courses /spring 07 /danm 203 /syllabus
danm 203: Dialogues_Questions
spring 2007, w 13-16, porter 245
professor: David Crane
office: comm 102
hrs: t/th 14-15:30 & by appt.
phone: 9-3991
email: dwcrane (at) ucsc (d0t) edu
overview & objectives
The overall purpose of the course is to involve you in critical dialogues and questions at the nexus of digital media (and critical/cultural) theory and digital artistic practice – what we can call "critical practice." The goal is to use these critical-practice "dialoguesquestions" to help you produce what will eventually become the written portion of your MFA thesis. By engaging in ongoing questions concerning digital theory and artistic practice, you will be able to develop sophisticated and informed projects that are in dialogue with a variety of current issues and debates. Part of you work will involve the process of categorizing and connecting different trends, movements, and related cultural/social/political activities to which your work can pose questions. Mapping (in Deleuze & Guattari's sense) a field in which your work can become.
These "categorizationsconnections" will also draw upon what you've learned in DANM 201 and 202. Because those courses are structured ones that set the foundation for the issues addressed in 203; and because 203 will be dealing with current and even unfolding ideas and practices; and because 203 is designed to help develop your written thesis, you will also participate in developing course materials (readings, screenings, viewings) that are pertinent to and help foster your own work. Thus, you will be able to develop your own network connecting research, teaching, cultural/social/political movements, and your own artistic practice.
reading
All the books listed below are available from the Literary Guillotine (204 Locust, 831.457.1195). The essays are available on eres.
required
Wilson, Stephen. Information Arts: intersections of art, science, and technology. Cambridge MA: MIT Press/Leonardo, 2001.
Deleuze, Gilles and Felix Guattari. A Thousand Plateaus: capitalism and schizophrenia. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1987 (1980).
Chun, Wendy Hui Kyong. Control and Freedom: power and paranoia in the age of fiber optics. Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 2006.
recommended
Paul, Christian. Digital Art. London: Thames & Hudson, 2003.
eres reading list
Rosler, Martha (1990). “Video: shedding the utopian moment.” Illuminating Video: an essential guide to video art. Ed. Doug Hall and Sally Jo Fifer. New York: Aperture [w/ the Bay Area Video Coalition. 31-50.
Wigley, Mark (2001). "Network fever." Grey Room 04 (Summer): 82-122.
Terranova, Tiziana (2000). "Free labor: producing culture for the digital economy." Social Text 63 (Summer): 33-58.
Benkler, Yochai (2006). "Social ties: networking together." The Wealth of networks: how social production transforms markets and freedom. New Haven: Yale University Press. 356-77.
Hemment, Drew (2006). "Locative arts." Leonardo 39.4: 348-55.
Tuters, Marc & Kazys Varnelis (2006). "Beyond locative media: giving shape to the Internet of things." Leonardo 39.4: 357-63.
Agamben, Giorgio (1998 (1995)). "The Politicization of life," "VP." Homo Sacre: sovereign power and bare life. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press. 119-25; 154-59.
Lee, Pamela (2006). "My enemy/my friend." Grey Room 24 (Summer): 101-09
Villarejo, Amy (2004). "Activist technologies: Think Again!" Social Text 80 (Fall): 133-50.
Mongrel/Geert Lovink (2002). "National heritage and body politics." Uncanny networks: dialogues with the virtual intelligentsia. Ed. Geert Lovink. MIT P. 246-53.
Kaye, Joseph "Jofish" and Liz Goulding (2004). "Intimate objects." DIS '04 Aug. 1-4. Cambridge MA.
Berlant, Lauren and Michael Warner (1998). "Sex in public." Critical Inquiry 24 (Winter): 547-66.
Townsend, Anthony (2006). "Locative-media artists in the contested-aware city." Leonardo 39.4: 345-47.
Cetina, Karin Knorr. "Postsocial relations." Handbook of social theory. Ed. George Ritzer and Barry Smart. London: Sage. 520-37.
Ong, Aihwa (1999). "Zones of new sovereignty." Flexible citizenship: the cultural logics of transnationality. Durham: Duke University Press. 214-39.
Rafael, Vicente L. (2003). "The Cell phone and the crowd: messianic politics in the contemporary Philippines." Public Culture 15.3: 399-425.