Introduction
3 February
Mandatory assignment A should be done before this class
• Denis Dutton: “Authenticity in art” published in Levinson (ed.): The Oxford Handbook of Aesthetics, 2003, Oxford University Press. Also at: http://www.denisdutton.com/authenticity.htm (refer to the webpage for illustrations)
The Artwork essay
10 February
• Walter Benjamin: “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” (third version 1939) in Arent (ed.): Illuminations (1955), 1968, Schocken Books, pp. 217-251
17 February
Presentation by group 1
• Theodor W. Adorno: “Culture Industry Reconsidered” in New German Critique, no. 6 (Autumn 1976), pp. 12-19
• Peter Bürger: Theory of the Avant-Garde, 1984, University of Minnesota, pp. 41-54
Digital media
24 February
Presentation by group 2
• Lev Manovich: The Language of New Media, 2001, MIT Press, pp. 19-61
3 March
Presentation by group 3
• H.M. Enzensberger: “Constituents of a Theory of the Media” (1970), in New Left Review, Nov./Dec. 1970, pp. 13-36
• J.D. Bolter and R. Grusin: Remediation – Understanding New Media, (1999) 2000, MIT Press, pp. 21-50
Digital art
10 March
Presentation by group 4
• Boris Groys: ”From Image to Image File – and back: Art in the age of digitalization” in Art Power, 2008, MIT Press, pp. 83-91
• Krzysztof Ziarek: “The Work of Art in the Age of Its Electronic Mutability” in Benjamin (ed.): Walter Benjamin and Art, 2005 Continuum, pp. 209-225
• Mark Tribe: “A Brief Introduction to Digital Art” in Enter Action, Digital Art Now (exhibition catalogue), 2009, ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, pp. 60-64
Creator/original
17 March
Presentation by group 5
• Roland Barthes: “From Work to Text” in Barthes: Image, Music, Text (1977), Noonday Press, 1998, pp. 155-164
• M. Foucault: “What is an Author?” (1969) in Preziosi (ed.): The Art of Art History, 1998, Oxford University Press, pp. 299-314
24 March
Presentation by group 1
• C.S. Peirce: “What is a sign?” (1894) from http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/us/peirce1.htm
• Jean Baudrillard: Simulacra and Simulation, (1981) 1994, University of Michigan Press, pp. 1-7; 12-14; 19-27
Critique of Benjamin
7 April
Presentation by group 2
• Hennion and B. Latour: “How to make mistakes on so many things at once – and become famous for it” in Gumbrich and Merrinan (eds.): Mapping Benjamin, 2003, Stanford University Press, pp. 91-97
• H. Ritter: “Toward the Artwork Essay, Second Version” in Gumbrich and Merrinan (eds.): Mapping Benjamin, 2003, Stanford University Press, pp. 203-210
• Bill Nichlos: “The Work of Culture in the Age of Cybernetic Systems” (1988) in Wardrip-Fruin and Montfort (eds.): The New Media Reader, 2003, MIT Press, pp. 625-641
(Wild) documentation
14 April
Presentation by group 3
• J. Walker: “Feral Hypertext” in Proceedings of the sixteenth ACM conference on Hypertext and hypermedia, 2005, pp. 46-53
• Eric Kluitenberg: “The Network of Waves” in Open no. 11, 2006, pp. 6-16
• Boris Groys: ”Art in the age of Biopolitics: From artwork to art documentation” (2002) in Art Power, 2008, MIT Press, pp. 53-65
Conference
April 21
The conference has been cancelled. We meet as usual in room 116, 11-14.
Programme: Lotte on interactive digital art, and guest Nina Gram on 'Mobile sounds and mediated immediacy'. Please read Nina's abstract here. As a bonus perhaps Sigmar can tell us a little about Islandic vulcanos?
Sampling (commercial) bits
28 April
Hand in assignment D
Follow-up on the flashmob and the conference
Presentation by group 4
• Chris Anderson: The Long Tail, (2006), 2007, Random House Business Books (Introduction, Chapter 1+4)
• Lev Manovich: Software takes command (excepts). From http://lab.softwarestudies.com/2008/11/softbook.html
Copy-right and creativity
5 May
Presentation by group 5
• Quinn Norton: “Secrets of the Pirate Bay” in Wired Magazine, 16.08.2006 (http://www.wired.com/print/science/discoveries/news/2006/08/71543)
• http://www.pirateparty.org.uk/
• Larry Lessig: ”How creativity is being strangled by the law” (20 min. video lecture), 2007 http://blog.ted.com/2007/11/larry_lessig.php
• Chris Anderson: “Free! Why $0.00 Is the Future of Business” in Wired Magazine 25.02.2008