation and dissemination of information on computer graphics and interactive techniques. www.siggraph.org
Convergence: The Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, www.luton.ac.uk/Convergence
fineArt forum = art + technology net news, www.fineartforum.org
ZeroOne, The Art and Technology Network, www.groundzero.org
LEONARDO / the International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology. Journal in Miriam Library. On-Line at: mitpress2.mit.edu/e-journals/Leonardo/index.html
RHIZOME, www.rhizome.org
Laughing Squid, www.laughingsquid.org
Underground art and culture from San Francisco and beyond! Provides listserve
of opportunities in the Bay Area
YLEM, Artists Using Science and Technology, www.ylem.org
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