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ENGLISH 2VC3

TOPICS IN VISUAL CULTURE

Undergraduate

Fall 2024 · C01

Topics

  • Brief course overview.
  • On the word “images,” an ontological approach vs. an anthropological approach to images.
  • “The Surviving Image,” Georges Didi-Huberman on Any Warburg’s History of Art.
  • Archival Entry Project: Overview and Instructions.
  • Photography as a Medium
  • Photographic Portraits: Constructions and Deconstructions of Individual and Collective Selves.
  • Artists: Catherine Opie (US), Humberto Chavez Mayol (Mexico), and Indiara Di Benedetto (Italy).
  • Experimental Photography: Extracting the possibilities of Photography, In-Between the Still Image and the Moving Image.
  • Artists: Cynthia Lawson-Jaramillo (Guatemala), Douglas Gordon (UK), Stan Douglas (Canada), and Joan Logue (US).
  • Video as a Reflexive Medium and Early Experimental Video.
  • Artists: Steina (Iceland), Woody Vasulka (Czech Republic), Nam June Paik (Japan), and Cildo Meireles (Brazil).
  • Research-Creation Project: Overview and Instructions.
  • The Politics of Video Memory I: Womxn in Experimental Video

Readings

  • Required and additional readings will be available on A2L.
    Required
  • Tutorials for software and tech equipment will be available on A2L. Students can use open-software or commercial software to complete activities. Instructor will offer a list of optional tools.
    Recommended / optional
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