Unit I: Post-Cinema
// Wagner - Integration
Aug. 27 Introduction: The stakes of Interactive Media
Screening: eXistenZ (1999) David Cronenberg 97 min
Week 2: Technology
Sep. 3
Walter Benjamin, "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction"
Bolter and Grusin, Remediation (excerpt)
Screening: Man With a Movie Camera (1929) Dziga Vertov
Week 3: Media historiography
Sep. 10
Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media Intro. and Ch. 1
Carolyn Marvin, When Old Technologies Were New Introduction
Screenings:
Outer Space (1999) Peter Tscherkassky 10 min
Fast Film (2003) Virgil Widrich 14 min.
Videodrome (1982) David Cronenberg 87 min
Unit II: Narrative // Wagner - Narrativity
Week 4: Post-Linearity
Sep 17
Gonzalo Frasca, “Ludology Meets Narratology”
Henry Jenkins, “Game Design as Narrative Architecture”
Screening: The Game (1997) David Fincher 128 min
Week 5: Agency
Sep 24
Janet Murray, “Agency” from Hamlet on the Holodeck
Week 6: Algorithmic pleasure
Oct. 1
Finish Wagner chapter on Narrativity
Screening:
Screening: Being John Malkovich (1999) Spike Jonze 112 min
Unit III: Bodies // Wagner-Hypermedia
Week 7: Political postmodernism
Oct. 8
Alex Galloway, "Social Realism in Gaming"
Switching (2003) Morten Schjodt (potentially infinite duration)
Soft Cinema (2006) Manovich + Kratky (potentially infinite duration)
October 9-10 Real Time Live with Mia Makela: live cinema performances and workshops at IML
Week 8: Race in digital space
Research paper drafts due!
Oct. 15
Jennifer Gonzalez, “The Appended Subject: Race and Identity as Digital Assemblage”
Screening: Alex Rivera, Sleep Dealer (2009)
Week 9: Scopophilia
Oct 22 Laura Mulvey, “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema”
Michel Foucault, “Panopticism" from Discipline and Punish
Donna Haraway, "A Manifesto for Cyborgs" (PDF)
Finish reading Wagner Hypermedia chapter
Unit IV: Space/Time
// Wagner-Interactivity
Week 10: Remix
Oct 29
Lev Manovich, “Remixing and Remixability”
Screening:
Unsere Afrikareise, Peter Kubelka (1966) 12 min
Remix genre screenings from 24/7 DIY Video Summit (2008)
Week 11: Time
Nov. 5
William Uricchio, “Technologies of Time”
Finish reading Wagner chapter on Interactivity
Screening: Time Machines program from Blur+Sharpen
Unit V: Perception // Wagner - Immersion
Week 12: Immersion
Nov. 12
Field Trip to IMSC sound lab or Velaslavasay Panorama
Week 13: Embodied viewing
Nov. 19
Jonathan Crary, “Techniques of the Observer”
Screenings: Serene Velocity (1970) Ernie Gehr 23 min
Wavelength (1967) Michael Snow 45 min
Week 14: Nov 26 – Thanksgiving – no class!
Week 15: Ubiquity
Dec. 3
Howard Rheingold, “Mobile and Open: A Manifesto”
Finish reading Wagner chapter on Immersion
Screening: Enemy of the State (1998) Tony Scott 131 min
Final Exam period: Dec. 10 Final papers/project proposals due |
