The History of Mobility in Art
AHST 3320 Fall 2009
Dr. Charissa N. Terranova
terranova@utdallas.edu
MW 4:00-5:15 JO 4.614

Course Schedule

Monday August 24: Course Introduction

PHOTOGRAPH
Wednesday August 26: Mobile Vision as Constructed Vision
Susan Sontag, “In Plato’s Cave,” On Photography (New York: Picador, 2001) 3-26.

• Nicéphore Niépce, View from Niepce’s Window at Gras, 1826
• William Henry Fox Talbot, The Oriel Window, South Gallery, Lacock Abbey, 1835 or 39
• William Henry Fox Talbot, Articles of Glass, 1843
• Louis Daguerre, View of Paris, 1839
• Matthew Brady, On the Antietam Battlefield, 1862
• Jacob Riis, Tenement House Yard, 1890
• Alfred Stieglitz, The Steerage, 1907
• Man Ray, Rayograph, 1922
• Walker Evans, Bud Fields and His Family, Hale County, Alabama, 1936
• Robert Frank, Trolley, New Orleans, 1955
• William Eggleston, Los Alamos, 1966-74
• Jeff Wall, Landscape Manual, 1969
• Martha Rosler, Images from Rights of Passage, 1995-97

Monday August 31: Chronophotography
Jonathan Crary, “Modernity and the Problem of the Observer,” Techniques of the Observer: On Vision and Modernity in the 19th Century (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1992) 1-24.

• Joseph Plateau/Simon von Stampfer, Phenakistoscope, 1832
• William George Horner, Zoetrope, 1833
• Charles-Emile Reynaud, Praxinoscope, 1877
• Etienne Jules Marey, Chronophotographic Study of Man Pole Vaulting, 1890-91
• Etienne Jules Marey, Study of Lateral Walking and Running, 1886
• Etienne Jules Marey, Chronophotographic Camera, 1882/88
• Eadweard J. Muybridge, Elephant Walking, 1884-87
• Eadweard J. Muybridge, Two Models, 8 Drinking from Water-Jar on the Shoulder of 1, 1885

TRAIN
Wednesday September 2: Train and Image
Wolfgang Schivelbusch, The Railway Journey: The Industrialization of Time and Space in the 19th Century, (Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1987) 1-44.

• Honoré Daumier, The First-Class Carriage, 1864
• Honoré Daumier, The Second-Class Carriage, 1864
• Honoré Daumier, The Third-Class Carriage, Oil on Canvas, 1862-64
• Honoré Daumier, Third-Class Carraige, Crayon, Watercolor, 1862-64
• Claude Monet, Train in the Countryside, 1865
• Claude Monet, Train in the Snow, 1875
• Claude Monet, La Gare Saint-Lazare, 1877
• Claude Monet, La Gare Saint-Lazare, Arrival of a Train, 1877
• Claude Monet, Le Pont de l’Europe, Gare Saint-Lazare, 1877
• Gustave Caillebotte, Pont de l’Europe, 1876
• Edouard Manet, Railway, 1873

Monday September 7: Labor Day, No Class
Wednesday September 9: Train and Architecture
Wolfgang Schivelbusch, The Railway Journey: The Industrialization of Time and Space in the 19th Century, (Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1987) 45-51.

• Samuel Ware, Burlington Arcade, London, 1819
• Giuseppe Mengoni, Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, Milan, 1861-67
• Jean-Pierre Cluysenaar, Royal Galleries of Saint-Hubert, Brussels, 1846-47
• Victor Baltard, Les Halles, 1851-57
• Jacques Ignace HIttorf, Gare du Nord, Paris, 1846
• François Duquesney, Gare de l’Est, Paris, 1849
• Isambard Kingdom Brunel with Matthew Digby Wyatt, Paddington Station, London, 1852-54
• McKim, Mead and White, Penn Station, New York, 1910 (demolished 1963)

ELEVATOR
Monday September 14: Architecture and Sky in Paris
Roland Barthes, “Eiffel Tower,” The Eiffel Tower and Other Mythologies (Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1997) 3-18.

• Elisha Otis, Elevator, 1852
• Exposition Universelle, Paris, 1889
• Gustav Eiffel, Eiffel Tower
• Exposition du Ministère de la Guerre et des Colonies Françaises
• Display Stand for Social Economy

Wednesday September 16: Architecture and Sky in Chicago
Louis Marin, “Frontiers of Utopia: Past and Present,” Critical Inquiry, No. 19 (Winter 1993) 397-420.

