schedule

soongsil university 

2017 Spring
Artificial Life and Arts

 

Week 1

Introduction

03.06

What to do today

  • get the required texts

Week 2

I. Metacreation-1

03.13

Flesh and Metal: Reconfiguring the Mindbody in Virtual Environments, N. Katherine Hayles
Configurations Spring 2002, Vol.10, No.2. 297-320.[
hr ryu]

1-ch.2. Breeders [jc shin]

Week 3

I. Metacreation-2

03.20

2-ch.3. Cybernatures [mj park]

Week 4

I. Metacreation-3

03.27

3-ch.4. Hardware [ms choi]

Week 5

I. Metacreation-4

04.03*

4-ch.5 Abstract Machines [jh park]

Week 6

I. Metacreation-5

04.10

5-ch.6 Theorizing A-Life, Art, and Culture [mj park]

Week 7

I. Metacreation-6

04.17

6-ch.7 Emergence [jh kim]

Week 8

Mid-term

04.24*
*no class

Midterm Break

Week 9

II. Signs of Life: Bio Art and Beyond-1

05.01

7-ch.10 Life Transformation—Art Mutation [jc shin]

8-ch.11 Why I Breed Plants [ej shin]

Week 10

II. Signs of Life: Bio Art and Beyond-2

05.08

9-ch.12 Chlorophyll Apparitions [so cho]

10-ch.14 Art: in vivo and in vitro [hr ryu]

Week 11

II. Signs of Life: Bio Art and Beyond-3

05.15

11-ch.15 Semi-Living Art [jh park]

12-ch.16 Cases for Genetic Art [ej kim]

Week 12

Holiday

05.22**no class

Buddha’s Birthday

Week 13

II. Signs of Life: Bio Art and Beyond-4

05.29

13-ch.17 VivoArts
  ch.18 The Relative Velocity Inscription Device [hr ryu]

14-ch.19 Proteins
  ch.20 Skin Culture
  ch.21 Repro Duction [ej shin]

Week 14

II. Signs of Life: Bio Art and Beyond-5

06.05

15-ch.22 One Tree
  ch.23 The Art of Unnatural Selection
  ch.24 Genomic Portrait  [as na]

16-ch.26 The Growth of Microorganisms on Paper
ch.28 On Science
ch.30 Art and Biotechnology [ms choi]

Week 15

II. Signs of Life: Bio Art and Beyond-6

06.12

17-ch.1 Open Source DNA and Bioinformatic Bodies [ks Jang]

18-ch.5 Life Art [jh kim]

Week 16

final term examination period

06.19*

final-term period

 *no class