Complete list of readings for DIKULT

You will need to buy two books and an app. You will buy some book chapters digitally from http://litteraturkiosken.uib.no for 80 øre a page. Other materials, including artworks and documentation of artworks are available online, either open access or through the University library (use VPN if you are off campus).

Please buy:

Ryan, Marie-Laure, Lori Emerson and Benjamin J. Robertson. 2014. The Johns Hopkins Guide to Digital Media. Johns Hopkins UP.

Shifman, Limor. Memes in Digital Culture. Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 2014.

Sam Barlow: Her Story. 2015. Mac/PC/iPad. http://www.herstorygame.com Links to an external site.

In addition you will be finding literature and art works yourself for your final paper.

This list only includes traditional readings. You will also be asked to explore art works, apps, games or websites for many classes, and to write short reflections and do other assignments. Please see the assignments or browse the modules for details.

21 Jan: Pre-Digital Visual Technologies

Friedberg, Anne. 2006. "The Frame". In The Virtual Window: From Alberti to Microsoft. Cambridge MA: MIT Press. (pp 58-93) [Will be available from http://litteraturkiosken.uib.no]

Rettberg, Jill Walker. 2014. Seeing Ourselves Through Technology: How We Use Selfies, Blogs, and Wearable Devices to See and Shape Ourselves. Palgrave Macmillan. Chapter 1. (19 pages) http://jilltxt.net/books/ Links to an external site.

Forman, Jason. 2015. "The Forgotten Kaleidoscope Craze in Victorian England." Atlas Obscura, 9 Nov, http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-forgotten-kaleidoscope-craze-in-victorian-england Links to an external site.

From the Johns Hopkins Guide to Digital Media:

Old Media/New Media (pp 365-367)
Analog vs Digital (pp 7-11)
Relations Between Media (pp 424-427)
Remediation (pp 427-429)

28 Jan: Faces: From Biometrics to Facial Recognition and Selfies

Rettberg, Jill Walker. 2014. Seeing Ourselves Through Technology: How We Use Selfies, Blogs, and Wearable Devices to See and Shape Ourselves. Palgrave Macmillan. Chapters 2 and 3. (24 pages) http://jilltxt.net/books/ Links to an external site.

Agamben, Giorgio. 2011. "Identity without the Person." In Nudities. Stanford: Meridian. [Will be available from http://litteraturkiosken.uib.no]

Manovich, Lev, and Alise Tifentale. “Selfiecity: Exploring Photography And Self-Fashioning In Social Media.” In Postdigital Aesthetics: Art, Computation and Design, edited by David Berry and Michael Dieter. Basingbroke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. Pages 109-122. [Will be available from http://litteraturkiosken.uib.no]

Burns, Anne. “Self(ie)-Discipline: Social Regulation as Enacted Through the Discussion of Photographic Practice.” International Journal of Communication 9 (May 15, 2015): 1716–33. http://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/3138 Links to an external site. (17 pages)

Frosh, Paul. 2015. “The Gestural Image: The Selfie, Photography Theory, and Kinesthetic Sociability.” International Journal of Communication 9, pages 1607–1628. http://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/3146 Links to an external site. (21 pages)

4 Feb: VR and Stereoscopic Vision:

From the Johns Hopkins Guide to Digital Media:

Algorithm (pp 1-4)
Augmented Reality (pp 30-32)
Cave (pp 49-52)
Virtual Reality (510-514)

Uricchio, William. 2011. The algorithmic turn: photosynth, augmented reality and the changing implications of the image. Visual Studies. 26(1). http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1472586X.2011.548486 Links to an external site.

Hoezl, Ingrid and Rémi Marie. 2015. "The Operative Image (Google Street View: The World as Database)" In Softimage: Towards a New Theory of the Digital Image. Pages 81-110. [Will be available from http://litteraturkiosken.uib.no]

Holmes, Oliver Wendell. 1859. The Stereoscope and the Stereograph. The Atlantic. June. http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1859/06/the-stereoscope-and-the-stereograph/303361/ Links to an external site.

