B Readings

“An American had done the Louvre in nine minutes, forty-five seconds. They decided to do better.”
(from Bande à part, Jean-Luc Godard, 1964)

“The Museum Interface” a conversation between Sarah Hromack and Rob Giampietro

“Horrified art lovers watch as children climb all over $10m work of modern art at the Tate Modern”

John Berger’s Ways of Seeing (BBC Documentary Series)

Ways of Seeing Ways of Seeing. (a website collecting PDFs of the book version of Ways of Seeing)

Dust at MoMA.
also: MoMA’s Dusty Windows on facebook.

Building a Bigger Picture
An Interview with Rob Giampietro (RISD Thesis Critic, Google Design NY)

Jill Bolte Taylor: My stroke of insight

I’ve put these on reserve at Fleet for DS3 (bring the call # to the front desk and they’ll get it for you). The Edward Tufte books are classic and essential information design works and sort of “required reading” for anyone visualizing information. They’re really worth careful study at some point in your RISD career. I also reserved some of Richard Saul Wurman’s (founder of TED) information design books, which are a good counterpoint to Tufte. Wurman is speaking at the Fleet on Monday, Nov 2.

Edward Tufte
Beautiful Evidence
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
Visual Explanations
Envisioning Information

Richard Saul Wurman
Information Architects
Understanding USA
Understanding Healthcare
Information Anxiety 2

Please read in preparation for Felton Workshop

https://infoactive.co/data-design

Required Reading:
Understanding Comics, Chapter Four. Scott McLeod

Additional Readings of interest:
Vermeer: A View of Delft, Anthony Bailey
The Elements of Cinema, Stefan Sharff, also by Stefan Sharff The Art of Looking in Hitchcock’s Rear Window
Television Studies: The Key Concepts (Routledge Key Guides)
Cinema Studies: The Key Concepts (Routledge Key Guides)
Elements of Fiction Writing – Beginnings, Middles & Ends Paperback, Nancy Kress

Required for March 5th

“As Robots Grow Smarter, Workers Struggle to keep Up”, New York Times
“The iPhone is the new Model-T”, John Caserta

Extended bibliography

“Will Your Job Be Done by a Machine,” NPR
“Automation Makes us Dumber“, WSJ
“Harnessing algorithms to create shape-change typography,” Wired
Nicholas Carr: The Glass Cage: Automation and Us (also see: video overview)
Lewis Mumford “Art & Technics”
Miranda July’s “Somebody” app & miu miu video
Dunne & Raby Speculative Everything
Anthony Dunne lecture: “What If: Crafting Design Speculations”
Jon Sueda, Ed. All Possible Futures
Eugeny Morozov. To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism.
N. Joseph Woodland, Inventor of the Bar Code, Dies at 91
“The Machines Are Coming”, The New York Times. An op-ed by Zeynep Tufekci. More writings by her on her website and on Medium