COML 3115 - Video and New Media: Art, Theory, Politics

(crosslisted) ENGL 3115, FREN 3115, PMA 3515, VISST 3115
(LA-AS)

Fall. 4 credits.

Enrollment limited to: 25 undergraduate students.

T. Murray.

The course will provide an overview of video art, alternative documentary video, and digital installation and networked art over the past 50 years. We will analyze four phases of video and new media: 1) the development of video from its earliest turn away from television; 2) video’s relation to art and installation; 3) video’s migration into digital art; 4) the relation of video and new media to visual theory and social movements. Screenings will include early political and feminist art (Ant Farm, Roster, Paper Tiger, Jonas), gay and multicultural video of the 90s (Muntadas, Riggs, Piper, Fung, Parmar), video installation and conceptual video (Paik, Hill, Viola, Vasulka, Oursler, Fujihata), animation and networked media of the 21st century (Critical Art Ensemble, Electronic Disturbance Theater, Sub Rosa, Preemptive Media, Kentridge, Benning, Miao).