Selected excerpts will be assigned in advance of discussions.

Some books can be found on our class drive.

Books

• Power and Influence by John Kotter
• Relational Aesthetics by Nicolas Bourriaud
• Postproduction by Nicolas Bourriaud
• Artificial Hells by Claire Bishop
• The Art of Not Making by Michael Petry
• The One and the Many by Grant H. Kester
• The Emancipated Spectator by Jacques Ranciere
• Bastard Culture! by Mirko Tobias Schäfer
• Draw It with Your Eyes Closed by Paper Monument
• The Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki

Academic Papers

• The Work of Art in the Age of Mediated Participation: Crowdsourced Art and Collective Creativity by Iona Literat (USC)
• The Role of Deliberate Practice in the Acquisition of Expert Performance by K. Anders Ericsson (Psychological Review)
• When Multiple Creators Are Worse Than One by Rosanna K. Smith and George E. Newman (Yale)

Articles

• Want Collaboration?: Accept—and Actively Manage—Conflict by Jeff Weiss and Jonathan Hughes (HBR)