Video Art: History, Theory, Politics
Week One: Introduction & Basic Media Analysis Examples of appropriation: Stuffing by Animal Charm, 1998, 4 minutes Removed by Naomi Uman, 1999, 6 minutes
Week Two: Experimental Film & a visit from Portland Filmmaker Matt McCormick Experimental Films: Ballet Mecanique by Fernand Leger & Dudley Murphy, 1924, 19 minutes Un Chien Andalou by Salvador Dali & Luis Bunuel, 1929, 16 minutes Prelude: Dog Star Man by Stan Brakhage, 1962, 25 minutes
Matt McCormick's Films: The Subconscious Art of Graffiti Removal, 20001, 16 minutes American Nutria, 2003, 11 minutes Australia, 2007, 4 minutes, music video for The Shins The Past and Pending, 2003, 5 minutes and 30 seconds, music video for The Shins The Problem with Machines that Communicate, 2008
Week Three: Early Video Art I Explorations of Presence, Performance & Audience:
Performer/Audience/Mirror by Dan Graham, 1975, 23 minutes Selected Works [Two Dogs and a Ball, Used Car Salesman, Dog Biscuit in Glass Jar] by William Wegman, 1972, 8 minutes Baldessari Sings Lewitt by John Baldessari, 1972, 4 minute excerpt Undertone by Vito Acconci, 1972, 10 minute excerpt Vertical Roll, by Joan Jonas, 1972, 19 minutes and 30 seconds (from the Video Data Bank Collection Surveying the First Decade)
Week Four: Early Video Art II Investigations of the Phenomenal World - Space, Light & Sound Stamping in the Studio by Bruce Nauman, 1968, 5 minute excerpt from 60 minute tape Double Vision by Peter Campus, 1971, 15 minutes Boomerang by Richard Serra and Nancy Holt, 1974, 11 minutes Island Song by Charlemagne Palestine, 1976, 16 minutes Cycles of 3s and 7s by Tony Conrad, 1976, 3 minute excerpt from 30 minute tape Soundings by Gary Hill, 1979, 18 minutes Lightning by Paul & Marlene Kos, 1976, 1 minute and 17 seconds Sweet Light by Bill Viola, 1977, 10 minutes (from the Video Data Bank Collection Surveying the First Decade)
Week Five: Video & Identity Black is, Black Ain't by Marlon Riggs, 1994, 87 minutes Semiotics of the Kitchen by Martha Rosler, 1975, 6 minutes Art Herstory by Hermine Freed, 1974, 15 minute excerpt
Week Six: Mid-term Exam & Library Orientation
Week Seven: Video Installation & Projection Week Eight: Media Activism Then & Now Week Nine: Personal & Experimental Documentary Week Ten: The Future of Digital Media / Final Paper Meetings
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