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Revision as of 01:48, 20 November 2008

Andy's Syllabus

My version of the syllabus has slightly changed assignments and course schedule. Andy's Syllabus

Week 1 Resources

  1. Go over Syllabus, introductions (1 hour)
  2. Introduce Second Life (part 1), Middle East postal history exhibit on I Am Columbia sim, etc (30 min)
  3. Assign: Project 1 (non-western alphabet), Read Chaps 1-3 Berger (15 min)
  4. Field Trip: Center for Book and Paper Arts, Book and Paper Arts Triennial, Discuss artists' books as media, what is a book? (1 hour)

Week 2 Resources

  1. Discuss Alphabet Assignment (students will present their findings on non-western alphabets)(45 min)
  2. Discuss Berger Chaps 1-3 (30 min)
    1. Saussure: Semiology or Semiotics
      1. Write on screen "I went to a book sale and all I bought was a semicolon." Discuss what makes this funny? Illustrates: Saussure's assertion that language is a system of signs in which the meaning of a term is based on its relations to othr terms in the system. i.e. we would have expected to have purchased a book, not a small piece of punctuation (hey comedy is hard)
      2. signifier: sound object image
      3. signified: concept generated
      4. signs are identified in terms of oppositions, uniqueness
      5. The notion the linguistics might be useful in studying other cultural phenomena is based on two fundamental insights:
        1. first that social and cultural phenomena are mot simply material objects or events but objects and events with meaning, and hence signs;
        2. second that they do not have essences but are defined by a network of relations
    2. Barthes (Myth)
      1. semiology can be applied to history, culture;
      2. sees problems with normativity (mythmaking)
      3. cultural feedback loop: this is the way mass media works: if a "meme" gets picked up and widely distributed, it becomes the norm (Lots of parallels with Cool Hunting)
    3. Lakoff and Johnson (Metaphor and Metanymy)
      1. Semiology (semiotics) can have layers of meaning, impacting logic
      2. Love is war (metaphor works by similarity); Rolls Royce = wealth (metonymy works by association)
    4. James W. Carey
      1. Two Models of Communication
      2. See also James W Carey
  3. Watch Edison's Miracle of Light. Videorecording (VHS). Elevator Pictures, Inc. for the American Experience. WGBH Boston. Matthew Collins, producer/writer. John Walter, director/writer. 1995. (1 hour)
  4. Assign Project 2, McCloud 1-3 (15 min)

Week 3 Resources

  1. Computer Fights Back
  2. Chicago Postal History (15 min)
    1. Chicago 1851
    2. Chicago1854
    3. Chicago1855
    4. Chicago1856
    5. Chicago1858
    6. Chicago1859
  3. Present assignment 2, signifier and signified (1 hour)
  4. McCloud Chaps 1 - 3 (30 min)
    1. Setting the Record Straight
      1. Definition:Images in a deliberate chronological order
      2. Separating form and content in comics, we can deduce that
        1. comics are seen as non-serious art because of the association with superheroes, humor, etc.
        2. McCloud's argument is that comics are a powerful medium. When stripped to the bare essentials of form: words, images, narrative sequence. It is linked to all kinds of other artforms and the history of language itself.
    2. The Vocabulary of Comics
      1. "Visual Vocabulary" is a reference to language
      2. Why are we so involved?
      3. realistic - iconic ~ abstract (abstract is on top of the triangle)
      4. amplificaion through simplification
      5. logos Capitalism Logo
      6. icons are involving due to their simplicity
      7. "icons demand our participation to make them work"
    3. Blood in the Gutter
      1. Closure
      2. Visual iconography=vocabulary, Closure=grammar
      3. Gutter: spaces in between panels
      4. Types of transitions
        1. moment to moment
        2. action to action
        3. subject to subject
        4. scene to scene
        5. aspect to aspect
        6. non-sequitur
      5. comparison of international styles (contrasting Japanese)
      6. subtraction is as important as addition
      7. senses - comics are a visual medium only, but:
        1. all the senses can be engaged due to closure
        2. "work" may be required to reconstruct a scene, referring to kitchen scene
      8. the seen and the unseen (require the spaces in between)
  5. Telegraph (see also Oleksiuk)
    1. OMD Telegraph (OMG!) (3 min)
    2. Get a Job (10 min)
    3. Telegraph (1 min)
    4. More on Telegraphy (20 min)
  6. Assign Project 3, signifier and signified: expanded 2 page essay; assign Berger Chaps 4 - 8
  1. project locusonus
  2. sarc - belfast
  3. audio-only software from Standford - run on linux

