In Search of a Cyber Consciousness

A reading and discussion group exploring how digital technologies reshape time, identity, and culture.

Fluxus Video Synthesis

Winter Group Meetings

Session 1: Thursday January 30th - 7-930pm CST

Session 2: Thursday February 6th - 7-930pm CST

Session 3: Thursday February 13th - 7-930pm CST

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IRL @ {\}() {\}∆‡!(){\} (1542 N. Milwaukee Ave. Floor 2)

Facilitated by Marteen

Fluxus Video Art 2

Session 1 (January 30th): Identity, Digital Culture, and Transgression

Reading
The End of Temporality - Fredric Jameson (1991) Link
The Solar Anus - Georges Bataille (1927) Link
Duty-Free Art - Hito Steyerl (2015) Link
The Internet is Forever - Matilda Lin Berke - Spike Magazine (2023) Link
Software: Information Technology: Its New Meaning for Art - Jack Burnham [pg 10, 45, 47,49, 68] (1970) Link

Special Guest at 830pm cst: Matilda Lin Berke

Session 2 (February 6th): Networks, Ecologies, and the Posthuman

Reading
Frank Gillette's "Random Notes on a Special Case" (1969) Link
Posthuman Ecologies: Complexity and Process after Deleuze - Edited by Rosi Braidotti and Simone Bignall [Chapter 1 and 6] (2019) Link
The Eternal Network - Edited by Kristoffer Gansing and Inga Luchs [Networks and Networlds] (2020) Link
Religion in the Age of Digital Reproduction - Boris Groys (2014) Link

Special Guest at 730pm cst: Frank Gillette

Session 3 (February 13th): Autonomy, Aesthetics, and Cultural Production in the Digital Era

Reading
The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture Edited by Hal Foster [Preface and The Discourse of Others] (1983) Link
Art and Society - Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez [Forward, Chapter 3,17] (1965) Link
On Internet and Internet Cinema - Dylan Smith (2025) Link
The Importance of Being Autonomous - Jackson Petsche (2012) Link

Special Guest: Dylan Smith