Time: Thursday 6:50pm-9:40pm
Location: Solis 107
LECTURES:
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April 13.
Lev Manovich.
LECTURE
TEXT: Avant-garde as Software (Word file)
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April 20
Lev Manovich. Avant-garde as Software (continued).
Abstract animation & music:
Computer (2000):
antirom (Shockwave)
absolut DJ and other interactive music pieces (Schockwave) [click on Music -> Mixmakers]Before computer: Oskar Fishinger.
Films shown:
Muratti Gets in the Act 1934; Sprirutal Constructions 1927; Study No. 7 1931; Study No. 8 1932;
Kreise 1933; Allgretto 1936; Motion painting No. 1 1947.early computer animation:
John Whitney, Permutations, 1967.
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April 27.
Presentation by Peter
Lunenfeld, Professor,
Graduate program in Communication and New Media,
Art
Center College of Design, Pasadena.
LECTURE TEXT: from Lunenfeld,
Snap to Grid (MIT Press, 2000) (Word file).
Web sites discussed in the lecture:
<www.siggraph.org>
<www.Grammatron.com>.
<www.diacenter.org>, Komar & Melamid's
Most Wanted Paintings (1994).
<jodi.org>
Artists/works refered to in the lecture:
Paintings:
Miltos Manetas, Untitled (Big Glass) (1998).
Peter Halley, The Negotiator (1998).
Adam
Ross, Untitled (AT 7) (1998).
Artists Videos:
Gary Hill, Site Recite (a prologue) (1989)
Jeremy Blake, The Black Swan (1999)
CD-ROMS:
George Legrady, Slippery Traces (1995).
Perry Hoberman, The Sub-Division of the Electric
Light (1996).
[both are on artintact 3 (Karlsruhe: ZKM, 1996)]
VR & Hybrid Architecture:
Char Davies, …phÈmËre (1998), see
<www.immersence.com>
Christian Moeller, Interaktive Architektur: Installationen
von Christian
Moeller
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May 4.
Presentation by Bart Cheever, D.FILM
festival.
Presentation by A
D R I E N E J E N I K, Professor, Visual Arts Department,
UCSD.
(from Jebik's lecture:)
CRACKING THE MAZE: Game Plug-ins and Patches
as Hacker Art:
Curator's
statement
Exhibition
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May 11.
Presentation by Matthew
Fuller, artist and critic, IOD collective, London.
Presentation by Sheldon
Brown, Professor, Visual Arts Department, UCSD.
Mathew Fuller presented a new IOD project called "Deconstructed Word."
The project involves
capuring images of all the possible states of Microsoft Word commands.
The end result is about
4000 images which will be exhibited in an art gallery.
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May 18.
Presentation by Stefanie
Henning, Shockwave.com.
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May 25.
Presentation by Vibeke
Sorensen, Professor and Chair, Division of Animation and Digital Arts,
School of Cinema-television, University of Southern California.
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June 1.
Presentation by Kazys
Varnelis, Professor, SCI-Arc,
Los Angeles.
Projects and architects discussed:
Gregg Lynn
Marcos
Novak
Frank
Gerhy (Guggenheim Museum Bilbao)
MVRD
(Netherlands)
Virtual
architecture (online book)
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June 8.
Presentation by George
Lewis, Professor, Music Department, UCSD.
The inventor of the first electronic musical instrument (1920: Lev Theremin.
The instrument name is Theremin.
