New Media Spring Lecture Series 2003: Alternative Narratives
Film & Media Arts MFA Colloquium (FMA 943)
Prof. Sarah Drury
Temple University

 

The Film & Media Arts MFA Colloquium Spring Lecture Series 2003 features a series of six visiting lecturers who will present their work in film, video and new media. The 2003 Colloquium will, in general, address "Alternative Narratives," including a current and historical exploration of the impact of new technologies on narrative, deconstruction, interactivity, networked authorship, media installation, hypermedia, physical interfaces and translocal performance.

Bi-weekly lecture/demonstrations will alternate with readings (including a number of artists' "manifestos"), screenings, lectures by the professor and student presentations. Historically, manifestos published by artists and filmmakers have attempted to articulate not only concerns of art and media production, but also to locate these concerns in the context of the moment on cultural, political and/or spiritual grounds. To this end, students will be asked to create and present their own manifestos, integrating readings, screenings discussions within a personal statement.

Colloquium Course Requirements: Attendance at all class sessions, reading assigned texts and presenting a personal Manifesto.


 
The MFA Colloquium Spring Lecture Series 2003 Schedule:
Feb 5 Rachel Schreiber Video and New Media Artist, Writer
Feb 12 Robin Michals Digital Photographer and Web Design
Mar 19 Diane Bertolo Photographer and New Media Artist
Mar 26 Noah Wardrip-Fruin Hypermedia Writer
April 9 Cathy Weis Choreographer & Internet Performance Artist
April 23 Leslie Thornton Filmmaker and Installation Artist

 
Bibliography
 
Benjamin, Walter, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, from Illuminations
deLauretis, Teresa, Alice Doesn't: Feminism, Semiotics, Cinema, Indiana University Press, 1982
Haraway, Donna, The Cyborg Manifesto, from Simians, Cyborgs and Women, Routledge, 1991
Hayles, N. Katherine, "The Condition of Virtuality," from The Digital Dialectic, Peter Lunenfeld, ed.
Lunenfeld, Peter, The Digital Dialectic: New Essays on New Media, MIT Press, 1999
Manovich, Lev, The Language of New Media, MIT Press, 2001
Marinetti, F. T., The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism, first published in Le Figaro of Paris, 1909
Miller, Paul D., aka DJ Spooky, Dark Carnival
Mitchell, William, The Reconfigured Eye: Visual Truth in the Post-Photographic Era, MIT Press, 1992
Mulvey, Laura, Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema,, Originally Published - Screen 16.3 Autumn 1975 pp. 6-18
Nichols, Bill, The Work of Culture in the Age of Cybernetic Systems. From Electronic Culture, Timothy Druckrey, ed.
Plant, Sadie, zeros + ones: Digital Women and the New Technoculture, Doubleday, 1997
Saper, Craig J., Networked Art, University of Minnesota Press, 2001
Silverman, Kaja, Acoustic Mirror: The Female Voice in Psychoanalysis and Cinema , Indiana University Press, 1988
Varela, Edgar, Evan Thompson & Eleanor Rosch, The Embodied Mind, MIT Press, 1991
Vertov, Dziga, "Manifesto," first published 1922-23, reprinted as "Kinoks-Revolution" in Film Culture, No. 25, Summer 1962
Virilio, Paul, Open Sky, Verso 1997
 
 
some websites (an ever-changing list)
 
http://www.brown.edu/Departments/MCM/courses/MC150-03/manovich/manovich.htm
http://hyperfiction.org/
http://www.turbulence.org
http://www.kanonmedia.com
http://fusionanomaly.net/sadieplant.html
http://lifeduringwartime.ping.ca/thingsareok/OK.html
http://www.walkerart.org/
http://www.english.udel.edu/teague/derrida.html
http://www.holography.demon.co.uk/writings/manifest.htm
http://www.rhuzome.org
http://www.e-arcades.com
http://www.student.math.uwaterloo.ca/~cs492/Benjamin.html
http://astro.temple.edu/%7Ejewarner/mulveyread.html
http://www.generativeart.com/abst2000/abst75.htm
http://www.viewfromthebalcony.org/
http://califia.hispeed.com/Jumpin/jukeframe2.htm
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/HPS/Haraway/CyborgManifesto.html
http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/02/22/thornton.html
http://www.citypaper.net/articles/100799/ae.pik.cathy.shtml
http://www.media.mit.edu/
http://www.itp.nyu.edu/
http://www.franklinfurnace.org