Texts and Works

Students should have a fluent knowledge of these publications and the various approaches and philosophies they represent. You should read these and then use them as a launching point for further reading that you should undertake on your own.
  • Walter Benjamin (1968). Hannah Arendt, ed. "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction", Illuminations. London: Fontana. pp. 214–218. an online text
  • Martin Heidegger, “The Origin of the Work of Art,” in Poetry, Language, Thought, Alfred Hofstadter, trans., (New York: Harper & Row, 1971), 75 an online text
  • Bey, Hakim. "The temporary autonomous zone." New York: Autonomedia (1991). an online text
  • Suchman, Lucille Alice. Plans and situated actions: the problem of human-machine communication. Cambridge university press, 1987. an online text
  • Ishii, Hiroshi, and Brygg Ullmer. "Tangible bits: towards seamless interfaces between people, bits and atoms." Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human factors in computing systems. ACM, 1997.
  • Wilson, S. Information Arts: intersections of art, science, and technology (2002) an online text
  • Hook, K., Sengers, P., & Andersson, G. (2003) Sense and Sensibility: evaluation and interactive art. CHI 2003.
  • Sengers, P., & Csikszentmilhalyi, C. (2003) HCI and the arts: a conflicted convergence? CHI 2003
  • Dourish, Paul. Where the action is: the foundations of embodied interaction. The MIT Press, 2004.
  • Jennifer Steinkamp an online text
  • Leo Villareal an online text