The Evergreen State College  •  Olympia, WA
 
  M E D I A W O R K S   FALL 0 4 - 0 5  
  ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Faculty > Ruth Hayes [F] Com 357 x6890 click to email
  :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Laurie Meeker [FW]

Com 308F

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  :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Julia Zay [FWS] Sem 2 D-4102 x6051 click to email
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  > Media Services Home :  http://www.evergreen.edu/media/ <<go here to get to Media Loan and Multimedia Lab sites. Download Media Loan Handouts and Tests for Proficiencies, Extended Loan Forms, Check MML Hours, find a phone number, and more!>>  
     
  > Critical Art Ensemble Readings : http://www.critical-art.net/books/index.html  
  > LINK Articulating Power: Text + Image in the Public Sphere: site for F/W 04-05 Evergreen program. Scroll down main page for EXCELLENT list of art/media/culture links compiled by faculty Ellen Fernandez-Sacco  
  > "Tactics Inside and Out: Critical Art Ensemble" by Gregg Bordowitz, Artforum Sept 2004  
     
 

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  WEEKLY SCHEDULE :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: :::::::::::::::::: ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::  
    T U E S D A Y 9:30 - 12:30 Workshops > Com 408 [Ruth], Lib 1308 [Julia]  
      1:30 - 4:00

Lecture/Screening > Sem 2  E-1105

  
           
    W E D N E S D A Y 9:30 - 11:30 Seminar > Sem 2  D-2107 [Julia], Sem 2  B-2107 [Ruth’s]  
      11:30 - 1 Office Hours > [Julia]  
      1 - 5 Technical Proficiencies > TBA  
           
    T H U R S D A Y 9:30 - 2:30 Workshops > Com 408 [Ruth], Lib 1308 [Julia]  
      3 - 4:30 Weekly Wrap > Com 408  
      4:45 - 5:30 Office Hours > [Ruth]  
           
    F R I D A Y variable Technical Proficiencies > TBA  

 

     
  <Week 1: 9/28-10/1 <BUILDING OUR LEARNING COMMUNITY>  
  READING >  
 

• “Observations on Collective Cultural Action”, in The Critical Art Ensemble’s Digital Resistance [Ch. 4]

     >Find it on their web site: http://www.critical-art.net/books/digital/index.html

• Understanding Comics, Scott McCloud. <Intro, Ch. 1, Ch. 2>

  
 

 

  
 

TUES            9:30         Com 408                      First Class Meeting: Introductions and Orientation
                  1:30         Sem 2, E1105               Unlocking the Stripèd Box: Surrealist and other games

WEDS          9:30-4       Com Recital Hall            Creative Journaling Workshop with Faculty Emeritus Marilyn Frasca.We will be joined by the Evolution of the Book program. Dress comfortably, bring a journal or loose leaf binder, writing/drawing implements and any other recording devices you like.

THURS         9:30         Com 408                       Sketchbook Workshop, Introduce Understanding Comics, Alien Anthropologist performances, discuss covenant, form seminar/workshop groups

  
     

 

     
  <Week 2 : 10/5 - 10/8  <WHAT MEANING, WHAT?>  
  READING >  
 

• Practices of Looking [PL] <Intro, Ch.1, Ch.2> (pp. 1-71)
• Excerpt from Trickster Makes This World by Lewis Hyde, 1998  

  
 

 

  
 

TUES            9:30                 First Rotation of Recombinance Workshop: Ruth’s Seminar Group in Com 408, Julia’s in L1308
                  1:30                  Lecture/Screening   Messing with signs in Reign of the Dog (Ruth)

WEDS          9:30 - 11:30       Seminar

THURS        9:30 -  2:30         Workshop     

                3 - 4:30              Weekly Wrap   Read: Electronic Disturbance [ED] Ch 5, “Utopian Plagiarism, Hypertextuality, and Electronic Cultural Production; AND Digital Resistance [DR] Ch 8, “The Financial Advantages of Anti-Copyright”

 
     

 

     
  <Week 3 :  10/12-10/15 <WHAT ARE WE SAYING?>  
  READING >  
 

• [PL] Ch 3 (pp. 72-108)

