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Andy's New MTD Notes

1. old MTD notes are here: Andy's MTD Notes

Week 1 Resources

1. Introduction
2. Go Over syllabus
3. show Sister Wendy's story of painting
4. Oleksiuk New Work ppt
5. Assign proto-assignment 1
   1. send me a representational photo via email

Week 2 resources

1. Review: modernism
   1. Cezanne, Picasso, cubism, dada, surrealism, Bauhaus, social realism, minimalism, abstract expressionism, pop art, Andy Warhol.
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. 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

1. Edison's Miracle of Light
2. Discuss Edison's miracle of light
   1. What is a killer app
   2. electricity: which came first, electricity or the telegraph?
   3. basic Edison biography, human face on history, Menlo Park
   4. 1% inspiration, 99% persperation
   5. phonograph
   6. ELECTRICITY VS. GAS LIGHTING
   7. incandescent filament lamp
   8. all experiemnts were massive failures
   9. carbonized thread
   10. "lightning" conception of electricity
   11. immediate industrial application
   12. did edison invent electricity???
   13. DC electrical novelties
   14. central station, Manhattan NYC
   15. not widely popular
   16. lightbulb hats as PR
   17. finally idea catches on, financial security
   18. AC vs DC
3. 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. James W. Carey
      1. Two Models of Communication
      2. See also James W Carey
4. 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)
5. Assign Project 2,