Description fall 2005

The "Participation, Reciprocity and Generosity in Art" reading group is for graduate students dealing with participatory cultures, the application of open source principles to art, and artists as providers of cultural contexts. On our reading list are Umbert Eco's "Open Work," Pierre Levy's "Collective Intelligence," "What We Want Is Free" (edited by Ted Purves), Howard Rheingold's "Smart Mobs," and his text on Cooperative Technologies, "Code. Collaborative Authorship and the Digital Economy," edited by Rishab Aiyer Ghoshy and "Economising Culture" (part of 3 volumes of DATA browser). We will also look at the themes of Open Congress, in which I will participate in a few weeks as well as the "COde Of practice" online panel at Tate Modern. Alongside these texts we will read the "A Grammar of the Multitude" by Paolo Virno and Brian Holmes' "The Flexible Personality." We will read, present and look at relevant artwork and exhibitions such as "Making Things Public."

This semester's reading group will end with "Theory of Prose" by Viktor Shklovsky.

Additional references:

Paolo Virno
http://www.generation-online.org/c/cmultitude.htm

Requiem for the Media by Jean Baudrillard

Precari-us? by Angela Mitropoulos

Blog Notes on Brian Holmes "Drift" seminar
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