Week 1

From Expressive Computing

During the first class session, we introduced ourselves and went over the goals of the course. A number of existing "media art" projects were discussed, with a particular emphasis on how these works separated technology from its teleology; how they work to recontextualize the process and content that they concern, and how they exemplify the authoring of new processes (see the assigned reading).

Works discussed

• Networked Byte Organ / Adam Parrish
• Mario Soup / Ben Fry
• We Feel Fine and I Want You to Want Me / Jonathan Harris
• Every Icon / John F. Simon
• Playboy / Luke Dubois

Assigned reading

• Hackers and Painters by Paul Graham
• Authoring New Processes by Noah Wardrip-Fruin
• Bias in Computer Systems by Batya Friedman and Helen Nissenbaum