Methods11May23
11:00 Review annotations from yesterday.
12:00
Please print out and read ahead of the session.
Reading
Hito Steyerl
Mean Images (2023)
https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii140/articles/hito-steyerl-mean-images
Hito Steyerl
In Defense of the Poor Image (2009)
https://www.e-flux.com/journal/10/61362/in-defense-of-the-poor-image/
Related reading:
Sven Lütticken
Viewing Copies: On the Mobility of Moving Images (2009)(this is one of the key texts referred to by Hito Steyerl in Defence of the Poor Image. Lütticken is regarded as one of the most perseptive critics currently writing on art)
https://www.e-flux.com/journal/08/61380/viewing-copies-on-the-mobility-of-moving-images/
Julio García Espinosa, translated by Julianne Burton (this is one of the key texts referred to by Hito Steyerl in Defence of the Poor Image. This charts the genealogy of Steyerl's thinking.)
For an imperfect cinema
http://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/onlinessays/JC20folder/ImperfectCinema.html
Future:
Review reading practices on the course.
Compile a provisional reader, from the useful material we have read over the year.
Identify core texts that have been useful to you (text = written material or audio visual material).