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SANTIAGO ECHEVERRY ART211 \| Art and Technology \| Fall 2008 BAS 123 \| 08/23/08 - 12/12/08 Section D \| Tue-Thu \| 10:00AM - 12:00PM secheverry at ut.edu \| BAS 131 \| 813 - 253 3333 x 3769 Office hours by appointment only
Week	Description	Assignments	Multimedia / Readings
1	Syllabus, goals of the class, required readings, general presentation and statistics of the students. Early History of Multimedia. Oral Tradition, Text, / Aristotle’s Poetics / Greek Theater / Roman Circus / Middle Ages: Architecture and life / Religious vs. Pagan performance.Renaissance / / Economics / 1492 / Gutenberg Print // Baroque = America's gold / theatrum mundi + deus ex machina / Baroque Opera / Control of Nature	• Go to blogger.com and create your own BLOG for this class. Post your first feelings of the class in it and post who you are, describing yourself and telling me what you expect from this class • Send me an email BEFORE THE FOLLOWING CLASS from your personal UT email account, letting me know the url of your blog.	Farinelli – Gérard Corbiau / Vatel – Roland Joffé / Monteverdi’s Orpheus CDs: Lully - Atys ~ by Jean-Baptiste Lully, William Christie, Les Arts Florissants / Médée, Charpentier, Les Arts Florissants
2	Opera: from Mozart to Wagner, evolution of an elitist expression of art	Go to the MacDonald Kelce Library, watch at least an entire Act of any of their available Operas in DVD or VHS and write a three page paper with your comments and your feelings about this experience. Which Opera? Who is the stage director? the musical director? the main performers? Is this your first Opera? Did you like it? Why yes or no? And the most important aspect, HOW IS TECHNOLOGY used in this particular production? Use the assignments tab in BB to submit your .DOC paper.	Movies: Amadeus – Milos Forman / ARIA – Robert Altman and others / Wagner - Der Ring des Nibelungen - Patrice Chéreau - Pierre Boulez, Bayreuth Festival (Complete Ring Cycle) DVD (2000) / Don Giovanni – Karajan / Le Nozze di Figaro – Peter Sellars.
3	Popular entertainment: Vaudeville, burlesque, cabaret => Broadway		Movies: Berlin: Die Sinfonie der Großstadt – Walter Ruttman / Chaplin – Richard Attenborough / Whatever Happened to Baby Jane – Robert Aldrich / Broadway, the American Musical – Michael Kantor
4	From photos to film: time based media Muybridge / Edison / Lumière / Méliès / Eisenstein / Griffith Evolution of film in the 20th century BW -> Animation -> Sound -> Color -> Stereoscopy -> big format	Go to a thrift store and purchase an old book that you will use to create your own flip page animation. At least 200 pages. Open topic. Explore: PBS: History of Photography www.filmsite.org Read: New Media in Art (NMA): Introduction	Movies: Landmarks of Early Film Vols 1 and 2 / Battleship Potiomkin – Eisenstein / Intolerance – Griffith Movies: La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc – Carl Dreyer / Metropolis – Fritz Lang / The Jazz Singer – Alan Crossland / The Blue Angel – Joseph Von Sternberg / Casablanca – Michael Curtiz / Wizard of Oz – Victor Fleming / Gone with the wind – Victor Fleming / Singing in the Rain – Stanley Donen / The birds – Hitchcock / Citizen Kane – Orson Welles etc….
