DOM-E5024 - Introduction to Media Art and Culture, Lecture, 5.10.2021-22.10.2021

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  Welcome to the DOM-E5024 Introduction to Media Art and Culture (IMAC) course. From this site, you will find the schedule, assignments, course readings, videos and your study groups,. We will meet every day for three weeks, from Tuesday to Friday, between 9.15 - 12.00.

   Start date: Tuesday, 5th September, 09:00

  Location:  Zoom (link to the session room is in a Forum post)

  Teachers: Teemu Leinonen & Hanna Haaslahti

  > The Forum / Q&A of the course 

  > Slack Channel of the course

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    1. MASS MEDIA & MEDIA CULTURE (5.10. 9:00-)

    1. Introduction: My Course + assignments + assessment 
    2. Study groups and study topics
       
    3. Lecture: What is Media?
    4. Lecture: What is media culture? - How did we get here? 
    5.  Introduction to homework screening: Documentary - Can't Get You Out of My Head 2021 Part 4 by Adam Curtis (1.12).
       

    2. HYPERMEDIA, NEW MEDIA, FUTURE OF MEDIA  (6.10. 9:00-)

    1. Fishbowl discussion: 'Adam Curtis'.
       
    2. Lecture: Origins of the Internet and the WWW.
    3. Introduction to homework screening: The Social Dilemma (1.45). 

    3. MEDIA CULTURE: GLOBAL (7.10. 9:00-)

    1. Fishbowl discussion: 'Social Dilemma'.
    2. Lecture: Media Industries by Iida Hietala.
    3. Lecture: Geopolitics and media.
    4. Introduction to the homework reading: Posthumanism, Transhumanism, Antihumanism, Metahumanism, and New Materialisms, Differences and Relations by Francesca Ferrando. 

    3. MEDIA CULTURE: LOCAL (8.10. 9:00-)

    
    

    1. Fishbowl discussion: 'Humanism'.
    2. Lecture: Demoscene by Markku Reunanen (10:00-11:30).
    3. Feedback and status reports of the study groups.

    

    
    

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    1. MEDIA ART AND ARTISTS 1 (12.10. 9:00-)

    1. Lecture : Introduction to media art

    Media archeology

    Early computer art & cybernetics

    Expanded cinema

    Interactive Art
    

    
    

    2. Introduction to Tuesday´s screening : White Cube (2021) by Renzo Martens
    https://www.humanactivities.org/en/
    

    2. MEDIA ART AND ARTISTS 2 (13.10. 9:00-)
    
    1. Screening at Cinema Orion https://cinemaorion.fi/
    White Cube (2021) by Renzo Martens
    the film starts at 9.15
    

    2. Fishbowl discussion: White Cube

    3. MEDIA ART AND ARTISTS 3 (14.10. 9:00-)

    1. Lecture : Politics of gaze and participation

    Surveillance/sousveillance, artist take on surveillance

    Bioart

    Hacktivism 
    

    
    

    2. Screening : Manifest (2021) by Ane Hjort Guttu
    http://anehjortguttu.net/Manifest-2020

    
    

    3. Fishbowl discussion
    

    
    

    4. MEDIA ART AND ARTISTS (15.10. 9.00-)

    1. Lecture : Virtual spaces of simulation

    Internet Art

    Screening : Parallel by Harun Farocki

    
    

    2. Lecture : Generative Art

    Neural networks and Artificial Intelligence in Art

    Immersive art, VR

    

    
    

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    1. STUDIO I (19.10. 9:00-)

    • Group work morning coffee at 9:00

    2. STUDIO II (20.10. 9:00-)

    • Group work morning coffee at 9:00

    3. STUDIO III (21.10. 9:00-)

    • Group work morning coffee at 9:00

    2. PRESENTATIONS II (22.10. 9:00-)

    • Your video essays + discussion

    Presentations (max. 30 min/ group)

    

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    Announcements Forum
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    Feedback from the week 1 Etherpad Lite

    To this collaborative document you may anonymously write your feedback from the week 1.

