Artists in Virtual Spaces focuses on the technical, aesthetic, and critical skills integral to the creation and interpretation of internet art. Through the writings of artists, scientists, and theorists, and the work of contemporary net artists, we will examine issues surrounding Internet culture: its history, evolution, and impact on art, society. Central to this study will be the identification of trends, issues, and key concepts critical to our understanding of the emerging contemporary network culture.

The course will focus on design strategies, tools and applications used in website production. We will apply this technique to the creation of new forms that are net-specific, as well as those that bridge virtual and physical space. Students are expected to produce net projects, a home page/on-line portfolio, independently research and critique net artworks, engage in class disccussion and participation in the online forum in which they will collaboratively record their reflections on the issues presented.

PETER LUNENFELD, “FLUX & PRAGMATICS”

Situational Aesthetics -written by Victor Burgin / html
"Brenda Laurel Interview - Designing Interaction" by Brenda Laurel and Dan Saffer
"The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction", by Walter Benjamin
"The Society of the Spectacle", by Guy Debord
"On Meaning-Making: Essays in Semiotics", by Mieke Bal

"Elements of Semiology (first half)", by Roland Barthes
Image - Music - Text, written by Roland Barthes
Rhetoric of the Image, written by Roland Barthes

"Pattern Recognition", by William Gibson
Video: The Distinctive Features of the Medium, written by David Antin
Art and Telematics: towards a network consciousness, written by Roy Ascott
On the Cutting Edge: Cosmetic Surgery and the Technological Production of the Gendered Body, written by Anne Balsamo
The Virtual Body in Cyberspace, written by Anne Balsamo
Plato and the Simulacrum - written by Gilles Deleuze
Effects of Violent Video Games on Aggressive Behavior, Aggressive Cognition, Aggressive Affect, Physiological Arousal, and Prosocial Behavior, written by Craig Anderson

http://www.basearts.com/resources.html

Internet History:
http://www.zakon.org/robert/internet/timeline/
http://www.forthnet.gr/forthnet/isoc/short.history.of.internet
http://www.pbs.org/internet/timeline/timeline-txt.html
http://www.elsop.com/wrc/h_web.htm

Network/Systems Theorists of Interest:
Marshal Mcluhan
http://www.mcluhaninstitute.org/
Marvin Minsky
http://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/
Ted Nelson
http://www.iath.virginia.edu/elab/hfl0155.html
http://xanadu.com/
http://ted.hyperland.com/
Timothy Druckrey
http://users.rcn.com/druckrey/
http://users.rcn.com/druckrey/texts.html

Technical Type:

Type Topics
http://www.adobe.com/type/topics/main.html
http://www.adobe.com/type/topics/glossary.html

Webmonkey Fonts
http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/design/fonts/index.html

Web Typography Tutorial: Overview
by Nadav Savio
http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/design/fonts/tutorials/tutorial3.html

Upper and lowercase Magazine
http://www.itcfonts.com/ulc/default.asp?sid=0SW23EEFSMF19KVS3JWWCFCWG4S6DKRF

Counterspace
http://counterspace.motivo.com/

Microsoft Typography | Developer information
http://www.microsoft.com/typography/creators.htm

Type Producers

Emigre
http://www.emigre.com/

ITC
http://www.itcfonts.com/

T .26 Digital Type Foundry
http://www.t26.com/

Type Creation

FontLab
http://www.font.to/

FontLab Ltd: FontLab
http://www.pyrus.com/html/fontlab.html

ParaType
http://www.paratype.com/shop/default.asp?page=soft/software.asp

Dave Emmett's Softy
http://users.iclway.co.uk/l.emmett/

Font Avenue
http://www.fontavenue.com/

Chank
http://www.chank.com/howto/

From [Divide By Zero] Fonts and the Tom 7 Institute of Computer Knowledge (TICK):
http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/~twm/makefont/

Electronic Publication(s)

Project Gutenberg - electronic books
http://gutenberg.net/

Technical - HTML

Bare Bones Guide to HTML
http://werbach.com/barebones/
http://werbach.com/barebones/download.html

NCSA GUIDE to HTML
http://archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu/General/Internet/WWW/HTMLPrimer.html

WEBMONKEY
http://www.hotwired.com/webmonkey/html/

http://werbach.com/barebones/
http://werbach.com/barebones/download.htmlhttp://archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu/General/Internet/WWW/HTMLPrimer.htmlhttp://snowwhite.it.brighton.ac.uk/~mas/mas/courses/html/html1.html
http://www.hotwired.com/webmonkey/html/
http://www.cc.ukans.edu/~acs/docs/other/HTML_quick.shtml
http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/tut/lessons.html
http://www.media.mit.edu/
http://www.mediabuilder.com/index.html

Arts Listings
http://www.diverseworks.org/home.html
http://www.rhizome.org
http://www.theredproject.com