• William Le Baron Jenney, Leiter I Building, 1879
• William Le Baron Jenney, Home Insurance Building, 1883
• William Le Baron Jenney, Leiter II Building, 1891
• William Le Baron Jenney, Fair Store, 1893
• Frederick Law Olmsted and Charles Burhnam, Columbian Exposition, 1891
• Skidmore, Owings and Merrill/Fazlur Kahn and Bruce Graham, Willis Tower, formerly named Sears Tower, 1973

SPACE-TIME-ART-ARCHITECTURE
Monday September 21: Cubism, Time and Language
Robert Mark Antliff, “Bergson and Cubism: A Reassessment,” Art Journal, Vol. 47, No. 4, Revising Cubism (Winter, 1988), pp. 341-349.

• Pablo Picasso, Two Nudes, 1906
• Pablo Picasso, Woman Plaiting Her Hair, 1906
• Pablo Picasso, Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, 1907
• Pablo Picasso, Woman’s Head, 1908
• Pablo Picasso, Bathers in the Forest, 1908
• Pablo Picasso, The Reservoir, Horta de Ebro, 1909
• Pablo Picasso, Portrait of Kahnweiler, 1910
• Pablo Picasso, Cubist Study, 1912
• Pablo Picasso, The Architect’s Table, 1912
• Pablo Picasso, Still Life with Chair Caning, 1912
• Georges Braque, The Large Trees L’Estaque, 1906-7
• Georges Braque, Landscape at Ciotat, 1907
• Georges Braque, Road Near L’Estaque, 1908
• Georges Braque, The Table (Still Life with Fan), 1910
• Georges Braque, Fox, 1911/1912
• Georges Braque, Soda, 1912

Wednesday September 23: Futurism, Time and War
Stephen Kern, The Culture of Time and Space, 1880-1918 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003) 89-130.

• Filippo Marinetti, Montage + Vallate + Strade x Joffre, 1915
• Carlo Carra, Funeral of the Anarchist Galli, 1911
• Umberto Boccioni, Riot in the Galleria (A Brawl), 1910
• Umberto Boccioni, The City Rises, 1910-11
• Umberto Boccioni, Unique Forms of Continuity in Space, 1913
• Giacomo Balla, Speed of an Automobile, 1913
• Giacomo Balla, Fireworks, set design for Stranvinsky ballet of lights, 1917
• Antonio Sant’Elia, La Citta Nuovo, 1914

Monday September 28: Frank Lloyd Wright and the Automobile
Richard Cleary, “Edgar J. Kaufmann, Frank Lloyd Wright and the "Pittsburgh Point Park Coney Island in Automobile Scale,” The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Vol. 52, No. 2 (Jun., 1993) 139-158.

• Frank Lloyd Wright, Home and Studio, Oak Park, Illinois, 1897
• Frank Lloyd Wright, Edwin H. Cheney House, Oak Park, Illinois, 1904
• Frank Lloyd Wright, Thomas, F. House, Oak Park, Illinois, 1901
• Frank Lloyd Wright, Broadacre City, 1932
• Frank Lloyd Wright, Jacobs House, Madison, Wisconsin, 1936
• Frank Lloyd Wright, Pittsburgh Point Park Civic Center, 1947
• Frank Lloyd Wright, Hoffman Auto Showroom (now Mercedes-Benz Manhattan), New York, 1954
• Frank Lloyd Wright, R.W. Lindholm Service Station, Cloquet, Minnesota, 1956
• Frank Lloyd Wright, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1959

Wednesday September 30: Buckminster Fuller and the Dymaxion Vision
Allegra Fuller Snyder and Victoria Vesna, “Education Automation on Spaceship Earth: Buckminster Fuller's Vision. More Relevant than Ever,” Leonardo, Vol. 31, No. 4 (1998) 289-292.

• Buckminster Fuller, Dymaxion House, 1927
• Buckminster Fuller, Dymaxion Bathroom, 1937
• Buckminster Fuller, Dymaxion Car, 1933

Monday October 5: Laszlo Moholy-Nagy on Vision, Norman Bel Geddes and the Highway
Adnan Morshed, “The Aesthetics of Ascension in Norman Bel Geddes’s Futurama,” The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Vol. 63, No. 1 (Mar., 2004) 74-99.

• Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Em (Telephone Painting), 1922
• Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Light-Space Modulator, 1922-30
• Norman Bel-Geddes, Futurama, New York World’s Fair, 1939

FILM
Monday October 12: In class film Dziga Vertov, Man with a Movie Camera (1929)
Wednesday October 14: In class film Sergei Eisentein, The Battleship Potemkin (1925)
Monday October 19: Dziga Vertov, Labor, and the Moving Image
WRITTEN ASSIGMENT #1 DUE
Walter Benjamin, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,” Illuminations: Essays and Reflections (New York: Schocken Books, 1969) 217-252.

• Joseph Plateau/Simon von Stampfer, Phenakistoscope, 1832
• William George Horner, Zoetrope, 1833
• Thomas Edison, Kinetoscope, 1891
• Thomas Edison, Vitascope, 1896
• Lumiere Brothers, 10 Early Films, 1895
• Dziga Vertov, Man with a Movie Camera, 1929
• Charlie Chaplin, Modern Times, 1936

Wednesday October 21: Sergei Eisenstein, Montage and Architecture
Sergei Eisenstein, “Montage and Architecture,” Assemblage, No. 10 (Dec., 1989) 110-131.

• Hannah Hoch, The Beautiful Girl, 1919
• Hannah Hoch, Cut with the Kitchen Knife Dada Through the Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch of Germany, 1919
• Max Ernst, Stratified Rocks, Nature's Gift of Gneiss Lava Iceland Moss..., 1920
• Max Ernst, Elephant of Celebes, 1921
• Raoul Hausmann, Spirit of Our Time, 1919
• Raoul Hausmann, Art Critic, 1919
• John Heartfield, Dada-merica, 1919
• John Heartfield, Adolf, the Superman, Swallows Gold & Spouts Junk, 1932
• Martha Rosler, Red Stripe Kitchen, Bringing the War Home: House Beautiful, 1967-72
• Martha Rosler, House Beautiful: Cleaning the Drapes, 1967-1972

ESCALATOR
Monday October 26: Paris, France/Paris, Las Vegas
Robert Goodman, “Still Learning from Las Vegas: The New Face of Urban Redevelopment in a Scavenger Economy,” Perspecta, Vol. 29, (1998) 86-96.

• Nathan Ames, Escalator, 1859
• Leamon Soulder, Escalator, 1889
• Ron Herron of Archigram, Walking City, 1964
• Peter Cook, Plug-In City, 1964
• David Green, Living Pod, 1965
• Ron Herron, Seaside Bubbles, 1966
• Warren Chalk and David Greene, Electronic Tomato, 1969
• Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers, Centre George Pompidou, Paris, 1971-77
• Bergman, Walls & Youngblood, Ltd., Paris Casino, Las Vegas, 1999

TV
Wednesday October 28: Nam June Paik: The TV and Avant-gardism
Ina Bloom, “The Touch through Time: Raoul Hausmann, Nam June Paik and the Transmission Technologies of the Avant-Garde,” Leonardo, Vol. 34, No. 3 (2001) 209-215.

• Nam June Paik, Zen for TV, 1963
• Nam June Paik, Magnet TV, 1965
• Nam June Paik and Charlotte Moorman, Cello Performance with TVs, 1971
• Nam June Paik, TV Garden, 1974
• Nam June Paik, Video Fish, 1975
• Nam June Paik, Video Buddha, 1981
• Nam June Paik, Reclining Buddha, 1993
• Nam June Paik, Electronic Superhighway, 1974-95
• Nam June Paik, A selection from 32 cars for the 20th century play Moazart's Requiem quietly, 1997

VIDEO AND PERFORMANCE ART
Monday November 2: Between Technology and Flesh
Paul Ryan, “A Genealogy of Video,” Leonardo, Vol. 21, No. 1 (1988) 39-44
Amelia Jones, “Survey,” The Artist’s Body (London: Phaidon Press, 2006) 16-47.
Video Art ) 218-274.

