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Siegfried Zielinski - Seminars / Workshops / Lectures

HISTORY OF AUDIOVISUALITY AND TECHNOCULTURE (3 credits)

Siegfried Zielinski

Description: This course is designed to give students a historical perspective on audiovisuality and the surrounding technoculture. Taking a historical approach to new media allows for a richer understanding of the current media landscape. Through small seminar classes and an extended discussion beyond the boundaries of our temporal and physical limitations this course aims at creating a new dialogue. We will combine the excellent and groundbreaking work of our students with the established knowledge of Zielinski to create a true space of growing potential.

Objectives: Students shall become literate in the historical processes by which media as we understand it today has come to be. Students will prepare themselves to be not only historians but more enriched cultural critics. At the end of the course we desire to be prepared as a class and individuals to create media and cultural criticism that enriches the current academic and artistic fields which relate to audiovisuality and technoculture.

Learning Outcomes: Students will develop the vocabulary and historical literacy that is necessary in order to contribute to contemporary research within techno-critical fields. As the course progresses the readings and seminars provide ample space and thought to inform and inspire students own personal research projects. As we explore the spaces of audiovisuality students as they continue their studies about the progress by which media culture has came to become its own field. Students also gain valuable inspiration and information to apply to their own personal artistic, technical and written projects.

Course Outline:

Module 1:
Archaeology of the Media / Variantology of Technoculture

Module 2:
Subject & Method
Section A: “Hollywood Babylon”
'On affective media and the Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius of Loyola'
Section B: Deep Time, Archaeology, Genealogy, Variantology
'An Introduction into the basic theoretical concepts.'

Module 3:
Various Genealogies (exemplary)
Section A:Optics/Projection
Section B: Electricity/Magnetism
Section C: Acoustics/Music

Module 4:
On man/machine Interfaces
Section A: Are We Automatons?
Section B:Computing the physical - On current trends in Art Through Media and TechnoCulture (a focus on work by younger international artists and discussion of the contemporary discourse.)
Section C: Art after media: An Operational Anthropology Regarding the Relations

Required Readings and Assignments:

Zielinski, Siegfried (Editor). Variantology : on deep time relations of arts, sciences and technologies. 1. König. Paperback, 383 pages, Language English, ISBN: 3883759147. Buy it at Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.de, Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.fr.

Zielinski, Siegfried (Editor). Variantology 02 : on deep time relations of arts, sciences and technologies. König. 2007. Paperback, 350 pages, Language English, ISBN: 3865600506. Buy it at Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.de, Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.fr.

Zielinski, Siegfried (Editor). Variantology 3 : on deep time relations of arts, sciences and technologies in China and elsewhere. König. 2008. Paperback, 478 pages, Language English, ISBN: 3865603661. Buy it at Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.de, Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.fr.

Zielinski, Siegfried (Editor). Variantology 4 - On Deep Time Relations of Arts, Sciences and Technologies in the Arabic-Islamic World and Elsewhere. Koenig. 2010. Language English, ISBN: 3865607324. Buy it at Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.de, Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.fr.

Recommended Readings and Assignments:

Gould, Stephen Jay. Time's arrow, time's cycle. Myth and metaphor in the discovery of geological time Harvard Univ. Pres., 1987. The Jerusalem-Harvard lectures. Language English, ISBN: 0674891988. Buy it at Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.de, Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.fr.

Gould, Stephen Jay. “Ladders and Cones. Constraining evolution by canonical icons.” in: Robert B. Silvers (Editor). Hidden Histories of Science. 1995. p. 37-67. New York Review Books. Paperback, 192 pages, Language English, ISBN: 1590170520. Buy it at Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.de, Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.fr.

Nietzsche, Friedrich. On the Genealogy of Morals. Oxford University Press. 2009. Paperback, 208 pages, Language English, ISBN: 0199537089. Buy it at Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.de, Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.fr.

Foucault, Michael. "Nietzsche, Genealogy, History.” in: Paul Rabinow (Editor). The Foucault Reader. Vintage. 1984. Paperback, 400 pages, Language English, ISBN: 0394713400. Buy it at Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.de, Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.fr.

Repcheck, Jack. The Man who Found Time. James Hutton and the Discovery of The Earth’s Antiquity. Perseus Publishing. 2003. Paperback, 256 pages, Language English, ISBN: 0465013376. Buy it at Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.de, Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.fr.

Shapiro, Gary. Archaeologies of Vision: Foucault and Nietzsche on Seeing and Saying. UoC Press. 2003. Hardcover, 424 pages, Language English, ISBN: 0226750469. Buy it at Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.de, Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.fr.

Kluitenberg, Eric (Editor). The Book of Imaginary Media. With DVD. English edition, ISBN: 905662539X. Buy it at Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.de, Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.fr.

Zielinski, Siegfried. “Media Archaeology.” in: Arthur and Marilouise Kroker (Editors). Digital Delirium. Palgrave Macmillan. 1997. p. 272-283. Paperback, 336 pages, Language English, ISBN: 0312172370. Buy it at Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.de, Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.fr.

Bataille, Georges and Leslie A. Boldt (Translator). Inner Experience. State University of New York Press. 1988. Paperback, 209 pages, Language English, ISBN: 0887066356. Buy it at Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.de, Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.fr.

Standage, Tom. The Victorian Internet. Walker & Company. 2007. Paperback, 256 pages, Language English, ISBN: 0802716040. Buy it at Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.de, Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.fr.

Gitelman, Lisa and Geoffrey B. Pingree (Editors). New Media 1740-1915. MIT Press. 2004. Paperback, 305 pages, Language English , ISBN: 0262572281. Buy it at Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.de, Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.fr.

Marvin, Carolyn. When Old technologies Were New. Oxford Press. 1990. Paperback, 256 pages, Language English, ISBN: 0195063414. Buy it at Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.de, Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.fr.

Gouk, Penelope. Music, Science and Natural Magic in Seventeenth-century England. Yale University Press. 1999. Hardcover, 320 pages, Language English, ISBN: 0300073836. Buy it at Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.de, Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.fr.

Hammond, John H. The Camera Obscura. A Chronicle. Taylor & Francis. 1981. Hardcover, 194 pages, Language English, ISBN: 085274451X. Buy it at Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.de, Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.fr.

Stoichita, Victor I. A Short History of the Shadow. Reaktion Books. 1997. Paperback, 264 pages, Language English, ISBN: 1861890001. Buy it at Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.de, Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.fr.

Graham, A. C. and Nathan Sivin. “A systematic Approach to the Mohist Optics (ca. 300 B. C.).” in: Nathan Sivin, Shigeru Nakayama (Editors). Chinese Science: Explorations of an Ancient Tradition. MIT Press. 1973. p. 105-152. Hardcover, 352 pages, Language English, ISBN: 026214011X. Buy it at Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.de, Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.fr.

Vermeir, K. “The magic of the magic lantern (1660–1700). On analogical demonstration and the visualisation of the invisible.” in: British Journal for the History of Science. Vol. 38, 2005, p. 127–159.