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Graduates of the course are oriented in the field of software art, the Internet environment and related topics and take a critical and authorial approach to them, which they can further apply in their own artistic work.

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Theoretical lectures, discussions, reading and analysis of texts and works, participation.

The following conditions are set for the award of the examination:
• Active participation in the class (50% participation) - or compensating absence by adding/developing/updating course-related passwords on the monoskop.org wiki.
• completion of an essay of at least 5000 characters, which is subject to assessment.

1. Digitality: Jaquard's knitting machine, Babbage's calculating machine and the first programmer Ada Lovelace, Memex (reading: The language of new media - Lev Manovich).
2. Connectivity: early history of the Internet, Arpanet, TCP/IP protocol family, HTTP(S), ISO/OSI model (reading: The Internet was always anarchist, so anarchists must learn to become responsible for operating it - Tech Learning Collective).
3. WWW: art on the web 1.0, internet art, net.art (read: Expanded Internet Art - Ceci Moss).
4. Society: sociological aspects of networks (reading: The Network Society - Jan van Dijk).
5. Power: from peer-to-peer technologies of web 1.0 to privatized services of web 2.0, post-internet (reading: The Telecommunist Manifesto - Dmytri Kleiner).
6. Mining: software-art working with data-mining of the web and social networks through APIs, data exploitation, appropriation and reinterpretation (reading: Social Sculptural Performance - Paolo Cirio).
7. Topic/texts identified by the students.
8. Software: software as part of culture (readings: Software takes command - Lev Manovich, Remediation - J.D. Bolter & R. Grusin).
9. Intervention: software-art working with the automation of the graphical user interface (GUI) of social networks, intervention, bots (The Ends of the Internet - Boris Beaude).
10. Code: software as a tool of communication between man, man and machine, "outsider" work - works by programmers without artistic training (reading: Speaking code: coding as aesthetic and political expression - G. Cox & A. McLean).
11. Confusion: spam, creation of irrelevant data, overwhelm, obfuscation (read: Obfuscation: A User's Guide for Privacy and Protest - F. Brunton & H. Nissenbaum).
12. Encryption: the art of working with the darknet, blockchain, cryptography (Cats, Frogs and Cryptoartists - Silvia Dal Dosso).
13. Topic/texts identified by the students.

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The aim of the course is to introduce students to software art in the networked environment and related areas and topics such as: history and aspects of digital media, history of the Internet, its power panorama and social implications, Web 1.0, Web 2.0 and responding artistic expressions - net.art, post-internet, data art, automated interventions, etc., the discipline of software studies, issues of privacy invasion, data surveillance and the possibilities of their reversal through encryption or data obfuscation. Rather than a comprehensive overview or linear exposition, the course seeks to provide a plural view of the broad field of the thematic triangle: net-software-art.

Teaching takes place in the classrooms of the KTDU FaVU BUT weekly in hours determined by the schedule. The minimum participation is 50%. Make-up for missed classes is done by adding/developing/updating course-related passwords on the wiki monoskop.org.

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BEAUDE, Boris. The Ends of the Internet [online]. Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2016. ISBN 9789492302069. Dostupné z: https://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/no-11-the-ends-of-the-internet-boris-beaude/ (EN)
BOLTER, Jay David a Richard. GRUSIN. Remediation: understanding new media. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2000. ISBN 02-625-2279-9. (EN)
BRUNTON, Finn a Helen Fay NISSENBAUM. Obfuscation: a user's guide for privacy and protest. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, [2015]. Technoloy/Politics (MIT Press). ISBN 978-026-2029-735. (EN)
CIRIO, Paolo. Social sculptural performance. Persecuting.US [online]. Dostupné z: https://persecuting.us/_index.php?about=socialsculpturalperformance (EN)
CORNELL, Lauren a Ed HALTER, ed. Mass Effect: Art and the Internet in the Twenty-First Century. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2015. ISBN 9780262029261. (EN)
COX, Geoff a Alex MCLEAN. Speaking code: coding as aesthetic and political expression. 1. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 2013. ISBN 978-026-2018-364. (EN)
DAL DOSSO, Silvia. Cats, Frogs and Cryptoartists: What if Auteur .jpgs Become a Luxury Good. Institute of Network Cultures [online]. Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2021 [cit. 2021-4-27]. Dostupné z: https://networkcultures.org/longform/2021/03/11/cats-frogs-and-cryptoartists-what-if-auteur-jpgs-become-a-luxury-good/ (EN)
KLEINER, Dmytri. The Telekommunist Manifesto [online]. Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2010. ISBN 978-90-816021-2-9. Dostupné z: https://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/no-03-the-telekommunist-manifesto-dmytri-kleiner/ (EN)
MANOVICH, Lev. Software takes command extending the language of new media. 1. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013. ISBN 978162356672. (EN)
MANOVICH, Lev. The language of new media. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2002. Leonardo (Series) (Cambridge, Mass.). ISBN 02-621-3374-1. (EN)
MOSS, Ceci. Expanded Internet Art: Twenty-First-Century Artistic Practice and the Informational Milieu. New York and London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019. ISBN 978-1-5013-4777-1. (EN)
TECH LEARNING COLLECTIVE. The Internet was always anarchist, so anarchists must learn to become responsible for operating it. Center for a Stateless Society: A Left Market Anarchist Think Tank & Media Center [online]. Tulsa (Oklahoma): C4SS, 2020. Dostupné z: https://c4ss.org/content/53593 (EN)