Week 4 Resources

  1. Hand in Project 2 signifier and signified expanded 2 page essay
  2. Daguerre and the photo camera [videorecording] / written by Susanne Pach, Herbert W. Franke ; director, Louis Saul ; a production of Target Films, Munich, in association with Bavarian Television ... [et al.]. c1994. (15min)
    1. The fact that this film is dated serves as a jumping off point for discussion about ... criticism . . .... (and technology of today)
    2. Dating photography to 1850's 1860s
    3. Contrast with painting and drawing as imagemaking tools
    4. Update: the ubiquity of the CCD in camera cel phones; previously photography was not a mass medium
  3. The Cinematograph Videorecording (VHS). A Louis Saul Film production in association with Bavarian Television ... et al. Written by Susanne Pach, Herbert W. Franke. Tools of the AV trade. Milestones in science and engineering. Princeton, N.J. Films for the Humanities and Sciences. 1994. (15 min)
    1. The fact that this film is dated serves as a jumping off point for discussion about ... criticism ... (and technology of today), special effects, genre (science fiction) etc. Milies was instumental in creating a new genre, using spectacular equipment.
  4. Discuss Berger 4-8 (45 min)
    1. Aristotle
      1. Narrative, defined
      2. narrative or memetic theory of art: narrative is an analog or metaphor for life
      3. media critic
      4. mimesis - imitation
      5. plays, poetry are imitations of life
      6. comedy tragedy, low/hi art
      7. spectacular equipment for drama - special effects
      8. those who criticize violence in videogames talk about mimesis (still debating)
    2. Todorov
      1. different disciplines, different readings
      2. different kinds of media analysis
      3. everones reading of a text is different
      4. POV
      5. there is no objective reality when it comes to taste
    3. Propp - Morphology of the Folktale
      1. definition
        1. morphology |môrˈfäləjē|
        2. noun ( pl. -gies)
        3. the study of the forms of things, in particular
          1. Biology the branch of biology that deals with the form of living organisms, and with relationships between their structures.
          2. Linguistics the study of the forms of words.
      2. back to language
      3. made up of unique parts
      4. would it be stupid if the hero dies in each chaper
      5. 31 functions
      6. poetry, plays, television shoes, films, computer games all use narrative form; some elements are unique to the medium
      7. genres have unique flavors that color the narrative elements
      8. genre grid
    4. Janice Radway
      1. reading the romance
      2. genre is highly formulaic
      3. the morphology is everything
      4. people read for different reasons
        1. escape, etc
      5. plot picker
    5. Murray Hamlet on the Holodeck
      1. virtual reality
      2. unique characteristics of interactive narrative
      3. branching, etc
      4. interactivity
      5. analog to life
      6. back to aristotle, spectacular equipment
  5. Assign reading, McCloud 4-6
  6. Radio: Out of Thin Air. Videorecording (VHS). Jaffe Productions in association with Actuality Productions for the The History Channel. Written and produced by Chris Mortenson. Producer, Bruce Nash. New York. A&E Television Networks. 1997. (50 min)

Week 5 Resources

  1. DiscussRadio: Out of Thin Air
    1. And now let me tell you about McTavish's skinless wienies
    2. 1915-1960 radio was the dominant mass medium
      1. 1930-1933 4 million radios sold
      2. Golden age of radio
      3. War of the Worlds
    3. Television
      1. Programming changed after television, why?
        1. formats moved to television
        2. other formats emerged
      2. Video killed the radio star (why not TV?)
  2. Recap Technology History
    1. History tells stories
      1. what is a metanarrative?
      2. historiography - one form of criticism that uses metanarrative
      3. metanarrative is what we bring to the table (references Todorov)
      4. metanarrative as in modernism vs. postmodernism
    2. inventors, innovators vs. exploiters of the technology
      1. tesla - edison
      2. lumiere - etc
      3. xerox - apple
      4. microsoft - apple
      5. patents "war analogies"
      6. Electricity (light bulb) - mass medium
      7. Telegraph - business
      8. Photography (Daguerrotype) - professional
      9. Cinema (Cinematograph) - professional
      10. Radio - mass medium - technology in the home, uses electrical grid
  3. Watch McLuhan's Wake. Videorecording (DVD). A production of Primitive Entertainment. Produced by Kristina McLaughlin, Michael McMahon. (95 min)
    1. Chapter 2 |00:00:01| Into the Maelstrom
    2. Chapter 3 |00:03:59| The Lost Laws
    3. Chapter 4 |00:07:30| Sailing the Prairies
    4. Chapter 5 |00:09:32| Enhance
    5. Chapter 6 |00:21:43| The Literary Man
    6. Chapter 7 |00:34:44| Obsolesce
    7. Chapter 8 |00:42:50| The Structuralist
    8. Chapter 9 |00:54:42| Retrieval
    9. Chapter 10 |01:04:22| The Oracle
    10. Chapter 11 |01:16:30| Reversal
    11. Chapter 12 |01:22:54| Silenced
    12. Chapter 13 |01:26:13| The Wake

