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Unit I: Post-Cinema
Aug. 28 Introduction: The stakes of Interactive Media
Screenings:
Outer Space (1999) Peter Tscherkassky 10 min
Fast Film (2003) Virgil Widrich 14 min.
Man With a Movie Camera (1929) Dziga Vertov
Week 2: Technology
Sep. 4 Manovich, Language of New Media Prologue + Introduction
Walter Benjamin, "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction"
Screening: Videodrom (1982) David Cronenberg 87 min
Week 3: Media historiography
Sep. 11
Manovich, Language of New Media Ch. 1: What is New Media?
Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media Intro. and Ch. 1
Carolyn Marvin, When Old Technologies Were New Introduction
Screening: eXistenZ (1999) David Cronenberg 97 min
Unit II: Narrative
Week 4: Post-Linearity
Sep 18
Manovich, Language of New Media Ch. 2: The Interface
Gonzalo Frasca, “Ludology Meets Narratology”
Henry Jenkins, “Game Design as Narrative Architecture”
Screening: The Game (1997) David Fincher 128 min
Week 5: Agency
Sep 25
Manovich, Language of New Media Ch. 3: The Operations
Janet Murray, “Agency” from Hamlet on the Holodeck
Screening: Being John Malkovich (1999) Spike Jonze 112 min
Week 6: Algorithmic pleasure
Oct. 2
Manovich, Language of New Media Chapter 4: The Illusions
Screening:
Switching (2003) Morten Schjodt (potentially infinite duration)
Soft Cinema (2006) Manovich + Kratky (potentially infinite duration)
Unit III: Bodies
Week 7: Political postmodernism
Oct. 9
Manovich, Language of New Media Chapter 5: The Forms
Fredric Jameson, “Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism” (I and IV)
Meaningful play demos
Week 8: Live Cinema
Oct. 16
Manovich, Language of New Media Chapter 6: What is Cinema?
Jennifer Gonzalez, “The Appended Subject: Race and Identity as Digital Assemblage”
Screening: Strange Days (1995) Kathryn Bigelow 145 min
Week 9: Scopophilia
Research paper drafts/proposals due!
Oct 23 Laura Mulvey, “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema”
Michel Foucault, “Panopticism" from Discipline and Punish
Donna Haraway, "A Manifesto for Cyborgs" (PDF)
Game demos: space and perspective
Unit IV: Space/Time
Week 10: Remix
Oct 30
Lev Manovich, “Remixing and Remixability”
Screening:
Unsere Afrikareise, Peter Kubelka (1966) 12 min
“Political Remix” program from 24/7 DIY Video Summit (2008)
Week 11: Immersion
Nov. 6 Manovich, Language of New Media Ch. 5
Field Trip to IMSC sound lab
Unit V: Perception
Week 12: Embodied viewing
Nov. 13
Jonathan Crary, “Techniques of the Observer”
Screening: Serene Velocity (1970) Ernie Gehr 23 min
Wavelength (1967) Michael Snow 45 min
Week 13: Time
Nov. 20
Guest lecture: Chris Hanson
Run Lola Run (1998) Tom Tykwer 80 min
Week 14: Nov 27 – Thanksgiving – no class!
Week 15: Ubiquity
Dec. 4
Howard Rheingold, “Mobile and Open: A Manifesto”
Screening: Enemy of the State (1998) Tony Scott 131 min
Final Exam period: Dec. 11 Final papers/project proposals due |
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