Visual Culture and Technology: History of New Media

This course explores the relationship between technology and culture, especially from the period of mechanical industrialization to the advent of the digital technologies and the web.

Carolyn Marvin, excerpts from When Old Technologies Were New

Note that the Marvin is available through the library as an electronic resource (just search for it and click "Electronic Resource") or you could buy the book--we're reading several chapters from it.

The zoopraxiscope video we watched in class yesterday

a good find!! Muybridge's Zoopraxiscope: Setting Time In Motion from Chocolate Films on Vimeo.

Crary and Bell/Watson are online

Sorry for the delay! Find both texts on ecommons. Crary at first appears to be sideways, but persevere and it straightens out.

yes there is class today!

just a reminder, Veteran's Day is NEXT Thursday the 11th. Sorry if I said anything confusing about this on Tuesday, but there IS class today.

Fun with Software

Great interview on Rhizome with Olga Goriunova, Curator of Fun with Software. Could be useful for people researching net art, memes, humor, computers in general...

pluperfect pda

Recently on BoingBoing there have been a few posts about time traveling technology. First, one showing a woman talking into a cell phone in 1928 footage of people lining up for the premiere of Charlie Chaplin's movie The Circus, then this one with several new instances of this phenomenon, which ...

prehysteries of new media blog

While scavenging for images for this week's ppt, I found this great blog compiled by Nina Wenhart--from what I've read of your proposals, some of you would find the material collected here useful.

Duncan’s latest game–

Link to the games for ECTOCOMP 2010! Also, a link to the ECTOCOMP wiki page, for anyone desiring more. Note that the games require the ADRIFT Runner or a Gargoyle interpreter in order to be played on a PC (the Runner is the preferred environment).  Mac users should use Spatterlight, I believe, though I personally haven't ...

wondermark on hyperreality

again via the marvelous Duncan: One issue of the webcomic Wondermark briefly discusses the hyperreal. Students with questions about hyperreality (as we touched on during Strange Culture) might find this issue handy in terms of defining the term.

Get Lamp post

via Duncan: "Blog post from an Australian reporter and explorer of interactive fiction about salient notes from Get Lamp."

January 22nd 2011
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upcoming class in fdm

check out 42Q in Spring, taught by 136c veteran Beth Diesch! It should be a great class. Cinema has been one of the most popular forms of media in our society for over a century. Much of the popularity stems from people empathically identifying with the protagonists on screen and the ...
December 13th 2010
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Grades are in!

I'm proud of your effort this quarter! Grades were very good. Your participation grade was based on the 5 times I took attendance (which included handing in various forms, etc), your participation in class discussions, and whether or not you made an effort to communicate with me & Duncan about your ...
December 5th 2010
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people.ucsc.edu

people.ucsc.edu is down, and along with it the lecture slides. Working on putting them on ecommons today. Slides for second half of the course should be available by noon. Final exam is already available on ecommons. (done--- see folder "lectures")
December 3rd 2010
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final exam

find it here: http://people.ucsc.edu/~lkelley/classes/136c_fall2010/136_final.rtf
December 3rd 2010
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DANM open studios tomorrow

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