Teaching
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School of Visual Arts
The Fourth Dimension: Video, Space, and The Broken Screen
This course offers pathways through the visual language of nonlinear narratives, split screens, fragmentary visual planes and their relationships with space and spatial design. We will read, view and discuss contemporary examples from selected projects made by artists, filmmakers, designers and architects that speak to these issues. Through critical discussions students will gain a fresh look at new practices of art-making that make use of emerging technologies. Topics include: object and projection, video and sound installation, multichannel video work, digital media and architectural space, non-traditional spaces, and video art in public spaces. The course is guided by the work of artists such as Bruce Nauman, Joan Jonas, Doug Aitken, Lars Von Trier, Jane and Louise Wilson, Olafur Eliasson, Pipilotti Rist, Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Robert Wilson, Douglas Gordon, and Matthew Barney, as well as by concepts and pronouncements by critics and visionaries such as Rosalind Krauss, Lev Manovich, Walter Benjamin, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Rem Koolhaas.
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Transart Institute, Summer 2011
High Fidelity: on Adaptation, Re-enactment and Retelling
On the crossway between performance, cinema and visual arts, this course will examine the use of adaptation and various strategies of reenactment and retelling in recent new-media works—which transform original source material, including classic literature, film, dance, painting, or even e-mail—into new works of art. What exactly is being reenacted, and what is the effect of the (re)presentation? What meaning is resurrected out of this duplication?
The course offers a close look at different answers to these questions by investigating the ways in which a specific source is updated through shifts in form, content, or context in order to introduce new aesthetic or political intentions and perspectives. Through critical discussion, lectures, and personal assignments students will reflect on these timely (and timeless) questions.
The course is guided by the work of artists such as Lars Von Trier, Robert Willson, Pierre Huyghe, Omer Fast, Andrea Fraser, Robert Longo, Guy Ben-Ner, Isaac Julien, Jeremy Deller, Artur Zmijewski, Maurizio Cattelan, Jerome Bel, and Catherine Sullivan, as well as by concepts and pronouncements by critics and visionaries, including Walter Benjamin, Julia Kristeva, Mikhail Bakhtin, Jean Baudrillard, Andre Bazin, and Mieke Bal.
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SVA – summer Residency in Painting and Mixed Media
