DESMA 9_ART, SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
MONDAY, WEDNESDAY 10-11:50AM
EDA room 1250, at the Broad
Professor Victoria Vesna, Ph.D.
 James Gimzewski
Swarming Bacteria
2005

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Week 4
October 22: Biology, Networks, Natural Systems, Artificial Life + Liz
October 24: Guest lecture: Edward Shanken.

Assignment:
Required Reading: Ingber, Donald E. "The Architecture of Life"


Answer Blog: section A, B, C

Links

People
Stephen Wolfram > Cellular Automata
Jack Burnham > Art/Systems Theorist
Ada Byron Lovelace > Mathematician
John McCarthy > Computer Scientist
John Searle > Philosophy Professor
Christa Sommerer & Laurent Migonneau > Artists
David Rokeby > Artist
Brian Eno > Composer
John Cage > Composer
Hans Haacke > Artist
Stephen Wilson > Artist

Projects
Charles Babbage > Difference Engine
Charles Babbage > Analytical Engine
Bruce Sterling > Difference Dictionary
Conways Game of Life > Cellular Automata
Ken Rinaldo > Autopoiesis
James Seawright > House Plants
John Cage > Database of work
Hans Haacke > Condensation Cube
Joseph Weizenbaum > Rebel at Work
Joseph Weizenbaum > Eliza
John Bruneau > Reversible Automata/Irreversible Automata
John Bruneau > Video Documentation

Articles/Essays
James R. Hugunin > The Aesthetic Use of Machinic Beings
HG Wells > World Brain
The Turing Test > Artificial Intelligence
Christopher Langton > The Edge of Chaos
Swarm Development Group > Artificial Intelligence
GM Whitesides & B. Grzybowski > Self Assembly
Wolfram Science > History of Cellular Automata
Greg Egan > Permutation City
Eduardo Kac > Foundation and Development of Robotic Art
Wikipedia > Aleatoric Music
Jack Burnham > Systems Aesthetics
Wikipedia > A.L.I.C.E.
Joseph Weisenbaum > About Eliza