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    Feedback from the week 2 Etherpad Lite

    To this collaborative document you may anonymously write your feedback from the week 2.
    

    
    
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    Feedback from the week 3 Etherpad Lite

    To this collaborative document you may anonymously write your feedback from the week 3.
    

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    Lecture note images (Week 1) Forum
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    Lecture note images (Week 2) Forum

• Assignments
  In the course we have three kinds of assignments:

  (1) homework screenings and readings.
  

  (2) Lecture notes that are posted to the Forum of this course.

  (3) A study done in small groups. The results of the groups' study work are reported in a form of a video essay.

  (1) The instruction to do the homework reading and screenings are given in the class

  (2) Take your notes from the lectures with a paper and pen. Take a photo of them and post to the Forum.

  (3) A study in a small group: video essay and voice over text

  In a small group, you will study media culture related concepts and prepare a video essay about it. The requirements for the video essays are:

  • 2-5 minutes long video explaining the results of your study work.
    
  • The video must have 2-3 minutes spoken voice over.
    
  • In addition to the video, you should deliver a text of your voice over.
    
  • References used in your study must be in listed in the last frames of the video and in the text of your voice over.
    
  • The videos should be uploaded to a video service of your choice.
    
  • Send a link to the video and the voice over text to Teemu - teemu.leinonen(at)aalto.fi (CC emmi.kaila(at)aalto.fi) with the subject line: "DOM-E5024 video essay" and in the body of the message the names of the group members who did the video. 
    

  Here are instructions to do your study and to prepare the video essay:

  • Make the study work challenging for yourself. Read the relevant articles related to the topic and then set yourself a research question. Think what you do not know about the theme and study it. Start from your own level
    
  • Make it personal. Think how do you feel about the topics under study. Think are there any connection to your own work or life?
    
  • Be critical. Present criticism made by others and think why is this so important or is it at all?
    
  • Make connections to other fields, people, traditions and explain the context where the topics studied come from? Why is this topic discussed and by whom?
    
  • Video essays: Write a script and make the video. Sometimes a single image, infographic or diagram is better than a lot of moving things. Make sure your voice over makes sense. Add references.

• Materials
  
  

  
  

  1. MASS MEDIA

  Walter Benjamin (1935): The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

   Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer (1944): The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception

  Albert Bandura (2001): Social cognitive theory of mass communication

  Baudrillard, J., & Maclean, M. (1985). The masses: The implosion of the social in the media. New Literary History, 577-589.

  David M. Berry (2008): Copy, Rip, burn. The Politics of Copyleft and Opensource

  Lawrence Lessig (2004): Free Culture

  Marshall McLuhan (1964): The medium is the message

  Moulthrop, S. (1991) You say you want a revolution? Hypertext and the laws of media. In The New Media Reader (pp. 692 - 704)

  Robert G. Picard (2003): Cash cows or entrecôte: Publishing companies and disruptive technologies

  Langdon Winner (1980): Do artifacts have politics?

  2. HYPERMEDIA, NEW MEDIA & MEDIA INDUSTRY

  Berners-Lee, T., Cailliau, R., Luotonen, A., Nielsen, H.F., Secret, A. (1994) The world-wide web. In The New Media Reader (pp. 792 - 797).

  Chris Anderson (2004): The long tail

  Michael Bauwens (2005): The Political Economy of Peer Production

  Henry Jenkins (2004): The cultural logic of media convergence

  Brent K. Jesiek (2003) Democratizing software: Open source, the hacker ethic, and beyond

  Manovich, L. (2001). The language of new media. MIT press.

  Raymond, E. (1999). The cathedral and the bazaar. Knowledge, Technology & Policy, 12(3), 23-49.

  Richard Stallman (2002): Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman

  Turkle, S. (2003). Video games and computer holding power. The new media reader.

