Upcoming Classes

November 8: Art-Life Experiments
Reading Due: “Victoria Vesna,” “Gregory Green,” and “Alix Lambert” in Weintraub, 284-293, 322-331, and 342-351; Kaprow (e-reserves);Temporary Services (online)
Project Three Assigned: Experiment in Art and Life

November 9: Project three concepts due/workshopped

November 15: Situating Everyday Life
Reading Due: de Certeau, “General Introduction…” (e-reserves)
Advanced Reading: de Certeau, “Making Do…”

November 16: Open Lab Work Session/Demo TBD

Semester Overview

August 23: Introductory Lecture and Course Overview

August 24: Equipment & tech basics demos (video camera, audio recorder, scanner)

Theme 1: Artist, Audience, & Society

August 30: Artist and Audience
Reading Due: “Introduction” and “Choosing a Constituency” in Weintraub, pp. 16-43.
Project One Assigned: “When I Say Art, You Say…”

August 31: Video Editing Basics
Recommended Reading: http://journalism.berkeley.edu/multimedia/tutorials/shooting_tips/; http://journalism.berkeley.edu/multimedia/tutorials/finalcut/

September 6: Communicating with the Audience
Reading Due: “Communicating with the Audience” in Weintraub, pp. 44-75; Thompson (e-reserves)

September 7: Open Lab Work Session

September 13: Relating to the Audience
Reading Due: “Communicating with the Audience” in Weintraub, pp. 80-120

September 14: Soundtrack Pro/DVD Studio Pro demos

September 20: Beyond Audience: Artist and Society
Reading Due: Sholette, Hawkins (online)
Advanced Reading: Benjamin, “Author As Producer” (e-reserves)

September 21: Project One Critiqued
Reading response one due

Theme 2: Influence & Inspiration

September 27: Understanding Modernism
Reading Due: Sturken & Cartwright, “Postmodernism and Popular Culture” pp 237-251
Advanced Reading: Berman, Benjamin, “Work of Art…” (e-reserves)
Screening: select modernist films
Paper Assigned: 3-5 page analysis of one major inter/transmedia artwork

September 28: Library Session
Information on research tools and citation styles

October 4: Understanding Postmodernism
Reading Due: Sturken & Cartwright, “Postmodernism and Popular Culture” pp 251-277, Debord “Excerpt” (e-reseves)
Advanced Reading: Harvey, Debord, “Society of the Spectacle” (e-reserves)
Screening: postmodern film/video program
Project Two Assigned: “Pop-Cult Re-mix”

October 5: Postmodernism scavenger hunt at the mall; paper topics due

October 11: Society of the Spectacle
Continue discussing Guy Debord; view examples of detournement and media critical of the spectacle (Fensler PSAs, GW Bush remixes, "Transformation: Wonder Woman," and "Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y")

October 12: Internal Sources of Inspiration
Reading Due: “Sourcing Inspiration: Introduction” and “Internal Sources of Inspiration” in Weintraub, pp. 121-149
Project two concept due

October 18: External Sources of Inspiration
“External Sources of Inspiration” and “External and Internal Sources of Inspiration” in Weintraub, pp 150-191
In-class exercise: Finding Direction/Cognitive Mapping

October 19: Guest Presentation: Daniel Tucker on Activist Mapping Practices

October 25: Papers due and Presentations

October 26: Open Lab Work Session
Reading response three due

November 1: Project Two Critiqued

Theme 3: Art in/as Everyday Life

November 2: Producing the Artist
Reading Due: “Crafting an Artistic ‘Self’” in Weintraub, pp 193-231
Advanced Reading: Goffman

November 9: Project three concepts due/workshopped

November 15: Situating Everyday Life
Reading Due: de Certeau, “General Introduction…” (e-reserves)
Advanced Reading: de Certeau, “Making Do…”

November 16: Open Lab Work Session/Demo TBD

November 29: WorkingTogether: Collectives
Guest: Big Muddy Independent Media Center
Reading: Cotter (e-reserves); take a look at http://www.groupsandspaces.net/

November 30: Project three work-in-progress critique

December 6: Course evaluations
Creative notebooks due
Reading response three due

December 7: Open Lab Work Session

Final: December 12, 12:50-2:50 PM—meet at show space, location TBD