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An Overview of the History of Art and Technology Shlain, Leonard. “Illusion/Reality,” and “Rationality/Irrationality.” In Leonard Shlain. Art and Physics: Parallel Visions in Space, Time & Light . New York: Perennial, 1991 (CP). Wollen, Peter. “Cinema/Americanism/The Robot.” New Formations No. 8 (Summer 1989): 7-34 (RES). Film: Fritz Lang, Metropolis (1926). |
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Early 20 th C Avant-Garde Movements and Technology Shlain, Leonard. “Cubism/Space.” In Leonard Shlain. Art and Physics: Parallel Visions in Space, Time & Light. New York: Perennial, 1991 (CP). Newman, Kim. “The Atomic Decade.” In Kim Newman. Apocalypse Movies. End of the World Cinema. New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 1999. Film: Stanley Kubrick, Dr. Strangelove (1964). |
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Cybernetics and Art Ascott, Roy. “Turning on Technology.” Available at: http://www.cooper.edu/art/techno/essays/ascott.html (CP). Schöffer, Nicolas. “The Cybernetic Esthetic.” In Douglas Davis. Art and the Future. A History/Prophecy of the Collaboration Between Science, Technology and Art . New York. Washington: Praeger Publishers, 1973 (RES). |
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Television and Video Arts Hanhardt, John G., and Maria Christina Villasenor. “Video/Media Culture of the Late Twentieth Century.” Art Journal (Winter 1995): 20-25 (CP). Rush, Michael. “Video Art.” In Michael Rush. New Media in Late 20 th-Century Art. New York: Thames & Hudson, 1999 (CP). |
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Robots, Robotics, and Art Kac, Eduardo. “Foundation and Development of Robotic Art.” Art Journal (Fall 1997): 60-67 (RES). Klüver, Billy. “The Engineer as a Work of Art.” In Douglas Davis. Art and the Future. A History/Prophecy of the Collaboration Between Science, Technology and Art. New York. Washington: Praeger Publishers, 1973 (RES).
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Computers/Digital Arts Popper, Frank. “Social and Aesthetic Implications of the Art of the Electronic Age.” In Frank Popper. Art of the Electronic Age. New York: Thames & Hudson, 1993 (CP). Weibel, Peter. “On the History and Aesthetics of the Digital Image.” In Timothy Druckrey with Ars Electronica, eds. Ars Electronica. Facing theFuture. Massachusetts and London: MIT Press, 1999 (RES). Film: Steven Lisberger, TRON (1982). |
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Cyborgs, Cyberpunks, and Art Grenville, Bruce. “The Uncanny: Experiments in Cyborg Culture.” In Bruce Grenville, ed. The Uncanny: Experiments in Cyborg Culture. Vancouver: Vancouver Art Gallery/Arsenal Pulp Press, 2001 (CP). Stiles, Kristine. “Thresholds of Control. Destruction Art and Terminal Culture.” In Timothy Druckrey with Ars Electronica, eds. Ars Electronica. Facing the Future. Massachusetts and London: MIT Press, 1999 (CP). Film: SRL, Ten Years of Robotic Mayhem. |
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Performance Art and Technology Stelarc. “Parasite Visions: Alternate, Intimate, and Involuntary Experiences.” In Timothy Druckrey with Ars Electronica, eds. Ars Electronica. Facing the Future. Massachusetts and London: MIT Press, 1999 (CP). Gòmez-Peña, Guillermo. “Ethno-Cyborgs and Genetically Engineered Mexicans.” In Guillermo Gòmez-Peña, Dangerous Border Crossers: The Artist Talks Back . London and New York: Routledge, 2000 (CP). Film: The Wachowski brothers, The Matrix (1999). |
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The Rise of the “Post-Human”: Bio-Art Anker, Suzanne, and Dorothy Nelkin. “Blurring Boundaries: Chimeras and Transgenics.” In The Molecular Gaze: Art in the Genetic Age. Cold Spring Harbor, New York: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 2004. Ede, Siân. “New Bodies for Old. The Art and Science of the Body Elective.” In Siân Ede. Art & Science. London. New York: I.B. Tauris, 2005. More, Max. “The Extropian Principles Version 3.0. A Transhumanist Declaration.” Available at: http://www.maxmore.com/extprn3.html (CP). Seekins, Sandra. “Of Molecules and Matter: The Promises and Perils of Biotech Art.” The Capilano Review 2.50 (Fall 2006): 19-47 (RES). Film: Andrew Niccol,Gattaca (1997). |
