KUN 2400 4400 Topics in avant-garde and contemporary art
V2020: VIDEO ART. THEORY, TECHNOLOGY, PRACTICE.
Texts marked * will be distributed as pdf. files in Canvas
A list of recommended texts and documents for further reading can be found in the course schedule document.
Historical and technical overviews and introductions
Blom, Ina: The Autobiography of Video. The Life and Times of a Memory Technology.
New York: Sternberg Press, 2016
Meigh-Andrews, Chris. A History of Video Art: The Development of Form and Function. Oxford: Berg, 2006.
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Weise, Marcus, and Diana Weynand. How Video Works: From Analog to High Definition. Second edition. Amsterdam: Focal Press, 2007, 1-37. *
Wolpin, Stewart. “The Race to Video.” American Heritage of Invention and Technology 10, no. 2 (1994), 53–62. *
General literature
- Antin, David. “Video: The Distinctive Features of the Medium”. In Hanhardt, John G., ed. Video Culture: A Critical Investigation. New York: Visual Studies Workshop Press, 1986, 147-166*
Blom, Ina. “Weather Channel”, Artforum, Vol.52 (1), 2013, 378-381*
Blom, Ina. “Social Signals: On Aldo Tambellini.” Artforum International 51, no. 15 (2013), 67–68*
Cavell, Stanley. “The Fact of Television.” Daedalus, Vol 111, No. 4, (Fall 1982 ), 75-96*
Burnham, Jack, ”Systems Esthetics”, Artforum, September 1968, 30-35*
Dienst, Richard. Still Life in Real Time. Durham: Duke University Press, 1994, 3-35*
Ernst, Wolfgang “Media Archaeography: Method & Machine versus History & Narrative of Media”. In Digital Memory and the Archibe, edited by Jussi Parikka. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2013, 55-81*
Haraway, Donna. “A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century.” In Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Nature, New York: Routledge, 1991, 149–181*
Jones, Caroline. Machine in the Studio: Constructing the Postwar American Artist. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996, 60-113*
Joselit, David. Feedback: Television against Democracy. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2007. xi-xiii, 3-41 , 85-131*
Joseph, Branden W. “Biomusic.” Grey Room 45 (2011), 128–150*
Ketner, Joseph D., “Electromedia”, in Aldo Tambellini Black Zero, New York: Boris Lurie Art Foundation/Chelsea Art Museum (2011), 37-50*
Kiaer, Christina. “Boris Arvatov’s Socialist Objects.” October 81 (Summer, 1997), 105–118*
Krauss, Rosalind. “Video: The Aesthetics of Narcissism.” October, (Spring 1976), 50-64*
Lazzarato, Maurizio. “Machines to Crystallize Time.” Theory, Culture & Society 24, no. 6 (2007), 93–122*
Lehmann, Anette Jael. “Videorebels: Actions and Interventions of the German Video-Avant-Garde.” In Contemporary German and Austrian Experimental Film, edited by Randal Halle and Reinhild Steingr?ver, New York: Camden House, 2008, 80-94*
Lesage, Julia. “Women's Fragmented Consciousness in Feminist Experimental Autobiographical Video.” In Feminism and Documentary, edited by Diane Waldman and Janet Walker, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999, 309–337*
Mansoor, Jaleh. “Fontana’s Atomic Age Abstraction: The Spatial Concepts and the Television Manifesto.” October 124 (2008), 137–156*
Marks, Laura U. Touch: Sensuous Theory and Multisensory Media. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002, 161-176*
Mehring, Christine. “Television Art’s Abstract Starts: Europe circa 1944-1969.” October 125 (Summer, 2008), 29–64*
Murray, Timothy. “De-commodification of Artworks. Networked Fantasy of the Open”. In High, Kathy, Sherry Miller Hocking, and Mona Jimenez, eds.*
The Emergence of Video Processing Tools. Vol. 1, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2014, 225-246*
Neuburger, Susanne “Terrific Exhibit: Time Art alias Music in the Exhibition Genre.” In Nam June Paik, Exposition of Music Electronic Television Revisited, edited by Manuela Ammer and Nam June Paik, Cologne: Walther K?nig, 2009, 31-43*
Ryan, Paul. “Topologies of the Social: Cybernetic Guerilla Warfare Revisited.” Interview by Felicity D. Scott and Mark Wasiuta. Grey Room 44 (2011), 114–133*
Shamberg, Michael. Guerrilla Television. New York: Holt, 1971, 1-28*
Sutton, Gloria. The Experience Machine: Stan VanDerBeek’s Movie-Drome and Expanded Cinema. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2015. 1-17 and 96-146*
Uroskie, Andrew V. Between the Black Box and the White Cube: Expanded Cinema and Postwar Art. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014, 1-52*
Wagner, Anne M. “Performance, Video, and the Rhetoric of Presence.” October 91 (Winter 2000), 59–80*
Williams, Raymond. Television: Technology and Cultural Form. London: Routledge, 2003, 1-19*
Youngblood, Gene. Expanded Cinema. New York: P. Dutton & Co, 1970. Part Five “Television as a Creative Medium”, 257-344*