Week 1 • MULTIMEDIA
Syllabus, goals of the class, required readings, general presentation and statistics of the students. Definition of Episteme (knowledge) and TECHNE (art or craft / reproduction) Episteme / Philosophy of Technology
Early History of Multimedia. Oral Tradition, Text, / Aristotle’s Poetics / Greek Amphitheater / Roman Circus Coliseum – Technology / 4th wall / Hagia Sophia / Middle Ages: Architecture and life Notre Dame / Religious vs. Pagan performance / Renaissance – Economics Medici / Gutenberg Print / 1492 // Baroque = America’s gold / Theatrum Mundi + Deus Ex Machina / Baroque Theater #2 / Control of Nature / Fibonacci Music
Assignment 0: Create Blogger Account (www.blogger.com) and send me the URL via email (gperkins@ut.edu)
Due August 29
Read Art Vs Design
Discussion – Medium | Umwelt
Assignments:
1) View Cave of Forgotten Dreams by Werner Herzog linked below. Locate an image of one of the animals drawn on the inside of the cave and make a reproduction with pencil and paper. Post both the still image and your drawing to your blogs. Also note and make comment on three concepts or quotes by Herzog that you found interesting or enlightening.
Link: http://naturedocumentaries.org/6509/cave-forgotten-dreams-werner-herzog-2010/
Due August 29
Relevant Philosophy: Alain Badiou The Subject of Art
2) View the following video and post a response on your blogs:
Pierre Huyghe Art 21
Due September 3
3) Watch RAUL CUERO’s interview about Creativity and post your comments on your blogs on how can you apply these concepts to your everyday life.
Due September 3
Outline – Topic Covered in this Module:
– Architecture, experience, awe, and ideology
– Creativity, collaboration, creative thinking and communication as central skills to 21st century life
– Performance and spectacle
– Performance venue design as it relates to narrative goals of performance / suspension of disbelief (architecture and narrative)
Additional Links
Cecilia Bartolli – Sacrificium // Ombra Mai Fu
Farinelli – Gérard Corbiau (Katy Perry / Die Antwoord ) Alessandro Moreschi / Tomotaka Okamoto #2 / Jaroussky #2 / BBC #2 / Vatel – Roland Joffé / Baroque fireworks in Dubai / Monteverdi’s Orpheo / / Linda Benglis – Fluorescence
CDs: Atys + Danse ~ #1 #2 by Jean-Baptiste Lully, William Christie, Les Arts Florissants / Médée, Charpentier, Les Arts Florissants
Cornaro Chapel in Rome – Bernini
Church of St Ignatius in Rome
Baroquetheaters.com
Krumlov Baroque Theater
Foucault on Panoptic and Carceral Society
Panopticon
Barthes and Wrestling (PDF)