Class Schedule/ Issues of Content/ Spring 2004

Some readings are posted on the library’s e reserve section with the password of slmsc2:

http://catalog.umd.edu/F/V52XTGJQ33KIL8THXE3P138M2S4N1DRSSUYADPKL5EL5PHELMY-10666?func=history-action&action_view.x=&set_number=003490

Date	Class Activity	Reading	Writing
W 1/21	Introduction
M 26	Discussion: McEvilley	Readings to be completed: Mc Evilley, “13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" (e reserve)	-Reading notes -Be prepared to discuss assigned section with visual examples (bring in images/ books)
W 28	Reading day
M 2/2	Sense Perception Discussion: Diane Ackerman," A Natural History of the Senses."	Readings to be completed: Ackerman, chapters on smell, hearing, and synesthesia	Reading notes
W 4	Lecture: Kandinsky, Ann Hamilton	Readings to be completed: Ann Hamilton Kandinsky, Concerning the Spiritual in Art (E reserves)	Keep a complete and detailed “smell” diary for one day.
M 9	Explore source material discussion		‘explore source material’ essay due
W 11	Work time
M 16	Critique		Project proposals due
W 18	Reading day
M 23	Cultural Anthropology Discussion: Irwin Thompson, "Imaginary Landscapes" (student groups answering study questions)	Readings to be completed: Thompson, pgs. 3-62	-Reading notes
W 25	Discussion continued		- Thompson study questions due
M 3/1	Lecture: Duane Michaels, John Baldessari	Readings to be completed: Duane Michaels and John Baldessari essays (e reserves)
W 3	Work time		‘explore source material’ essay (due M8)
M 8	Critique		Project proposals due
W 10	Reading day
M 15 W17	Spring Break
M 22	Philosophy/ Literature Discussion: Italo Calvino, Six Memo's for the Next Millennium"	Readings to be completed: Italo Calvino, Six Memo's for the Next Millennium"	-Reading notes -Select the value that speaks to you most. Summarize its salient aspects as Calvino articulates it (also cite some of his examples). Say why you’ve chosen this value. How is it relevant to your art making.
W 24	Discussion continued
M 29	Lecture; Richard Serra, James Turrell	Readings to be completed: Richard Serra, Rigging James Turrell: The Art of Light and Space (E reserves)
W 31	work time
M 4/5	critique		Project proposals due
W 7	Reading day
M 12	Science/ Physiology Discussion: Oliver Sacks "The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat"	Readings to be completed: Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat: pg. 3-43, 87-116,129-150,173-187,195-234	-reading notes - Sacks study questions due
T 13	8:30 pm screening of Memento
W 14	Film Discussion	Be prepared to discuss film study questions
M 19	Work time		‘explore source material’ essay (due W21)
W 21	Critique		Project proposals due
M 26	Reading day
W 28	Technology Discussion of selected readings	Readings to be completed: Peter Weibel, The World as Interface Katherine Hayes, The Condition of Virtuality (e reserves)	- study questions due
M 3	Lecture : Bill Viola and Tony Oursler (with video screenings)	Viola : 1. Grace Glueck, Timeless Themes, Suddenly Timely, New York Times. 2. And look at his work on this site: http://www.sfmoma.org/espace/viola/fr_splash.html Oursler: 1. Oursler (Telling ) Vision #3 (e reserve) And the following web sites: 2. Michael Kimmelman review of Oursler 3. Oursler’s work Timestream, http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/2001/timestream/index.html and his flash site at http://www.oursler.com
W 5	Work time
exam	Critique		Project proposals due

All writing assignments need to be typed (except for reading notes) and handed in hard copy form.

Reading Notes

Always take notes as you read. Reading notes are a way of paying attention and comprehending the author’s meaning. These notes should strive to go beyond summarization to distill the basic issues and assumptions that guide the text. I will not collect reading notes but I will ask to look at your notebooks occasionally.

Study Questions

Sets of questions devised to help you to consider the deeper level of issues in the text. Sometimes you will answer these questions through conversations with your classmates and sometimes on your own.

Explore Source Material Essays -no less than 2 pages

Name and describe the aspect or idea from the source material that will be the focus of your artistic inquiry. Then reflect on and explore this idea fully. In other words, don’t just state it, investigate and explore it.

After articulating the train of thought you are pursuing then ask yourself what type of art making does this suggest to you? What ramifications does it have on your ideas about art? In other words, consider the idea as it might be explored through art but do not describe the artwork you might make (leave that to your project proposals).

Project Proposals 1-2 pages

Write about the overall expressive intention of the work and how it is related to the source material. Write about the specific design decisions you’ve made as a way to achieve your overall intentions. Review how the works’ content is manifest on many levels (McEvilley). This project proposal should be refined and redrafted as you make the work and handed in with the final critique.