UPDATED COURSE SCHEDULE / ART 112 IDEA & FORM

INTRODUCTION/IMAGES/IDEOLOGY/IMAGE ANALYSIS

Week 1:
T - Introduction and course overview, activity:
For next class: Read and respond to Ways of Seeing John Berger p. 7-34

TH - Discussion of readings/lecture/introduction of Project 1: “Index of an

Image”
For next class: Read and respond to Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
by Wallace Stevens
Excerpts from On the Manner of Addressing Clouds by
Thomas McEvilley
Practices of Looking 26-33

Week 2:
T - Discussion of readings, lecture and activity
For next class: Complete project 1: “Index of an Image”

TH - Presentation of Project 1
For next class: Read and respond to The Death of the Author, by Roland
Barthes
Practices of Looking, p. 52-53

BIRTH OF THE READER or VIEWER/APPROPRIATION/PARTICIPATION/THE EVERYDAY

Week 3:
T - Discussion of readings, lecture, introduction to Project 2: “The Re-make”
For next class: Read and respond to Being Boring, by Kenneth Goldsmith
The Ecstasy of Influence, by Jonathan Lethem

TH - Discussion of readings, viewing of The Anthropology of youtube, project

2 progress report http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPAO-lZ4_hU
For next class: Read and respond to Multiple Authorship by Boris
Groys

Week 4:
T - Discussion of readings/lecture on history of selection in art/group narrative
activity
For next class: Complete project 2

TH - Presentation of Project 2: “Re-make”

` For next class: Read and respond to The Social Turn: Collaboration and its
Discontents by Claire Bishop

DOCUMENTARY/AUTHENTICITY/THE REAL/IDENTITY
Week 5:
T – Discussion of readings/introduction to Project 3: The Document
For next class: Read and respond to Equality Celebrates the Ordinary
by Sally Banes
The Monuments of Passaic New Jersey, by Robert
Smithson

TH – Discussion of reading/mini-lecture/Guest speaker: 8pm Ariana Jacob

For next class: Read to excerpts from The Atlas Group Archive
Magpie-ism and Obfuscation, by
Rebecca May Marston

Week 6:
T - Discussion of readings/viewing of Zelig, by Woody Allen
For next class: Read and think about The Man Who Threw Nothing
Away, by Ilya Kabakov

TH - Lecture/introduction to final project: “The Collection”/bag inventory

activity
For next class: Complete Project 3

THE ARCHIVE/THE MUSEUM/CURATION/DISPLAY/INSTITUTIONAL CRITIQUE

Week 7:
T – Presentation of Project 3: “The Document”
For next class: Read and respond to excerpts from On Longing, by
Susan Stewart

TH - NO CLASS Veteran’s Day

Week 8:
T – Critique leftovers/discussion of readings/lecture on collections and critique
For next class: Read and respond to Practices of Looking, pgs. 62-68
And an excerpt from Boris Groys’ On Curatorship

TH – Discussion of readings/curatorship activity

For next class: Read Inhaling the Spore, by Lawrence Weschler
Excerpts from the Museum of Jurassic
Technology

Week 9:
T - Final class discussion/short film/worktime for final project.

TH – NO CLASS Thanksgiving

Week 10:
T - Presentation of final projects.
TH - Presentation of final projects.