  
 

 

  
 

TUES            9:30                 Workshop
                  1:30                   Lecture/Screening   Screen Testing: Identity, Image Culture and the Lost Artifacts of Tomorrow [Julia]

WEDS          9:30 - 10:45       Seminar

THURS         9:30 -  2:30         Workshop     

                   3 - 4:30               Weekly Wrap   Multi-media performances based on [ED] Ch 2, “Nomadic Power and Cultural Resistance” by Melissa, Jocelyn, Kelly and Federico; Ch 3, “Video and Resistance: Against Documentaries” by Erin O., Kaleb, Eric and Noah. Food provided by Jaden, Dusty, Ricky, Texas, Eva, Perrin, Laura, Brenda and Claire.

 
     

 

     
  <Week 4:  10/19-10/22 <BUT IS IT REAL?>  
  READING >  
 

• [PL] ch. 4, (pp. 109-150)

• “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,” (1935) by Walter Benjamin

  
 

 

  
 

TUES            9:30              Second Rotation of Recombinance Workshops: Ruth’s Seminar group meets Julia in L1308, Julia’s meets Ruth in Com 408
                  1:30                 Lecture/Screening   Realism to Abstraction [Ruth]

WEDS          9:30 - 11:30       Seminar

THURS         9:30 -  2:30         Workshop     

                   3 - 4:30               Weekly Wrap   Multi-media performances based on [ED] Ch 6 “Fragments on the Problem of Time” by Marsha Anne, Rachel K., Jon and Clark; AND  Ch 7 “Paradoxes and Contradictions” by Texas, Eva, Ricky, Jaden and Dusty. Food provided by Lori, Emily, Gordon, Crystal, Ben, Paige, Brad and Daniel.

 
     

 

     
  <Week 5:  10/26-10/29 <THERE’S SOMETHING STUCK IN MY THROAT>  
  READING >  
 

• [PL] <Ch 5, Ch 6>
• “Where the Consciousness Industry is Concentrated: An Interview” Hans Haacke
• “Paper Tiger TV” by Dee Dee Halleck   
• “Introduction: Crossing the Theory/Practice Rubicon”, Laura Kipnis, from Ecstasy Unlimited

<< LINK to "Style: An Interview with Laura Kipnis" by Jeffrey J. Williams, The Minnesota Review 58-60 (2003) >>

<< "My Pop": Dara Birnbaum on Pop Art, from Artforum October 2004 >>
[screened Tuesday in lecture: Dara Birnbaum's Technology/Transformation: Wonder Woman (1978-79)]

  
 

 

  
 

TUES            9:30                Workshops
                   1:30                Lecture/Screening   Video, Television, and Soap [Julia]

WEDS          9:30 - 10:45       Seminar

                  11:00-1             Lecture Hall #1        “How the Media Teach About Diversity,” talk by Carlos Cortes  >>Click HERE for more info<<

THURS         9:30 -  2:30       Workshop     

                   3 - 4:30            Weekly Wrap   Multi-media performances based on [DR] Ch 1, “Electronic Civil Disobedience, Simulation and the Public Sphere” by Lori, Emily, Gordon and Crystal;  Ch 2 “The Mythology of Terrorism on the Net” by Andy, Mark, Jamie and Elisa. Food provided by Melissa, Jocelyn, Federico, Kelly, Rachel T., Erin C., Tyler and Erik.

  
     

 

     
  <Week 6:  11/2-11/5 <WHO DO WE THINK “I” IS?>  
  READING >  
 

• [PL] Ch. 7
• “Postmodernism and Consumer Society”, Frederic Jameson
• “Animatophilia, Cultural Production and Corporate Interests: the Case of Ren and Stimpy”, Langer

a few books for FURTHER READING on POSTMODERNISM: Introducing Postmodernism, Richard Appignanesi; Postmodernism: A Beginner's Guide, Kevin Hart; Doing time : Feminist Theory and Postmodern Culture , Rita Felski

  
 

 

  
 

TUES            9:30                Recombinance Workshop Wrap [all-program meeting, COM 326]
                   1:30                 Lecture/Screening   High and Low [Ruth]

