Warren Sack / Writings, Interviews, and Reviews

Tolga Taluy, "Interview," for Season 18: A curatorial project by Session 18 of l'Ecole du Magasin (Ecole du Magasin, Grenoble, France, 2009)
Trebor Scholz, "Interview with Warren Sack on New Media Art Education," in nettime-l, Monday 24 January 2005
Joseph Dumit, "Artificial Participation: An Interview with Warren Sack," Zeroing in on the Year 2000: The Final Edition (Late Editions, 8) George E. Marcus, Editor (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000)

Dave Barton, "The Tech/Art Installations at the UCI Beall Center Reveal Ghosts In the Machine," Orange County Weekly (January 28, 2009)
Marisa Olson, "Digital Art Under the Sun," Rhizome.org (January 13, 2009)
Christiane Paul, "Digital Art/Public Art: Governance and Agency in the Networked Commons," in First Monday: Peer Reviewed Journal on the Internet (Special Issue #7: Command Lines: The Emergence of Governance in Global Cyberspace)
Steve Dietz, "Public Sphere_s," in Medien Kunst Netz 2 / Media Art Net 2: Thematische Schwerpunkte / Key Topics, Vol. 2, Rudolf Frieling and Dieter Daniels, editors (Springer Wien, 2005).
Matt Mirapaul, New York Times, Arts Section, "Cross-Cultural Ventures With Digital Artworks"; review of the Walker Art Center show with particular emphasis on and large image of the "Translation Map," Monday, February 17, 2003, mention on page B1; full article on page B3
Frances Richard, "Utterance is place enough: mapping conversation," Cabinet Magazine: A quarterly magazine of art and culture, Issue 2, Spring 2001 (pp. 76-81).

"Aesthetics of Information Visualization," to appear in Context Providers, Christiane Paul, Victoria Vesna, and Margot Lovejoy, Editors (Bristol, UK: Intellect, forthcoming)
with John Kelly and Michael Dale, "Searching the Net for Differences of Opinion," in Online Deliberation: Design, Research, and Practice, Todd Davies and Seeta Gangadharan (editors), University of Chicago Press, forthcoming; an earlier version of this appeared in the Proceedings of the Second Conference on Online Deliberation: Design, Research, and Practice, Stanford University, May 2005; and, also in the Working Papers Series, Center on Organizational Innovation, Columbia University.
"Memory," in Software Studies: A Lexicon, Matthew Fuller, editor (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2008)
"Picturing the Public," in Structures of Digital Participation, Joseph Karaganis, Editor (New York: SSRC Press, 2008): pp. 164-174.
"Discourse Architecture and Very Large-Scale Conversations," in Digital Formations: IT and New Architectures in the Global Realm, Robert Latham and Saskia Sassen, Editors (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005).
"Agonistics: A Language Game," in Making Things Public: Atmospheres of Democracy, Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel, Editors (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2005)
"Information and Communication Technologies," in Shock and Awe: War on Words, Bregje van Eekelen, Jennifer Gonzalez, Bettina Stoetzer, Anna Tsing, Editors (Santa Cruz, CA: New Pacific Press, 2004)
"Reply to Phoebe Sengers and Rebecca Ross" and "Reply to Jill Walker," in First Person: New Media as Story, Performance, and Game, Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Pat Harrigan, Editors (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2004)
"On-Line Language Games," in Papers (series of 12 journals; first edition 500) Katie Holten, Editor (Limited Edition for the 50th Venice Biennale, Irish Pavilion, Italy, November 2003). Note: Katie Holten was Ireland's artist-representative at the 50th Venice Biennale and the edited Papers is her art piece for the Biennale.
"Actor-Role Analysis: Ideology, Point of View and the News," in New Perspectives on Narrative Perspective, Will Van Peer and Seymour Chatman, Editors (New York: SUNY Press, 2001)
with Elliot Soloway, "From PROUST to CHIRON: Intelligent Tutoring System Design as Iterative Engineering; Intermediate Results are Important!," in Computer Assisted Instruction and Intelligent Tutoring Systems: Shared Issues and Complementary Approaches, Jill Larkin, Carol Scheftic, and Robin Chabay, editors, (Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers, 1992)

"Artificial Intelligence," in The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, Volume 1, Michael Kelly, editor-in-chief (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998): 123-130; an expanded version is "Network Aesthetics," in Database Aesthetics, Victoria Vesna, Editor (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2007)

