TEACHING
Wiki Directory of Art and Technology Programs
In 2004, I asked Michael Naimark to write an overview of academic art and technology programs as part of a proposal I was preparing for Columbia University. I wanted something comprehensive but with a point of view, in a similar spirit to Michael's 2003 ArtsLab report. With the proliferation and growth of academic art and technology programs around the world, we decided to use our material as the seed a wiki
I organized a series of lectures at Columbia on issues relating to art and technology. In Spring 2004 the series served as a general introduction to art and technology, with lectures by Mary Flanagan, Chris Csikszentmihalyi, Paul Miller a.k.a. DJ Spooky that Subliminal Kid, Manuel DeLanda, and Ricardo Dominguez. In Fall 2004, the series focused on Open Source Culture, exploring issues at the intersection of intellectual property, technology, and the arts, with lectures by Joy Garnett, Jeffrey Cunard, Siva Vaidhyanathan, Jon Ippolito, and Cory Arcangel.
In order to make the lectures available to a broad audience, and to provide a pedagogical resource for future courses, I worked with the Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning to put the lectures online. In addition to streaming video of the speaker, the web site offers a synchronized slide show representing the media (e.g. PowerPoint) shown by each speaker as well as an outline that serves as a navigation aid... pretty slick.
print version