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NEW MEDIA RESEARCH (Belgium + Netherlands)
instructor: curt cloninger
email: curt at lab404 dot com
office: Owen 311
location: abroad + university of north carolina asheville

class-specific | visits, readings/artworks



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)


(subject to rearrangement)
Note: Prior to June 1, ideally read/watch everything, but at least read/watch the things in red.

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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)

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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

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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