SANTIAGO ECHEVERRY

ART 211 | Art and Technology | Fall 2010

BAS 123 • Section I • M-W • 2:30-4:50p • BAS 123

secheverry at ut.edu | CAS Annex 112 | 813 - 813 257 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 any of their available Operas in DVD or VHS and write a three page paper describing the "mise en scene" what types of technologies were used and HOW would you tell the same story with the technology available in the 21st century.

 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
Photo 2
www.filmsite.org / NEMO
BLUBLU
Drake Arnold / KT Rice

Read: New Media in Art (NMA): Introduction 		Movies: Landmarks of Early Film Vols 1 and 2 / Battleship Potiomkin – Eisenstein / Intolerance – Griffith
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
 Explore
otr.com
www.mztv.com		 Movies: Radio Days – Woody Allen / Original recording of “War of the worlds” by Orson Welles / Early days of TV



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

History of Computing Science by Michelle A. Hoyle
 Movies: The Triumph of the Nerds


7



Artists and Technology 1900 - 1960
Duchamp, DADA, Hugo Ball, SURREALISM, BAUHAUS, Abstract Expressionism, Beatniks, Jack Kerouac #2 #3, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, POP, Warhol #2 Warhol Stars TDK, 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 2 feet x 3 feet
http://the-artists.org/art-movements.cfm		 Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, Picabia, Tzara..... Movies: Un chien andalou – Luis Buñuel / Lichtspiel: Schwartz-Weiß-Grau – Laszlo Moholy-Nagy /
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 #1 #2 #3 obsolete body, Tatsumi Hijikata, Butoh Sankai Juku #2 #3 Ko Murobushi #2 Kazuo Ohno #2 Carlotta Ikeda, Bob Flanagan, Laurie Anderson #1 #2 Int 1 Int 2 Int 3, Leigh Bowery, Steve Mann, Klaus Nomi, Petra Flurr #2, Squat theater, Wooster Group WooTube, John Jessurun, #2 Robert Wilson, Troika Ranch #2 ...

 NMA: Chapter 1
• Actions
• Performance
• New Media
• The Human Canvas #2
Inspired by ANY of the artists mentioned in class, record a 3 minute maximum video of your own performance art piece.
9 Electronic Music
Stockhausen #2, Ligeti #1, Varèse, Xenakis, ScoreLight, Luciano Berio Sinfonia #2, Synthesizer #2 #3, Moog #2, Throbbing Gristle, Psychic TV, Genesis P.Orridge Interview Brian Eno, Satisfaction: RS / DEVO / BB , DEVO 2, Kraftwerk, Pop Corn, Donna Summer, Depeche Mode / Nouvelle Vague, Gloria Jones - Soft Cell - Levi's, Gary Numan, Fad Gadget, Pulp / William Shatner, Erasure / ABBA, Einstürzende Neubauten, Cabaret Voltaire, Joy Division / New Order (Philippe Decouflé), Stone Roses, J&M Chain, Stereolab, Atari Teenage Riot, Miss Kittin Felix Da Housecat, Ladytron #2,Underworld Fluke EBTG / Deep Dish, Massive Attack, Faithless, Chemical Brothers, Bjork, Sidestepper, Chobquibtown #2, Gaiteros, Toto la Momposina / RMX, Robert Miles, Delerium, Radiohead 3d, DeadMau5 #2, Infected Mushroom, Gorecki, Retrovisor, Silverio, Bomba Estereo, Sayayin, Plastilina Mosh, / Technology: jazzmutant - lemur - artists / 		Modulations / La Legende d'Eer / Cabaret Voltaire / Thursday Afternoon // Feel free to incorporate your own audio track to your video art piece. Explore whichever available audio tools you have at hand. Be resourceful.
10
 Video, Installation:
Nam June Paik, Wolf Vostell, Andy Warhol, Jim Campbell, Bill Viola #2, David Hall, Michel Jaffrenou, Gilles Charalambos, Jose A. Restrepo, Pippilotti Rist, Richard Serra, Woody Vasulka, Jenny Holzer, Bruce Nauman, Ryan Trecartin, Gary Hill, Peter Campus, The Residents, Brian Eno, JODI, Lev Manovich, Shirin Neshat
• http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/
• http://www.ubu.com/film/ / technology: modul8
 NMA: Chapters 2 and 3
Create your own 3 minute video art 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
11
 Interactive Art
Puppet Motel – Laurie Anderson / Eve #1-9– Peter Gabriel / Myst / collection of interactive works by the ZKM and Ars Electronica / Bill Seaman / Director / Flash Vs. Apple / Processing / Open source mentality Linux , Ubuntu, Debian ///// Genetic art – Eduardo Kak - Physical Computing ITP, Robotics Carneggie Mellon, Jorge Orta, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Corpse Art		 FINAL PROJECT: VIDEO ART PIECE . Minimum 1 minute excluding credits, maximum 3 minutes including credits. Subject: de-contextualization NMA: Chapter 4
       
FINALS
FINAL PROJECTS PRESENTATION - EVERYONE MUST BE PRESENT