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In a 3-5 pages, typed and double-spaced paper, discuss and compare
at least two of the events you attended in this class thus far.
Please focus on analysis rather than reportage, and support your
first-hand observations with additional research in historical and
theoretical areas. The readings are a good place to start, and you
are encouraged to also look at secondary sources. Ideas from class
discussions can also be incorporated into your paper.
For the third paper, use examples from class events to explore the
issues of exhibition, distribution, and access in contempoary media
practices. Consider the different outlets and venues for the work
you have seen in this class thus far, and how the conditions under
which these media works are exhibited or disseminated have influenced
their reception and interpretation. For example, will a video that
is shown in a museum be looked at in the same way if it is broadcasted
on public television, or web-casted as streaming media? How do these
different venues frame their presentation of contemporary media?
Do they attract different audiences? In your discussion, also consider
whether different artists have different degrees of access to these
venues, depending on who they are and the formats they work in?
Please focus your discussion on artists you have not written on
extensively for your previous papers.
Your grade will be based on your understanding of both the premises
and the context of these events and the media works in them, your
ability to support your arguments and observations with research
in historical facts and theoretical discussions, as well as your
writing and analytical skills. You are, of course, encouraged to
incorporate your own opinions into the discussion. Explain how your
views correspond to and differ from the ideas expressed in the films,
videos, digital art projects, and by the artists themselves.
Please turn the paper in on time, and please follow the format I
outlined: papers that are too long or too short, late papers, hand-written
papers, etc. will lower your grade.
Include a bibliography (required) and footnotes (if appropriate)
as well as the title, date, and name of director/artist for the
works you cite in your paper.
Be specific: cite reading sources, use footnotes, and use actual
examples to support your argument.
Here are some links to exhibitors of contemporary media:
äda'web
Corporation for Public Broadcasting
Critical Art
Ensemble
Electronic Cafe
International
EDA
Free Speech TV
Independent
Media Center
Independent Television Service (ITVS)
Irational.org
Jodi.org
LA Freewaves
Museum of Contemporary
Art (LA)
National Alliance
for Media Arts and Culture (NAMAC)
San Francisco Museum
of Modern Art
Astria Suparak
Walker Art Center
Whitney Museum
Some Possible Reference Texts:
Fairness and Accuracy
in Reporting (FAIR)
Doug Hall and Sally Jo Fifer, eds., Illuminating Video: An Essential
Guide to Video Art, Aperture/BAVC, 1990
John Handhardt, ed., Video Culture: A Critical Investigation,
Gibbs Smith, 1987
The Independent (periodical) published by Association
of Independent video and filmmakers (AIVF)
Margot Lovejoy, Postmodern Currents: Art and Artists in the Age
of Electronic Media, Prentis Hall, 1997
Peter Lunenfeld, Snap To Grid: A User's Guide to Digital Arts,
Media, and Cultures, MIT Press, 2000
Michael Renov and Erika Suderburg, eds., Resolutions: Contemporary
Video Practices, Univ. of Minnesota Press, 1996.
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