Exploring Net Culture Introduction

Exploring Net Culture

David Clark


1. Code/Hypertext/Database2. Digital Identity3. Internet Video4. Interactivity & Interface5. Social Media6. Gaming7. The Physical Web8. Not Safe for Work


1. Surf Club (Group Blogging)2. Internet Self-Portrait3. Mash Up4. User Generated Content5. Independent Project

Assignments

The Internet

Internet

New Media?

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Old Media



New Media

What is Internet Culture?



What cultures are on the Internet?

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Amateur - Lasse Gjertsen

The Computer





Jacquard "Loom"Joseph-Marie Jacquard, 1804



Automation

Cybernetics





Positive Feedback

Position & Speed



Charles Babbage



Difference Engine



Analytic Engine

Alan Turing



(1912 -1954)



On Computable Numbers



(1936)



Konrad Zuse

(1936)



Electronic Logic



Boolean LogicElectronic Switch



Binary Code

Can Machines Think?



The Turing Test



1951

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What is thinking?



What is thinking?


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Ludwig Wittgenstein Alan Turing

Language Games vs. Computable Numbers



The Internet

(ARPANET)

Advanced Research Projects Agency Network

• the world's first operational packet switching network

• was created to link limited research computers together

• started with Military computers, then universities.



Internet, 1982



Internet, 1986

Personal Computing






Commodore PET TRS-80 Apple II

The Mother of All Demos




are needed to see this picture. Douglas EngelbartDecember 9, 1968







• computer mouse • interactive text • video conferencing • teleconferencing• email• hypertext • collaborative real-time editor



Stewart Brand



Douglas Engelbart





“Information wantsto be free”

- Stewart Brand

Whole Earth Catalogue



Back to the Land



Whole Earth Catalogue



Whole Earth Catalogue The WELL(Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link)



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Stewart Brand

Stewart Brand &Larry Brilliant

1968 1985

The WELL(Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link)


Stewart Brand &Larry Brilliant

1985

Mitch Kapor &John Perry Barlow,

EFF(Electronic Frontier Foundation)



1990

Mitch Kapor &John Perry Barlow

EFF(Electronic Frontier Foundation)



1990

…John Perry Barlow(EFF),Stewart Brand (WWC),

Kevin Kelly (WWC)

WIRED MAGAZINE

1993



Internet Culture

Military Networks

Hippie D.I.Y.

Venture Capitalism

Philosophy ofLogic & Language

Libertarianism

High Tech

Art and the Internet

Conceptual Art



Joseph Kosuth

Yoko Ono



Algorithm – a precisely detailed procedure for carrying out a task.

Here is a drawing task:

(1) Identify two random points on a 100 unit square plane. (2) Draw a line connecting these two points.

Here is an algorithm for this task written in the elementary BASIC language that could be executed a PC:

window (0,100)-(0,100) for n=1 to 4 p(n)=(rnd*100) next nline(p1,p2)-(p3,p4)

Algorithm

Sol Lewitt



Wall Drawing #65. Lines not short, not straight, crossing and touching, drawn at random, using four colors, uniformly dispersed with maximum density, covering the entire surface of the wall (first installation 1971)

Casey Reas


Sol Lewitt Software

http://artport.whitney.org/commissions/softwarestructures/text.html

Clement Valla

Custom software recreates various Sol LeWitt drawings. The software also posts instructions on Amazon.com’s Mechanical Turk. Human workers execute the drawings online based on the instructions from the program. The workers are paid 5¢ for each drawing. The software then assembles the drawings in a grid. The computer generated drawings, and the grids filled in by anonymous workers are displayed side by side.



Mechanical Turk



Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk)

LINK



https://www.mturk.com/mturk/welcome

The Sheep Market



http://www.thesheepmarket.com/

Mail Art



Performance Art



Vito AcconciTheme Song



Jennifer RingleyJennicam



Valerie Export Flash Mob



Public Performance

ShootChris Burden

ShootSecond Life

Virtual Performance




Sculpture



Dennis OppenheimFinal Stroke-Project for a Glass Factory



Alice AycockA Salutation to The Wonderful Pig of Knowledge



Peripetics by ZEITGUISED

Site Specific Art



Gordon Matta Clark





Conical Intersect, 1975Gordon Matta-Clark

We AR in MoMA



http://confluxfestival.org/projects/conflux-festival-2010/we-ar-in-moma/

Relational Aesthetics

Nicolas Bourriaud



Altermodern

Nicolas Bourriaud

Relational Aesthetics, Postproduction, The Radicant



Net.Art



Hans Hoogerbrugge

http://ml.hoogerbrugge.com/



MTAA

http://www.mteww.com/five_small_videos/



The Central City

Stanza

http://www.stanza.co.uk/centralcity/index.html



http://r-s-g.org/carnivore/clients.php

Internet Culture as Subject of Art




Let's Get Physical/Digital (1997)Christian Jankowski



Ryan Trecartin

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