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1-Sep |
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Introduction |
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8-Sep |
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The Case of Technology |
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Martin Heidegger, “The Question Concerning Technology”, The Question Concerning Technology and other Essays, Pantheon, 1972. |
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Siegfried Giedion, “Springs of Mechanization”, Mechanization Takes Command: a contribution to anonymous history, Oxford University Press, 1948. |
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Reyner Banham, “Stocktaking- Tradition and Technology”, Architectural Review, February 1960. |
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| W3 |
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15-Sep |
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The Case of Media |
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Walter Benjamin, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction”, 1935. |
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Marshall McLuhan, “The Medium is the Message”, Understanding Media, 1964. |
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Lucy R. Lippard and John Chandler, “The Dematerialization of Art,” Art International, 12:2, February 1968. |
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| W4 |
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22-Sep |
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The Information Machines and the Dilemma of Communication |
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Warren Weaver, “The Mathematics of Communication”, Scientific American, 1949. |
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Alan Turing, “Computing, Machinery and Intelligence”, Mind : A Quarterly review of Psychology and Philiosophy, 59(239), October 1950. |
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Charles and Ray Eames, A Communication Primer, (Film) 1953. (online viewing) |
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John McHale, “Information, Technology and Communications”, The Changing Information Environment, Westview Press, 1976. |
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Jagjit Singh, “Automatic Computers-Analogue Machines” and “Automatic Computers-Digital Machines”, Great Ideas in Information Theory, Language and Cybernetics, Dover Publications, 1966. |
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| W5 |
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29-Sep |
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No Classes- Rosh Hashanah |
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6-Oct |
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Cybernetics and the Problems of Control |
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Norbert Weiner, “Cybernetics in History”, The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society, 1954. |
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Gordon Pask, “The Architectural Relevance of Cybernetics”, Architectural Design, September 1969. |
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Stafford Beer, “The Disregarded Tools of Moderns Man”, “A Liberty Machine In Prototype”, The Free man in a Cybernetic World”, in Designing Freedom, Massey Lectures, 1973. |
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Bernard Scott, “2ndOrderCybernetics: an historical introduction”, Kybernetes, Vol. 33 No. 9/10, 2004. |
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Stanley Matthews, “The Fun Place as Virtual Architecture, Cedric Price and the Practices of Indeterminacy”, JAE, v.59, Issue 3, Feb 2006. |
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13-Oct |
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Systems Thinking and Primacy of Relations |
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W. Ross Ashby, “Principles of the Self Organizing System”, in von Foerster, Heinz, ed., Principles of Self-Organization, Pergamon Press, 1962. |
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Jack Burnham, “Systems Esthetics”, Artforum, September 1968. |
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Jascia Reichardt, “Cybernetics, Art and Ideas”, in Cybernetic Art and Ideas, New York Graphic Society Ltd.,1971. |
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Luke Skrebowski, “All Systems Go: Recovering Hans Haacke’s System Art”, Grey Room, v. 30, Winter 2008. |
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| W8 |
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20-Oct |
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Interactivity and Human/Computer Mutualism |
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J.C.R. Licklider, “Man-Computer Symbiosis”, IRE Transaction on Human Factors in Electronics, HFE-1:4-11, March 1960. |
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Myron Krueger, “Responsive Environments”, AFIPS 46 National Computer Conference Proceedings, AFIPS Press, 1977. |
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Dubberly, Pangaro and Haque, “What is Interaction? Are there diferent types?” Interactions, v.XVI.1, 2009. |
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Nicholas Negroponte, “Architecture Machine”, Architectural Design, September 1969. |
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Paul Dourish, “A History of Interaction,” in Where The Action Is: The Foundations of Embodied Interaction, MIT Press, 2001. |
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| W9 |
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27-Oct |
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Situations, Situatedness and the Significance of Actions |
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Guy Debord, et. al.”Preliminary Problems in Constructing a Situation”, Internationale Situationniste, v.1, 1958. |
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Lucy Suchman, “Preface” and Situated Actions”, Plans and Situated Actions: The Problem of Human-Machine Communication, Cambridge, 1987. |
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Malcolm McCullough, “Embedded Gear” and “Situated Types”, Digital Ground: Architecture, Pervasive Computing and the Environmental Knowing, MIT Press, 2005. |
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Bernard Tschumi, “Disjunctions”, Architecture and Disjunction, MIT Press, 1996. |
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| W10 |
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3-Nov |
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Typology vs. Topological Space |
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Rafael Moneo, “On Typology”, Oppositions 14, MIT press, 1978, 22-45. |
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Sanford Kwinter, “Landscapes of Change: Boccioni’s Stati d’animo as a General Theory of Models”, Assemblage, v.19, MIT Press, 1992 |
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Stan Allen, “From Object to Field”, Architectural Design: After Geometry, Academy Group, 1997. |
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Greg Lynn, “Body Matters”, Journal of Philosophy and Visual Arts, 1993. |
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D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson, On Growth and Form, Cambridge, 1917 |
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| W11 |
10-Nov |
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Emergence and the Evolution of Form |
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Michael Weinstock, “The Forms of Information, Energy and Ecology”, The Architecture of Emergence: the eveolution of Form in nature and Civilization, John Wiley & Sons, 2010. |
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Manual deLanda, “NonOrganic Life”, in Zone6: Incorporations by Jonathan Crary and Sanford Kwinter, Zone Books, 1992. |
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John Holland, “Maps, Game Theory and Computer based Modeling”, Emegence: From Chaos to Order, Perseus Books, 1998. |
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| W12 |
17-Nov |
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Networks and Interconnectivity |
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Mark Wigley, “Network Fever”, Grey Room, No. 4, Summer 2001. |
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Kazys Varnelis, “The Rise of the Network Culture”, Networked Publics, MIT press, 2008. |
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Stephen Graham and Simon Marvin, “Prologue” and “Introduction”, Splintering Urbanism: Networked Infrastructures, Technological Mobilities and the Urban Condition, Routledge, 2001. |
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Alexander Galloway and Eugene Thacker, “Protocols, Control and Networks”, Grey Room, No. 17, Fall 2004. |
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| W13 |
24-Nov |
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Thanksgiving Break |
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| W14 |
1-Dec |
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Pervasive Computing |
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Mark Weiser, “The Computer for the 21st Century”, Scientific American, September 1991. |
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Anthony Dunne, “The Electronic as Post-optimal Object”, Hertzian Tales: Electronic Products, Aesthetic Experience and Critical Design, RCA Computer Related Design Research, May 1999. |
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William Mitchell, “Recombinant Architecture”, City of Bits, MIT Press, 1995. |
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Adam Greenfield, The Dawning Age of Ubiquitous Computing, New Riders Publishing, 2006. |
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| W15 |
13-Dec |
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Conclusions- Final Paper Discussions |
| Final Paper: Dec 20th, email omarkhan@buffalo.edu |