Key decade: 1990s - 2000s

Terms: Installation art, New media, "hacktivism"

1. Installation Art – resisting "Being Digital"?
   1. A brief history: modernist object versus modern gesamtkunstwerk
   2. Case study: the senses of Ann Hamilton
      1. Between taxonomy and communion, 1990 (San Diego Mus. Cont. Art)
      2. Indigo Blue, 1991 (Spoleto Festival, Charleston, S. Carolina)
2. Artists and the new media
   1. New media, new venues – just another promotional outlet?
      1. Websites and webzines
      2. CD Romzines (Perry Hoberman, Hamilton)
      3. The computer in the gallery, the desktop
   2. Hacktivism
   3. A new model of artistic reception? From the server/user idea to server-less models of interactivity

In lieu of slides for new media works, please visit the following sites:

1. Holzer truisms project on adaweb, one of the earliest artists' websites (founded by Benjamin Weil), now managed by the Walker Art Center
   http://adaweb.walkerart.org/context/artists/holzer/holzer0.html

2. Perry Hoberman, New York artist, formerly Laurie Anderson's media engineer
   http://www.perryhoberman.com/

3. Ken Goldberg, Berkeley Prof, split identity between robotics engineer and new media artist:
   http://www.ieor.berkeley.edu/~goldberg/ (Go to "artwork")

4. Joachim Sauter, Berlin new media artist and designer, founder of art + com, programmer of blinkinglight.com participatory building
   http://www.artcom.de/~js/

5. registered trademark dot com, or "RTmark," or ®™ark., anarchist artist collective
   http://www.rtmark.com/ (A dense, active site. Try to find, for example, Barbie Liberation.)

6. Electrohippies – is hacking art?
   http://www.fraw.org.uk/ehippies/index.shtml/ - Go to FRAW (Free Range Activism Website) main index