  Williams, R. (1992). The technology and the society. In The New Media Reader (pp. 291- 300)

  Markku Reunanen slides. Demoscene: 30 years of creative programming

  3. MEDIA CULTURE: GLOBAL & LOCAL

  Manuel Castells (2010): Towards a Communication Theory of Power (pp. 416.-432) inCommunication Power

  Manuel Castells (2000): Materials for an exploratory theory of the network society

  Christine Larabie (2011): Participatory Culture and the Hidden Costs of Sharing

  Nicholas Negroponte (1995): Being digital

  Howard Rheingold (2008): Virtual communities - exchanging ideas through computer bulletin boards

  Neil Selwyn (2004): Reconsidering political and popular understandings of the digital divide

  Clay Shirky (2003): Power Laws, Weblogs, and Inequality

  Mark Warschauer (2002): Reconceptualizing the digital divide

  Garimella, K., De Francisci Morales, G., Gionis, A., & Mathioudakis, M. (2018, April). Political discourse on social media: Echo chambers, gatekeepers, and the price of bipartisanship. In Proceedings of the 2018 World Wide Web Conference (pp. 913-922).
  

  4. FUTURE OF MEDIA

  Vannevar Bush (1945): As we may think

  Douglas Engelbart (1962): Augmenting Human Intellect. A conceptual framework

  Alan Kai (1972): A personal computer for children of all ages

  Papert, S. (1980). Mindstorms: Children, computers, and powerful ideas. Basic Books, Inc..

  Donna Haraway (1984): A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century
  

  Akseli Anttila slides "Science Fiction Design"
  

  Agre, P.E. (1994). Surveillance and capture. Two models of privacy. In The New Media Reader (pp. 740 - 760)

  Paul Dourish and Genevieve Bell (2009): Resistance is Futile”: Reading Science Fiction Alongside Ubiquitous Computing

  Steve Mann (1997): "Edaemonic eye”: "personal imaging” and wearable computing as result of deconstructing HCI; towards greater creativity and self-determination

  Abigail Sellen and Steve Whittaker (2010): Beyond total capture: a constructive critique of life logging

  Turkle, S.  (2011): Alone together

  

  
  

  Artists

  Laurie Anderson (USA) - musician, poet, multimedia

  Hsin-Chien Huang (Taiwan) - VR, performance, installations
  

  Marina Abramovic (Netherlands) - performance, videos, mixed media

  Ai Weiwei (China) - mixed media artist, activist, curator

  AES+F Group (Russia)  - video installations, political approach

  Eija-Liisa Ahtila (Finland) - film maker, multi screen video installations

  Banksy (UK) - graffiti artist

  Björk (Iceland) - performance, music, actress

  Neville Brody (UK) - graphic artist, art director

  Christian Boltanski (France) - multimedia, history, space

  Sophie Calle (France) - concept, multimedia, personal approach

  Olafur Eliasson (Iceland, Denmark) - architecture, sculpture

  Charlotte Gyllenhammer (Sweden) - sculpture, installations, videos

  Damien Hirst (UK) - multimedia

  Anish Kapoor (UK) - sculpture

  Alexander McQueen (UK) - fashion designer

  Takashi Murakami (Japan) - sculpture, paintings, cartoon, performance

  Inez van Laamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin (Netherlands) -photography, image manipulation, fashion

  Erwin Olaf (Netherlands) - photography, film

  Tony Oursler (USA) - video sculpture

  Pippilotti Rist (Germany) - video installations, space

  Charles Sandison (UK, Finland) - programming, space

  Fiona Tan (Netherlands), - videos, films

  James Turrell (USA) - installations, space, light

  Bill Viola (USA) - video installations, stage

  Hall, Doug, Fifer Sally Jo: Illuminating Video: An Essential Guide To Video Art, Aperture/ BAVC, 2005

  Kwastek, Katja, Aesthetics of Interaction in Digital Art, The MIT Press, 2013

  Rush Michael: New Media in Art (World of Art), Thames & Hudson, 1999

  Scacco, Lorella. Northwave: A Survey of Video Art in Nordic Countries, Silvana, 2009

