New Genres/New Media: Virtual reserves

February 6th:

LECTURE LINKS:
University of California-Riverside Museum of Photography: Muybridge "in motion"
Cinematheque Francais:  Etienne-Jules Marey: Movement in Light exhibition site
Download Vita Futurista, a documentary on the culture of Futurism
Listen to Luigi Russolo's scores performed on the Intonarumori

 

February 13th:

LECTURE LINKS:
Listen to Kurt Schwitters perform his Dada sound score Ursonate
Listen to music clips from Entr'Acte composer Erik Satie
Watch Laszlo Moholy-Nagy's Light-Space Modulator in action

 

February 27th:

LECTURE LINKS:
The Guardian's Jonathan Jones muses historically incorrect on Duchamp's Fountain
Go to the Tate Modern's website for Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia: The Moment that Changed Art Forever exhibition

 

March 5th:
Papers due by 12:30pm to genresmedia@gmail.com...NO VIRTUAL RESERVES OR QUESTIONS DUE, but don't fail to do this week's textbook readings!

March 12th:
NO VIRTUAL RESERVES this week (serious catch-up to do!)...but don't fail to read AND TURN IN QUESTIONS for March 12th textbook readings!

LECTURE LINKS:
Read an excerpt from Samuel Beckett's Molloy (1951)--often held up as exemplary of his poetic, minimalist style
Watch Samuel Beckett's Film and a performance (and text) of his "one-mouth play," Not I
Read Allan Kaprow's artist's statement for Push-Pull: A Furniture Comedy for Hans Hoffman
Read the Marshall McLuhan issue of Aspen magazine, featuring work by John Cage and Grace Glueck
Watch Merce Cunningham's 1964 choreography for Septet
Watch the BBC Symphony's debut orchestral performance of John Cage's 4'33" in 2004

March 19th:
NO CLASSES: SPRING BREAK!

March 26th:

LECTURE LINKS:
Read Thomas Levin's interesting analysis of Guy Debord's tortured relationship with film and TV
 

April 2nd:

April 9th:

LECTURE LINKS:
Watch Robert Smithson's Hotel Palenque (1969), and (with wife Nancy Holt) the very funny East Coast/West Coast (1969)
Stills and excerpt from Nam Jun Paik's Global Groove (1973)
Read New York Times Magazine feature on Germano Celant and the Prada Foundation

April 16th:

LECTURE LINKS:
Bruce Nauman's Stamping in the Studio (1968)
Vito Acconci's Theme Song (1973), and other early film and video pieces
 

April 23rd:

LECTURE LINKS:
Excerpted video work from the 40-year careers of Woody and Steina Vasulka
Watch excerpts of Bill Viola's work from his 1999 retrospective at SFMoMA
Watch excerpts of Bill Viola's recent work from his much-debated 2003 exhibition The Passions
Watch Jim Jarmusch's band Del Byzanteens (with special guest John Lurie!) perform
 

April 30th:

LECTURE LINKS:
Watch the original music video for Laurie Anderson's single "O Superman"
Start reading (and contribute to!) Douglas Davis' World's First Collaborative Sentence (the Whitney's first "acquisition" of internet art)
Found her! Agent Ruby lives! (On SFMoMA's website)
Watch the avatars of 0100101110101101.org (Eva and Franco Mattes) perform classic performance art pieces
 

May 7th

LECTURE LINKS:
Watch Pierre Huyghe's The Third Memory and click here for more Huyghe work on UbuWeb
Go to the Critical Art Ensemble's extensive website to learn more about their work
Watch trailer and get info on Lynn Hershman's film on Steve Kurtz's run-in with the FBI, Strange Culture
Wander through Yael Kanarek's web-self-portrait, World of Awe
 

May 14th:

NO VIRTUAL RESERVES THIS WEEK!  BUT...PAPERS DUE TO genresmedia@gmail.com BY NOON!

LECTURE LINKS:
Check out Kwame Anthony Appiah's concept of "true" globalism in "The Case for Contamination"
Read excerpts from Nicolas Bourriaud's Relational Aesthetics
Peruse the "software art" design commissioned for the Whitney's CODeDOC exhibition
Counter-Strike players can join the Velvet-Strike revolution!
Cory Arcangel's step-by-step how-to for making Super Mario Clouds
 Watch an interview with Mika Rottenberg about her 2008 Whitney Biennial piece, Cheese
 

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