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DATE
READING/ASSIGNMENT
PRESENTER
Tuesday,
January 4

Course Introduction: 'Cyberbodies and Kunstkabinetts'
> Bernadette Wegenstein, "Making Room for the Body: From Fragmentation to Mediation," from Re:Skin (ed.Mary Flanagan and Austin Booth). (ACE)

Introduction to Project 1: MAME Cab Video

Workshop: Assembling the MAME Cabinet
 > "Build Your Own MAME Machine"
> Mameworld (Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator)
> Classic Arcade Games

O'GORMAN
Tuesday,
January 11

> Norbert Weiner, "Men, Machines, and the World About" (ACE)
> Donna Haraway, "A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century," from Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Nature
> William Gibson, selections from Neuromancer. (recommendation: purchase hard copy)

Workshop: Installing Mame Cabinet Controllers
Kassandra
Tuesday,
January 18

> N. Katherine Hayles, selections from How We Became Posthuman (ACE)
> Langdon Winner, "Resistance Is Futile: The Posthuman Condition and Its Advocates," from Is Human Nature Obsolete? (ACE)
> Humanity+, "Transhumanist Declaration" (explore entire site)

Workshop: Video Production
> Video Production Tips and Gripes, courtesy of cameratim.com
> Sony HDV cameras (FX1000 is used in Critical Media Lab)

James
Tuesday,
January 25

> Cora Diamond, "The Difficulty of Reality and the Difficulty of Philosophy," from Philosophy and Animal Life. (ACE)
> Cary Wolfe, "Introduction" and "Flesh and Finitude," from What Is Posthumanism. (ACE)

Workshop: Video Capturing/Editing/Exporting
> Capturing Video with Final Cut Pro, courtesy of Metacafe
> Basic Editing with Final Cut Pro, courtesy of Metacafe
See other videos on Metacafe for additional instruction.
Thea
Tuesday,
February 1

> Mark B. N. Hansen, Bodies in Code

Present 1st iteration of Cyberbody Cabinet Video.

Steve

Dylan
Tuesday,
February 8

> Stelarc: The Monograph, ed. Marquard Smith (focus on Interview, Goodall, Jones)

Present final iteration of MAME Cab Video. Submit video + Essay.

Josh

Sonia
Tuesday,
February 15

> Anna Munster, Materializing New Media

Introduction to Project 2: Digital Kunstkabinet.
Sarah
Cameron
Tuesday,
February 22

READING WEEK - NO CLASS

 
Tuesday,
March 1

> Rob Mitchell, Bioart and the Vitality of Media

Workshop: Introduction to Flash
> Flash Basics form EchoEcho (note: this is for Flash MX -- CML uses Flash CS4)
> Flash CS4 Tutorials from Best Web

Dani

Tuesday,
March 8

> David Wills, "Techneology, or the Discourse of Speed," from The Prosthetic Impulse, ed. Marquard Smith and Joanna Morr. (ACE)
> Marcel O'Gorman with Bernard Stiegler, "Bernard Stiegler's Pharmacy: A Conversation"
> Bernard Stiegler, selections from Technics and Time 1 and Taking Care of Youth and the Generations

Workshop: Flash buttons and animation

Adam
Kaitlin
Tuesday,
March 15

> Don Ihde, selections from Bodies in Technology: "You Can't Have it Both Ways" and "Phil-Tech Meets Eco-Phil (ACE)

Workshop: Importing video to Flash
Mohsen
Tyler

Tuesday,
March 22

> Ann Balsamo, "Forms of Technological Embodiment: Reading the Body in Contemporary Culture" (ACE) and "On the Cutting Edge: Cosmetic surgery and the technological production of the gendered body" (ACE)
> Christina Lammer, "Eye Contact: Fine Moving Hands and the Flesh and Blood of Image Fabrication in the Operating Theaters of Interventional Radiology," from Re:Skin, ed. Mary Flanagan (ACE)

Present iteration 1 of Digital Kunstkabinett

Amber
Tuesday,
March 29

Studio Time: Digital Kunstkabinett
Tuesday,
April 5 		Studio Time: Digital Kunstkabinett  
Thursday,
April 7 		PRESENT FINAL PROJECT IN CRITICAL MEDIA LAB EXHIBITION  

Thursday,
April 14
Final Essays Due - Submit via e-mail