with Flore Barcellini, Françoise Détienne and Jean-Marie Burkhardt, "A socio-cognitive analysis of online design discussions in an Open Source Software community," in Interacting with Computers: The interdisciplinary journal of Human-Computer Interaction (Elsevier), Volume 20, Issue 1, January 2008: 141-165
with Françoise Détienne, Jean-Marie Burkhardt, Flore Barcellini, Nicolas Ducheneaut and Dilan Mahendran, "A Methodological Framework for Socio-Cognitive Analyses of Collaborative Design of Open Source Software," Journal of Computer-Supported Cooperative Work. Earlier version presented at the Workshop on Distributed Collective Practices, ACM CSCW, Chicago, November 2004.
"What does a very large-scale conversation look like?" Leonardo: Journal of Electronic Art and Culture, Volume 35, Number 4, August 2002; earlier conference version in the Electronic Arts Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH 2001, Los Angeles, CA, August 2001: 88-95; and in the book First Person: New Media as Story, Performance, and Game, Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Pat Harrigan, Editors (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2004)
"Conversation Map: An Interface for Very Large-Scale Conversations," Journal of Management Information Systems, Vol. 17 No. 3, Winter 2001 pp. 73 - 92; earlier conference version appeared as "Discourse Diagrams: Interface Design for Very Large Scale Conversations" in the Proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Persistent Conversations Track, Maui, HI: IEEE Computer Society, January 2000.
"Mapping very large-scale conversations," Cabinet: A Quarterly magazine of art and culture, Issue 2, Spring 2001; earlier conference version appeared in the Proceedings of DIAC 2000: Shaping the Network Society: The Future of the Public Sphere in Cyberspace, Seattle, WA: Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility, May 2000; reprinted in Katie Holten and others: Drawings. Instances. Collaborations + Texts, Katie Holten, Editor (Dublin, Ireland: Temple Bar Gallery & Studios, 2002).
"Artificial Human Nature," Design Issues, Volume 13, (Summer 1997): 55-64.
"Painting Theory Machines," Art and Design (May 1996): 80-92.

with Michael Dale, Abram Stern, and Mark Deckert, "System Demonstration: Metavid.org: A social website and open archive of congressional video," in Proceedings of dgo.2009: The 10th Annual International Conference on Digital Government: Social Networks: Making Connections between Citizens, Data, and Government, Puebla, Mexico, May 17-20, 2009. [The proceedings were published, but the conference was canceled due to the H1N1 virus.]
with Jo Ann Sison, "What Makes a Search Engine Good for Democracy? Public Opinion Polling and the Evaluation of Software," presented at Tools for Participation: Collaboration, Deliberation, and Decision Support; Directions and Implications of Advanced Computing; Conference on Online Deliberation (DIAC-2008/OD2008) Berkeley, CA., June 26-29, 2008: pp. 13-22.
with Tom Erickson and Susan Herring, "Workshop Description: Discourse Architectures: Designing and Visualizing Computer-Mediated Conversation," in the Proceedings of ACM CHI 2002, Minneapolis, MN, April 22nd, 2002.
"Conversation Map: A Content-based Usenet Newsgroup Browser" in the Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, New Orleans, LA: Association for Computing Machinery, January 2000; reprinted in From Usenet to CoWebs: Interacting with Social Information Spaces, Christopher Lueg and Danyel Fisher, Editors (New York: Springer, 2002): pp. 92-109
"Stories and Social Networks," in the Proceedings of the Workshop on Narrative Intelligence, Cape Cod, MA: American Association of Artificial Intelligence, November 1999; reprinted in Narrative Intelligence, Phoebe Sengers and Michael Mateas, Editors (Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2002).
"On the Computation of Point of View," in Proceedings of the National Conference of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 94), Student Papers, Seattle, WA, July 31-August 4, 1994.
"Future News: Constructing the Audience Constructing the News," in Proceedings of WRITE-94, Vancouver, Canada, June 1994.
with Marc Davis, "IDIC: Assembling Video Sequences from Story Plans and Content Annotations," in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems, Boston, MA, May 14-19, 1994.
"Knowledge Compilation and the Language Design Game," in Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Second International Conference (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) Claude Frasson, Gilles Gauthier, and Gordon McCalla (editors), (Berlin: Spring-Verlag, 1992).

with Randy Bennett, "Method and System for Interactive Computer Science Testing, Analysis and Feedback," patent number 5,259,766, issued Nov. 9, 1993.

"Design for Very Large-Scale Conversations," Dissertation (Ph.D. in the Media Arts and Sciences) MIT Media Laboratory, 2000.
Committee: Kenneth Haase, Walter Bender, John Rajchman, Krzysztof Wodiczko

"Actor-Role Analysis: Ideology, Point of View, and the News," Thesis (S.M. in the Media Arts and Sciences) MIT Media Laboratory, 1994.
Committee: Kenneth Haase, Edith K.E. Ackermann, Teun A. van Dijk

"Public Space, Public Discussion and Social Computing," Working Papers Series, Center on Organizational Innovation, Columbia University.
"The Translation Map v0.02: A User's Manual" (2004)
with Abbe Don (for a course given by Henry Lieberman and Hal Abelson) "Splicer: An Intelligent Video Editor", MIT Media Laboratory, Intelligent Interface Software Design Workshop (Spring 1993)

Working Title: The Software Arts

Introduction (Draft): available on request
Chapter 1: Arithmetic (Draft): available on request