Methods11May23

From XPUB & Lens-Based wiki

11:00 Review annotations from yesterday.


11:30


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/


Pad: https://pad.xpub.nl/p/MeanImageReading11May23

Related reading:

(We may be referring to these texts during our reading.)

Sven Lütticken

Viewing Copies: On the Mobility of Moving Images (2009)(this is one of the key texts referred to by Hito Steyerl's 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 helps charts the genealogy of Steyerl's thinking on the subject of the poor image.)

For an imperfect cinema

http://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/onlinessays/JC20folder/ImperfectCinema.html

Last reading sessions: https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/ReadingGroupSession2


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).

https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/Methods_lens-based

https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/Methods10May23