Readings | AHD-3903-A

April 28, 2020
PECHA KUCHA II: NO READINGS. WORK ON FINAL PROJECTS / PAPERS

1. SIGN UP FORM

Suggested:

1. AHD-3903-A Resources Page

Assignment:
FINAL PAPERS ARE DUE

April 21, 2020
PECHA KUCHA I: NO READINGS. WORK ON FINAL PROJECTS

1. SIGN UP FORM

Suggested:

1. Issue Project Room's Field Recordings

2. She Who Is:
Adrienne Kennedy and the Drama of Difference: A Walkthrough with Hilton Als

April 14, 2020
IDENTITY AND THE NETWORK

1. David Joselit, "Painting Beside Itself," October No. 130

2. Eric Banks on Lawrence Alloway's “Network: The Art World Described as a System."

Suggested:

1. AHD-3903-A Resources Page

April 07, 2020
NO READINGS

Suggested:

1. AHD-3903-A Resources Page :)

Assignment:
Read Brian O’Doherty's "Inside the White Cube" and visit the enclosed viewings rooms:

Uri Aran's The Artist's Edit, Gavin Brown Enterprise
Platform: New York , David Zwirner
Stephen Shore: Instagram, 303 Gallery
Viewing Room, KARMA
Viewing Room, Casey Kaplan
Virtual Views, MoMA

How do the conditions of viewership change between platforms?
How does the online viewing format influence medium-specific works?
Are these platforms viable for exhibitions, or do they render them obsolete?

March 31, 2020
THE ACTUAL AND THE VIRTUAL

1. Cory Arcangel's 'On Compression'

2. 'Gramophone, Film, Typewriter,' Friedrich Kittler in October, Vol. 41 (Summer, 1987), pp. 101-118

Suggested:

1. The Actual and the Virtual by Gilles Deleuze

March 24, 2020
THE CULTURAL LOGIC OF LATE CAPITALISM

1. Chapter 1 of Fredric Jameson's "Postmodernism: The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism," Duke University Press, 1991.

Suggested:

1. The Pitfalls and the Potential of the New Minimalism by Jia Tolentino for The New Yorker

Assignment:
Please forward your semester project thesis statements by email. With each statement, please indicate if you intend to proceed with an artwork or essay option. If you are making an artwork, please indicate the medium and subject. Please also note WHY the medium or subject was chosen to support your thesis and research focus. If you are writing a paper, please share which sources you intend to reference.

March 17, 2020
NEOLIBERALISM & THE NEW SPIRIT OF CAPITALISM

1. Stephen Metcalf, "Neoliberalism: The Idea that Swallowed the World," The Guardian

2. Elie Ayache: In the Middle of the Middle of the Event

Suggested:

1. Luc Boltanski & Eve Chiapello "The New Spirit of Capitalism," presented to the Conference of Europeanists, March, 14-16, 2002, Chiacgo

Notes:
Student Introductions: Allison Scharf, Samantha Halmshaw, Tianyi Zhou, Carol Hwang and Yuqiu Du.

The use of tools, mediums and technology prepare or modify the objects we use, the images we see and the protocols we follow. For your introduction, please select 10-15 slides to survey your work and discuss how access to tools shapes your work and practice.

March 03, 2020
SPRING BREAK

Suggested:

1. Jutta Koether at Lévy Gorvy

2. Leidy Churchman at Matthew Marks

3. Jana Euler at Artists Space

February 25, 2020
THE ANTHROPOCENE | THE CAPITALOCENE

1. The Capitalocene by Benjamin Kunkel, The London Review of Books, Vol. 39 No. 5 · 2 March 2017

2. Natural Causes
by Annie Godfrey Larmon, Even Magazine no. 10, published in summer 2018

Suggested:

1. "We Are the Meteor," Brooke Gladstone in conversation with Benjamin Kunkel, NPR

Notes:
Student Introductions: Neil Madlener and Georgia Neill.

The use of tools, mediums and technology prepare or modify the objects we use, the images we see and the protocols we follow. For your introduction, please select 10-15 slides to survey your work and discuss how access to tools shapes your work and practice.

Assignment:
Prepare a 2-3 sentence thesis statement, highlighting the topic of your seamster research project .

February 18, 2020
MATERIAL AS MEDIUM: THE MATERIALISM OF INFORMATION

1. Two Moments from the Post-Medium Condition by Rosalind Krauss, October, Vol. 116 (Spring, 2006), pp. 55-62

2. Introduction and Chapter 1 from Postproduction: Culture as Screenplay : How Art Reprograms the World by Nicolas Bourriaud

3. Dispersion by Seth Price

Suggested:

1. Affective Labor by Michael Hardt, boundary 2, Vol. 26, No. 2 (Summer, 1999), pp. 89-100

February 04, 2020
NO READINGS: CLASS MEETS AT MOMA AT 10h30

Suggested:

1. "The Exuberance of MOMA's Expansion," Peter Schjeldahl for the The New Yorker

2. "The New MoMA Is Here. Get Ready for Change," Jason Farago for the New York Times

Notes:
Class will meet at the 4 W 54th Street entrance. I will have tickets for all students.

Assignment:
Begin to think about semester projects.

January 28, 2020
MATERNITY: MODERNISM

1. Charles Harrison, “Modernism” in Critical Terms for Art Hisrory, pp 188—201

2. T.J. Clark, "Introduction" from The Painting of Modern Life: Paris in the Art of Manet and His Followers, pp. 3-22

Suggested:

1. Karl Marx, "The Fragment on Machines," from The Grundrisse, pp. 690-712

2. Raymond Williams
"When Was Modernism?"

Assignment:
Visit Contemporary Art Daily. Select an exhibition and prepare two-three sentences explaining why the is or is not "modernist."

January 21, 2020
CONTEXT

1. Anthony Huberman, “I (not love) Information,” Afterall, Autumn/Winter 2007

2. Jean-Francois Lyotard, “Les Immatériaux,” Art & Text, 17 (1985)

3. Michael Sanchez “2011: Art and Transmission,” Artforum Summer 2013

4. Olav Velthuis, “ArtRank and the Flippers: Apocalypse Now?,” Texte Zur Kunst, Issue no. 96, “The Gallerists,” December 2014

5. John Berger, Ways of Seeing, pp. 7—34

Suggested:

1. Daniel Birnbaum and Sven-Olov Wallenstein, Spacing Philosophy: Lyotard and the Idea of the Exhibition, Sternberg Press, 2019

2. Jean-Francois Lyotard: The Postmodern Condition

3. Walter Benjamin: The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction"

4. Seth Price: Dispersion

5. Jay Chung & Q Takeki Maeda at Koelnischer Kunstverein

6. Steffen Mau and Uwe Vormbusch, “Likes and Performance / A conversation between Uwe Vormbusch and Steffen Mau on the quantification of the social.

Assignment:
Visit Hans Haacke: All Connected at the New Museum, NY. Prepare two-three sentences explaining Haacke's engagement with information and the exhibition format.

January 14, 2020
INTRODUCTION

Suggested:

1. A new legislative proposal by Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., would ban elements of social media he views as addictive.