• Sony Portapak, 1967
• Joan Jonas, Left Side Right Side, 1972
• Joan Joans, Organic Honey’s Vertical Roll, 1973
• Dara Birnbaum, Technology Transformation, 1978-79
• Dara Birnbaum, PM Magazine, 1982
• Tony Oursler, Don’t Look at Me, 1994
• Tony Oursler, (Telling) vision #4, 1994
• Tony Oursler, System for Dramatic Feedback, 1994
• Tony Oursler, Submerged, 1995-96
• Bill Viola, The Crossing, 1996
• Matthew Barney, Still from Blind Perineum, 1991
• Matthew Barney, Ascending/Descending, 1994
• Pipilotti Rist, I’m Not the Girl Who Misses Much, 1986
• Pipilotti Rist, Pickelporno, 1992
• Pipilotti Rist, Selbstios im Lavabad, 1994
• Pipilotti Rist, Ever is Over All, 1997
• Pipilotti Rist, Open My Glade, 2000
• Paul McCarthy, Hot Dog, 1974
• Paul McCarthy, Grand Pop, 1977
• Paul McCarthy, Bossy Burger, 1991
• Paul McCarthy, Santa Chocolate Shop, 1997
• Paul McCarthy, Apple Heads on Swiss Cheese, 1997-99
• Paul McCarthy, Michael Jackson and Bubbles, 1999
• Paul McCarthy, Chocolate Blockhead Nosebar Outlet, 2000

Wednesday November 4: In Class Film “Structures and Contemporary Art,” Art 21, Season 3 (2005)
SURVEILLANCE CAMERA
Monday November 9: Dan Graham and Panopticism
Michel Foucault, “Panopticism,” Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (New York: Vintage Books, 1995) 195-228.

• Dan Graham, Time Delay Room, 1974
• Dan Graham, Present Continuous Pasts, 1974
• Dan Graham, Picture Window Piece, 1974
• Dan Graham, Video Piece for Shop Windows Located in Modern Shopping Arcade, 1976
• Dan Graham, Video Pieces for Shop Windows in an Arcade, Groningen, Netherlands, 1978
• Dan Graham, Video Projection Outside Home, 1978
• Dan Graham, Alteration to a Suburban House, 1978
• Dan Graham, Clinic for a Suburban Site, 1978

KINETIC ART
Wednesday November 11: Kinetic Art and Systems Theory
Jack Burnham, Beyond Modern Sculpture: The Effects of Science and Technology on the Sculpture of This Century (New York: George Braziller, 1968) 218-274.

• Marcel Duchamp, Nude Descending a Staircase 2, 1912
• Marcel Duchamp, Bicycle Wheel, 1913
• Marcel Duchamp, Rotoreliefs, 1935
• Alexander Calder, Circus: Cowboy, Cowgirl, Horse, 1926-31
• Alexander Calder, Circus: Little Clown/Trumpeter, Bearded Lady, 1926-31
• Alexander Calder, Pantograph, 1931
• Alexander Calder, Vertical Constellation with Bomb, 1943
• Alexander Calder, Sumac II, 1952
• Jean Tinguely, Metamechanical, 1954
• Jean Tinguely, Metamechanical #6, 1959
• Jean Tinguely, Méta-Matic #17, 1959
• Jean Tinguely, Homage to New York, 1960
• Otto Piene, Light Ballet, 1961
• Otto Piene, Corona Borealis, 1965

COMPUTER
Monday November 16: Conceptual Art and the Computer
Jack Burnham, “Alice’s Head: Reflections on Conceptual Art,” Artforum, Vol. 8, No. 6 (February 1970) 37-43.

• Joseph Kosuth, One and Three Hammers, 1965
• Joseph Kosuth, One and Three Chairs, 1965
• John Baldessari, What Is Painting, 1966-68
• John Baldessari, I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art, 1971
• Hans Haacke, Framing (Condensation Cube), 1963-65
• Hans Haacke, Visitors’ Profile, 1970
• Computer-based exhibitions on Conceptual Art
• Seth Sieglaub Gallery, New York, The Xerox Book, 1968
• Institute for Contemporary Art, London, Cybernetic Serendipity, 1968
• Jewish Museum, New York, Software, 1968
• MOMA, New York, Information, 1970

NEW MEDIA ART
Wednesday November 18: Embodiment and New Media Art
Tim Lenoir, “Haptic Vision: Computation, Media, and Embodiment in Mark Hansen’s New Phenomenology,” New Philosophy for New Media, Mark B. Hansen (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2004) xiii-xxviii.

