A layered reading system: critical and pathway-specific core texts first, followed by optional technical and production-oriented references.
A critical account of AI art that moves beyond machine-creativity tests to histories of robotic, networked and algorithmic art, while connecting labour, automation, ecology, power and artistic practice.
Week 2 core extract; return in Week 7.Connects machine-learning system design with histories of cybernetic, artificial-life, robotic, sound and electronic-literature practice; treats training, models, data and evaluation as artistic material.
Week 2 or Week 7 selected chapters.A concise argument separating technical ability, artistic intention, authorship and social recognition, useful for debating automation and creative labour.
Week 2 reading response and debate.A field overview of email art, websites and artist software, with attention to authorship, identity, intellectual property, economics, power and networked culture.
Week 3 historical frame; revisit in Week 8.A studio-oriented handbook of open creative prompts, short programming studies and pedagogical reflections that positions code as an expressive and critical medium.
Week 3 workshop; Week 8 project prompt.A field survey tracing video art from early experiments and performance to installation, multichannel work and digital practice, with attention to changing technologies, artists and viewing contexts.
Week 4 video-art foundations; revisit in Week 9.Examines game engines and modding as unstable aesthetic systems, connecting glitches, procedural space, estrangement and experimental interventions to the artistic and critical possibilities of game technologies.
Week 5 game-art introduction; revisit in Week 10.Further theoretical, historical, technical and production-oriented titles are retained as optional references. Availability may vary; only confirmed open resources or locally supplied files are linked.
A cross-form animation aesthetics survey covering 2D, 3D, stop motion, abstraction, sound, structure, audiences, representation and institutional contexts.
Week 4 foundations; Week 9 analysis.Links alternative games to art, everyday play, activism and social questions, asking how mechanics can challenge dominant conventions and carry critical meaning.
Week 5 introduction; Week 10 mechanic critique.A beginner prompt handbook and visual-style catalogue for rapid SDXL experimentation rather than art-historical or critical study.
Optional Week 2 visual-style experiment.A broad seven-day introduction to machine learning, neural networks, NLP, generative AI and practical applications for nontechnical readers.
Optional Week 1–2 technical baseline.A nontechnical explanation of large language models, training, privacy, security, prompts, productivity, misuse and wider legal and social consequences.
Week 2 or Week 7 selected chapters.An online guide organising composition, colour, media and style vocabulary for iterative Stable Diffusion prompting.
Week 2 prompt-language critique.A practical hybrid workflow spanning sketches, img2img, inpainting, outpainting, upscaling, repair and integration with painting software.
Week 4 asset-production supplement.A frequently updated technical guide to installation, parameters, models, img2img, repair, training and interface choices.
Student self-service troubleshooting.No reliable publisher, catalogue, ISBN or contents record was located during the reading-list review.
Do not assign until bibliographic evidence is supplied.A practical handbook covering local interfaces, models, parameters, img2img, extensions, defects and troubleshooting through anime/manga examples.
Optional local-model workflow reference.A production guide for 2D game backgrounds, characters, LoRA training, props, icons, maps and interface textures.
Week 5/10 asset supplement—not a game-art theory text.