Dates & Assignments: Dates below indicate the day on which each assignment is due. For Example: On 9/20 you should be prepared to discuss Deirdre Boyle's 'A Brief History of American Documentary Video' and have watched TVTV's Four More Years in the Media Resource Center (MRC) in Moffitt Library. If an assignment says '(Response)' next to it, you must write a short response essay about that video and post it to the blog the night before the class meets. For example: on 9/19 by 8pm you will have posted your response to Four More Years on the course Blog. Plan ahead!
Week 1: Video Art: What is it?
8/28 In class: Introduction to the class.
8/30 Read: Michael Rush, Video Art - Chapter 1 Watch: Peter Campus, Double Vision (Response).
Week 2: Video as Document /Histories
9/4 Read: Vito Acconci, 'Television, Furniture, Sculpture: A Room with an American View' in Illuminating Video, p. 125-134 AND Michael Rush, Video Art, Chapter 2 Watch: Chris Burden, Documentation of Selected Works; Terry Fox, The Children's Tapes (Response).
9/6 Read: Martha Rosler, 'Video: Shedding the Utopian Moment,' Illuminating Video, p. 31-50; Marita Sturken, 'Paradox in the Evolution of an Art Form,' Illuminating Video, p.101- 121.
Week 3: Marshall McLuhan
9/11 Diagnostic Essay Due
9/13 Read: Marshall McLuhan, 'The Medium is the Message,' 'Media: Hot and Cool' & 'The Gadget Lover' in Reader.
Recommended: Videodrome (1983), David Cronenberg (Director.)
Week 4: Artists' Television – Artists Making Television
9/18 Read: Michael Shamberg, Guerilla Television, Selections in Course Reader. Watch: TVTV, Four More Years on line or in the MRC, call # AVMC: VIDEO/C9410. 60min. (Response)
9/20 Read: Deidre Boyle, “A Brief History of American Documentary Video,” Illuminating Video, p. 51-71; Kathy Rae Huffman, “Video Art: What’s TV Got To Do With It,” Illuminating Video, p. 81-90.
Recommended for this week: Medium Cool (1969), Haxell Wexler (Director); The Big Chill (1983), Michael Shamberg (Director.)
Check it out in the MRC, or at the video store, or on Netflix.
Week 5: Feedback - Artists Commenting on Television
9/25 Read: David Joselit, “Feedback,” course reader. Watch: Richard Serra, Television Delivers People and Boomerang (Response)
9/27 Read: Joselit, cont. Watch: Martha Rosler, Born to Be Sold: Martha Rosler Reads the Strange Case of Baby M. In MRC AVMC: VIDEO/C 3082 (Response).
Week 6: Narcissism
10/2 Read: Rosalind Krauss, 'Video: The Aesthetics of Narcissism,' and Vito Acconci, '10 Point Plan for Video' in Course Reader Watch: Vito Acconci, Theme Song and Undertone (Response)
10/4 Read: Anne Wagner, 'Performance, Video, and the Rhetoric of Presence,' Course Reader. Watch: Vito Acconci & Kathy Dillon, Pryings. (Response).
Week 7: Real Time
10/9 Read: Nauman Interviews and Paul Virilio, 'Visual Crash' in Reader Watch: Bruce Nauman, Stamping in the Studio & Walking in an Exaggerated Manner Around the Perimeter of a Square; Charlemagne Palestine, Island Song (Response).
10/11 Paper #2, first draft - peer edit in class
Recommended: Russian Ark (2002), Alexander Sokurov (Director.)
Week 8: Surveillance
10/16 Read: Dan Graham Selections in Reader.
10/18 Paper 2 draft returned. Read: CTRL Space excerpts in the Reader: Nauman, Scher, Farocki, Surveillance Camera Players, Raad, Paik.
Week 9: Surveillance & New Technologies/ Appropriation
10/23 Read Steve Mann 'Reflectionism and Diffusionism: New Tactics for Deconstructing the Video Surveillance Super Highway' and Mark Caro, 'A Point and Shoot Exhibit' both in Reader. Watch/view documentation: Marie Sester, Access; Ken Goldberg, Demonstrate (also view archive by # of comments); Wafaa Bilal, Domestic Tension .
10/25 Read: Sherri Irvin, “Appropriation and Authorship in Contemporary Art” and Peggy Phelan, “Hinckley and Ronald Regan: Reenactment and the Ethics of the Real” both in Reader. Watch: Robert Morris and Lynda Bengils, “Exchange” on UBU.com. (Response).
Week 10: Appropriation & Reenactment
10/30 Read: Robert Blackson, 'Once More… With Feeling,' and Randy Kennedy, 'Giving New Life to Protests of Yore' both in Reader. Watch: Mark Tribe, The Port Huron Project; Jeremy Deller, The Battle of Orgreave. (Response)
11/1 Paper 2, final draft.
Week 11: New Technologies - Appropriation
11/6 Read: Video Art, Chapter 4.
Watch: Michael Bell-Smith, Trapped in the Closet All at Once; Cory Arcangel, see Super Mario Clouds. (Response)
11/8 Final Paper Proposal Due - Trip to BAM
Week 12:
11/13 In Class: Talk About Final Proposals Library Research Trip
11/15 Final Paper Proposal discussion - Writing Workshop
Week 13: Thanksgiving - WORK ON FINAL PAPER!
11/20 Research Day
11/22 No Class - Thanksgiving
Week 14: Individual Meetings
11/27 FINAL PAPER - FIRST DRAFT - peer edit
11/29 TBA
Week 15: Individual meetings this week - Sign Up.
12/4 Final Paper draft returned. Individual meetings
12/6 Wrap Up – last class meeting
Week 16
12/13 FINAL PAPER DUE - drop off in Kris's mailbox by 3pm!