Here are the rough beginnings of a reading list...

Several of the readings below can be located in: The New Media Reader, ISBN: 0-262-23227-8.

New Media Theory

• Lev Manovcih: The New Media Reader
• Lev Manovich: From Borges to HTML
• Vannevar Bush: As We May Think
• Donna Harraway, The Cyborg Manifesto
• Janet H. Murray: Inventing the Medium
• Alan Turing: Computing Machinery and Intelligence
• Norber Wiener: Men Machines and the World About
• Danniel Hillis: The Pattern on the stone
• Negroponte: being digital
• Constituents of a Theory of the Media by Hans Magnus Enzensberger
• Mappiing Cybersace
• Critical Art Ensemble, Nomadic Power and Cultural Resistance
• Ben Bagdikian, The Endless Chain
• Sherry Turkle, Video Games and Computer Holding Power
• Lynn Hershman, The Fantasy Beyond Control
• Robert Coover, The End of Books
• The Technology and the Society by Raymond Williams

Theories of Image Making (photo/film/related)

• Roland BarthsL Camera Lucida
• The Brain is the Screem. Deleuze and the philophy of Cinema
• Scott McCloud, Time Frames

Readings on Art

• Alan Kaprow Happenings in the New York Scene
• Cybernated Art by Nam June Paik
• Roy Ascott: The Construction of Change
• Selections from Alan Lightman's Einstein's Dreams (handout)***on my office door thursday onward
• Aritcle on the Cut-Up metod that has other information on the technique for creative production.
• Salon.com article on Mash-ups. You will need to sign-up or get a free day pass to read the entire article.
• Augusto Boal, from "Theatre of the Oppressed"
• James Elkins: Why Art Cannot be Taught.
• Susan Sontog: On Phtographhy

Literature/Writing

• Jorge Luis Borges:Garden of Forking Paths
• William S. Burroghs: The Cut-Up Method of Brion Gysin
• Jorge Luis Borges: Labyrinths
• Italo Calvino: Cosmicomics, or anything by him.
  

poetry

General Theory

• Walter Benjamin, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
• Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus
• Requiem for the Mediaand almost anything by Jean Baudrillard
• Marshall McLuhan
• Ludwig Weittgenstein-Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
• Roland Barthes: Mythiologies
• Mike Davis: City of Quartz

Manifestos

• Futurist Cinema
• Sol Lewit: Sentences on Conceptual Art
• Alexei Shulgin: "Art, Power, and Communication"
• Mark Amerika: "The Avant-Pop Manifesto"
• Anne-Marie Schliener: "Fluidities and Oppositions among Curators, Filter Feeders, and Future Artists"
• "Make Your Own Manifesto"
• Richard Stallman, The GNU manifesto

Cultural Theory Websites

• C-Theory
• Schopenhauer essays

Design

• The Edge of the Millenniunm