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NEW MEDIA RESEARCH (Belgium + Netherlands)
instructor: curt cloningeremail: curt at lab404 dot com office: Owen 311 location: abroad + university of north carolina asheville |
intro syllabus rough project calendar attendance and grading policies major assignments * 12 daily response essays * theory analysis and response paper< writing resources unc writing center handouts [nb: argument and thesis statements] (UNC) MLA citation generator (bibMe) the citation machine (warlick) |
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Note: Prior to June 1, ideally read/watch everything, but at least read/watch the things in red. /////////////////////////////// JUNE 1, sunday (Brussels): arrive * Day 1 Introductory Questions JUNE 2, monday (Brussels): Atomium ....... read: Insect Media [excerpt] (Parikka) optional read: excerpt from The Practice of Everyday Life: "Walking in the City" (de Certeau) JUNE 3, tuesday (Brussels): Constança Carvalho Homemi artist talk Galerie la Patinoire Royale Bach (Kganye, Cruz-Diez, De Corte) [OPTIONAL] Layva Atelier (Utterings performance) ....... view documentation: PARA ACABAR + PARA ACABAR -- Tema view (some) documentation: utterings read: On Lying (Cloninger) JUNE 4, wednesday (Brussels): Musical Instruments Museum Magritte Museum [OPTIONAL] WIELS (Cecilia Vicuña interview) ....... read: 1) 1922: Theremin / 2) 1928: Ondes-Martenot / 3) 1940: Ondioline / 4) 1947: Clavioline (Crab) read: This is Not a Pipe [excerpts] (Foucault) JUNE 5, thursday (Brussels): WIELS (Magical Realism: Imagining Natural Dis/order) Argos (Magical Realism: Imagining Natural Dis/order) [OPTIONAL] Xavier Hufkens (Cecilia Vicuña opening) ....... read: How Do You Make Yourself a Body without Organs? (Deleuze/Guattari) /////////////////////////////// JUNE 6, friday (Rotterdam): travel [OPTIONAL] Brutus Garden (Margreeth Olsthoorn fashion show + afterparty) JUNE 7, saturday (Rotterdam): Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen [MVRDV architects] Kunstinstituut Melly (Buhlungu. Hassanain, Pjota, Dennis, Caner) ....... read: Ordinary Affects [excerpts] (Stewart) JUNE 8, sunday (Rotterdam): Brutus (EVERYTHING IS TRUE - NOTHING IS PERMITTED) ....... read: Society of the Spectacle: Chapter 1 [Separation Perfected] (Debord) JUNE 9, monday (Rotterdam): Kunsthal (Acket, Sanguinetti, Berkers, Balkenhol, Yang) [OMA architects] Markthal [MVRDV architects] Luchtsingel [ZUS architects] ....... watch: ZUS interview read about: any 5 of MVRDV's completed projects in the Netherlands read about: Design of the Kunsthal /////////////////////////////// JUNE 10, tuesday (Amsterdam): travel JUNE 11, wednesday (Amsterdam): Ellen de Bruijne PROJECTS (SU) ....... view: Jacques Derrida interview from Ghost Dance (Derrida/Ogier/McMullen) JUNE 12, thursday (Amsterdam): EYE Filmmuseum zone2source (Henriques) ....... read: Eternity In An Instant (Cloninger) read: Towards an Aesthetics of the Real (Spurse) JUNE 13, friday (Amsterdam): Foam (The Underground Camera, Maätita + Saija, Curiel, Hoàng) Huis Marseille (Plaum, Séeberger brothers) ....... read: On Photography: Chapter 1: "In Plato's Cave" (Sontag) read: Towards a Philosophy of Photography [excerpts] (Flusser) JUNE 14, saturday (Amsterdam): Stedelijk Museum ....... read: Sentences on Conceptual Art (Lewitt) JUNE 15, sunday (Amsterdam): depart |