5	Electronics in the audiovisual world From the battery to the microchip / train -> pony express -> telegraph -> telephone -> civil band -> radio -> mechanical tv -> television -> magnetic recording / video tape + CD + DVD -> cable <-> satelite		Movies: Radio Days – Woody Allen / Original recording of “War of the worlds” by Orson Welles / Early days of TV Explore otr.com www.mztv.com
6	Binary world Abacus / Kipus / Encryption / Rosetta stone / Torah , Talmud, Kabalah / Morse code / binary conversion / vacuum tubes / eniac / transistors / chips / evolution of computers into networked environments / Arpanet / Internet / Computing environments /	Create a work of art using the notion of "Grid Art". More details to be given in class	Movies: The Triumph of the Nerds History of Computing Science by Michelle A. Hoyle Schickard Pascal Babbage
7	Artists and Technology 1900 - 1960 Duchamp, DADA, FUTURISM, SURREALISM, BAUHAUS, Abstract Expressionism, Beatniks, Jack Kerouac #2 #3 #4, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, POP, Warhol #2 #3 #4 WharholStars Empire TDK The Factory American culture Candy Darling Campbell , Yves Klein	Using a Xerox machine, photocopy parts of yourself and create a 2D and/or 3D work of art inspired by any of the Art Movements seen in class. At least 2feet x 3feet	Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, Picabia, Tzara..... Movies: Un chien andalou – Luis Buñuel / Lichtspiel: Schwartz-Weiß-Grau – Laszlo Moholy-Nagy / http://the-artists.org/art-movements.cfm
8	Performance Art, Media and New Technologies Viennese Actionists, FLUXUS, Nam June Paik, Charlotte Moorman #2 #3, John Cage #2 #3 #4 Joseph Beuys #2, Gilbert and George #1 #2 #3 #4 #5,, Orlan, Stelarc #2 #3 Butoh Sankai Juku #2 #3 Ko Murobushi #2 Kazuo Ohno #2 Hijikata Tatsumi Carlotta Ikeda, Bob Flanagan, Laurie Anderson #1 #2 #3 Leigh Bowery, Steve Mann, Klaus Nomi, Squat theater, Wooster Group, John Jessurun, Robert Wilson, Troika Ranch #2 ...	Inspired by ANY of the artists mentioned in class, create a 3 minute maximum performance art piece that reflects your relationship to technology. These performances will be presented in the Scarfone Gallery	NMA: Chapter 1 • Actions • Performance • New Media • The Human Canvas #2
10	Video, Installation, Video Art and New Media, Nam June Paik, Jim Campbell, Bill Viola, David Hall, Pippilotti Rist	Create your own 1 minute video art / video installation piece with any available tools at hand ( DV Cams, Cell Cams, VHS tapes, DVDs, webcams etc...) Be ready to present your works in two weeks	NMA: Chapters 2 and 3 • Video • http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/ • http://www.ubu.com/film/
11	Electronic Music Stockhausen #2, Ligeti #1, Varèse, Xenakis,Throbbing Gristle Psychic TV Genesis P.Orridge Interview Brian Eno, DEVO. Kraftwerk Roxy Music #2, Thomas Dolby Pop Corn Donna Summer Depeche Mode Soft Cell Gary Numan Fad Gadget Pulp Erasure Einstürzende Neubauten, Cabaret Voltaire, Joy Division / New Order (Philippe Decouflé) #1, Miss Kittin #2 Felix Da Housecat #2 #3 Ladytron Underworld Fluke EBTG , Massive Attack, Chemical Brothers, Bjork, Sidestepper, Robert Miles, Delerium,	Feel free to incorporate your own audio track to your video art piece. Explore whichever available audio tools you have at hand. Be resourceful.	Modulations / La Legende d'Eer / Cabaret Voltaire / Thursday Afternoon
12	2D/3D Animation Disney, Norman Mac Laren, Brothers Quay, evolution of computer animation, Tron, Pixar, Silicon Graphics, Toy Story. Siggraph. Sony PSP / Video Games Machinima		Final Fantasy / Ghost in the Shell / Tron / Explore: Museum of Moving Image
13	Interactive Art Puppet Motel – Laurie Anderson / Eve – Peter Gabriel / Myst / collection of interactive works by the ZKM and Ars Electronica / Director / Flash / Processing : Casey Reas + Ben Fry		NMA: Chapter 4
14	Digital arts Part 2		Presentation of final projects ideas
15	Genetic Art and other extremes Genetic art – Eduardo Kak - Genetic architecture, Physical Computing, Robotics, Architectural art, Jorge Orta, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Corpse Art		The final project can be either a max. 3min recorded performance, an installation, a video art piece, an experimental audio piece or a 10 page research paper. More details to be given in class.
16 - FINALS	FINAL PROJECTS PRESENTATION - EVERYONE MUST BE PRESENT