New Genres/New
Media: Virtual reserves
[new reserves and "lecture
links" will be added each week]
January 27th:
LECTURE LINKS:
Excellent link site to
various animations derived from Eadweard Muybridge's motion studies
Cinematheque
Francaise: Etienne-Jules Marey: Movement in Light exhibition site
[French-language site: fewer
broken links]
[See also the Musee d'Orsay's recent
Marey exhibition site, Movements of Air]
Read more about Sergei Mikhailovich Produkin-Gorskii's pioneering color
photography experiments
February 3rd:
RICHARD WAGNER
"The
Art-Work of the Future"
HUGO BALL
Sound works
LECTURE LINKS:
Watch George Melies'
A Trip to the Moon
Listen to more of Luigi
Russolo's scores for Intonarumori
February 10th: NO CLASS (College Art Association conference): watch for next week's reserves!
February 16th:
SAMUEL BECKETT
Read an excerpt from Samuel
Beckett's Molloy
ALLAN KAPROW
Artist's statement for Push-Pull: A Furniture Comedy for Hans
Hoffman
LECTURE LINKS:
Watch Samuel Beckett's only
film, Film
[Read director Alan
Schneider's essay on directing Film from Beckett's script]
Watch the BBC
Symphony's debut orchestral performance of John Cage's 4'33" in 2004
Watch documentary on
William Burroughs' work and life, Burroughs: The Movie
Read more of Allan Kaprow's writings on performance art, and recorded examples
on Ubuweb
February 24th: No virtual reserve materials this week.
LECTURE LINKS:
Watch Merce
Cunningham's 1964 choreography for Septet
Watch excerpt from Robert
Rauschenberg's Pelican
Read the
Marshall McLuhan issue of Aspen magazine, featuring work by John Cage and
Grace Glueck
March 3rd:
JEAN BAUDRILLARD
Excerpt
from "Simulacra and Simulations -I. The Precession of Simulacra"
GUY DEBORD
"Critique of
Separation"
LECTURE LINKS:
Read
Thomas Doherty's Chronicle of Higher Education piece on Web film
criticism
Read Thomas Levin's interesting analysis of Guy Debord's tortured relationship
with film and TV
March 10th:
ROBERT SMITHSON
A
Heap of Language (1966)
RICHARD SERRA
Verb
List Compilation: Actions to Relate to Oneself (1967-68)
DOUGLAS HUEBLER
Vertical Line
(1970)
LECTURE LINKS:
Watch Robert Morris and
Carolee Schneemann in Site
Barthes' "text" in action?
Spike Lee's use of Aaron Copland in He Got Game
March 17th:
NO CLASSES: SPRING BREAK!
March 24th:
VITO ACCONCI
"Television, Furniture, and Sculpture: The Room with an American View"
BAS JAN ADER
Watch selected short works
from the late Ader's website (1970-71)
WILLIAM WEGMAN
Watch
selections from Wegman's early video work (1972)
LYNDA BENGLIS
Watch
Benglis' Female Sensibility (1974)
LECTURE LINKS:
Watch Robert Smithson's
Hotel Palenque (1969), and
(with wife Nancy Holt) the
very funny East Coast/West Coast (1969)
Stills and excerpt from Nam Jun Paik's Global Groove (1973)
Read New York Times Magazine feature on Germano Celant and the Prada
Foundation
Bruce Nauman's Stamping in the
Studio (1968) and other early film and video pieces
Vito Acconci's Theme Song
(1973), and other early film and video pieces
March 31st:
WOODY VASULKA AND STEINA
Watch excerpted video
work from the 40-year careers of Woody Vasulka and Steina
BILL VIOLA
Watch excerpts of Bill Viola's
recent work from his 1998 retrospective at SFMoMA
April 7th:
MEETINGS: NO READINGS! Don't forget your research-paper proposals, and meetings at Miller-Nichols Library Reference
April 14th:
AMELIA JONES
"Televisual
Flesh: Activating Otherness in New Media Art"
NICOLAS
BOURRIAUD
Read excerpts from Relational Aesthetics
LECTURE LINKS:
Laurie Anderson's music video
for "O Superman" (1981)
Paul McCarthy discusses
some of his early video work
BBC Interview with Mona Hatoum regarding her work's physicality (including
Corps Etranger)
Watch a seclection of video work by Pipilotti Rist
April 21st:
EXAMS DUE/DISCUSSED: NO READINGS!
LECTURE LINKS:
Watch
Bill Viola's Sweet Light (1977) and Viola interview about and
excerpts from Ocean
Without a Shore (2007)
Takeshi Murata's
Monster Movie (2005) and
Silver (2006)
Watch a selection of Ryan
Trecartin's films (including
I-Be Area [2007])