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 Weerasethakul’s 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)