IMT:schedule-09

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Contents 1 WEEK 1 1.1 Introductions 1.2 A New View 2 WEEK 2 2.1 Spaces of Illusion 3 WEEK 3 3.1 Making an Image: Camera Obscura 4 WEEK 4 4.1 Photographic Representations 5 WEEK 5 5.1 Cinematic Origins 5.2 Reproductions and Simulations 6 WEEK 6 6.1 Medium As Message 6.2 Television and The Screen 7 WEEK 7 7.1 Postmodern Spectacle 7.2 Panopticon and Surveillance 8 WEEK 8 9 WEEK 9 9.1 Multiviewing 9.2 Immersive Media 10 WEEK 10 10.1 Rethinking Film in a Digital Environment 10.2 The Digital Image 11 WEEK 11 11.1 The Digital Event 11.2 New Media: The Virtual 12 WEEK 12 12.1 Embodiment 13 WEEK 13 13.1 Interactive Spaces 14 WEEK 14 14.1 Visual Convergence / Divergence 15 WEEK 15 16 WEEK 16

[edit] WEEK 1

[edit] Introductions

Mon 1/12

• Course introductions and goals, introduce readings
• A brief history of media timelines, technologies, and uses

[edit] A New View

Thur 1/15

• Read: Friedberg “The Window”

[edit] WEEK 2

Mon 1/19 (NO CLASS – MLK DAY)

[edit] Spaces of Illusion

Thur 1/22

• Read: Grau “Historic Spaces of Illusion” pg. 25-33, 52-71 PDF

[edit] WEEK 3

Mon 1/26 (NO CLASS – KIRK OUT OF TOWN!)

[edit] Making an Image: Camera Obscura

Thur 1/29

• Read: Crary “Techniques of the Observer” PDF, Friedberg “The Frame”

[edit] WEEK 4

Mon 2/2 (NO CLASS – KIRK OUT OF TOWN!)

[edit] Photographic Representations

Thur 2/5

• Read: Sontag “On Photography:In Plato's Cave” PDF, Starenko's “Sontag on Photography at 20”, Photography timeline
• Assign: Response Paper #1 – Photographic Representation

[edit] WEEK 5

[edit] Cinematic Origins

Mon 2/8

• Read: Gormon/McLean “The Development of the Film Industry” PDF, Lubar “InfoCulture: Movies” PDF

[edit] Reproductions and Simulations

Thur 2/12

• Read: Benjamin “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” PDF, Baudrillard, “Simulacra and Simulations” PDF, reading companion questions

[edit] WEEK 6

[edit] Medium As Message

Mon 2/16

• Read: McLuhan “Medium is the Message” PDF, reading companion questions
• Due: Response Paper #1

[edit] Television and The Screen

Thur 2/19

• Read: Friedberg “The Screen”, Lubar “InfoCulture: Television” PDF, Spigel “Make Room for TV” Ch.2 PDF

[edit] WEEK 7

[edit] Postmodern Spectacle

Mon 2/23

• Read: Debord, “Society of the Spectacle” (Read sections: Preface, Separation Perfected, The Commodity as Spectacle) PDF, Best/Kellber “Debord and the Postmodern Turn” PDF, reading companion questions

[edit] Panopticon and Surveillance

Thur 2/26

• Read: Paul Virilio “The Visual Crash” PDF, Jeremy Bentham “The Penitentiary Panopticon” PDF, Slovaj Zizek “Big Brother” & Victor Burgin “Jenni’s Room” PDF
• Assign: Response Paper #2 - Surveillance

[edit] WEEK 8

Mon 3/2 & Thur 3/5 (NO CLASSES – SPRING BREAK)

[edit] WEEK 9

[edit] Multiviewing

Mon 3/9

• Read: Friedberg “The Multiple”

[edit] Immersive Media

Thur 3/12

• Read: Grau “Intermedia Stages of Virtual Reality in the Twentieth Century” pg. 140-176 PDF
• Due: Response Paper #2

[edit] WEEK 10

[edit] Rethinking Film in a Digital Environment

Mon 3/16

• Read: Rodowick Pt.1 “The Virtual Life of Film”

[edit] The Digital Image

Thur 3/19

• Read: Rodowick Pt.3: 13, 14, 17, 18

[edit] WEEK 11

[edit] The Digital Event

Mon 3/23

• Read: Rodowick Pt.3: 19-21
• Assign: Final Paper/Project

[edit] New Media: The Virtual

Thur 3/26

• Read: Hayles “The Condition of Virtuality” PDF

[edit] WEEK 12

[edit] Embodiment

Mon 3/30

• Read: Massumi "The Autonomy of Affect" PDF and “The Bleed: Where Body Meets Image” PDF
• Assign: Response Paper #3 – Virtuality and Embodiment

Thur 4/2

• Read: Hansen “What’s Virtual about VR?” PDF
• Due: Final Paper/Project Proposals

[edit] WEEK 13

[edit] Interactive Spaces

Mon 4/6

• Read: Jenkins “Games, the New Lively Art”, Smith “No Medium is an Island”

Thur 4/9

• Read: Burnett, “Computer Games and Aesthetics of Human and Nonhuman Interaction” PDF

[edit] WEEK 14

[edit] Visual Convergence / Divergence

Mon 4/13

• Read: Burnett, “Reanimating the World: Waves of Interaction” PDF
• Due: Response Paper #3

Thur 4/16

• Read: W.J.T. Mitchell "There are No Visual Media" PDF

[edit] WEEK 15

Mon 4/20

• Final paper/project presentations

Thur 4/23

• Final paper/project presentations

[edit] WEEK 16

Mon 4/27

• Final paper/project presentations
• Due: All final papers/project material