Week 2 2019

Week 2: Origins and media art  history

Lecturers
Sarah Kenderdine
Jeffrey Shaw

Content

1. 8.00am-9.30am Prof Jeffrey Shaw – pioneering interactive media art Part 1
2. 9.30-10.30am Tour of eM+
3. 10.30am-12pm Prof Jeffrey Shaw – pioneering interactive media art Part 2
4. 12pm-1pm Tour of Artmyn ultra high resolution imaging company St Sulpice

Assigment #1
Understanding media art history. Choose an installation that you have liked and seen over the last two weeks of classes and then explore its media art history origins. Describe the installation, how it functions and what traces you find in the pre-cinematic or cinematic era. Due for presentation in-class 19 March (Week 5). Written PDF (min. two pages + images) submitted for marking. Worth 10% of total marks.

Books & readings media art history (eM+ Library)

• Comment, B. (1999). Introduction & Chapter 1, 8 & 9 & 14, The Painted Panorama, Harry N. Abrams Inc.
• Goodwin, J. (2003). Chapters 10 & 11, Athnasius Kircher’s: Theatre of the World, Thames and Hudson
• Robinson, D. 2003, Wener Nekes: Media Magica, in Shaw, J. and Weibel, P. Future Cinema, The Cinematic Imaginary After Film, MIT Press, pp.36. 
• Zielinski, S. (2015). ‘Allah’s Automata. Where Ancient Oriental Learning Intersects with Modern Europe: A Media-Archaeological Miniature by Way of Introduction’, in Weibel, P. & Zeilinski (eds), Allah’s Automata: artifacts of the Arab-Islamic Renaissance (800-1200), ZKM.
• Huhtamo, E. (2013), Illusion in Motion: Media Archaeology of the Moving Panoramas and Related Spectacles, MIT Press: Leonardo.
• Oleksijczuk, D. B., (2011), The First Panoramas: Vision of British Imperialism, University of Minnesota Press.
• Shaw, J. and Weibel, P. Future Cinema, The Cinematic Imaginary After Film, MIT Press.
• Weibel, P. 1997, ‘Jeffrey Shaw: A users manual’, in Dugeut, A.M; Weibel, P. & Shaw, J., Jeffrey Shaw: A users manual, Karlsruhe: ZKM. Refer to eM+ Library.

Website

• https://www.jeffreyshawcompendium.com