  Shanken, Edward: Art and Electronic Media, Themes & Movements, Phaidon Press, 2009

  Stern, Nathaliel: Interactive Art and Embodiment: The Implicit Body as Performance (Arts Future Books), Gylphi Limited, 2013

  Wands, Bruce: Art of the Digital Age, Thames & Hudson; 2007

  Monoskop - A wiki for collaborative studies of the arts, media and humanities

  Further reading

  Donna Haraway - Cyborg Manifesto

  Xenofeminist Manifesto

  Timothy Morton 

  Seeing things - Object Oriented Ontology (https://vimeo.com/29092112)

  Artists/researchers working with AI
  

  Harold Cohen - Collaborations with my other self

  NNN / DOUG - the first robot able to draw

  Deepart

  Sunspring - a scifi short film written by AI

  Kyle MacDonald takes a walk with AI in Amsterdam (https://vimeo.com/146492001) 

  Catherine Rehnwinkel (https://vimeo.com/166991018)

  Ian Cheng

  I am here to learn: On machinic interpretations of the World - exhibition at FKV

  Memo Akten

  Mario Klingemann

  Kamitani Lab

  
  

  

  
  

  
  
  

• Video library
  Homework Screenings

  Can't Get You Out of My Head: An Emotional History of the Modern World, part 4  by Adam Curtis. 

  The Social Dilemma docudrama film by Jeff Orlowski. On Netflix. 

  If you do not have an access to the Netflix, you may watch this commentary video to the movie by Zubin Damania.

   

  This is a short lecture by Francesca Ferrando related to the homework reading.

  
  

  1. MASS MEDIA 

  BBC Radio 4 (2010): 'The Frankfurt School'-In Our Time 

  Marshall McLuhan (1960): The World is a Global Village 

  Marshall McLuhan (1977): The medium is the message 

  Woody Allen (1977): Woody Allen meets Marshall McLuhan 

  Jürgen Habermas (2005): Interview 

  Julia Kristeva (1998): On Linguistics 

  Donna Haraway (2003): From Cyborgs to Companion Species 

  Nancy Baym (2011): Making Friends with Fans 

   

  2. HYPERMEDIA, NEW MEDIA & MEDIA INDUSTRY

  Douglas Engelbart (1968): The mother of all demos 

  Douglas Adams (1990): Hyperland 

  Richard Stallman (2013): Why is free software important? 

  Tim Berners-Lee (2012): How the world wide web just happened 

  Matt Kraft (2011): ARPANET - The team behind Internet 

  3. MEDIA CULTURE: GLOBAL & LOCAL

  Berkman Center (2012): How Internet Censorship Works 

  Clay Shirky et.all. (2010) Social Media Revolution 

  Manuel Castells (2010): Network Theories of Power 

  Howard Rheingold (2010): Smartmobs Revisited 

  Zizi Papacharissi (2013): A Networked Self: Sociality, Publicity, and Privacy on Social Networking Sites 

  Eliane Glaser (2016): Post-Truth Politics - Sate of the Net 2016 

  Alison Klayman (2012):

  4. FUTURE OF MEDIA

  Apple (1984): Macintosh Commercial 

  Apple tablet concept video (1987): the Knowledge Navigator 

  Tom Patterson (2013): The Internet, Globalization and the Media Future 

  Lego Foundation (2016): Honoring Seymour Papert 

  Sonia Livingstone (2014): How children engage with the internet 

  Danah Boyd (2014): It's Complicated - The Social Lives Of Networked Teens 

  Ben Nimmo, Laura Jackson, Mark Laity & Peter Pomerantsev (2015): 21st Century Information War: How Should NATO and Democratic Governments Respond (interview) 

  Noam Chomsky (2016): Who rules the world now? 

  Rise of the Video Game (2007): Level 1 

  A Brief History of Video Games (2013): 

  

• Groups
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  In here we will have a list of student groups working on their Video Essays. The final works, the Video Essays, will be published here, too.