18 Feb: New Aesthetic

From the Johns Hopkins Guide to Digital Media:

Code Aesthetics (pp 69-72)

Levy, Malcolm, and Christiane Paul. 2015. “Genealogies of the Postdigital.” In Postdigital Aesthetics: Art, Computation and Design, edited by David Berry and Michael Dieter. Basingbroke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. Pages 27-43. [Will be available from http://litteraturkiosken.uib.no]

Virilio, Paul. 1994. "The Vision Machine." in The Vision Machine. Pages 59-77. [Will be available from http://litteraturkiosken.uib.no]

Or read Virilio in Danish:

Virilio, Paul. 1989. "Synsmaskinen." i Synsmaskinen. København: Politisk revy. [NB: siste kapittel, jeg har ikke sidetall] [Will be available from http://litteraturkiosken.uib.no]

Sterling, Bruce. 2012. “An Essay on the New Aesthetic.” WIRED, April 2, 2012. http://www.wired.com/2012/04/an-essay-on-the-new-aesthetic/ Links to an external site.

25 Feb: Database Aesthetics

From the Johns Hopkins Guide to Digital Media:

Database (pp 127-130)

Manovich, Lev. 2007. “Database as Symbolic Form.” In Victoria Vesna (ed.). 2007. Database Aesthetics: Art in the Age of Information Overflow. University of Minnesota Press. (pp. 39-60) http://site.ebrary.com/lib/bergen/detail.action?docID=10206200 Links to an external site.

Paul, Christiane. 2007. “The Database as System and Cultural Form: Anatomies of Cultural Narratives.” In Victoria Vesna (ed.). 2007. Database Aesthetics: Art in the Age of Information Overflow. University of Minnesota Press. (pp. 95-109) http://site.ebrary.com/lib/bergen/detail.action?docID=10206200 Links to an external site.

Sam Barlow: Her Story. 2015. Mac/PC/iPad. http://www.herstorygame.com Links to an external site. [NB: this game or story must be installed on your computer or device and will take about 2 hours to play through]

10 March: Machine Vision

From the Johns Hopkins Guide to Digital Media:

Cyborg and Posthuman (pp 121-124)
Data (125-127)

Vertov, Dziga. 2004. "Kinoks: A Revolution." In Philip Simpson, Andrew Utterson and K.J. Shepherdson. Film Theory: Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies: Vol. 1. London: Routledge. Pages 229-235. [Will be available from http://litteraturkiosken.uib.no]

Or read Vertov in Norwegian:

Vertov, Dziga. 1999. "Kinokene – en revolusjon." I Fossheim, Hallvard J. (red.) Filmteori: en antologi. Oslo: Pax. Side 27-33. [Will be available from http://litteraturkiosken.uib.no]

Hayles, N. Katherine. 2004. “Print Is Flat, Code Is Deep: Rethinking Signification in New Media.” Poetics Today 25 (1): 67–90. http://poeticstoday.dukejournals.org/content/25/1/67 Links to an external site.

van Dijck, Jose. 2014. “Datafication, Dataism and Dataveillance: Big Data between Scientific Paradigm and Ideology.” Surveillance & Society 12 (2): 197–208. http://library.queensu.ca/ojs/index.php/surveillance-and-society/article/view/datafication Links to an external site.

Aufderheide, Patricia. 2007. "Dziga Vertov." In Documentary Film: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press. Pages 38-44. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/bergen/reader.action?docID=10215774# Links to an external site.

First Draft. 2015. “Visual Verification Guide: Photos.” Medium. September 24. https://medium.com/1st-draft/visual-verification-guide-photos-64424fdf966e Links to an external site.

17 March: Memes, Remix and Collaborative Vision

Shifman, Limor. Memes in Digital Culture. Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 2014.