Week 6 Resources

  1. McLuhan's Wake (25 min)
    1. reading guide
    2. technological determinism
    3. Chapter 15
  2. Discuss McCloud 4-6 (30 min)
    1. Time Frames
      1. Panel is part of the vocabulary of comics, part of its visual iconography
      2. time can be represented in words, or by different panels.
    2. Living in Line
    3. Show and Tell
  3. Handout Project #4
    1. Discuss project principles
  4. Demonstrate Burroughs and Gysin CUT UP method (40 min)
    1. Show Burroughs Shotgun paintings from ubuweb
    2. http://www.ubuweb.com/film/burroughs_shotgun.html
    3. need: working stapler and scissors, highlighter
    4. Cut Up copy of pages 2 and 3 (introduction) of Berger
    5. students pull 3 strips out of a bucket
    6. must use at least 2 of the 3 strips in their comic book.
  5. Second Life Demo (part 2) (60 min)
    1. Navigations
    2. Photos
  6. Comic Life
    1. Basic techniques

Week 7 Resources

  1. Survival Research Labs
    1. ubuweb, also library
    2. discussion of work
    3. war, robots
    4. what is postmodernism
  2. Sister Wendy's story of Painting
    1. Sister Wendy’s story of painting [videorecording] / written & presented by Sister Wendy Beckett ; series producer, David Willcock ; a BBC production in association with WGBH/Boston.

Published: Beverly Hills, Calif. : CBS Fox Video ; [England] : BBC Video ; Beverly HIlls, Calif. : Distributed by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, [1997]

    1. Picasso, cubism
    2. matisse
    3. surrealism
    4. kandinsky
    5. klee
    6. New York
    7. Abstract Expressionism, etc
    8. Pollack
    9. DeKooning
    10. Mark Rothko
    11. Warhol
    12. Jasper John
    13. Frank Stella
    14. Agnes Martin
    15. Lucien Freud

Week 8 Resources

  1. Jazz, Harlem
    1. Jazz [videorecording] / a Florentine Films production ; produced by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick ; a film [directed] by Ken Burns ; written by Geoffrey C. Ward. Published: [Washington, D.C.?] : PBS DVD ; Burbank, CA : distributed by Warner Home Video, c2000 (watched first 60min of episode 3)
    2. A Great day in Harlem [videorecording] / Castle Hill Productions. Published: Stamford, CT : Capital Cities/ABC Video Pub. ; Chatsword, CA : Image Entertainment [distributor], c1995.
  2. Bakhtin
    1. Dialogic
    2. Intertextuality
    3. texts often relate to one another
    4. see also metanarrative
    5. Parody (uses other familiarity of texts)
    6. unknown cultural referent error
  3. Williams
    1. Cultural Hegemony
    2. the sun never sets on the british empire
    3. British%20Empire.png
    4. celebrities
    5. famous for being famous
    6. see also metanarrative

Week 9 Resources

  1. Discussion of Second Life/Comic Life Comic Book Project
  2. Andy Warhol [videorecording] / an RM Arts production ; producer/director, Kim Evans ; edited and presented by Melvyn Bragg. Published: [Chicago, Ill.] : Home Vision 1987.
  3. Recap of Weeks 1-9, handout on same.
  4. Assigned for next week: two page paper of possible research topics for final paper.

