When: Monday 10/20/08 at 8PM
Where: Batoff Lobby (use Charles St. entrance to Charles Commons)

Useful Reading:

• The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction by Walter Benjamin
  • http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/benjamin.htm
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Work_of_Art_in_the_Age_of_Mechanical_Reproduction
• The Culture Industry: Englightenment as Mass Deception
  • http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/adorno/1944/culture-industry.htm
• “Code is Poetry”
  • The Poetry of Programming http://java.sun.com/features/2002/11/gabriel_qa.html
  • Digital poetry (lots of links/examples here): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_poetry

Useful Watching:

• BumpTop: http://bumptop.com/#TEDVideo
  • Think about the implication: our desktop interface does not feel “authentic”