2024f



Instructor


M200a Art & Technology (4 units)



George Legrady


Lecture/lab: Tues-Thurs 1:00-2:50 Lab 2611, Elings Hall


The M200a course “Intersections of Art & Technology” introduces directions in creative arts-engineering approaches within a media arts context. Through review and analyses of the Fall 2024 Getty PST Art initiative, lectures, readings, research presentation, and a final project, the course will introduce contemporary and historical directions and methodologies of the intersections of art and technology. Student Forum


[wk 1].......Lecture 09.26
Introduction | Heidegger | Getty PST Art | Harold Cohen | EarlyHistoryComputerArt | Digital Objects
 

[wk 2].......Lecture 10.01









10.03




The Early References: The Machine as Seen at the End of the Mechanical Age, MOMA | Catalog pages: 36,38,39,54,75,88-95,110,138,143,175,193,19 168,202-207 | MOMA Press | Bell Labs Art & Technology | Computer History

Software - Information Technology: Its New Meaning for Art, at the Jewish Museum, NYC (1970) | Catalog | Jack Burnham | System Esthetics | Structure of Art | Edward Shanken's Art in the Information Age: Technology and Conceptual Art |
 
Autry Museum PST Art

Student Presentations and Discussion

[wk 3].......Lecture 10.08

10.10
 Field Reporting: Getty | Hammer | LACMA | RiversidePalm SpringsArt Center

Readings:  The New Media Reader | Leonardo,MIT Press | Leonardo books

[wk 4].......Lecture 10.15


10.17

Art & Technology LACMA, 1970 [catalog] [unframed] [HyperAllergic] | Art & Technology LACMA Current | videos

Center for Bio-Diversity (UCSB) | Dr. Katja Seltmann | Irene Moon

[wk 5].......Lecture 10.22

10.24

OXY Arts: Invisibility: Powers & Perils, Dr. Yael Lipschutz, curator

Digital Capture, UCR Arts, Nikolay Maslov curator

[wk 6].......Lecture 10.29


10.31

Beall Center for the Arts | Ralf Baeker | Chico MacMurtrie | Dewey-Hagborg [Chelsea] | Bill Fontana [Harmonic Bridge] | Kubisch | Minard | Zimoun | R. Murray Schafer

Student Presentations | Methodology Guidelines |

[wk 7].......Lecture 11.05


11.07

Student Presentations | Energy Fields | Vibrations | Mo Zareei [video] [video] |  Blended Worlds NASA | Raupach

Art in the Age of the Machine Intelligence | Benjamin | Hockney | Falco | Ambassadors | Cyborg | Zylinska | DeepDream | Visual Microphone [video]

[wk 8]........Lecture 11.12

11.14

Institute of the Arts and Sciences UCSC | Unseeable Data | ArtSci (UCLA)

Interrogating Methodologies |

[wk 9].......Lecture 11.19

11.21

TBA

TBA

[wk 10].......Lecture 11.26

11.28

TBA

THANKSGIVING

[wk 11]........Lecture 12.03


12.05

Final Presentations


Final Presentations