Making Meaning:
Understanding and Practicing Contemporary Media Art
Bibliography
Readings will be distributed as pdfs on CD during the first week of class or are available at the URLs listed in the bibliography. I am also including here videos and video collections that we will view in class. List is subject to change.
Artforum. From "The Artist and Politics: a Symposium" (1970). Art In Theory 1900-2000. Edited by Charles Harrison and Paul Wood.Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2003, pp 922-926.
Aspect: The Chronicle of New Media Art. (DVD journal)
Atkinson, Terry. “Concerning the Article: “The Dematerialization of Art”” (1968). Conceptual Art: A Critical Anthology. Edited by Alexander Alberro and Blake Stimson. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1999, pp 52-58.
Baldwin, Craig. Tribulation 99. 1991 (video).
_____. Sonic Outlaws. 1995 (video).
Bishop, Claire. “Collaboration and Its Discontents.” Artforum. February 2006.
Bishop, Claire. “Introduction: Viewers as Producers.” Participation. Edited by Claire Bishop. London: Whitechapel and Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2006, pp. 10-17.
Beuys, Joseph. “The Way Forward.” Thoughts and Actions: Joseph Beuys, Daniel Buren, Dan Graham, Bruce McLean, Giulio Paolini. Edited by Kentaro Hayashi. Tokyo: The Japan Foundation, 1982, pp 18-21.
Beuys, Joseph and Dick Schwarze. “Report on a Day’s Proceedings at the Bureau for Direct Democracy.” Participation. Edited by Claire Bishop. London: Whitechapel and Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2006, pp. 120-124.
Connolly, Kate. Artists spliced fake nuclear blast into TV weather news. The Guardian January 4 2008.
Cotter, Holland. “The Collective Conscious.” The New York Times. March 5, 2006.
Debord, Guy. “The Society of the Spectacle” (1967). The Visual Culture Reader. Edited by Nicholas Mirzoeff. New York: Routledge, 1998, pp. 142-145.
Dery, Mark. Culture Jamming: Hacking, Slashing and Sniping in the Empire of Signs” (1993)
Fraser, Andrea. “How to Provide and Artistic Service” (1994). Theory in Contemporary Art Since 1985. Edited by Zoya Kocur and Simon Leung. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2004, pp. 69-75.
Green, Rachel. Internet Art. London: Thames and Hudson, 2004, pp. 119-170.
Grimonprez, Johan. Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y. 1998 (video).
Hawkins, Joan. When Taste Politics Meets Terror: The Critical Art Ensemble on Trial. C-Theory. June 14, 2005.
Jhally, Sut. Representation and the Media. 1997 (video).
Kaprow, Allan. “Happenings in the New York Scene” (1961) and “The Education of the Un-Artist, Part II” (1971). Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life. Edited by Jeff Kelley. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993, pp 15-26 and 110-129.
Lethem, Jonathan. “The Ecstasy of Influence: A Plagiarism.” Harper’s Magazine, February 2007, pp. 59-71.
Lippard, Lucy and John Chandler. “The Dematerialization of Art” (1968). Conceptual Art: A Critical Anthology. Edited by Alexander Alberro and Blake Stimson. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1999, pp 46-50.
Miller, Paul D. Rhythm Science. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2004, pp 4-29.
_____. “Algorithms: Erasures and the Art of Memory.” Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music. Edited by Christopher Cox and Daniel Warner. NY: Continuum, 2004, pp. 348-354.
Negativland. Fair Use.
New Museum of Contemporary Art and Bick Productions, prod. Point of View: An Anthology of the Moving Image, 2003 (video series).
Plato. The Republic: Book III.
Piper, Adrian. “Notes on Funk.” Participation. Edited by Claire Bishop. London: Whitechapel and Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2006, pp. 130-134.
Saper, Craig. “Fluxus as Laboratory.” Fluxus Reader. Edited by Ken Friedman. Indianapolis, IN: John Wiley & Sons, 1998, pp 136-151.
Sholette, Gregory. “Some Call It Art: From Imaginary Autonomy to Autonomous Collectivity.” Originally published in Eva Sturm and Stella Rollig (ed.), Dürfen die das? Kunst als sozialer Raum. Wien: Turia+Kant, 2002.
Sollins, Susan. Art: 21 - Art in the 21st Century. PBS, 2001-2007 (video series).
Sturken, Marita and Lisa Cartwright. “Practices of Looking: Images, Power, and Politics” and “Viewers Make Meaning.” Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001, pp 10-71.
Temporary Services. Framing the Artist: Artists and Art in Film and Television, Vol. 1. Self-published artist’s book, 2005.
Thompson, Nato. “Trespassing Relevance” in The Interventionists: A User’s Guide to the Creative Disruption of Everyday Life. Edited by Nato Thomson and Gregory Sholette. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2004, pp 13-22.
Video Data Bank and Electronic Arts Intermix, prod. Surveying the First Decade: Video Art and Alternative Media in the US. 1995. (video series)
Weintraub, Linda. In the Making: Creative Options for Contemporary Art. New York: D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, Inc., 2003, pp 16-43 and DVD.