Mitchell, Benjamin, and Vertov offer a of triangulation of instructions that allow you to undertake the following project:
Use the World Wide Web to create a mapping of the "one way streets" of cyberspace.
Borrowing from Ulmer's generative method of the
CATTt
, use the texts in the following manner:
Contrast: City of Bits
Analogy: One Way Street
Theory: Kino-eye
Target: Investigation/invention of a theory of the spaces and linkages of the web
tale: Nolli? Haussmann? Breton and Aragon? Hivemaker?
Completed Projects:
Broglio
Olaivar
Brennan
Joy
Moss
Schlein
McKinzie
Readings:
Mitchell, William.
City of Bits: Space, Place and the Infobahn
Cambridge: MIT P, 1995.
Benjamin, Walter. "One Way Street," "Author as Producer."
Reflections
Vertov, Dziga. "Kino-eye," "From Kino-eye to Radio-eye."
Kino-Eye: The Writings of Dziga Vertov
, ed. Annette Michelson, trans Kevin O'Brian. Berkeley: U California P, 1984.
Blair, David.
WaxWeb
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