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Key Reference:
Barthes, Roland. “Objective Literature: Alain Robbe-Grillet.” Two Novels by Robbe-Grillet. New York : Grove Press, 1965. Pp. 11-26.
__________. Sade/Fourier/Lyola.
Bazin, Andre. What is Cinema?Volume 1 & 3. Essays selected and translated by Hugh Gray. Berkeley : University of California Press, 1969-71.
Benjamin, Walter (1936). “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” available at: http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/benjamin.htm
__________. “Little History of Photography.” Trans. M. W. Jephcott and K. Shorter,in Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings. Ed. M. W. Jennings, H. Eiland, and G. Smith. Vol. 2. Cambridge, 1999.
Boman,Ylva; Gustavsson, Bernt; and Nussbaum, Martha. “A Discussion with Martha Nussbaum on ‘Education for Citizenship in an Era of Global Connection’” in Studies in Philosophy and Education no. 21 (2002), 305-311.
Bordwell, David. “Parametric Narratives.” Narration in the Fiction Film. Madison : University of Wisconsin Press: 1985.
_________. Visual Style in Cinema. Frankfurt : Verlog der Autoren, 2001.
Christov-Bakargiev, Carolyn. Janet Cardiff: a Survey of Works including Collaborations with George Bures Miller.
Dalle Vacche, Angela. Cinema and Painting: How Art is Used in Film. Austin : University of Texas Press, 1996.
Deleuze, Gilles. Cinema 1: the Movement-image; translated by Hugh Tomlinson and Barbara Habberjam. Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1986.
__________. Cinema 2: the Time Image; translated by Hugh Tomlinson and Robert Galeta. Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1989.
Eisenstein, Sergei. Film Form: Essays in Film Theory; edited and translated by Jay Leyda. San Diego : Harcourt Brace & Co., 1977.
Elliot, Bridget; Purdy, Anthony. Peter Greenaway: Architecture and Allegory. Chichester , West Sussex : Academy Editions, 1997.
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Higgins, Dick. Horizons: the Poetics and Theory of the Intermedia. Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1983.
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Reference Materials
Theoretical texts & references
Bridget Riley: Dialogues on Art (ed. Robert Kudielka) [ Museum of Modern Art, Cologne , Germany ]
*anthology with contribution from various writers
*good for discussion on "serialism"
Isaac Julien (espace trios-cent-quinze #315: nouveaux médias) [Centre Pompidou]
*good for multiple channel/screen moving image narratives
On Formalism and its Kinds (Sobre el formalisme I els seus tipus) (Richard Wollheim) [Fundacio Antoni Tapies, Barcelona , book published for conference lectures at the Tapies]
*art theory; can be good reference for discussion on "tableaux vivants"
Surrealism: desire unbound (Jennifer Mundy ed.)
Janet Cardiff: a survey of works including collaborations with George Bures Miller (Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev)
Site Matters: Design Concepts, Histories, and Strategies (Carol J. Burns and Andrea Kahn eds.)
Beyond Geometry, Visual Music: synesthesia in art and music since 1900
From cinema & video
[DVD] The Early Films of Peter Greenaway 1 (History of the Avant-garde series)
[DVD] The Early Films of Peter Greenaway 2 (History of the Avant-garde series)
[DVD] Cinema 16: British Short Films
[DVD] onedotzero_select dvd
*featuring music by Amon Tobin, Black Strobe, Legowelt and Lambchop; films by Johnny Hardstaff, p.i.c.s, Shynola and Psyop.
[book with DVD] Motion Blur: onedotzero (graphic motion imagemakers)
[DVD] European Short Films
*for general reference on short films and cinema; with audio commentaries
[DVD] British Short Films
*for general reference on short films and cinema; with audio commentaries
[DVD/CD] Opus Pia (Takagi Masakatsu)
*(30 minutes); for the exhibition “pia” at Pepper’s Gallery in Ginza , Tokyo , curated by Minoru Hatanaka ( July 30, 2001 )
*released by CD and DVD separately: CD with lots of piano and natural environmental sounds mixed for computer; DVD contains video: 11 movies from [pia] series
*good for discussion on sound fabrication and Micro-Narratives in general
[DVD] Bill Viola: the Eye of the Heart (a film by Mark Kidel) [Centre Pompidou]
*with interviews with Viola and extracts from some of his major works…
[DVD] INDEX (DVD edition)
001 – “Kurt Kren: action films”
002 – “Kurt Kren: structural films”
003 – “Granular Synthesis: remixes for single screen”
004 – “Valie Export: 3 experimental short films”
005 – “Gržinić/Šmid: a selection of video works 1990-2003”
006 – “Mara Mattuschka: iris scan”
007 – “Volks Stöhnende Knochenschau: a historic video news reel project”
008 – “Peter Tscherkassky: films from a dark room”
009 – “Constanze Ruhm: video works from 1999-2004”
010 – “Lisl Ponger: traveling light”
011 – “Manfred Neuwirth: [MA] trilogy”
012 – “Gustav Deutsch: film ist. [1-12] DVD version”
013 – “Gertrude Moser-Wagner: concept & coincidence”
014 – “Sonic Fiction: synaesthetic videos from Austria ”
015 – “Oliver Ressler: this is what democracy looks like! Disobbedienti”
Web-site: www.index-dvd.at
Sound Works
[CD] An Anthology of Noise & Electronic Music: second a-chronology 1936-2003 [Tate Modern]
*sound work
*contains rare or unpublished destructured and electronic music by various artists
*includes 40-page critical and biographical notes
[CD] An Anthology of Noise & Electronic Music: third a-chronology 1962-2004 [Tate Modern]
*sound work
*contains rare or unpublished destructured and electronic music by various artists
*includes 48-page critical and biographical notes
[CD] Legacies: works from BEAST vol. 2 [Tate Modern]
*“sound sculpture: cinema for the ear” series
*celebrating 20 years of BEAST
[music CD] Morton Feldman: “Rothko Chapel” & “Why Patterns?”
*music
*for personal interest
[music CD]
Pierre Henry’s Dracula in 8 episodes, 2002
[CD] An Anthology of Noise & Electronic Music: second a-chronology 1936-2003
[CD] An Anthology of Noise & Electronic Music: third a-chronology 1962-2004
Micro-narratives examples available at the ZKM ( May 12, 2005):
Search on-line site: http://on1.zkm.de/zkm/e/
*Walter Giers (1939- )
Art – Statement – Art (1993): a huge sculpture of a cluster of amplifiers hung from the ceiling…
* Nam June Paik (1932- )
Passage (1986): 2-channel video, multiple monitors (tv) built into closets..
*Fabrizio Plessi (1940- )
Tempo Liquido (1993): water wheel with real water and multiple monitors with water images…
La stanza del mare (room of the sea) (1991)
*Franziska Megert (1950- )
Arachne – Vanitas (1991): 6-channel video, 2-channel audio installation; changing bodies either deteriorating or maturing, via burning fire or bites of insects
*Jim Campbell
Library (2003): ghostly shadows projected on a b/w photographs