WEDS          9:30 - 11:30       Seminar

THURS        >> NO CLASS :: FACULTY RETREAT<<

  
     

 

     
  <Week 7: 11/9-11/12 <WHAT WAS IT?>  
  READING >  
 

• Spectacular Realities [SR], Introduction and Ch 1
• "The Moving Image" from Emile Cohl, Caricature, and Film by Donald Crafton
• "Twenty-five heads under one hat: Quick-change in the 1890s" by Matthew Solomon, in MetaMorphing: Visual Transformation and the Culture of Quick Change, ed. Vivian Sobchack

  
 

 

  
 

TUES            9:30                First Rotation of Spectacular Video/Animation Workshops Begin
                   1:30                 Lecture/Screening: Novelties and Experiments (Ruth)

WEDS          9:30 - 11:30       Seminar

THURS        9:30 -  2:30       Workshop     

                   3 - 4:30             Weekly Wrap   Multi-media performances based on "Electronic Civil Disobedience" [ECD] Ch 3 by Laura, Perrin, Claire and Brenda; AND "The Technology of Uselessness" [ECD] Ch 4” by Daniel, Paige, Ben and Brad. Food provided by Kate, Susie, Regina, Kira, Jon, Marsha, Rachel K. and Clark.

  
     

 

     
  <Week 8: 11/16-11/19 <WHAT WAS IT LIKE?>  
  READING >  
 

Read: • [SR] Ch 2
*Read these BEFORE you read the Gunning essay*
•Cult of Distraction: On Berlin's Picture Palaces"” Siegfried Kracauer
•The Kingdom of Shadows"”Maxim Gorky
•Realm of Boredom,” Maxim Gorky
•Tolstoy on Cinema"
•The Crowd at the Cinematographe"” Jules Romains

"An Aesthetic of Astonishment: Early Film and the (In)credulous Spectator”, Tom Gunning

  
 

 

  
 

TUES            9:30                 Workshops
                   1:30                 Lecture/Screening: Shock, Boredom, Distraction, Astonishment (Julia)

WEDS          9:30 - 11:30       Seminar

THURS        9:30 -  2:30       Workshop     

                   3 - 4:30             Weekly Wrap   Multi-media performances based on "Electronic Civil Disobedience" [ECD] Ch 5 by Tyler, Rachel T., Jay, Erik and Erin C. Food provided by Elisa, Mark, Andy and Jamie.

  
     

 

     
<11/22-11/28   Thanksgiving Break: No Classes>
     

 

     
  <Week 9: 11/30-12/3 <WHAT DO WE DO WITH IT?>  
  READING >  
 

• [SR] Ch 3 AND 4
• “"The Cinema of Attractions: Early Film, Its Spectator, and the Avant-Garde" Tom Gunning

  
 

 

  
 

TUES            9:30                Second Rotation of Spectacular Video/Animation Workshops Begin
                   1:30                 Lecture/Screening: From Attraction to Story (Julia)

WEDS          9:30 - 11:30       Seminar

THURS        9:30 -  2:30       Workshop     

                   3 - 4:30             Weekly Wrap   Multi-media performances based on "Electronic Civil Disobedience" [ECD] Ch 2 by Kira, Regina, Kate and Susie.  Food provided by Erin O., Noah, Eric, Kaleb.   WINTER MEDIAWORKS FACULTY, LAURIE MEEKER, VISITS

  
     

 

     
  <Week 10: 12/7-12/10 <WALKING BACKWARD INTO THE FUTURE>  
  READING >  
 

• [SR] Ch 5 and conclusion.
• “The Ethics of Form: Structure and Gender in Maya Deren’s Challenge to the Cinema” by Maureen
Turim, from Maya Deren and the American Avant-Garde, Bill Nichols, ed.
• “Avant-garde Cinemas Before World War II” by Lauren Rabinovitz, from her book Points of Resistance

 
 

 

  
 

TUES            9:30                Workshops
                   1:30                 Lecture/Screening: Surrealist and other Avant-Garde Strategies (Ruth)

WEDS          9:30 - 11:30       Seminar

THURS        9:30 -  2:30       Workshop     

                   3 - 4:30             End of Quarter Wrap