Week 10 Resources

  1. Discussion of research topics (2 page paper)
  2. DaDa and Pop culture
    1. pop culture and art borrow from each other
      1. http://www.391.org/ Hans Richter, Rhythmus 21
      2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoNtIkRm1HE The Shins, Sleeping Lessons
  3. Discussion of research topics (2 page paper)
  4. Discussion of Andy Warhol, Media Artist, pop artist
    1. Visual sampling techniques, media culture (post Dada)
    2. Trained as a commercial artist
    3. Mixed commercialism with art, Brillo Pad boxes, cambpell soup cans
    4. was very aware of relatedness of consumer culture and media consumption
    5. paintings, books and prints, drawing, sculpture, audio, time capsules (collecting), television, fashion, performance art, photography, computer graphics
      1. silk screens, multiples (themes: celebrity, death, mass media as everyday things)
  5. Berger, Chap 13: Henri Lefebvre (Everyday Life in the Modern World)
    1. Swarm of signs
      1. Building blocks of everyday culture
      2. Advertsing/consumption
      3. Finding meaning in things becomes confused
      4. Becomes ideology or propaganda
    2. Symbols/signs/signals
      1. Traffic signals
      2. Color code / Dept of Homeland Security
    3. Terrorist society born out of oppression
    4. Festival
      1. the antidote to terror
  6. Andy Warhol, celebrity
    1. films
      1. 16mm Bolex
      2. improvisation, realism
      3. the factory
    2. music
      1. Velvet Underground
        1. (Lou Reed)
        2. Black Angel's Death Song (concrete poetry, Beat poetry, jazz, scat)
        3. Murder Mystery
  7. DaDa and abstract expresssionism as modernism (helps to redefine art)
    1. Jazz improvisation, scat (nonsense words)
      1. Ella Fitzgerald, Lady Be Good! 1957: http://ubu.wfmu.org/sound/ethno/fitzgerald/mp3/Fitzgerald-Ella_Lady-Be-Good.mp3
      2. Maurice Lemaître - "Lettre Rock", 1958. Interpreted by the author and Paul Thorel, accompanied by amateur jazz singers. "Maurice Lemaître Presents Le Lettrism", Columbia. (1:51)http://ubu.artmob.ca/sound/artist_tellus/Tellus-21-Artists_02_lemaitre.mp3
    2. music concret Nicolas Collins "Devil"s Music 1 (Excerpt)" (3:15) http://ubu.wfmu.org/sound/tellus_20/Tellus-20_10-Devils-Music.mp3
    3. electronic music, http://www.ubu.com/outsiders/365/2003/260.shtml
    4. RUN DMC, Aerosmith (Mashup) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8A0rhVG91U
      1. improvisation, guitar solo, sampling (music concret)
  8. The merchants of cool [videorecording] / produced by Barak Goodman, Rachel Dretzin ; directed by Barak Goodman ; written by Rachel Dretzin ; a Frontline co-production with 10/20 Productions, LLC ; WGBH Educational Foundation ; WGBH Boston. Published:[Alexandira, Va.] : Distributed by PBS Home Video, [2003]
  9. Berger, Chap 14: Michel de Certeau (The Practice of Everyday Life)
    1. Strategies and Tactics
      1. interactive media - is it really interactive?
      2. user-centered media, "free labor" - networked communitites
    2. Media Use, or "Reading" the media
      1. watching TV- entertainment or selling soap? or both
      2. playing videogames - product placement
  10. Assign for next week: Chapter 16, 17, 18, 19
  11. Handback of GraphicNovel assignment

Week 11 Resources

Week 12 Resources

  1. Fluxus/Maciunus
    1. loose knit group, europe USA, japan
      1. http://ubu.artmob.ca/video/fluxfilm_27_sharits.mpg
    2. Happenings
    3. Alison Knowles
      1. http://www.aknowles.com/
    4. performance art
    5. multi media
    6. Mailart as a reaction to Media
    7. Mail Art today
    8. Name June Paik
  2. Integrated Circuit
    1. video art
    2. porta packs
    3. switchers
  3. Music Videos/Cable TV
    1. David Bowie
    2. Talking Heads
  4. Laurie Anderson _Home of the Brave_
  5. Computer graphics/print/video
    1. No Cover, fanzines
    2. Designer Mustard Gas

Week 13 Resources

no class - Thanksgiving

Week 14 Resources

Week 15 Resources

under development== etc...

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