Required Readings:

 

Rush, Michael. New Media in Late 20th Century Art London, Thames & Hudson, 1999.Chapter 4:Digital Art, pg. 168-21.

 

Wollscheid, Achim. The Terrorized Term. Frankfurt, Fed Rep of Germany, Selektion, 1996. pg.30-35. "A few attempts at thinking about the computer as a means".

 

Crary, Jonathan. Techniques of the Observer: On Vision and Modernity in the Nineteenth Century. Mass,: MIT Press, Cambridge, 1990.

 

Riding, Alan, "A Mystery Man Who Created Monsters". The New York Times, Sept 23, 2001pg 29-30.

 

Edward R. Tufte. Visual Explanations "Chapter 7:Visual Confections: Juxtapositoins from the Ocean of the streams of Story, pg 121-151.

 

Paul Virilio, The Information Bomb French cultural historian and urban planner, Virilio abstractly discusses the shattering of our contemporary spacio-temporal framework. His cyber-skepticism is a refreshing antidote to the 'global village' mantra of the Net guru.

 

Lunenfeld, Peter. Snap to Grid: A User's Guide to Digital Arts, Media, and Cultures, Boston, The MIT Press, 2000. Chapter 5: Digital Photography: The Dubitive Image, pg 55-69.

 

Senie, Harriet F. & Webster, Sally, eds. Critical Issues in Public Art: Content, Context, and Controversy. New York: HarperCollins Publishers. 1992.

 

Other Recommended Readings:

 

Visual Quickstart books: http://peachpit.com/books/vqs.html

 

Spalter, Ann Morgan. The Computer in the Visual Arts. Addison Wesley Longman, Inc., 1999.

 

Laurel, Brenda. The Art of Human Computer Interface Design. New York: Addison Wesley, 1990

 

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