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NotesTopicFaculty LectureGuest LectureStudent LectureReadings Assigned

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I. theory reading- modernism, postmodernism, death of the author, structuralism, post-structuralism and all that stuff

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9/4/2008Pecha KuchaFive difficulties in writing the truth
By Bertold Brecht		Forwards and Introduction to Point and Line to Plane By Wassily Kandinsky, Hilla Rebay

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9/11/2008Art CritiqueChris LarsonBart VargasDeath of the Author
Roland Barthes 		The Creative Act (recording)
Macrcel Duchamp 		Postmodernism from
Art in Theory by Robert Williams

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9/18/2008Jenny in AZ Mark Beasley Areca Roe (Treon)Art Theory Concepts
Martin Irvine 		The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception
Theodor Adorno		After the Orgy from The Transparency of Evil
Jean Baudrillard p. 3-13

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9/25/2008Post-ModernismAli: -modernism, post-modernism, minimalism and the avant-guard in contemporary music Jonathan Kaiser

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II. Art and Life

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10/2/2008Jenny in Fargo for MAPC Art and TechnologyAli: art and technologyYuichiro TanabeReinventing the Medium
Rosalind Krauss		 The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
Walter Benjamin

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10/9/2008Ali in Belgium Jenny: Contemporary print making: print making as a democratic art form, street art Morgan AdamsonRowan Pope Lawrence Rinder
“Fort Thunder, Forcefield and the New York Art World” from “Art Life: Selected Writings 1991-2005”
p. 65-74

 Least Likely to Succeed from Beautiful Losers

Aaron Rose

Banksy article from New YorkerArt 21 video of Barry McGee and Margaret Kilgallen

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10/16/2008Ali: Pranks, art and lifeJennifer Nevitt Eating the Other: Desire and Resistance from
Media and Cultural Studies: Keyworks Nicholas Mirzoeff, ed.

bell hooks
p. 366-380 		The War on Culture
Carole S. Vance

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10/23/2008Jenny -old school new school...sampling from history and copyright laws Robin Schwartman Jennifer AnableThe Marco Polo Syndrome: Some Problems around Art and Eurocentrism
Gerardo Mosquera
Ella Shohat and Robert Stam
“Narrativizing Visual Culture: Towards a Polycentric Aesthetics” (excerpt)
“The Visual Culture Reader” Meenakshi Gigi Durham and Douglas M. Kellner, eds.
p. 37-59

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10/30/2008Ali in ChinaEnrique Chagoya, visiting artist 7:00 Rachel James

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 III. finding a new paradigm that is international and decentralized-how do paradigm shifts happen, power to the people and all that! (nomadic practices, new media projects, street art, etc.)

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11/6/2008Post colonial Theory Ali: the nomadic artist, net art and new cartography, Jenny: Post colonial Theory Sam HoolihanThe Curator’s Moment
Michael Brenson
When Form Has Become Attitude- And Beyond
Thierry de Duve

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11/13/2008Jenny:DrawingAllison Smith Melissa Griffin XXX Public Art Reading

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11/20/2008Ali: public art Jack (Forecast)Ben Garthus Reading for Next week: Exhibitionism from On the Beaten Track
by Lucy Lippard

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12/4/2008Jenny in Seattle for Davidson Gallery Opening Yasmil RamondTonya Balik

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12/11/2008Last day, papers due.