DIGITAL STUDIESSYMPOSIUM:INTRODUCTION

Holly WillisJanuary 10, 2011

Words on the StreetAdam Greenfield:

“The technologies that the networked city relies upon remain opaque, even to those exposed to them daily.”

We need translators “capable of opening up these occult systems…”

Urgency

Graphic language

Guillaume Apollinaire, 1916

“Words in Freedom,” Filippo Marinetti, 1919

Type experiments, Marinetti, 1932

“Printing Should Be Invisible”Beatrice Warde, 1932

“The mental eye focuses through type and not upon it…”

“marked” and “unmarked” textJohanna Drucker

Words To Be Looked atLiz Kotz

“the turn to language in 1960s art occurred in the wake of new recording and transmission media, as words took on a new materiality and urgency in the

face of magnetic sound…”

Robert Smithson - A Heap of Language (1966)

Vito Acconci - Read This Word (1967)

READ THIS WORD THEN READ THIS WORD READ THIS WORD NEXT READ THIS WORD NOW SEE ONE WORD SEE ONE WORD NEXT SEE ONE WORD NOW AND THEN SEE ONE WORD AGAIN LOOK AT THREE WORDS HERE LOOK AT THREE WORDS NOW LOOK AT THREE WORDS NOW TOO TAKE IN FIVE WORDS AGAIN TAKE IN FIVE WORDS SO TAKE IN FIVE WORDS DO IT NOW SEE THESE WORDS AT A GLANCE SEE THESE WORDS AT THIS GLANCE AT THIS GLANCE HOLD THIS LINE IN VIEW HOLD THIS LINE IN ANOTHER VIEW AND IN A THIRD VIEW SPOT SEVEN LINES AT ONCE THEN TWICE THEN THRICE THEN A FOURTH TIME A FIFTH A SIXTH A SEVENTH AN EIGHTH

John Baldessari - I will not make any more boring art (1971)

Katherine McCoy, 1989

April Greiman, 1986

Émigré magazine, 1989

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David Carson

David Carson - Camaro Ad (1992)

Young-Hae Chang Heavy IndustriesYoung-Hae Chang and Marc Voge

In Passing | Chris Allen and the Light Surgeons | 2005 | 5:30

Urban screens

Urbanscreen and Daniel Rossa | Hamburg Kunsthalle | 2009

Volume| United Visual Artists and onepointsix | 2008

Reprojected| Holger Mader & Alexander Stublic | 2007

Sleepwalkers | Doug Aitken, 2007

Krzysztof Wodiczko, Madrid, Spain

arch celebrating the victory of fascist Generalissimo Francisco Franco in the Spanish Civil War

The Border Projection, Krzysztof Wodiczko, Centro Cultural Tijuana

My work reveals the contradiction of the environment and the events actually taking place there. It is to do

with politics of space and the ideology of architecture. City centers are political art galleries.

– Krzysztof Wodiczko

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Body Movies, Relational Architecture 6, Rotterdam, Holland, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, 2001

Amodal Suspension, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, 2003

Underscan, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, 2005

mis-usemis-appropriationmoddinghackingdefamiliarization…

This Spartan Life | McKenzie Wark Episode | 2007 | 11:40

Logorama | H5 | 2009

Story interfaces

The Whale Hunt | Jonathan Harris | 2007

Pubic Secrets | Sharon Daniel & Eric Loyer | 2007

360degrees | Alison Cornyn & Sue Johnson| 2007

Scraping

Listening Post | Ben Rubin + Mark Hansen |

We Feel Fine | Jonathan Harris and Sep Kamvar | 2005

Generated Narrative: What I Did Last Summer, by Alex Dragulescu

Locative media

“These projects share a common interest in altering how we locate and orient ourselves within cities, and subsequently navigate through them.”

Mark Shepard, “Urban Computing and Its Discontents”

Locative media are systems of technologically mediated interpersonal and group communication, providing the opportunity to augment traditional urban environments with information, communication and spatial experiences, which can be accessed through mobile or desktop devices. The main characteristics of locative media are mobility, locativeness and multi-user support….

Locative Media Art: Towards New Types of “Hybrid” Places for Communicating Meaning – A moderated discussion on YASMIN beginning on December 3, 2007, with Dimitris Charitos , Martin Rieser and Yanna Vogiazou.

Can You See Me Now? 2003 A Machine To See With, 2010

Blast Theory ProjectsBlast Theory “confronts a media-saturated world… using performance, installation, video, mobile and online technologies to ask questions about the ideologies present in the information that envelops us.”

Call Cutta Mobile Phone Theater, 2005Created by the Swiss/German theater collective Rimini Protokoll, this project created personalized city tours through mobile phone conversations.

Urban Tapestries, 2002 – 2004, Proboscisexploring “specific social and cultural uses of knowledge mapping and sharing in partnership with other civil society, industry and academic partners.”

upcoming events

Soldering Synthesis WorkshopMark Allen, Friday, February 11, 2011