• Paul Slocum, Deep House for Symphonic Band and Choir, 2006
• Paul Slocum, Pi House Generator, 2008
• Cory Arcangel, Drei Klavierstücke op. 11, 2009
• Cory Arcangel, Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream, 2009
• Kristin Lucas, Between a Rock and a Hard Drive, 2007
• Kristin Lucas, If Then End Else If/Versionhood, 2007

AUTOMOTIVE PROSTHETIC
Monday November 23: Conceptual Turn: Form Medium to Mediation and the Car as Mediator
WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT #2 DUE
Rosalind Krauss, A Voyage on the North Sea: Art in the Age of the Post-Medium Condition (London: Thames and Hudson, 2000) 1-64.

• Marcel Broodthaers, Museum of Modern Art, Department of Eagles, 1972
• Jack Kerouac, Original Scroll of On the Road, 1951
• John Cage and Robert Rauschenberg, Automobile Tire Print, 1953
• Marshall McLuhan, Mechanical Bride: Folklore of Industrial Man, 1951
• Roland Barthes, Mythologies, 1957
• Julian Opie, Imagine You Are Driving, 1997
• Cory Arcangel, F1 Racer Mod (Japanese Driving Game), 2004

Wednesday November 25: No Class Thanksgiving
Monday November 30: Document as Prosthetic Figure of Speech
Martha Rosler, “In, Around, and Afterthoughts (On Documentary Photography),” Decoys and Disruptions: Selected Writings, 1975-2001 (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2006) 151-206.

• Robert Frank, The Americans, 1955-56
• John Baldessari, The Back of All the Trucks While Driving from Los Angeles to Santa Barbara, 1963
• John Baldessari, National City Series: Econ-O-Wash 14th and Highland National City Calif., 1966-68
• Dan Graham, Homes for America, 1966-67
• Dennis Hopper, Double Standard, 1961
• Ed Ruscha, Every Building on Sunset Strip, 1966
• Ed Ruscha, Patrick Blackwell and Mason Williams, Royal Road Test, 1967
• Douglas Huebler, Rochester Trip, 1968
• Paul McCarthy, Sunset Boulevard, 1970
• Iain Baxter/N.E. Thing Co., Strip Mall, Toronto, Ontario, 1974
• Richard Prince, Untitled, 1975
• Sherrie Levine, After Walker Evans, 1979
• Martha Rosler, The Bowery in Two Inadequate Descriptive Systems, 1974-75
• Martha Rosler, Images from the Rights of Passage, 1995-97
• Andrew Junge, Andy’s Chevy Van, 2002

Wednesday December 2: Nows of the Automotive Prosthetic
Francesco Varela, “The Deep Now,” Machine Times-DEAFOO (Rotterdam, NL: NAi Publishers, 2001) 6-28.

• Steven Spielberg, Duel, 1971
• Robert Altman, Nashville, 1975
• Joel Schumacher, Falling Down, 1993
• Wim Wenders, Alice in the Cities, 1974
• Wim Wenders, Kings of the Road, 1976
• Teresa Hubbard and Alexander Birchler, Single Wide, 2002
• Teresa Hubbard and Alexander Birchler, Night Shift, 2005-06
• Yael Bartana, Trembling Time, 2001
• Nic Nicosia, Untitled Landscapes 9.5 Hours to Sante Fe, 2004

Monday December 7: Automotive Skin Fetish
Jean Baudrillard and Arthur B. Evans, “Ballard’s ‘Crash’,” Science Fiction Studies, Vol. 18, No. 3, Science Fiction and Postmodernism (Nov., 1991) 313-320.

• J.G. Ballard, Crash, 1973
• Richard Prince, Untitled (couples), 1977
• Richard Prince, Untitled (jewels, watch and pocketbook), 1978–79
• Richard Prince, Untitled (Cowboy), 1989
• Richard Prince, Untitled (Girlfrien), 1992
• Richard Prince, My Dress, 1991
• Richard Prince, Untitled, 1992
• Richard Prince, Don’t Forget Mona, 1992
• Richard Prince, American Sex Drive, 2008
• Quentin Tarantino, Death Proof, 2007

Friday December 11: Final Exam 2 p.m.