Examining Digital Media Art Summary

Assignment #3 - Examining Digital Media Art [due April 12]
DUE: Monday, April 12, at 23:59 p.m.
Submission: .pdf or .doc or docx file in eClass
Weight 25%
For this assignment, you are to write a paper about a digital media art work of your choosing.
Choosing a work:
The work you choose must be computationally based and interactive is preferred. If you are accessing with the work through documentation, make sure that the documentation is adequate enough to develop a meaningful description. If not then choose another work.
Components of the paper:
About the work. Include name, creation date, how you reviewed it (e.g. online, through documentation), format/technology
About the artist(s). Include name(s), and brief biography
Description of the work. Provide an extended description of the work.
Interpretation of the work. Provide an interpretation of the work from the perspective of a viewer/participant.
Connection to an article in the New Media Reader. Apply an idea from an article out of the list further below from the New Media Reader to the work you have chosen.
Works cited.

Rules about A3 article choice:
You must choose an article out of the list of 13 articles further below.
You cannot re-use your A1 article in your A3 --you must choose to use a new one!
You cannot re-use an article you wrote a Response for in previous homework response posts!
The only exception is for the homework online response you did that was due on Wednesday March 31. You CAN re-write and expand that entry into 1500 words, IF you wish.
Otherwise, pick an article you haven't already written on out of the list further below.
Format:
Legible 12 point font (e.g. Times New Roman or Arial or Calibri or Cambria)
1” inch margins on all sides.
A total of approximately 5-6 pages or a little more. About 1500 words.
Double-spaced text, except for block quotes (longer than four lines) which should be single spaced and indented.
Quotations that are four lines long or fewer go in the body of the paragraph: MLA In-Text Citations: The Basics
Use MLA citation style for all sources:
- http://writing(dot)wisc(dot)edu/Handbook/DocMLA.html -or-
- https://owl(dot)purdue(dot)edu/owl/research_and_citation/mla_style/mla_formatting_and_style_guide/mla_formatting_and_style_guide.html
Proofread and spell-check your paper!
Have someone read your paper if you are concerned about sentence structure, or language use!
Write your essay in third person historical present tense. (“The author states...” “The work represents...” "One might think that...") with no use of “we” or “I”.
ART WORK?:
Here are some starting points for finding a work to write about:
rhizome.org
digitalartarchive.at
turbulence.org
Art and Electronic Media Online Companion
Ars Electronica
Currents New Media Festival
Creator's Project
eflux
Artists :
Rafael Lozano-Hemer
Olafur Elaison
Casey Raes
Heather Barnett
Stelarc
Graham Wakefield/Haru Ji
Mark David Hosale
READ AN ARTICLE from the list below :
Charged Environments:
31. Bill Viola. “Will there be Condominiums in Data Space?”
20. Raymond Williams. “The Technology and the Society”
10. Roy Ascott. "The Construction of Change"
25. Myron Kreuger. "Responsive Environments"
Games:
05 J.C.R. Licklider. "Man -Computer Symbiosis"
46. Chip Morningstar and F.Randall Farmer. “The Lessons of Lucasfilm’s Habitat”
Kocurek, Carly A. "Identities." from Debugging Game History: A Critical Lexicon.
Jones, Steven E. "Controllers." from Debugging Game History: A Critical Lexicon.
Sherry Turkle. "Video Games and Computer Holding Power"
Digital/Emergent Bodies:
04 Norbert Weiner. "Men, Machines and World About"
27 Giles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. “From a Thousand Plateaus”
35. Donna Haraway. “A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century”
53. Critical Art Ensemble. “Nomadic Power and Cultural Resistance”
BOOKS: New Media Reader https://monoskop(dot)org/images/4/4c/Wardrip-Fruin_Noah_Montfort_Nick_eds_The_New_Media_Reader.pdf
(A1 article ：Men, Machines and the World About）