Week1: Introduction, Overview
- Day 1 [Tues Jan 18]:
- Reading: Syllabus
- Present: Introduction to the course
- Activity:
- About you
- Syllabus
- This syllabus is subject to change, check weekly
- How to print readings (Lockwood)
- Image Log
- Bibliography
- Day 2 [Thurs Jan 20]:
Screening:
Lost, Lost, Lost by Jonas Mekas (1963), 158 min
only part of this film will be screened
Read:
Database Aesthetics: Of Containers, Chronofiles, Time Capsules, Xanadu, Alexandria and the World Brain by Victoria Vesna
http://time.arts.ucla.edu/AI_Society/vesna_essay.html
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Week 2 Taxonomies, Categorization
- Day 1 [Tues Jan 25]:
"The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" by Walter Benjamin
(download pdf)
"The Art of Archiving" by Geoffrey Battchen
handout, see lecture notes
- Day 2 [Thurs Jan 27]:
Taxonomies
see lecture notes
Carl Linnaeus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolus_Linnaeus
Schedule of Presentations
- February 3 Franky Brian Guttman
- February 10 Eric Patrick Basil
- February 17 Patrick Michael Kewley
- February 24 Mark Vernik
- March 3 Frank Nicholas Napolski
- March 8 Ryan John Kader
- March 24 Todd Patrick Lacey
- March 31 Christina Yuka Ikeda
- April 7 Thomas Zarcone
- April 21 Alice Young Jeon
see lecture notes
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Week 3: Body and the Archive
- Day 1 [Tues Feb 1]:
Reading:
"Body and the Archive" by Allan Sekula
Screening:
"Vital Statistics of a Citizen, Simply Obtained" (1976)
by Martha Rosler
Lecture notes and see questions in references:
- Day 2 [Thurs Feb 3]:
Present: Franky Brian Guttman
"Carving: A Traditional Sculpture" by Eleanor Antin
"Post-Partum Document" by Mary Kelly
Interview with Mary Kelly (pdf)
Self-Portraits by Francesca Woodman
"Ftp_Formless_Anatomy" by Eugene Hacker
http://rhizome.org/object.rhiz?1699
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Week4: The Database As Symbolic Form
- Day 1 [Tues Feb 8]:
Reading:
The Database as Symbolic Form by Lev Manovich
http://www.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-9812/msg00041.html
http://www.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-9812/msg00042.html
- Day 2 [Thurs Feb 10]:
Present: Eric Patrick Basil
Soft Cinema by L. Manovich
http://www.manovich.net/cinema_future/toc.htm
terms_essay (pdf)
/ also see references
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Week 5: Archives of Capitalism
- Day 1 [Tues Feb 15]:
Reading:
Cartography of Excess by B. Holmes (download .pdf)
Database Politics
http://rhizome.org/thread.rhiz?thread=823&text=601#601
Bureau d'Etudes
http://utangente.free.fr/index2.html
Re-Code
http://re-code.com
Textz.com
http://textz.com/index.php3?simple_version=http://textz.gnutenberg.net
Internet Archive
http://www.archive.org/
Software version of "Visitor's Profile" by Hans Haacke, (proposed 1969 for Guggenheim Museum)
A teletype terminal with a monitor was connected to a computer. The computer was programmed to cross-reference demographic information about the museum audience with their opinions on a variety of subjects.
- Day 2 [Thurs Feb 17]:
Present: Patrick Michael Kewley
Perspectives on the US Justice System
http://360degrees.org
79 Days by Trebor Scholz
http://79days.net
They Rule by Josh On / Future Farmers
http://theyrule.net
Bureau d' Etudes
http://bureaudetudes.free.fr/act.html (in French but with links to maps)
See references for a list of location-based storytelling archives, conferences, and more.
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Week 6: Memory, Libraries, the Archive
- Day 1 [Tues Feb 22]:
Reading:
The Bag by Vilem Flusser
Benjamin, W. (1985). Unpacking My Library. (download .pdf)
.
In: Arendt, H. Illuminations. New York: Schocken Books. p59-67
Database Logic(s) and Landscape Art
Brett Stalbaum
http://www.c5corp.com/research/databaselogic.shtml
Travelin' Librarian
http://www.travelinlibrarian.info/libcards/
- Day 2 [Thurs Feb 24]:
Present: Mark Vernik
Pockets Full of Memories by George Legrady
Babel by Simon Biggs
http://www.babel.uk.net/
File Room by Muntadas
http://www.thefileroom.org/
The Internet Archive by Kahle
http://archive.org
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Week 7: Archival Tendencies in Eastern European Art
- Day 1 [Tues March 1]:
Reading:
Eastern Time: The Race to Curate the Communist Past in Germany
by Charity Sribner (download pdf)
Memory_Archive_Database v 3.0. by Steve Dietz
http://switch.sjsu.edu/nextswitch/switch_engine/front/front.php?artc=31
- Day 2 [Thurs March 3]:
Present: Frank Nicholas Napolski
Ilya Kabakov, Sislej Xhafa
Global Conceptualism Exhibition
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Week 8: Everyday Data and Surveillance
- Day 1 [Tues March 8]:
- QUIZ # 1
Reading:
Memory_Archive_Database v 3.0. by Steve Dietz
http://switch.sjsu.edu/nextswitch/switch_engine/front/front.php?artc=31
Present: John Kader
Databank of the Everyday by Natalie Bookchin (CD ROM, 1999)
http://contactzones.cit.cornell.edu/artists/natalie_bookchin.html
Stasi Smell Archives
The UK Museum of Ordure
Investigating the potential value of the items that are discarded day by day as waste.
http://www.museum-ordure.org.uk/
(thanks C. Cloninger)
Total Information Act
http://www.aclu.org/Privacy/Privacylist.cfm?c=130
- Day 2 [Thurs March 10]:
- Work independently outside class on your final project
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Week 9: Spring Break
Day 1 [Tues March 15]: Spring Break
Day 2 [Thurs March 17]: Spring Break
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Week 10: Participatory Design, Open Archives
- Day 1 [Tues March 22]:
Reading:
Radio as an Apparatus of Communication by Bertolt Brecht
download.pdf
about Bertolt Brecht
References:
http://del.icio.us/trebor/Open_Content
http://del.icio.us/trebor//Open_Courseware
http://del.icio.us/trebor/Open_Source
http://del.icio.us/trebor/Free_Culture
http://del.icio.us/trebor/Creative_Commons
http://del.icio.us/trebor/Open
- Day 2 [Thurs March 24]:
Present: Todd Patrick Lacey
NINE by Mongrel
http://9.waag.org/frontend.html?content=http://9.waag.org/cgi-bin/nine.pl
Conversation Map by Warren Sack
http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~sack/CM/
Komar and Melamid, "The Most Wanted Paintings"
Wikipedia
http://wikipedia.org
