All classes meet in MI-416 unless otherwise specified.
WEEK 1, September 4: WHAT IS INTERACTIVE MEDIA?
READ FOR WEEK 1: David Rokeby, Transforming Mirrors : Subjectivity and Control in Interactive Media (1995). See also the Google Books preview of Simon Penny’s edited anthology: Critical Issues in Electronic Media (1995). SKIM (it is a picture essay): Golan Levin’s Hands Up! A Visual Essay on the ‘Media Art Pose’. CLASS VISIT: AIC to see Shawn Lawson and Wafaa Bilal’s interactive video installation, “A Bar at Folies Bergère” in “A CASE FOR WINE FROM KING TUT TO TODAY” (runs July 11 – September 20)
WEEK 2, September 11: WHAT IS GENERATIVE MEDIA?
POST ON CLASS BLOG: A link and/or image related to a generative media or interactive work that you appreciate for a specific reason. READ FOR WEEK 2: Golan Levin, Master’s Thesis Proposal, Golan Levin, More than Just Pretty Pictures: Three Questions for Generative Artists, SKIM: Golan Levin, “Sounds from Shapes: Audiovisual Performance with Hand Silhouette Contours in The Manual Input Sessions“. CLASS VISIT: MCA to see Olafur Eliasson (exhibition comes down September 13) and the UBS 12 x 12 space (Robert Davis / Michael Langlois
September 5 – 27, 2009).
SAIC EVENT WEEK 3: REQUIRED ATTENDANCE
Thursday, September 17, Golan Levin speaks at Conversations at the Edge, Gene Siskel Film Center, 6pm.
WEEK 3, September 18
CLASS VISITOR: Golan Levin
OPTIONAL READING: Many more of Golan Levin’s essays and peer-reviewed writings can be found here. CRITS: Mik, Aaron, Nadav, Patrick
WEEK 4, September 25, Topic: Site specific electronic and interactive media. FIELD TRIP: Hyde Park Art Center, See Jason Salavon’s on the video wall (Jackman Goldwasser Catwalk Gallery), and Shanghype! HPAC contact: Francesca Wilmott, Interim Exhibitions Manager. READ (on Portal) Dan Peterman’s Downtime at the Experimental Station.
WEEK 5, October 2, CLASS VISITOR: Jason Salavon. CRITS: Su Hyun and Phillip.
WEEK 6, October 9-CLASS VISITOR: Judd Morrissey, Claudia Hart, and Mark Jeffrey; Holmes in Madison, WI
WEEK 7, October 16, CLASS VISITOR: Lincoln Schatz. Showing work: Betsy Yaros and Ben Rosenberg
WEEK 8, October 23, DISCUSSION OF FINAL PROJECT OPTIONS. DUE: First draft of artist statement (no longer than one page please).
WEEK 9, October 30, CLASS VISITOR: Lisa Dorin, Assistant Curator of Contempoary Art, AIC. READ for WEEK 9: Nicolas Bourriaud, excerpt from Relational Aesthetics, see Portal for “bourriaud_relational_aesthetics.pdf” and Ewan Morrison and Matthew Fuller “Culture and Politics After the Net” (also on Portal). CRITS: Florian, Frank, Quintin, Wesley
WEEK 10, November 6, CLASS VISITOR: Marlena Novak and Jay Alan Yim, localStyle. CRITS: Gary and Eun Jeong. READ for WEEK 10: Critical Art Ensemble, “Chapter 2 The Promissory Rhetoric of Biotechnology in the Public Sphere“
WEEK 11, November 13, Holmes in Hong Kong, NO CLASS. Work on final projects and schedule a one-on-one meeting with Tiff for Critique Week if you need one. Class make up: Friday of CRIT WEEK, December 11, MI-416. We’ll give feedback on artist statements that have not yet been read in class.
WEEK 12, November 20, Concluding lecture: What is new media and where do I fit into the electronic landscape? (Also: Scheduling final class presentations). READ for WEEK 12: Robert Smithson, Cultural Confinement, Artforum, 1972
November 27, NO CLASS, THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY
WEEK 13, December 4, FINAL CLASS PRESENTATIONS-Oral components
December 11, NO CLASS, CRITIQUE WEEK
WEEK 14, December 18, FINAL CLASS PRESENTATIONS-Written components
