Set up the computer. Plug it in. Make sure the computer is working. Show the class the Hayes 1200 baud modem; attach the modem to the computer; attach the phone line to the modem; plug in the modem; boot up the communications software.

Using the communications software, dial. Listen to the sound of the modem. Login. Type "Go ACEN". Enter Art Com Electronic Network. Demonstrate arguing online on the Software As Art discussion. Visit the artworks menu. Go to the Hackers Conference. Was this what class prep would be like in a few years? Caydance wondered.

Some of her students would have computers at home; many would not. Two students were bringing in games she had never before played. Would The Lurking Horror upstage John Cage's First Meeting of the Satie Society? What happened in A Mind Forever Voyaging? Finally, before hands on studio work began, in this week's class on Artists Books: Lineage and Creative Practice, in addition to unfurling the printout of First Meeting of the Satie Society, Caydance would unfold the Zork 1 Map of The Great Underground Empire.