A&D 494T History of Time-Based Media syllabus

***Schedule with assignments & slide lists***

Review page at http://www.sla.purdue.edu/courses/ad/arthistory/ (click on History of Time-Based Media)

	Elizabeth K. ix
	Office:VPAB 3119
	Office Phone: 496-2958
	Office Hours: Tuesdays & Thursdays 1:30-2:30 p.m.

text (available at VON's):

Martha Buskirk, The Contingent Object of Contemporary Art (MIT, 2003). Available in paper since 2005. You need to complete a reading assignment in this book on the first day of class, so get it right away!

Other readings will be handed out in class, linked into the syllabus page or available at the course reserves desk of the Hick's Undergraduate Bunker.

reserve reading list:

A large selection of additional texts will be placed on reserve for your use. For a full list use the library's course reserves database. Here are some highlights:

• Birringer, Media and Performance 700.904 B539m 1998
• Blocker, What the body cost: desire, history, and performance. 700 B62w 2004
• Bolter & Grusin, Remediation: Understanding New Media. 302.2223 B639r 1999
• Butt, After criticism: new responses to art and performance. 701.1809049 Af89 2005
• Cotton, Understanding Hypermedia, 006.6 C829u 1992
• Crimp, On the Museum's Ruins 709.045 C868o 1993
• Cubitt, Videography: video media as art and culture. 302.234 C891v 1993
• Curran, Motion Graphics: graphic design for broadcast and film, 741.6 C936m 2001
• Dabashi, Shirin Neshat. 709.2 N369Z D11 2002
• Darley, Visual digital culture: suface play and spectacle in new media genres. 306.487 D249v 2000
• Davies, et. al, Blurring the Boundaries: installation art, 1969-1996. 709.04074794 B629 1997
• Fusco, Bodies that were not ours: and other writings. 709.2 F985b 2001
• Gauntlett, Web, studies: rewiring digital media for the digital age. 302.23 W38 2000
• Godfrey, Conceptual Art 709.04075 G543c 1998
• Goldberg, Performance Art: from futurism to the present. 790.2 G564p 1988
• Goldberg, Performance: live art, 1909 to the present. 790.2 G564p
• Goulish, 39 microlectures: in proximity of performance 818.607 G739t 2000
• Hanhardt et. al., Moving Pictures: contemporary photography and video from the Guggenheim Museum collections. 700.747471 H193m 2003
• Hanhardt, Worlds of Nam June Paik. 700.92 P153Z H193 2000
• Howell, Analysis of Performance Art: a guide to its theory and practice (in process)
• Jones, ed. Encyclopedia of New Media: an essential reference to communication and technology. 302.234 EL68 2003.
• Lee, ed. Impact and Issues in New Media. (in process)
• Levin, ed., Ctrl [space]: rhetorics of surveillance from Bentham to Big Brother. 700.456 C89 2002
• Liestol et. al., Digital media revisited: theoretical and conceptual innovation in digital domains. 302.234 D569 2003
• Lister, New media: a critical introduction. 302.23 N4193 2003
• Lovejoy, Digital Currents: art in the electronic age 700.105 L942p 2004
• Manovich, Language of New Media. 302.2 M317L 2001
• Monaco, Dictionary of New Media: the new digital world. 621.38103 M741d 1999
• Montano, Performance Artists talking in the 1980s: sex, food, money/fame, ritual/death. 709.2273 P416 2000
• Munt, Technospaces: inside the new media. 303.483 T2273 2001
• New Internet Design Project III: Best of Graphic Design on the Web, 005.72 B915i 2001
• O'Dell, Contract with the skin: masochism, performance art, and the 1970s. 700.9045 Od2c 1998
• Oursler, Tony Oursler the influence machine 709.2 Ou7As2 2002
• Penny, ed. Critical issues in electronic media. 306.47 C869 1995
• Rabinovitz, ed. Memory bytes: history, technology and digital culture (multiple holdings)
• Ravenal, Outer and Inner Space: Pipilotti Rist, Shirin Neshat, Jane & Louis Wilson, and the history of video art. 700.74755451 R196o 2002
• Reiss, From margin to center: the spaces of installation art. 709.04074 R278f 1999
• Renov & Suderburg, eds. Resolutions: contemporary video practices. 384.558 R312 1996
• Rosenthal, et. al, Sensation: Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection 709.41074 Sa12s 1998
• Rosenthal, Understanding Installation Art 709.04 R727u 2003
• Rush, New Media in late 20th-century Art 709.045 R895n 1999
• Rush, Video Art (multiple holdings)
• Sandler, Art of the Postmodern Era: From the Late 1960s to the Early 1990s 709.045 Sa56a 1996
• Schimmel, Out of actions: between performance and the object, 1949-1979. 700.904507473 Ou8 1998
• Schneemann, More than meat joy: complete performance works & selected writings. 792 Sch22Z Sch22
• 72dpi, 006.6 Se82 2000
• Stiles/Selz eds., Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art: A Sourcebook of Artists' Writings
  709.04 St53t 1996
• Stoosss and Kellein, eds. Nam June Paik: video time, video space. 700.92 P153Z St72E 1993
• Suderberg, ed. Space, site, intervention: situating installation art. 709.0407 Sp11 2000
• Taylor-Wood, Sam Taylor Wood. 709.2 T218As 2002
• van de Donk, Cyberprotest: new media, citizens, and social movements. (in process)
• Vergine, Art on the Cutting Edge. A Guide to Contemporary Movements 709.04 V587a 2001
• Wallis, ed., Art after Modernism 700.904 Ar75
• Wardrip-Fruin, First Person: New Media as story, performance and game. 794.8 F519 2004.
• Wardrip-Fruin, ed. NewMediaReader. 302.23 N469 2003
• Ziegler, MotionGraphics Film+TV, 741.6 M857 2002

objectives & disclaimers:

This course provides an in-depth study of temporal (time-based) media of the twentieth century. It is expressly designed to explore the relationship between the history, criticism and theory associated with installation, performance, video and internet art. The course is discussion and critique-based and incorporates historical study, direct experience, critical analysis and research into each of these forms.

This is an equal opportunity classroom in the presentation of ideas and issues raised by artists. Artists create works that become either personal or societal documents of a certain moment in their lives. Topics including censorship, pornography, homosexuality, AIDS and feminism may make you feel uncomfortable because of their unfamiliarity. Much like the goal of a good college education, the work of many contemporary artists challenges us and is designed to, not ask us to change or give up what we believe, but to examine our beliefs in a larger context.

Your success in this course will be directly proportional to your "ownership" of the material. I am here to guide you in your study of this material and in your development of abilities including written and oral communication. Ultimately you are responsible for your own education and your active participation in class via reading assignments, discussions, critiques and analysis will be critical to your success.

course requirements:

• Short Analysis/Critiques/Participation: 110 pts. (based on reading assignments and screenings)
• Projects: 120 pts. (6 short projects at 20 points each)
• Course Journal: 130 pts. One "practice" entry for 10 points; 6 journal entries at midterm for 60 points and 6 journal entries at final for 60 points. final journals are due December 12 at 2 p.m.)

**There will also be at least one extra-credit assignment worth 10 points.**

grading scale:

• A 324 pts.
• B 288 pts.
• C 252 pts.
• D 216 pts.
• F < 216 pts.