1. Author/Work/Audience (from Barthes and Hypertext theory to modes of inviational roles)

Hypertext- Narrative formed in the path the user takes.
Mark America: Grammatron (1997)
Shu lea Cheang: Brandon (1998)
Harwood: Rehearsal of memory (1996)
David Small and John White: Stream of Counciusness (1998)

merging of doing and thinking, participating and reflecting
Heat Bunting and Natalie Bookchin:Criticism Curator Commodity Collector Disinformation (1999)

To invite - setting up collaborations, curating etc
Vuk Cosic:Net Criticism Juke Box (1997)

To be invited - participating in a system

To infiltrate - hacking, hijacking and other means of interrupting a system
(more on hacking later in class)
Jodi:Yeeha (1996)
7-11 hijack
etoy:the digital hijack (1996)
0100101110101101.ORG: Korea Web Art Show (2001)
0100101110101101.org: biennale_py (2001)

Maintaining control - moving authorship to "another layer"
I/O/D: Web Stalker (1997)
Jonah Bruckner-Cohen:Crank the Web (2001)
Olia Lialina: Agatha Appears (1999)

2. Identity

Constructing identity


Computers remember - "objective identity"
0100101110101101.ORG :Life Sharing (2000)
Alexi Shulgin: Desktop Is (1999)
C5: Softsub (2001)

collaborative information filtering
Jevbratt: The Stillman Projects (1997) For Walker (1998)
Starrynight (1999)
Amazon.com

3. The Body

Avatars - virtual bodies
Victoria Vesna: Bodies Inc. (1997)

The physical body as in and output.
Ken Rinaldo: Autopoiesis (2000)
Stelarc: ping body (1996)
Stelarc: Exoskeleton (1998)
c-level:Tekken Torture (2001)

4. Artificial Life and Intelligence

Life
Karl Sims: Galapagos (1997)
Christa SOMMERER & Laurent MIGNONNEAU: Life Spacies (1997)

Intelligence
Lynn Hershman:Agent Ruby (2001) (about the first chatterbot Eliza)
David Rokeby: Giver of names (1991)
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