COURSE SCHEDULE


week 1 | week 2 | week 3 | week 4 | week 5 | week 6 | week 7
week 8 | week 9 | week 10 | week 11 | week 12 | week 13 | week 14 | week 15

ERES = Availabe from the Electronic Reserve System at Washington University.
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Week 1: Introduction
Tu 1/16
  • Introduction
  • Charles Baudelaire, "Windows" [ERES]
  • Franz Kafka, "The Street Window" [ERES]
  • Crazy girl playing Nintendo Wii
  • Rene Magritte, Le Soir Qui Tombe
Th 1/18
  • E.T.A. Hoffmann, "My Cousin's Corner Window" [ERES]
  • Rainer Maria Rilke, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge (sel) [in-class]
  • William Gates, The Road Ahead (sel) [ERES]
  • Joahnn Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein, Goethe at the Window
Week 2: Understanding (New) Media I
Tu 1/23
  • McLuhan, Understanding Media (3-47, 56-73)
Th 1/25
  • Bolter and Grusin, Remediation (2-84)
Week 3: Understanding (New) Media II
Tu 1/30
  • Manovich, The Language of New Media (18-115)
Th 2/1
  • Friedberg, The Virtual Window (1-58)
  • Alberti, On Painting and Sculpture (sel) [ERES]
  • Albrecht Dürer, Man Drawing a Reclining Woman (1538)
Week 4: Frame I
Tu 2/6
  • Friedberg, The Virtual Window (59-100)
Th 2/8
  • Erwin Panofsky, Perspective as Symbolic Form (sel)
Week 5: Frame II
Tu 2/13
  • Svetlana Alpers, The Art of Describing (sel)
  • W. J. T. Mitchell, Iconology: Image, Text, Ideology (sel)
Th 2/15
  • Ossip Brik, "What the Eye Does Not See" [ERES]
  • John Szarkowski, The Photographer's Eye (sel) [ERES]
  • Edward Weston, "Seeing Photographically" [ERES]
  • Peter Wollen, "Fire and Ice" [ERES]
  • Christian Metz, "Photography and Fetish" [ERES]
  • McLuhan, Understanding Media (188-202)
  • Photographs by Steichen, Weston, Evans, Weegee, Michals, Hilliard, Friedlander
Week 6: Frame III
Tu 2/20
  • Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, "A New Instrument of Vision" [ERES]
  • Bolter and Grusin, Remediation (104-145)
  • Student Images: Submit eight photographic images electronically 48 hours before this session exemplifying the eight varieties of photographic vision discussed in Moholy-Nagy's text, p. 93-94
Th 2/22
  • Leo Baudry, The World in a Frame (sel)
  • McLuhan, Understanding Media (284-296)
  • Framing in Classical Cinema (Renoir, Lang)
Week 7: Window I
Tu 2/27
  • Friedberg, The Virtual Window (101-148)
Th 3/1
  • Windows in Painting (Tischbein, Friedrich, Menzel, Delaunay, Matisse, Magritte, Albers, Schlemmer, Hopper, Hesse, Evans, Eliasson, Friedlander)
  • Carla Gottlieb, The Window in Art: From the Window of God to the Vanity of Man (sel)
Week 8: Window II
Tu 3/6
  • Beatriz Colomina, Privacy and Publicity: Modern Architetcure as Mass Media (sel) [ERES]
  • McLuhan, Understanding Media (123-130)
  • Essay 1 due
Th 3/8
  • Film: Rear Window (1954, dir. Alfred Hitchcock)
  • Cornell Woolrich, "Rear Window" [ERES]
Week 9 : Spring Break
Week 10: Screen I
Tu 3/20
  • Friedberg, The Virtual Window (149-190)
Th 3/22
  • Lee Friedlander, Washington DC (1962)
  • Hiroshi Sugimoto, Selected Theatre Photographs
  • Nam June Paik, Exposition of Music—Electronic Television (1963)
  • John G. Hanhardt, "The Seuol of Fluxus"[ERES]
  • McLuhan, Understanding Media (308-337)
  • Bolter and Grusin, Remediation (184-195)
Week 11: Screen II
Tu 3/27
  • Thierry Bardini, Bootstrapping (sel) [ERES]
  • Bolter and Grusin, Remediation (88-103)
  • Julius Popp, Bit.Fall (2006)
Th 3/29
  • Gibson, Neuromancer
Week 12: Immersion I
Tu 4/3
  • Plato, "Simile of the Cave" [ERES]
  • Oliver Grau, Virtual Art: From Illusion to Immersion (sel)
Th 4/5
  • Film: Strange Days (1995, dir. Kathryn Bigelow)
  • Bolter and Grusin, Remediation (160-183)
Week 13: Immersion II / Student Conference
Tu 4/10
  • Meet in Kemper Art Musuem
  • Donald Preziosi, "Collecting / Museum" [ERES]
  • Tony Bennett, "The Exhibitionary Complex" [ERES]
  • Germano Celant, "A Visual Machine" [ERES]
Th 4/12
  • Student Conference (2:30-5 pm)
Week 14: "Split Screens" I
Tu 4/17
  • Friedberg, The Virtual Window (191-239)
  • Bolter and Grusin, Remediation (184-211)
Th 4/19
  • In-class screening: Time Code (2000, dir. Mike Figgis)
Week 15: "Split Screens" II
Mo 4/23 (7 - 8:30 pm / Koepnick) OR Tu 4/24 (2:30 - 4pm / Fritz)
  • Time Code
  • Manovich, The Language of New Media (293-335)
Th 4/26
  • Friedberg, The Virtual Window (240-247)
  • Bolter and Grusin, Remediation (230-271)

Fr 5/4

  • Essay 2 due (12 noon)