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= What is... an object? a medium? an encyclopedia? =


'''a speculative research project'''


=previous media objects=
 
== 0: Introduction ==
 
'''April 4th''' - brainstorming and collective visual mapping: what are objects, media, encyclopediae?
Assignment: Choose three "media objects" as your rough prototypes to critically reflect upon.
 
 
 
== Part 1: what is an object? ==
 
'''April 16th''' - Martin Heidegger, The Thing, 1935/1962, in: Fiona Candlin and Raiford Guins, The Object Reader, Routledge, 2009, 113-123
+ assignment to each student to show how one of their chosen objects can be used to illuminate or criticize Heidegger's notion of thing
 
 
'''April 23rd: excursion to BAK Utrecht, meet at 10:00 at Rotterdam Central''' - Tristan Garcia, Form and Object - A Treatise on Things, Edinburgh University Press 2014 (Presses Universitaires de France 2010), p. 19-38: "No-Matter-What"
& Bruno Latour, Where are the missing masses? The sociology of a few mundane artifacts, 1992  in: Object Reader, p. 229-254
+ assignment to each student to present how Garcia's notion of things and Latour's notion of artifacts relate to their prototyped media objects
 
'''April 30th''' - critical revision of initial visual mapping; critical revision of prototypes.
 
 
== Part 2: what is a medium? ==
 
'''May 11th''' - Marshall McLuhan, Counterblast, 1954 & Understanding Media, 1964, chapter 1: "The medium is the message" + voluntary assignment: Ernesto Fennolosa, The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry, 1920
+ assignment to each student to relate their initial notion of "medium", as embodied in their prototypes, to McLuhan's notion of medium
 
'''May 18th''' - Clement Greenberg, Modernist Painting, 1960, in: Harrison/Wood, Art in Theory 1900-2000, section 17 + Rosalind Krauss, A Voyage to the North Sea, Art in the Age of the Post-Medium Condition, 1999 + Félix Guattari, Towards a Post-Media Era (1988), in: Clemens Apprich, Josephine Berry Slater eds.), Provocative Alloys: A Post-Media Anthology, Mute, 2013, p.26-27
+ assignment to each student to relate their prototyped media objects to to the notions of the artistic medium, "post-medium" and "post-media"
 
'''May 28th''' - Public lecture & discussion, possibly in collaboration with PZI Fine Art: What are "media" in the arts? - Continued work on media object prototypes, with individual studio visits.
 
== Part 3: what is an encyclopedia? ==
 
'''June 1st''' - Reading encyclopedias: Pliny, Naturalis historica, 77-79 AD; Johann Heinrich Alsted, Encyclopedia, 1630; Dennis Diderot, Jean Le Rond d'Alembert, Encyclopédie ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, 1751-1772; Stan Brakhage, Prelude to Dog Star Man, 1961
 
'''June 11th''' - Jorge Luis Borges, The Analytical Language of John Wilkins, 1942 + Michel Foucault, The Order of Things, preface, 1966
+ collective revision of initial mappings, taking into account (a) media object prorotypes, (b) notion of (speculative) encyclopedias
 
 
== Part 3: speculative design research ==
 
'''June 18th, June 25th''': The last weeks will be dedicated to developing, in several teams, parts of an experimental Encyclopedia of Media Objects that will start with a definition of itself. This encyclopedia can take any form, and is born from a critical reflection of (a) what a medium is in general and (b) what its own media, objecthood and notion of encyclopedia will be in particular. At this point, the prototypes
 
'''Final week''': public presentation of the first edition of the encyclopedia of media objects at V2_, in a form/format that fits the concepts of enclycopedia, media and objects developed in the seminar.
 
 
 
 
=previous work=


==2014/2015==
==2014/2015==

Revision as of 17:40, 15 April 2015

What is... an object? a medium? an encyclopedia?

a speculative research project


0: Introduction

April 4th - brainstorming and collective visual mapping: what are objects, media, encyclopediae? Assignment: Choose three "media objects" as your rough prototypes to critically reflect upon.


Part 1: what is an object?

April 16th - Martin Heidegger, The Thing, 1935/1962, in: Fiona Candlin and Raiford Guins, The Object Reader, Routledge, 2009, 113-123 + assignment to each student to show how one of their chosen objects can be used to illuminate or criticize Heidegger's notion of thing


April 23rd: excursion to BAK Utrecht, meet at 10:00 at Rotterdam Central - Tristan Garcia, Form and Object - A Treatise on Things, Edinburgh University Press 2014 (Presses Universitaires de France 2010), p. 19-38: "No-Matter-What" & Bruno Latour, Where are the missing masses? The sociology of a few mundane artifacts, 1992 in: Object Reader, p. 229-254 + assignment to each student to present how Garcia's notion of things and Latour's notion of artifacts relate to their prototyped media objects

April 30th - critical revision of initial visual mapping; critical revision of prototypes.


Part 2: what is a medium?

May 11th - Marshall McLuhan, Counterblast, 1954 & Understanding Media, 1964, chapter 1: "The medium is the message" + voluntary assignment: Ernesto Fennolosa, The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry, 1920 + assignment to each student to relate their initial notion of "medium", as embodied in their prototypes, to McLuhan's notion of medium

May 18th - Clement Greenberg, Modernist Painting, 1960, in: Harrison/Wood, Art in Theory 1900-2000, section 17 + Rosalind Krauss, A Voyage to the North Sea, Art in the Age of the Post-Medium Condition, 1999 + Félix Guattari, Towards a Post-Media Era (1988), in: Clemens Apprich, Josephine Berry Slater eds.), Provocative Alloys: A Post-Media Anthology, Mute, 2013, p.26-27 + assignment to each student to relate their prototyped media objects to to the notions of the artistic medium, "post-medium" and "post-media"

May 28th - Public lecture & discussion, possibly in collaboration with PZI Fine Art: What are "media" in the arts? - Continued work on media object prototypes, with individual studio visits.

Part 3: what is an encyclopedia?

June 1st - Reading encyclopedias: Pliny, Naturalis historica, 77-79 AD; Johann Heinrich Alsted, Encyclopedia, 1630; Dennis Diderot, Jean Le Rond d'Alembert, Encyclopédie ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, 1751-1772; Stan Brakhage, Prelude to Dog Star Man, 1961

June 11th - Jorge Luis Borges, The Analytical Language of John Wilkins, 1942 + Michel Foucault, The Order of Things, preface, 1966 + collective revision of initial mappings, taking into account (a) media object prorotypes, (b) notion of (speculative) encyclopedias


Part 3: speculative design research

June 18th, June 25th: The last weeks will be dedicated to developing, in several teams, parts of an experimental Encyclopedia of Media Objects that will start with a definition of itself. This encyclopedia can take any form, and is born from a critical reflection of (a) what a medium is in general and (b) what its own media, objecthood and notion of encyclopedia will be in particular. At this point, the prototypes

Final week: public presentation of the first edition of the encyclopedia of media objects at V2_, in a form/format that fits the concepts of enclycopedia, media and objects developed in the seminar.



previous work

2014/2015

2013

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