Un-Framed: Toward an Aesthetic of Contemporary Media Art and Culture

COURSE SCHEDULE

ARES = Available from the Automatic Reserve System at Washington University
GREEN = Recommended Reading
RED = Screenings
BLUE = In-class Screenings (selections)

Week One (1/16) | Introduction

� A.L. Rees, Expanded Cinema: Art, Performance, Film (1-38, 125-135,160-170,241-251,288-298)

· Anne Friedberg, The Virtual Window (1-48)

· Nam June Paik, Zen for Film (1964)

· Anthony McCall, Line Describing a Cone (1973)

· Valie Export, Touch Cinema (1968)

Week Two (1/23) | Deep Time, Temporalized Space

· Don DeLillo, Point Omega (2010)

· Douglas Gordon, 24 Hour Psycho (1993)

· Kate Mondloch, Viewing Time [ARES]

· Erwin Panofsky, Style and Medium in the Motion Pictures [ARES]

Week Three (1/30) | Theorizing Screen and Installation Art 1 [@ Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts]

· Kate Mondloch, Screens: Viewing Media Installation Art

· Claire Bishop, Installation Art: A Critical History (6-101) [ARES]

· Anne Friedberg, The Virtual Window (149-180)

· Teresa Hubbard & Alexander Birchler, Méliès (2011)

· Bill Viola, Ocean without a Shore (2007)

· Nam June Paik, Venus (2009)

· Sophie Calle, Take Care (2007/2012)

Week Four (2/6) | The Spaces of Art Cinema Today

· Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Syndromes and a Century (2006)

· Jihoon Kim, Between Auditorium and Gallery: Perception in Apichatpong Weerasethakuls Film and Installations [ARES]

· Rosalind Galt and Karl Schoonover, The Impurity of Art Cinema [ARES]

· David Bordwell, The Art Cinema as a Mode of Film Practice [ARES]

Week Five (2/13) | 3D Craze

· James Cameron, Avatar (2009)

· Hugo Münsterberg, The Photoplay (1916) (sel) [ARES]

· Andre Bazin The Myth of Total Cinema [ARES]

· Andre Bazin, The Ontology of the Photographic Image [ARES]

· Ray Zone, 3-D Revolution: The History of Modern Stereoscopic Cinema (sel) [ARES]

Week Six (2/20) | Cave Cinema

· Werner Herzog, Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010)

· Thomas Elsaesser and Malte Hagener, Film Theory: An Introduction through the Senses (sel) [ARES]

· Leo Baudry, Ideological Effects of the Basic Cinematographic Apparatus (1974) [ARES]

Week Seven (2/27) | Theorizing Screen and Installation Art 2

· Guiliana Bruno, Public Intimacy: Architecture and the Visual Arts (ix-xii, 3-87, 163-215)

· Rudolf Arnheim, The Dynamics of Architectural Form (sel) [ARES]

· Teresa Hubbard & Alexander Birchler, House with Pool (2004)

· Inigo Manglano-Ovalle, Le Baiser / The Kiss (1999)

Week Eight (3/6) | Architecture and the Spaces of Contemporary Spectacle

· Hal Foster, The Art-Architecture Complex (vii-129)

· Sergei Eisenstein, Montage and Architecture [ARES]

· PROJECT ONE DUE

Week Nine (3/13) | SPRINGBREAK

Week Ten (3/20) | Walking and the Mobilization of Space

· Janet Cardiff, A Large Slow River (2000) & The Muenster Walk (1997)

· Francesco Careri, Walkscapes (sel) [ARES]

· Tsai Ming-Liang, Walker (2012)

Week Eleven (3/27) | Athletic Figures in Space

· Douglas Gordon and Phillipe Parreno, Zidane: A Twenty-First Century Portrait (2006)

· Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, In Praise of Athletic Beauty (sel) [ARES]

· Michael Fried, Absorbed in the Action [ARES]

Week Twelve (4/3) | Gaming

· Alexander Galloway, Gaming: Essays on Algorithmic Culture

· Ian Bogost, How to Do Things with Videogames (9-17) [ARES]

· David Cronenberg, eXistenZ (1999)

Week Thirteen (4/10) | Spaces of Nostalgia 1

· Tacita Dean, Film (2011)

· Tacita Dean, Film (sel) [ARES]

· Tacita Dean, The Green Ray (2001)

· Tsai Ming-Liang, Goodbye Dragon Inn (2003)

· Anne Friedberg, The Virtual Window (191-239)

Week Fourteen (4/17) | Spaces of Nostalgia 2

· Orhan Pamuk, The Museum of Innocence

· Orhan Pamuk, Museums and Novels [ARES]

· Rosalind Krauss, The Cultural Logic of the Late Capitalist Museum [ARES]

Week Fifteen (4/24) | Interfacing the Future

· Alexander Galloway, The Interface Effect

· Anne Friedberg, The Virtual Window (240-247)