This is the introductory lecture to the class: Exploring Net Culture

1. Exploring Net Culture David Clark

4. The Internet

5. Internet

6. New Media?

8. Old Media

9. New Media

11. What is Internet Culture?

12. What cultures are on the Internet? OPEN ---------------------------------------------------------- CLOSED AMATEUR -------------------------------------------------- PROFESSIONAL NARROWCASTING -----------------------------BROADCASTING

13. Amateur - Lasse Gjertsen

14. The Computer

15. Jacquard "Loom" Joseph-Marie Jacquard, 1804

20. Code

21. Automation

22. Cybernetics

23. Positive Feedback Position & Speed

25. Charles Babbage

26. Difference Engine

27. Analytic Engine

28. Alan Turing (1912 -1954)

29. On Computable Numbers (1936)

30. Konrad Zuse (1936)

33. Electronic Logic Boolean Logic Electronic Switch

34. Binary Code

35. Can Machines Think?

36. The Turing Test 1951

38. What is thinking?

39. What is thinking? What kind of behavior do we think thinking is?

40. Language Games vs. Computable Numbers Ludwig Wittgenstein Alan Turing

42. The Internet

43. (ARPANET) Advanced Research Projects Agency Network • the world's first operational packet switching network • was created to link limited research computers together • started with Military computers, then universities.

45. Internet, 1982

46. Internet, 1986

48. Personal Computing Commodore PET TRS-80 Apple II

49. The Mother of All Demos Douglas Engelbart December 9, 1968

50. • computer mouse • interactive text • video conferencing • teleconferencing • email • hypertext • collaborative real-time editor

51. Stewart Brand Douglas Engelbart

52. “ Information wants to be free” - Stewart Brand

53. Whole Earth Catalogue

57. Back to the Land

58. Whole Earth Catalogue

59. Whole Earth Catalogue The WELL ( W hole E arth ' L ectronic L ink) Stewart Brand Stewart Brand & Larry Brilliant 1968 1985

60. The WELL ( W hole E arth ' L ectronic L ink) Stewart Brand & Larry Brilliant 1985 Mitch Kapor & John Perry Barlow, EFF ( E lectronic F rontier F oundation) 1990

61. Mitch Kapor & John Perry Barlow EFF ( E lectronic F rontier F oundation) 1990 …John Perry Barlow(EFF), Stewart Brand (WWC), Kevin Kelly (WWC) WIRED MAGAZINE 1993

62. Internet Culture Military Networks Hippie D.I.Y. Venture Capitalism Philosophy of Logic & Language Libertarianism High Tech

63. Art and the Internet

65. Conceptual Art Joseph Kosuth

68. Yoko Ono

70. Algorithm Algorithm – a precisely detailed procedure for carrying out a task. Here is a drawing task: (1) Identify two random points on a 100 unit square plane. (2) Draw a line connecting these two points. Here is an algorithm for this task written in the elementary BASIC language that could be executed a PC: window (0,100)-(0,100) for n=1 to 4 p(n)=(rnd*100) next n line(p1,p2)-(p3,p4)

71. Sol Lewitt Wall Drawing #65. Lines not short, not straight, crossing and touching, drawn at random, using four colors, uniformly dispersed with maximum density, covering the entire surface of the wall (first installation 1971)

73. Casey Reas Sol Lewitt Software

74. Clement Valla Custom software recreates various Sol LeWitt drawings. The software also posts instructions on Amazon.com’s Mechanical Turk. Human workers execute the drawings online based on the instructions from the program. The workers are paid 5¢ for each drawing. The software then assembles the drawings in a grid. The computer generated drawings, and the grids filled in by anonymous workers are displayed side by side.

80. Mechanical Turk

81. Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) LINK

82. The Sheep Market

83. Mail Art

86. Performance Art Vito Acconci Theme Song Jennifer Ringley Jennicam

87. Public Performance Valerie Export Flash Mob

88. Virtual Performance Shoot Chris Burden Shoot Second Life

89. Sculpture Dennis Oppenheim Final Stroke-Project for a Glass Factory

90. Alice Aycock A Salutation to The Wonderful Pig of Knowledge

91. Peripetics by ZEITGUISED

92. Site Specific Art Gordon Matta Clark

93. Conical Intersect , 1975 Gordon Matta-Clark

94. We AR in MoMA

99. Relational Aesthetics Nicolas Bourriaud

100. Altermodern Nicolas Bourriaud Relational Aesthetics, Postproduction, The Radicant

101. Net.Art

102. Hans Hoogerbrugge

103. MTAA

104. The Central City Stanza

106. Internet Culture as Subject of Art

107. Let's Get Physical/Digital (1997) Christian Jankowski

108. Ryan Trecartin

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