1) What’s the most sever consequence for Boal of his Interactive techniques? Why does his “interactivity” elicit such a violent response?
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2) Why is “knowing the body” so important to the power of Boal’s techniques? WHat does “knowing the body” have to do with interactivity? passivity? hierarchy? resistance?
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3) Why are Boal’s techniques called “The Sims of the Oppressed”?
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4) In simultaneous dramaturgy the actors present a local problem to the crisis point, then invite local people to suggest solutions to the scene. The example is an illiterate women who discovers her husband’s secret documents are love letters from a mistress. The problem is how is she to get revenge without it hurting her? Now think of a situation of injustice in which you felt a powerful impulse to act, but in which your actions could have hurt you or someone else. Describe this scene. Could you imagine it in a game scene with various solutions?
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5)What is image theater and how & why does it work?
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6) What are the rules of invisible theater and how does it work?
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7) Why is spectator a bad word? In what ways is a spectator less than a man? What is the antidote? How does interactive theater liberate passive spectators and transform society? How is interactive theater (or Occupy) practice for resvolution, and why is revolution necessary?
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1-What is a cyborg, or rather why is thinking about cyborgs useful for exploring identity? Is identity single? dualistic? paradoxical? What rolled does gender play in cyborg identity vs conventional cultural identity?
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2-Give two examples of cyborgs in books, comics, games, or films you have seen. Describe the cyborg, explain its role in the work, then explain what new perspectives it brings to identity.
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3-What does Haraway mean when she writes “ the production of a universal, totalizing theory is a major mistake” How does the metaphor of the cyborg undermine the totalizing theories or dualisms that Haraway feels are damaging to our society?
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4-How does her cyborg challenge the white, male, heterosexual bias of our culture? (this bias, for example discourages or punishes white males when acting feminine, or wild or gay; or it rewards women who act like men or like heterosexuals; it is not necessarily good for white male heterosexuals, as it boxes them into this role too) How does the ‘monstrous’ liberate us? How is this like code art “perversion”?
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5-What is liberating, and what is dangerous about a human/machine symbiosis?
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6-Would you consider yourself a cyborg? Explain how you are or are not a cyborg. Would you like to be a cyborg (sometimes, never, only in play, only when serious)?
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1-What are some of the reasons for a surge in digital autobiograpical production from “home pages” to “wearcams”?
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2-What is the role of autobotography vis-a-vis technology’s “narcotic effect”?
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3-Jennicam gives us an example of the pleasures of self-disclosure, Mann’s WearCams give an example of the dangers of surveillance. Are there dangers in Jennifer Ringley’s work (or similar projects)? And what might those dangers be? Conversely, are there any pleasures in Stephen Mann’s WearCams?
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4-Explain how 2 of the blogging projects reshapes our sense of self, life, or writing.
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5-Pick one of the “moving self-portraits” and explain how the project evokes the mystery of our contemporary lives. What kinds of issues does the portrait raise?
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6-Katherine Hayles speaks of the “post-human” in describing the cyborgian entities we have become. How do the artists of this chapter create autobotographies of this “post-human” cyborg? Consider, for example Life Sharing and [phage].
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7-How do digital artists examine the commodification of the self? How has the self become another consumer good, or how does a human being get reduced to a “consumer”? Which digital projects raise theese questions and how do they do it?
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8-Describe the autobotography of “invented selves” or avatars. How do Female Extension and Darko Maver raise questions about the nature of digital selves. Why do they use invented selves and what are the reasons for doing so and the effects of their choices?
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optional responses to this are extra credit…

1. Describe the difference between Political Design and Hacktivist Art. Use an example of each and describe how that work fits the category of design or art.
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2. What does execution mean? How does it relate to computers (ie .exe files). What are some example of executatb;e art? How is execution different from representation? In other words how does each realte to the media paradigms of one-to-many vs many-to-many?
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3. Why do you think Hacktivist artists find themselves hacking capitalist and political structures that most other people revere? What problem or dangers do they see in these forms of power? Use sample projects to answer this question.
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4.How do hacktivists confirm McLuhan’s prediction that the ‘nation-state’ wold not survive the advent of electronic media? Do hackitvists challege or question any critical policies of nation-states? Does their practice suggest any alternatives to the nation-state? Or why are they not really concerned about anarchy?
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1- WHat is the structure of EMpire? How does this structure relate to Crosbie’s definitions of Broadcast vs New Media?’
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2-What is the relationship between rampant consumerism and cultural/ecological collapse?
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1-What is changed by the Occupt movement?
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2-How is the ccupy movement practicing the use of horizontal power? How does this frustrate the status quo power structures? Is the “People’s Mic” broadcast or network (ie new) nedia?
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1-“Professor Anne O’Dwyer taught me about cognitive dissonance – the psychological discomfort which occurs when you’re confronted with a set of facts suggesting that what you’re doing or believing is irrational or stupid. You pay $10 to go to a movie, and the movie is pretty bad. But rather than admit that you wasted $10, there’s a tendency to say it isn’t wasn’t really so bad: the acting was impressive, the special effects looked really realistic – whatever you need to tell yourself to convince yourself that you got your money’s worth. You want to feel like you’re not a sucker. We paper over the cognitive dissonance in much of what we do – the fact that this clearly isn’t the best way to be ordering a society, to be living a life – because we’ve got an awful lot invested in the route we’ve been pursuing. To admit that it’s flawed would be too much dissonance to handle.” Pick an issue which you believe the media has “papered over”. Describe how you figured out you were not getting the whole truth. What was the more complex truth & why was it hidden (or more important who benefits from the partial truth & who loses? )What is the cost to you and what can you do about it?
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2-In what way have you been encouraged to “sit back, relax, and enjoy the show” and how can you “grab the steering wheel before we go over the edge”?
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