ICAM 150 / VIS 159: History of Art and Technology
UCSD Winter 2011
DOWLOAD LECTURE POWERPOINTS - in <w159_w11_lectures> folder
NOTES:
Changes in the order of topics are possible.
Readings and links for each week may be updated a week before.
I may also update my Powerpoint presentations before each lecture. Therefore, you should download each week's Powerpoint (or Keynote) file on the day of the lecture (i.e., Thursday) to make sure you have the up-to-date version.
REQUIRED READINGS (columns III, IV):
Primary readings and additional readings (columns III and IV): read before each week's lecture.
RECOMMENDED READINGS/REFERENCES (columns V, VI):
Lecture references (column V ): read/view after the lecture.
Section references (column VI): read/view after the section meeting.
MIDTERM / FINAL PREPARATION:
The exam questions / essay topics will refer to concepts, projects, artworks and people which appear in lectures' Powerpoints, and which were discussed in sections.
The material in columns IV and V will provide you with background information about ideas, projects and people discussed in lectures. Exam questions and essays will not cover other conceptsdiscussions of other projects which appear in this material but which were not mentioned in lectures. Therefore, in preparing for the midterm, first review each week Powerpoint and then look over the readings/sites in columns IV and V - focusing only on the parts of the readins which directly refer to the concepts/projects which appeared in Powerpoints.
The midterm questions will refer to key points in primary required readings and also to the projects which appear in columns III and VI - so you should also review the material in these columns.
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| 1/ January 6 | lecture 1: Class introduction |
Playtime |
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| 2/ January 13 | panel discussion and exhibition opening at gallery@calit2 Sandin Image Processor (1971-1973) Dan Sandin |
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examples of non-avant-garde ("normal") film culture from 1920s: avant-garde (experimental) films of the 1920-30s: Emak-Bakia (Man Ray, France,1926)
modernist techniques in America: 42dn Street film (1933) - chareography by Busby Berkeley.
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classical modern chair designs designers profiles @design museum london Constructivism (text uses many important terms with links to their pages) |
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| 2/ January 20 | lecture 2: symbols of modern societies |
modernism and technology From Pam Meecham and Julie Sheldon, Modern Art: A Critical Introduction (Routledge, 2000). |
Industrial_revolution (you can skip details on particular industries and other technical details - focus on the key concepts) information society modernity Modernism - read the following parts 1.2 The explosion of modernism 1910–1930. 1.3 Modernism's second generation (1930–1945). 2 Modernism's goals. |
representing industral society - new symbols/new forms: Manet Precisionism Futurist painting and sculpure in Italy Cubism Streamlining ( from Modern Design Dictionary) Raymond Loewy |
Helvetica (2007 documentary about helvetica type font and contemporary graphic and type design)
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3/ January 27 |
lecture 3: symbols of information societies ------- |
modernist communication techniques - summary
------- Charles Jencks, |
new modernist visual techniques - examples: Typical graphic design and typography in 1920 Jan Tschichold: selected pages from The New Typography. 1928.
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representing information society - new symbols/new forms: blobitecture
A Man with a Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov, Russia, 1929).
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Bauhaus building, Dessau (Germany) Centre Pompidou / about the building
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Futurust maifestoes
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| 4/ February 3 | lecture 4. Origins of cultural software. Alan Kay's concept of computer as a metamedium. (note: there is no Powerpoint for this lecture.) |
Alan Kay's Universal Media Machine | Alan Kay and Adele Goldberg, view video: Alan Kay discusses Sketchpad Towards a Machine with Interactive Skills (an article on Sketchpad)
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standard computer interfaces of the 1950s-1970s programming in the 1960s |
Megacity |
Alan Kay's 1997 Scientific American article on Xerox Alto |
| 5/ February 10 | lecture 5: Understanding Hybrid Media. |
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If you are new to graphics software, read the following:
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Interactive Stage Saul Bass title sequences: Jeremy Blake: |
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framemag.com |
| 6/ February 17 | in-class midterm | BRING EXAM BOOKS | ||||
| 8/ February 24 | lecture 6:
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cultural analytics: introduction
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Patricia Cohen. Digital Keys for Unlocking the Humanities’ Riches. NYT, November 16, 2010. |
Google n-gram viewer Face to Facebook (watch video) |
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NURBS theory |
lecture 8: Cultural Analytics (continued). |
Fernanda B. Viégas and Martin Wattenberg: Artistic Data Visualization |
cultural analytics projects presented in class: Eleventh Year by Dziga Vertov (1928):
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| 9/ March 3 | lecture 7: TBA information visualization and modern art. Aesthetization of information.
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Bruce Sterling: When Blobjects Rule the Earth (2004) Business Week - Innovation: |
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