UT Dallas - Spring 2010
HUAS 6315: Medium, Media, Mediation
JO 4.312, 1:00-3:45 pm
Course Schedule
Introduction
January 14
Medium
January 21
Gottfried Ephraim Lessing, Laocoon: An Essay on the Limits of Painting and Poetry (Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1984). RESERVE
Clement Greenberg, “Towards a Newer Laocoon,” The Collected Essays and Criticism, Volume 1: Perceptions and Judgments, 1939-1944 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988) 23-37. DOCUTEK
January 28
Clement Greenberg, “Modernist Painting,” The Collected Essays and Criticism, Volume IV (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995) 85-93. DOCUTEK
Jeff Wall, " ‘Marks of Indifference’: Aspects of Photography in, or as, Conceptual Art,” Ann Goldstein and Anne Rorimer, Reconsidering the Object of Art, 1965-75 (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1995) 247-67. DOCUTEK
February 4
Thierry de Duve, Pictorial Nominalism: On Marcel Duchamp's Passage from Painting to the Readymade (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota, 2005). RESERVE
February 11
Rosalind E. Krauss, A Voyage on the North Sea: Art in the Age of the Post-Medium Condition (London: Thames & Hudson, 2000). RESERVE
Raymond Williams, “From Medium to Social Practice,” Marxism and Literature (London: Oxford University Press, 1978) 158-64. DOCUTEK
Media
February 18
Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press) 3-76. RESERVE
Marshall McLuhan, The Global Village: Transformations in World Life and Media in the 21st Century (London: Oxford Press, 1992). RESERVE
February 25
Friedrich A. Kittler, Gramophone, Film, Typewriter (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1999). RESERVE
March 4
Jack Burnham, Beyond Modern Sculpture: The Effects of Science and Technology on the Sculpture of This Century (New York: George Braziller, 1968) 49-108; 185-378. RESERVE
Jack Burnham, "Systems Esthetics," Artforum, Vol. 7, No. 1 (September 1968) 30-35. DOCUTEK
Jack Burnham, "Real Time Systems,” Artforum, Vol. 8, No. 1 (September 1969) 49-55. DOCUTEK
Jack Burnham, "Alice's Head: Reflections on Conceptual Art,” Artforum, Vol. 8, No. 6 (February 1970) 37-43. DOCUTEK
March 11
Mark B. N. Hansen, New Philosophy for New Media (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2006). RESERVE
March 18
Spring Break
March 25
Rachofsky House Visit
Mediation
April 1
Regis Debray, Media Manifestos: On Technological Transmission of Cultural Forms (New York: Verso, 1996). RESERVE
Raymond Williams, “From Reflection to Mediation,” Marxism and Literature (London: Oxford University Press, 1978) 95-101. DOCUTEK
April 8
Jay David Bolter and Richard Grusin, Remediation: Understanding New Media (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2000). RESERVE
Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Nick Montfort, eds., The New Media Reader (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2003) 73-82; 127-32. DOCUTEK
April 15
Mark B. N. Hansen, Bodies in Code: Interfaces with Digital Media (London: Routledge Press, 2006) 1-104. RESERVE
Bernard Stiegler, Technics and Time 1: The Fault of Epimetheus (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1998)1-28 DOCUTEK
Bernard Stiegler, Technics and Time 2: Disorientation (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2008)97-244. RESERVE
Presentations
April 22
April 29
FINAL PAPER DUE
May 6
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