Thoughts and responses relating to studio readings are expected be collected here
- Unit 1 discussion questions / comments
- Unit 2 discussion questions / comments
- Unit 3 discussion questions / comments
- Unit 4 discussion questions / comments
Unit 1: Interaction with the Internet
Studio Readings
- Olia Lialina, Vernacular Web, 2007
- Jill Lepore, Can the Internet be Archived?, 2015
- Amanda Hess, Slack Off: How workplace chat is changing office culture, 2018
Lab Readings
- Paul Ford, What Is Code?, 2015
- Laurel Schwulst, My website is a shifting house next to a river of knowledge. What could yours be?, 2018
- Richard A. Bolt, Put that There (Video), 1982
Unit 2: Interaction with Type
Studio Readings
- American Artist, Black Gooey Universe, 2018
- Frank Chimero, The Web’s Grain, 2015
- Loretta Staples, Typography and the Screen: A Technical Chronology of Digital Typography, 1984-1997, 2000
- A quick summary of the history of type online for reference here.
Lab Readings
- Lazlo Moholy-Nagy, The New Typography, 1923
- David Reinfurt, This stands as a sketch for the future, 2007
- Dexter Sinister, Letter and Spirit, 2012
- Bruno Munari, Design as Art, 1966
- Bruno Munari, Drawing a Tree, 1978
- Jorge Luis Borges, The garden of forking paths, 1941
- Douglas Englebart, The Mother of All Demos, 1968
- Malcolmm Gladwell, Creation Myth, 2011
Unit 3: Interaction with Data
Studio Readings
- Marie Hoejlund, Sharing as Survival: Mindy Seu on the Cyberfeminism Index, 2020
- Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren Klein, Chapter 2 from Data Feminism, 2020
- Joana Moll, The Hidden Life of an Amazon User
Lab Readings
- Rob Giampietro, Default Systems in Graphic Design, 2003
- Moniker, Conditional Design Workbook, 2013
- Seth Price, Dispersion, 2007
- Brian Eno, Music for Airports, 1973
- Gianni Barbacetto, Interface Design, 1988
Unit 4: Interaction with People
Studio Readings
- Darius Kazemi, Run Your Own Social, 2019
- Legacy Russell and Momtaza Mehri, Glitching the Master’s House: Legacy Russell and Momtaza Mehri in Conversation, 2020
- Vasilis van Gemert, Exclusive Design
Lab Readings
- Octavia Butler, Speech Sounds, 1983
FURTHER READING
- Anny Li, How to Encounter a Puddle, 2018
- Ursula K. LeGuin, Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction, 1986
- Internetting with Amanda Hess, ongoing
- Shannon Mattern, Things that Go Beep, 2018
- Alexandra Lange, The Woman Who Gave the Macintosh a Smile, 2018
- Beatriz Colomina and Mark Wigley, Are We Human?: Notes on an Archaeology of Design (Introduction), 2016
- Aria Dean & Martine Syms, Growing Up Google, 2017
- Marjanne van Helvert, Dirty Design
- Margarat Anderson, In Web Design, Accessibility Shouldn’t Be an Afterthought, 2020
- Silas Munro, Typography as a Radical Act, 2019
- Ruben Pater, The Politics of Design, 2016
- Anne Friedberg, Virtual Window, 2006 (Excerpt)
- Mimi Onuoha and Mother Cyborg, People’s Guide to AI, 2018
- VPRO, The Real Value of Your Personal Data, 2013 video
- David Reinfurt, “Muriel Cooper”, 2018 video
- Natalie Cecire, Apple’s Modernism, Google’s Modernism, 2015
- Maciej Ceglowski, Web Design: The First 100 Years, 2014
- Louise Drulhe, Critical Atlas of Internet
- Jenny Odell, How to do Nothing, 2017
- Paul Ford, Reboot the World, 2016
- Siva Vaidhyanathan, Open Source as Culture/Culture as Open Source, 2005
- Danah Boyd, Participating in the Always-On Lifestyle, 2015
- Rem Koolhaas, Junkspace, 2002
- Allessandro Ludovico, Post-Digital Print, 2012