Art in the age of mechanical reproduction.
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
- The Culture Industry: Englightenment as Mass Deception
- “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”
