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Part B: Media Objects
LIST 'B' - MEDIA OBJECTS (and most of these are on www.ubu.com - a really fantastic database of experimental art and media - - go there and spend a day, or a lifetime!)
REQUIRED VIEWING:
DATABASE DESIGN
MANOVICH: DATABASE AS SYMBOLIC FORM (this article can be a foundation for understanding the new media perspective—it's not really intended as a 'media object to review')
Some of the groundbreaking 'computer' animation by John Whitney: Catalog (1961) and Permutation (1966)
My Body by Shelly Jackson
Eminem site by SoFake
Hoggebrugge's Modern Living,
yours truly's Projek Iaght (viewed in class)
(and two more examples - one from Mr. Greenaway, and one from Mr. Buonarroti —the frescos, not this particular YouTube video— (and here's a roadmap, and one of his self-portraits). How are these pieces also echoed in the article?
UNSTABLE TEXTS
Part 1—The Modernist's Dilemma of Language (Fragmentize, Cut-Up, Randomize)
Play by Samuel Beckett, fairly decent online copy and script of same. (Film was part of Beckett on Film collection, also to be viewed in class, and one very scholarly article on 'Play')
Burroughs the Movie on Ubu. (Burroughs and Cronneberg on Naked Lunch, viewed in class)
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Part 2—Better Instability Through Digital Culture
KOREA-INK by Ryan Trecartin ( video - script. )
Flarf Performances on YouTube. You can uncover the narrative arc of the Flarf movement with this cartoon archive, created by the greatest contemporary American poetry critic, J1m 8ehr13.
Post-Flarf? Some recent poems by Tao Lin (The Bear Parade Anthology, which may or may not be poets other than Tao Lin). Amazon link to Lin's novel Eeee Eeee Ee!
De-stabilizing your own text. (And, if you like working with ancient software—the Shockwave Plugin in Firefox, that is—you can work with my merely-14-year-old Bad Poetry Generator - - just click on the icon of the bong drums).
And, finally, SkyRon™'s Flarf Generator, of which you will soon be part! (the English Language can actually do that!) OK, maybe I should call it Text Destabilizer. (and, SkyRon™'s collection of over 300 verbal storyboards here.)
STRUCTURES IN SOUND AND MUSIC
Backgrounds:
The American Experimental Tradition . . .
Old-School Experimentalists : Charles Ives, Carl Ruggles, Ruth Crawford Seeger.
Instrument and Exotic Systems Explorers : Henry Cowell, Harry Partch, Conlon Nancarrow
In his own league: John Cage: American Masters Also, for more on Cage and his aesthetics: his Lecture on Nothing (from 'Silence', p. 109) , and the 2004 BBC performance of 4'33"
The Minimalists:Philip Glass, LaMonte Young, Terry Reilly, John Adams, and Steve Reich - concert performances of Music for 18 Musicians (around 20 minutes into video) and Different Trains
Electronic and Digital Directions: Luigi Russolo (Art of Noises), Leon Theremin (inventor), Pierre Schaffer, Pierre Henry (Musique Concrete), Edgard Varese, Bebe LeBaron (SciFi Soundtracks), Stockhausen, Luciano Berio, Milton Babbit, Kenneth Gaburo, Pauline Olivero, Robert Ashley, Robert Moog, Kraftwerk, Todd Machover, Autechre (Ganz Graf , with video by Alex Rutterford, to be viewed in class)
VISUAL IDENTITIES
Cindy Sherman - Doll Clothes (1975)
The Work of Orlan. Here's a pretty good video (but not for those who don't like watching . . . surgery.)
Kathy Acker, Redoing Childhood (1997)
ILLEGAL ART - A little background on the Illegal Art Movement (and attendant blog, stayfreemagazine)
Superstar (1987) by Todd Haynes
Gimme the Mermaid (2002) by Negativland and Tim Maloney * * WE WILL VIEW THIS IN CLASS * *
Banksy, Exit Through the Gift Shop, and his website
POST-CONSUMER CULTURE
The Production of Meaning (2006) by Adbusters
Design Anarchy by Kalle Lasn (click on 'Experience the book[Flash]')
POST-MODERNITY AND BEYOND
The visual, cinematic, and cultural contributions of Andy Warhol (a different, but similar documentary will be viewed in class)
Ben Lewis, Art Safari—Is Relational Art The New Ism? (2004)
Works by David Hockney
ADDITIONAL VIEWING (develop your own categories/issues/etc.)
Robert Ashley, Private Lives (1983)
Works by Francis Bacon and a documentary about him.
Mathew Barney, Cremaster Cycle (1994 - 2002) ("The Order" viewed in class).
Maya Deren, Meshes of the Afternoon (1943), a landmark in experimental cinema, also Ritual in Transfigured Time (1946).
Donna Harraway, Cyborg Manifesto
Gary Hill, Site/Recite (a prologué) (1989) (viewed in class)
Henri Michaux, Images du monde visionaire (1964)
Nam June Paik, any of the works presented on his Ubu page, plus a touching remembrance of him by Skip Blumberg.
Yoko Ono on Ubu, as part of the Fluxus group. Check out Eye Blink (1966), which helped put her on the map. Oh, and she had something to do a with a lead singer from one of those rock 'n' roll bands from the '60s. . . hmm. who could that be?
A number of emerging voices: Sam Taylor-Wood , and Nick Zedd
Other important work (but unfortunately not as popular with Practicum students):
Joseph Beuys, his "band", and a video interview
A filmed interview with Marcel Duchamp.
Kenneth Gaburo, LINGUA II: MALEDETTO (1973)
Susan Sontag - The Aesthetics of Silence (1967)
Karlheinz Stockhausen, Originale (1964), and other works . . . . his interview with Bjork, an unoffical tribute site (I like it better than his official one).
Audio exploration of The Tape-beatles.
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