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O'GORMAN PRESENTS
> Vannevar Bush, "As We May Think"
> Norbert Weiner, "Men, Machines, and the World About"
Introduction to Project 1: Remediation/Database Animation

GROUP: Adam Birch, Joshua Kho, Lucina Lo, Eric Selley
> Marshall McLuhan, "The Medium is the Message"
O'GORMAN:
> Jay David Bolter and Richard Grusin, "The Double Logic of Remediation"
OTHER READINGS:
Jim Campbell, media artist

O'GORMAN:
> Lev Manovich, "The Database"
GROUP: Meghan Harder, Alida Iacobellis, Nathaniel Singh
> Eugene Thacker, "Biomedia"
OTHER READINGS:
> Nick Rombes, "The Blue Velvet Project" and "Do Not Screen"

GROUP: Brittany Martin, Francis Tiangson, Kim To
> Sidney Perkowitz, from Digital People
GROUP: Matt Amoral, Jenine Paul, Joannie Vuong
> Rodney Brooks, from Flesh and Machines: How Robots Will Change Us
OTHER READINGS:
> Karl F. MacDorman, Mortality Salience and the Uncanny Valley
> Karl F. MacDorman, "Charting the Uncanny Valley"
> Hanson Robotics, Eva

O'GORMAN PRESENTS:
> Donna Haraway, "A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century"
> N. Katherine Hayles, "What Does it Mean to be Posthuman?"
OTHER READINGS:
> Humanity+, "Transhumanist Declaration" (explore entire site)

READING WEEK - NO CLASS

O'GORMAN:
> David Wills, "Techneology or the Discourse of Speed" (ACE)
GROUP: Brittany Martin, Francis Tiangson, Kim To
> Diane Currier, "Assembling Bodies in Cyberspace: Technologies, Bodies, and Sexual Difference"
OTHER READINGS:
> Stelarc

GROUP: Meghan Harder, Lucina Lo, Kim To
> Rita Raley, "Tactical Media as Virtuosic Performance"
GROUP: Katie Carson, Thomas Longrigg, Onie Tam
> Tim Jordan, "Hactivism: All Together in the Virtual"
OTHER READINGS
> Peter Ludlow, "WikiLeaks and Hacktivist Culture"

Tuesday,
March 12
GAMES

Guest Lecture by PhD Candidate, Jason Hawreliak.

On Thursday, March 21, the class is invited to PAC to attend the games of the FIRST Robotics competition, hosted by UW from March 21-23.

Tuesday,
March 26
LIFELOGGING

GROUP: Adam Birch, Joshua Kho, Lucina Lo, Eric Selley
> Nicola Doring and Axel Gundolf, "Your Life in Snapshots: Mobile Weblogs"
GROUP: Katie Carson, Thomas Longrigg, Onie Tam
>José van Dijck, "From shoebox to performative agent: the computer as personal memory machine."
OTHER READINGS:
> memoto
> "Life-logging camera brings new hope for memory-loss patients"

PRESENT ITERATION 1 of Final Project

Monday,
April 8