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GOING VIRTUAL (Spring 2001) |
SYLLABUS
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January
19 |
INTRODUCTION: Performance Art...Performance/Art...Live Art on the
Internet...How did Live Art on the Internet evolve from Performance Art?
Watch: Guy de Cointet; Andrea Fraser, "Museum Highlights: A Gallery Talk" Recommended Readings: Carlson - Performance: a critical introduction. pp. 100-120, 144-164. Goldberg. 1988 &/or 1998 Johnson, Steven. Interface Culture Wilson - The Whys of Deinstitutionalization and Going Virtual |
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January
26 |
PERFORMANCE/ART ANALYSIS I - The Body as an Art Medium
Performance Exercise: "5 mins on subject X as character Y" Video Documentation Screening: Tehching Hsieh, "One Year Performance 1980-81" Tari Ito, "Face: Memory of the Epidermis" Jull Scott, "Taped" Papo Colo, "Superman" Nigel Rolfe, "Rope" David Leslie, "The Impact Addict" Matt Mullican, "Hypnosis Tapes" Recommended Readings: Auslander, Philip. From Acting to Performance Carr, C. On Edge: Performance at the End of the Twentieth Century |
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2
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FIRST STEPS/FIRST PROPOSALS
DUE TODAY: Preliminary proposals for final performances and presentations Performance Exercise: Building a performance/art website Recommended Readings: Brook & Boal. Resisting the Virtual Life Critical Art Ensemble 1994 Danet, Brenda. Play and Performance in Computer-Mediated Communication Dinkla, Soke. From Participation to Interaction: Toward the Origins of Interactive Art. in Clicking In. pp. 279-290 |
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February
9 |
INTRODUCTION TO WEBCASTING
Recommended Readings: Miles, Peggy. 1998. Internet World Guide to Webcasting PERFORMANCE/ART ANALYSIS II - Corporate Culture
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February
16 |
BECOMING VIRTUAL
Terminology Assignment: Media, Multimedia, Streaming Media, Broadband, Digital, Virtual, Cyberspace... Recommended Readings: Levy, Pierre. Becoming Virtual Mitchell, William. City of Bits |
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February
23 |
GOING VIRTUAL
Performance Exercise: Building an interactive performance/art website Recommended Readings: Rheingold, Howard. 2000. Tools for thought Valovic, Thomas S. 2000. Digital Mythologies: The Hidden Complexities of the Internet |
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March
2 |
DRAFT PRESENTATIONS I: Students present their work-in-progress |
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March
9 |
DRAFT PRESENTATIONS II: Students present their work-in-progress |
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March
16 |
SPRING BREAK - no class |
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March
23 |
PERFORMANCE/ART ISSUES: Rights, Copyright, Copyleft, Collaborations,
Free Speech...
Recommended Readings: Godwin, Mike. Cyber Rights: Defending Free Speech in the Digital Age. |
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March
30 |
PSi Annual Conference - Mainz, Germany (NO CLASS MEETING) |
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April
6 |
PERFORMANCE/ART ANALYSIS III - The Culture Wars
Video Documentation Screening: Tim Miller, "Stretch Marks" Holly Hughes, "Preching to the Perverted" Annie Sprinkle "Post Porn Modernist" John Fleck, "A Snowball's Chance in Hell" Frank Green, "The Scarlet Letters" Ron Athey, "Four Scenes From a Harsh Life" Recommended Readings: Auslander, Philip. Presence and Resistance. Critical Art Ensemble. Electronic Civil Disobedience and Other Unpopular Ideas Finley, Karen. A Different Kind of Intimacy. Hughes, Holly. Clit Notes. Miller, Tim. Democracy in America. See also: Annie Sprinkle: Official Homepage Electronic Civil Disobedience EFF Blue Ribbon Project |
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April
13 |
THE FUTURE OF THE PRESENT
Special Guests: Sue Shaffner and Carrie Moyer - Dyke Action Machine See also: Franklin Furnace |
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April
20 |
FINAL PERFORMANCES/PRESENTATIONS I |
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April
27 |
FINAL PERFORMANCES/PRESENTATIONS II |
Last updated: March 21, 2001