NEW GENRES/NEW MEDIA
Wednesdays EB217, 2:30-5:20 pm
Course
description: Since the Industrial
Revolution artists have been utilizing and defining new intellectual,
scientific, and technological development in ways that have radically extended
the conventional media of sculpture and painting. In this course, we will study
the history and evolution of these new genres and media since the rise of
reproducible photography in the mid-nineteenth century to the digital arts of
today. We will address the growth and relevance of performance art, film,
installation, video, and digital media in the gallery world, and the various
dialogues with popular and scientific culture in which all these new media have
engaged.
The
Whitney Museum Artport:
The Whitney Museum of American Art's showcase for internet
and digital art.
Webart
from the Tate Modern: London's Tate Museum of Modern art's new site for web
art. Includes not only art projects but critical writing pertaining to the
relevance of digital art and communication.
Rhizome.org:
The New Museum of Contemporary Art's web journal
dedicated to news from the world of New Media art.
Art in the news:
NEW!
Legendary artist Robert Rauschenberg dies at age 82
NEW!
The Kitchen presents an exhibition of artists' favorite YouTube video
Justine Cooper's MRI project Rapt is shown along with new photographs in
NYC
The French still debate the legacy of the May 1968 riots
Stencil
artists from around the world descend on London for The Cans Festival
Olafur Eliasson's MoMA/PS1 retrospective deals in "the politics of enchantment"
Watch
excerpts from world-class video art currently exhibited in the Getty Museum's
California Video
The L.A. Art
Girls (with K.C. particpant DeAnna Skedel!) reenact Kaprow's Fluids at
the Getty
Performance artist Pippa Bacca is killed on her "road trip for peace"
Photo history may be rewritten as scholars debate the history of a possible 18th
century photogram
Allan Kaprow's history of "happenings" restaged and reinvestigated in Los
Angeles
"User anthropologists" explore whether technology can curtail global poverty
[Go to Jan
Chipchase's Future Perfect blog, tracking his user studies from around
the world]
Laurie
Anderson talks about her new performance piece, Homeland
[Go to Laurie Anderson's website for more information
about and tour dates for Homeland]
In the
midst of Utah's Spiral Jetty debacle, Dia Foundation's Lightning Field
faces development crisis
The many challenges of reinstalling Murakami's L.A. retrospective at the
Brooklyn Museum of Art
Earthworks
art run up against politics in Utah oil drilling controversy
Over 13 hours of rare George Melies films brought together for first time in
five-disc DVD set
The Guardian's Adrian Searle asks a good question in the "criticism
crisis": Did critics ever really matter?
Take a
Quicktime, 360-degree tour of Michelangelo Pistoletto's mirror installation in
Beijing
Magda Cordell McHale, a founder of the British Independent Group, dies at age 86
Russian conceptualist reemerges as hip-hop's "classical" portraitist
[Go
to Detroit Museum of Contemporary Art Holy Hip Hop exhibition site]
French conceptual artist Loris Greaud creates an enthralling new space at
Parisian Palais de Tokyo
Kino releases a boxed set of German Expressionist film
Legal battle as new medium? The ongoing Buchel/MASS-MoCA saga
Harry Dodge and Stanya Kahn's new video breaking ground in L.A. art scene
[Watch excerpts from "Can't Swallow It, Can't Spit It
Out"]
Sundance Channel focuses a week of documentaries on photographers, viewed from
the other side of the camera
Renzo Piano's extensive renovation of Los Angeles County Museum of Art opens
Original
manuscript for Breton's Surrealist Manifesto goes to auction in May
El Museo del Barrio opens Arte no es Vida, celebrating conceptual art of
the Americas
L.A. foundation takes women's art to the streets
[Go to West of Rome foundation's "Women in the City"
website]
Nelson-Atkins' Electromediascope series continues in February (reserve
free tickets online here)!
Legendary conceptual artist Bruce Nauman chosen to represent the U.S. at 2009
Venice Biennale
Emerging Czech artists pair national trickster traditions with new media