Here is the complete list of art, artists, etc., that came up during class discussions as relevant (* means eventually presented and entered):
--- The File Room, Antoni Muntadas, 1994?, early participatory text-base website
--- Karl Sims*, artificial life guru
--- December 28, 1895, First public exhibition of CINEMA (Paris, Lumiere brothers)
--- Crystal Palace Expo, London, First World's Fair ("Expo"s).
--- Nam June Paik* and Takashi Murakami.
--- Jodi.org.
--- David Rockeby, Canadian digital artist
--- The Internet Archive
--- Oskar Fischinger*, John and James Whitney, Jordan Belson (abstract motion pictures)
--- The Sims and earlier role-playing games.
--- Anamorphic Painting (e.g., Holbein) (Hockney optics controversy)
--- Rotoscope works
--- Duschamp*
--- Lygia Clark
--- no one has done anything by Leonardo yet
--- Gyorgy Kepes (major figure in art+science from Bauhaus to Media Lab)
--- early examples of sampling work (e.g., the Moody Blues use of the Mellotron)
--- Howard Wise gallery, NYC (big player in 70s)
--- Bridget Riley (british op art painter)
--- Robert Smithson* (earth art)
--- Christo (environmental art)
--- Woody and Steina Vasulka (early video art)
--- Cybernetic Serendipity show – London – c1967
--- Art and Technology show – LA museum of Contemporary Art – c 1972
--- 9 evenings show – NYC – c1969
--- art/funding at Burning Man
--- Laterna Magika – live performer synced in front of projected movie
--- Fredereick Church paintings – using viewing tubes
--- Robert Axtell - artificial society work (“sugar and spice” studies)
--- Roy Ascott – “vegetal reality” (god and spiritualism links to new media)
--- Edwardo Kac (“transgenic” art)
--- Stelarc (cyber-body art)
--- Artist-made video synthesizers: Paik-Abe, Rutt-Etra, Sandin (all 1970s)
--- Andy Goldsworthy
--- Peter Campus
--- Alan Rath
--- Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
--- Jim Campbell (Psycho still image)