The Calls and Opps List
http://www.artswire.org/Artswire/www/awfront.html
http://bbs.thing.net/login.thing
http://adaweb.com/home.shtml
http://adaweb.walkerart.org/context/events/moma/technology.html
http://www.artnetweb.com/
http://www.artnetweb.com/projects/projects.html

Artists/Designers

Institutions

Cooper Hewitt, National Design Museum
http://ndm.si.edu/

http://www.cooper.edu/art/lubalin/

http://www.turbulence.org
http://rhizome.org/fresh/artists_A-Z.rhiz
http://www.artnetweb.com/projects/projects.html

John Maeda
http://www.maedastudio.com/
http://dbn.media.mit.edu/
http://www.maedastudio.com/indexold.html
http://acg.media.mit.edu/people/maeda/

Richard Rinehart
www.coyoteyip.com

Julia Scher
http://adaweb.walkerart.org/project/secure/sec1.html

Dirk Paessman and Joan ?_
http://www.jodi.org/
http://404.jodi.org/index.html

Jeffery Shaw
http://www.jeffrey-shaw.net/html_main/frameset-explore.php3

Victoria Vesna
http://www.bodiesinc.ucla.edu/

George Legrady
http://www.georgelegrady.com/
http://www.pocketsfullofmemories.com/

Lisa Jevbratt
http://cadre.sjsu.edu/jevbratt/

Tina LaPorta
http://www.bekkoame.ne.jp/i/ga2750/tina/portal.html

Ken Goldberg
http://teleactor.berkeley.edu/
http://ouija.berkeley.edu/
http://queue.ieor.berkeley.edu/~goldberg/garden/Ars/
http://www.ieor.berkeley.edu/~goldberg/

Collaborative Groups

C5
http://www.c5corp.com/

Group Z
http://adaweb.walkerart.org/~GroupZ/

http://art.teleportacia.org/

Brick and Mortar

Visual Studies Workshop
http://www.vsw.org
http://www.afterimageonline.org/

New Langton Arts: NetWork
http://www.newlangtonarts.org

Zentrum fŸr Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe
http://www.zkm.de/

Pompidou Center
http://www.centrepompidou.fr/Pompidou/Home.nsf/docs/fhome
http://www.newmedia-arts.org/cgi-bin/sommaire-dev.asp?LG=GBR&FILE=encyclo

Walker Art Center
http://gallery9.walkerart.org/
http://adaweb.walkerart.org/usage/reach/

Whitney Museum of American Art
http://www.whitney.org/artport/
http://www.whitney.org/exhibition/biennial.shtml

Dia Center
http://www.diacenter.org/rooftop/webproj/index.html

Eyebeam
http://www.eyebeam.org/

Franklin Furnace
http://www.franklinfurnace.org/

GroundZero
http://www.groundzero.org/zeroone.html

TAM
http://www.alternativemuseum.org/home_nodon.html

ArtNet
http://www.artnet.com/index.asp?N=1

C3: Center for Culture & Communication
http://www.c3.hu/

SFMOMA
http://www.sfmoma.org/espace/espace_overview.html

TATE
http://www.tate.org.uk/netart/default.htm

Austin Museum of Digital Art
http://www.amoda.org/about/digitalart.php

Net Art Topics

Historical Links
Hypertext
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/historical

Internet
http://www.zakon.org/robert/internet/timeline/
http://www.forthnet.gr/forthnet/isoc/short.history.of.internet
http://www.pbs.org/internet/timeline/timeline-txt.html
http://www.elsop.com/wrc/h_web.htm

New Media/Internet Theorist/Historical Figures

Computational Design

http://proce55ing.media.mit.edu/
http://www.media.mit.edu/

Marshal Mcluhan
http://www.mcluhaninstitute.org/

Marvin Minsky
http://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/

Ted Nelson
http://www.iath.virginia.edu/elab/hfl0155.html
http://xanadu.com/
http://ted.hyperland.com/

Timothy Druckrey
http://users.rcn.com/druckrey/
http://users.rcn.com/druckrey/texts.html

Global Ideas Bank
http://www.globalideasbank.org/

Intellectual Property (Copyright)

Copyright Website
http://www.benedict.com/fair.htm
http://www.benedict.com/digital/webIssues/webDesign.asp
http://www.benedict.com/info/fairUse/fairUse.asp

United States Patent Office - Intellectual Property and the National Information Infrastructure
http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/com/doc/ipnii/index.html

Electronic Frontier Foundation
http://www.eff.org

Stanford University Copyright and Fair Use
http://fairuse.stanford.edu/

Fair Use and Multimedia
http://fairuse.stanford.edu/multimed/

Intellectual Property Law Primer
http://www.timestream.com/stuff/neatstuff/mmlaw.html

Project Management