Hi, here are the lecture notes from Session 4. It is a PDF - you can click on the links on the last page - but for convenience they are repeated below.
Download: digital_art_1.pdf
Links mentioned in the lecture:
Steven Wilson’s Database of Digital Art and Artists (Information Art)
http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~infoarts/links/wilson.artlinks2.html
Lev Manovich http://www.manovich.net/
Walter Benjamin (Biography on Wikipedia):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Benjamin
Walter Benjamin
Complete text of “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” (1936)
http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/benjamin.htm