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Class Schedule
Week One (Jan 17) // (New) Media Art: road maps and genealogy
Recommended readings:
Oliver Grau, ed.. Media Art Histories. Cambridge, Massachusetts; London, England: the MIT Press, 2007. [**Read "introduction]
Noah Wardrip-Fruin; and Nick Montfort, eds: The New Media Reader (2003) . [**Read the two introductions by Janet H. Murray and Lev Manovich.] |
Week Two (Jan 24) // New Media Dialectics: Singularity & Plurality
Week Three (Jan 31) // Generative Art & Literature
Recommended readings:
Alain Robbe-Grillet, Bruce Morrissette, Diane Kirkpatrick, Karlis Racevskiks, and David Leach, Generative Literature and Generative Art: New Essays (York Press, 1983).
Steven Johnson: Emergence: the Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities and Software.London: Penguin Books, 2001. [**Read at least the first two chapters.]
Jorges Luis Borges, "The Garden of Forking Paths" (with introduction), in Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Nick Montfort, The New Media Reader, pp. 29-34.
Raymond Queneau, "A Hundred Thousand Billion Poems" |
Week Four (Feb 14) // Archaeologies of the moving image: early cinema & the avant-garde (1)
Recommended readings:
Michel Foucault: "The Archaeology of Knowledge" (1969); published by Routledge in 1972. [first three chapters]
Tom Gunning, "'Primitive' Cinema: a frame-up? or the trick's on us" |
Week Five (Feb 21) // Archaeologies of the moving image: early cinema & the avant-garde (2)
Recommended readings:
Tom Gunning : "This is Called Moving: a Critical Poetics of Film"; "Foreword to Abigail Child's This is Called Moving: a Critical Poetics of Film. |
Week Six (Feb 28) // Visuality & Vision revisited: three views
Recommended readings:
Elsaesser, Thomas. "The New Film History as Media Archaeology."
Nicholas Mirzoeff: "On Visuality," in Journal of Visual Culture 5:1 (2006). 53-79.
W.J.T. Mitchell: “There Are No Visual Media,” in Journal of Visual Culture 4:2 (2005). 257-66. |
Week Seven (Mar 6) // Audio, Visual, Textual...and the Synesthetic
Recommended readings:
Kerry Brougher; Jeremy Strick; Ari Wiseman; and Judith Zilczer, 2005: Visual Music: synesthesia in art and music since 1900. Thames and Hudson.
Dick Higgins: Horizons: the Poetics and Theory of the Intermedia. Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1983. [*See especially Chapter 2: "Intermedia," pp. 19-28] |
Week Eight (Mar 13) //Sound: language? world? the performance of technology? -- an interdisciplinary view
Recommended readings:
Marc Battier: "What the GRM brought to music: from musique concrète to acousmatic music"; in Organized Sound 12(3), 2007. 188-206.
François Delalande: "The Technological Era of 'sound': a challenge for musicology and a new range of social practices"; in Organized Sound 12(3), 2007. 251-8.
Jeff Snyder: "Pierre Schaeffer: Inventor of Musique Concrete" available at http://csunix1.lvc.edu/~snyder/em/schaef.html |
Week Nine (Mar 27) // Performativity and action-research
Recommended readings:
J.L. Austin, "How to Do Things with Words, Lecture II" in Henry Bial (ed.) The Performance Studies Reader; Routledge, London & New York, 2004; pp. 147-53.
Judith Butler, "Performative Acts and Gender Constitution," in Henry Bial (ed.) The Performance Studies Reader; Routledge, London & New York, 2004; pp. 154-66.
Bjorn Gustavsen, "Theory and Practice: the Mediating Discourse," in Peter Reason and Hilary Bradbury (eds.) Handbook of Action Research: Participative Inquiry and Practice; Sage, London, Thousand Oaks, New Delhi, 2001. 17-26.
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Week Ten (Apr 3) // Performativity and research-creation
Recommended readings:
M Brinton Lykes, "Creative Arts and Photography in Participatory Action Research in Guatemala," in Peter Reason and Hilary Bradbury (eds.) Handbook of Action Research: Participative Inquiry and Practice; Sage, London, Thousand Oaks, New Delhi, 2001. 363-71.
Vidual Voices, 100 photographs of village China by the Women of Yuannan Province. <中國雲南農村婦女自我寫真集> |
Week Eleven (Apr 10) //Walking the city and mapping (1)
Recommended readings:
Rob Shields, “Fancy footwork: Walter Benjamin’s notes on flânerie,” in The Flâneur, ed. by Keith Tester; London,. Routledge, 1994.
Lefebvre, H. 1991 (1974): The Production of Space. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.
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Week Twelve (Apr 17) //Walking the city & mapping: The Life of Things
Recommended readings:
Sophie Calle, with the participation of Paul Auster, Double Game; London : Violette, 1999.
Neil Cummings (ed.), Reading Things; Chance Books, London, 1993.
(Fluxus member) Daniel Spoerri, Annotated Topography of Chance; New York, 1966. |
Week Thirteen (Apr 24) //From objects to archive to database
Recommended readings:
Vincenzo Lombardo, Andrea Valle, Fabrizio Nunnari, Francesco Giordana, Andrea Arghinenti, “Archeology of Multimedia,” in the conference proceedings of the 14th Annual ACM International Conference on Multimedia; Arts session #1: Installation & Archaeology; Santa Barbara (USA), 2006; pp. 269-78.
Paul Crompton: “The Development of a Digital Image Database of Clinical Photographs,” in Journal of Audiovisual Media in Medicine, vol. 23, no. 2, pp. 54-60. |
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