Fall 2018
Instructor: Dr Joëlle Bitton
joelle.bitton@zhdk.ch
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Week 1 - Monday, 01.10.18 - Aesthetics
Lecture: Historical overview I - Screens 1994-2007 (given by Joëlle Bitton).
Discussion around words: phenomenology, ontology, epistemology, gestalt, aesthetics, hermeneutics, experience
Reading:
- HartmannHartmann, Klemmer, Takayama. 2006. "How Bodies Matter: Five Themes for Interaction Design". In DIS 2006.
Week 2 - Monday, 08.10.18 - Actions
Readings:
- Dourish Dourish P. 2001. "Being-in-the-World: Embodied lnteraction". In Where the Action is, The Foundations of Embodied lnteraction. MIT Press. 127-144.
- Kirsh, Kirsh, D. & P. Maglio, 1994. "On Distinguishing Epistemic from Pragmatic Action" (lntroduction and "Epistemic uses of rotation")
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Project Topic, in Cognitive Science. 18. 512-549.
presented by Claudia Buck and Mara Weber
Project Topics:
- Performance & Activism
by presented by Lilian Lopez and Michelle Schmid
Week 3 - Monday, 15.10.18 - Your place in the world
Readings:
Lindtner, Silvia, Bardzell, S. & Bardzel, J. 2016. “Reconstituting the Utopian Vision of Making: HCI After Technosolutionism”. In CHI ‘16.
Suchman, Lucy. 2011. "Anthropological Relocations and the Limits of Design". In Annual Review of Anthropology. 40:1–18. 1-18.
by presented by Mélanie Abbet and Edna Hirsbrunner
Project TopicTopics:
- Private & Public Space
presented by Felix Prantl and Janina Tanner
Week 4 - Monday, 22.10.18 - Systems
Readings:
Bown, Oliver, Gemeinboeck Gemeinboeck, P. and Saunders, R. 2014. "The Machine as Autonomous Performer" in L. In L. Candy and S. Ferguson (eds.), Interactive Experience in the Digital Age: Evaluating New Art Practice, Springer Series on Cultural Computing, pp. 75-90.
Burnham, Jack. 1969. “Systems and Art”. In Arts in Society. 6:2. University of Wisconsin, Summer/Fall 1969. 194-204.
by presented by Stefan Lustenberger and Michelle Schmid
Project TopicTopics:
- Net Art & Software Art (incl.Blockchain)
by presented by Claudia Buck and Fiona Good
Week 5 - Monday, 29.10.18 - Materiality
Lecture: Verena Ziegler Materiality references (given by Verena Ziegler)
Readings:
Kuchler, Susanne Kuchler. 2008. "Technological Materiality Beyond the Dualist Paradigm" in Theory Culture Society. 25. 101-120.
Hui, Yuk. 2014. “Form and Relation. Materialism on an Uncanny Stage”. In Intellectica. 1:61. 105-121.
by presented by Duy Bui and Simon Fischer
Project Topics:
- Wearables & Material research
by presented by Mélanie Abbet and Martial Koch
Week 6 - Monday, 05.11.18 - The Cyborg in me
Readings:
Bettelheim, Bruno. 1959. “Joey: A ‘Mechanical Boy,’” in ". In Scientific American, March 1959, . 116–127.
Nass, C and Moon, Y. 2000. "Machines and Mindlessness: Social Responses to Computers", in Journal of Social Issues. 56:1. 81-103.
by presented by Jennifer Duarte and Janina Tanner
Project Topics:
- Artificial Intelligence
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presented by Andri Gordi and Stefan Lustenberger
Week 7 - Monday, 12.11.18 - Trafic
Excerpt from Movie excerpt: Jacques Tati. Trafic. 1971.
Readings:
Husokawa, Shuhei. 1984. "The Walkman Effect". In Popular Music. 4. Performers and Audiences. 165-180.
Starosielski, Nicole. 2012. “Warning: Do Not Dig’: Negotiating the Visibility of Critical Infrastructures.” Journal of Visual Culture. 11, no:1. 1 ( April 1, 2012): . 38–57.by
presented by Marcial Koch and Colin Schmid
Project Topics:
- Sonic Art
- Smart Cities
by presented by Randy Chen and Edna Hirsbrunner
Essay Proposal Deadline:
On half-page, present the topic area with reference to literature, an abstract of approx. 8-10 sentences, and the rough structure of the essay in key points. You'll present in class your essay proposal in a couple sentences (1mn each).
Week 8 - Monday, 19.11.18 - Modern Times
Lecture: Historical overview II - Modern Times
Movie excerpt: The Clock
Readings:
Turner, Fred. 2005. "Where the Counterculture Met the New Economy: The WELL and the Origins of Virtual Community". In Society for the History of Technology.
Youngblood, Gene. 1970. Expanded Cinema. P. Dutton&Co, Inc. Excerpt.
--- no student presentation – Session runs in parallel with Design History seminar 1st semester. Room tba. --
Week 9 - Monday, 26.11.18 - Matrix
Readings:
Nick Dyer-Witheford, Nick and de Peuter, G. 2009. "Immaterial Labor: A Workers’ History of Videogaming" in . In Games of Empire : Global capitalism and Video Games. Univ. of Minnesota Press. 3-33.
Irani, Lilly C., and M. Six Silberman. 2013. “Turkopticon: Interrupting Worker Invisibility in Amazon Mechanical Turk.” In CHI ’13.
presented by
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Fiona Good and Felix Prantl
Project topics:
- Game & Realities
presented by Dui Buy and Dominik Szakacs
Week 10 - Monday, 03.12.18 - The Body
Readings:
Foucault, Michel, Martin, L. H., Gutman, H., & Hutton, P. H. 1988. Technologies of the self. A seminar with Michel Foucault. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press. pp1616-39.
Malafouris, Lambros. 2008. "At the Potter’s Wheel: An Argument for Material Agency" in . In C. Knappett, L. Malafouris (eds.). Material Agency. Springer Science+Business Media.
presented by
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Randy Chen and Dominik Szakacs
Project topics:
- Bio Hacking & DIY medicine
presented by Jennifer Duarte and Mara Weber
Week 11 - Monday, 10.11.18 - Disruption
Readings:
Feynman, Richard F. 1960. “There’s plenty of room at the bottom”. In Engineering and Science Magazine. 23. February 1960. 22–36.
Guins, Raiford. 2008. "Hip Hop 2.0
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". In A. Everett (ed). Learning Race and Ethnicity: Youth and Digital Media.The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning. MIT Press. 63-80.
presented by Andrin Gordi and Lilian Lopez
Project topic:
- Disobedienceby
presented by Simon Fischer and Colin Schmid
Week 12 - Monday, 17.12.18 - Hacking Values
Seminar. Program and room tba.
-- no student presentation --
Essay Deadline: 17 December 2018 (posted on IAD server)
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