required:

• Fuller, Matthew. Software Studies: A Lexicon. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2008.
• Wardrip-Fruin, Noah. Expressive Processing: Digital Fictions, Computer Games, and Software Studies. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2009.
• The Wardrip-Fruin and Fuller books can be obtained at the Literary Guillotine on Locust Street, off Pacific. There will also be a course reader. The reader and its distribution will be discussed at the first class meeting.
• Finally, you will also need texts to help you learn the programming techniques and implementation details of the software and technologies we will be studying. Many these can be gotten via UCSC's subscription to O'Reilly's Safari Technical Books service. We need to log on from campus or use the library proxy. If you're off campus, first connect to the library server at this url: http://oca.ucsc.edu/menu. next proceed to this url to access the o'reilly safari service: http://proquest.safaribooksonline.com.oca.ucsc.ed

software sites :

• The following is a list of collections of digital artworks. Study as many of these as you can. Some may be of interest for articulating your own final project.
  • rhizome artbase
  • whitney artport gatepages
  • mediaartnet
  • walker art gallery 9 [archives]
  • adaweb [archives]
  • www.nettime.org
  • www.softwareart.net
  • runme.org
  • www.generative.net
  • dmoz: society: activism: media: culture jamming: spoof websites
  • thames&hudson internetartlinks
  • thames&hudson digitalartlinks

references

• The following is a list of books that could be of interest to those doing software studies.
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  • Abelson, Harold, Gerald Jay Sussman, and Julie Sussman. Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs. The MIT electrical engineering and computer science series. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 1985.
  • Agre, Philip. Computation and Human Experience. Learning in doing. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
  • Babbage, Charles, Philip Morrison, and Emily Morrison. Charles Babbage on the Principles and Development of the Calculator: And Other Seminal Writings. New York: Dover Publications, 1961.
  • Barthes, Roland. Mythologies. New York: Hill and Wang, 1972.
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  • Black, Maurice J. The Art of Code. Thesis (Ph.D. in English) -- University of Pennsylvania, 2002.
  • Bogost, Ian. Persuasive Games: The Expressive Power of Videogames. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2007.
  • Bolter, Jay David. Turing’s Man: Western Culture in the Computer Age. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1984.
  • Ceruzzi, Paul E. A History of Modern Computing. London, Eng: MIT Press, 2003.
  • Chun, Wendy Hui Kyong, and Thomas Keenan. New Media, Old Media: A History and Theory Reader. New York: Routledge, 2006.
  • Cramer, Florian. Words Made Flesh: Code, Culture, Imagination -- Media Design Research, Piet Zwart Institute, Willem de Kooning Academy Hogeschool, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 2005.
  • Day, Ronald E. The Modern Invention of Information: Discourse, History, and Power. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2001.
  • Davis, Martin. The Universal Computer: The Road from Leibniz to Turing. New York: Norton, 2000.
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  • Fishwick, Paul A. Aesthetic Computing. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2006.
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  • Floreano, Dario, and Claudio Mattiussi. Bio-Inspired Artificial Intelligence: Theories, Methods, and Technologies. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2008.
  • Fuller, Matthew. Behind the Blip: Essays on the Culture of Software. Brooklyn, NY, USA: Autonomedia, 2003.
  • Fuller, Matthew. Software Studies: A Lexicon. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2008.
  • Galloway, Alexander. "Language Wants To Be Overlooked: On Software and Ideology." Journal of Visual Culture. 5. 3 (2006): 315-331.
  • Galloway, Alexander R., and Eugene Thacker. The Exploit: A Theory of Networks. Electronic mediations, v. 21. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007.
  • Gere, Charlie. Digital Culture. London: Reaktion Books, 2002.
  • Goriunova, Olga, and Alexei Shulgin. Read_Me: Software & Art Cultures. Århus, Denmark: Digital Aesthetics Research Centre, University of Aarhus, 2004.
  • Greenberg., Ira. Processing Creative Coding and Computational Art. Berkeley, CA: Apress, 2007.
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  • Havelock, Eric Alfred. Preface to Plato. A History of the Greek mind, v. 1. Cambridge: Belknap Press, Harvard University Press, 1963.
  • Hayles, N. Katherine. How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics. Chicago, Ill: University of Chicago Press, 1999.
  • Hayles, N. Katherine. Writing Machines. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2002.
  • Hayles, N. Katherine. "Print Is Flat, Code Is Deep: The Importance of Media-Specific Analysis." Poetics Today. 25. 1 (2004): 67-90.
  • Hillis, W. Daniel. The Pattern on the Stone: The Simple Ideas That Make Computers Work. New York: Basic Books, 1998.
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  • Kirschenbaum, Matthew G. Mechanisms: New Media and the Forensic Imagination. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2008.
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  • Lessig, Lawrence. Code. New York: Basic Books, 2006.
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  • Reas, Casey, and Ben Fry. Processing A Programming Handbook for Visual Designers and Artists. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2007.
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  • Wardrip-Fruin, Noah. Expressive Processing: Digital Fictions, Computer Games, and Software Studies. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2009.
  • Wardrip-Fruin, Noah, and Nick Montfort. The New Media Reader. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2003.
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