Introduction to What Is Contemporary Art?-Introduction to the course
Welcome to the course!
What Is Contemporary Art?
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Course instructors respond: what is contemporary art?
Suggestions for making the most of the course
We want to hear from you
Recordings of live virtual sessions (optional)
MoMA resources: podcasts, art vocabulary, Magazine, and YouTube channel
Media from Television to the Internet-Source It
Introduction to this week
Arthur Jafa, APEX, 2013
In the studio with Arthur Jafa | "The place where images overlap is you"
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Three approaches to appropriation
Media from Television to the Internet-Share It
How do artists and architects share and circulate images?
Beatriz González on her street posters in Bogotá, 1983
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Two interventions in television and architecture
Alfredo Jaar on Lament of the Images, 2002
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Dayanita Singh on Museum of Chance, 2013
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Media from Television to the Internet-Watch It
How are images used to watch and classify us?
Surveilling, seeing, scanning
Media from Television to the Internet-Play It
What do video games and computers have to do with art and design?
Susan Kare on designing the first Mac icons, 1980s
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JODI on turning desktop order inside out
Serious games and artificial intelligence
Media from Television to the Internet-Review & Respond
Optional Readings & Resources
Territories & Transit-Borders & Transit
Introduction to this week
Rael San Fratello, Teeter-Totter Wall, 2014
In the studio with Rael San Fratello | Transforming the wall
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Bouchra Khalili on The Mapping Journey Project, 2008–11
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Crossing borders
Mateo López on Travel without Movement, 2008–10
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Territories & Transit-Place
Claiming space
Shellyne Rodriguez on Martin Wong, Stanton near Forsyth Street, 1983
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Changing states
IRWIN on NSK Garda, 2002
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Sky Hopinka on Jáaji Approx., 2015
Amanda Williams on Color(ed) Theory Suite, 2014–16
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Portfolio: Teresa Margolles, Pista de baile (Dance Floor), 2016
Territories & Transit-Review & Respond
Optional Readings & Resources
Mid-course survey
Materials & Making-What Is It Made Of?
Introduction to this week
Sheila Hicks, Pillar of Inquiry/Supple Column, 2013–14
At the Museum with Sheila Hicks | Form, Texture, Color
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Liz Deschenes on Tilt/Swing (360º field of vision, version 1), 2009
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Film, vinyl, and ultrasonic gel
Sheela Gowda on Of All People, 2011
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3-D printed architecture with Rael San Fratello
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Materials & Making-How Is It Made?
How is contemporary art made?
Lady Pink on Trust visions that don't feature buckets of blood, 1983–84
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Glenn Ligon on White #19, 1994
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Amy Sillman on making and unmaking painting
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Building, painting, printing
Luther Price, Sorry, 2005–12
Materials & Making-Who Makes It?
Labor and work in contemporary art
Revital Cohen & Tuur Van Balen on 75 Watt, 2013
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Work/Travail/Arbeid, 2017
Materials & Making-Review & Respond
Optional Readings & Resources
Agency-Visibility
Introduction to this week
William Pope.L's New York crawls
In New York City with Pope.L | Direct action
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Two artists consider Catherine Opie, Dyke, 1993
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Tania Bruguera on Untitled (Havana, 2000), 2000
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Luis Camnitzer on Memorial, 2009
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Yara Said on the Refugee Flag, 2016
Firelei Báez on For Améthyste and Athénaïre (Exiled Muses Beyond Jean Luc Nancy’s Canon), Anacaonas, 2018
Agency-Voice
Who speaks?
Nick Cave on Soundsuit, 2011
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Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Conflicted Phonemes, 2012
Patrick Staff on Weed Killer, 2017
Agency-Action
Taking action
Lorraine O'Grady on Mlle Bourgeoise Noire, 1980–83/2009
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Xiao Lu on Dialogue, 1989
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Ralph Borland, Suited for Subversion (Prototype), 2002
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Defining and blurring identities through performance
Agency-Review & Respond
Optional Readings & Resources
Power-Exposing Power
Introduction to the final week
Instructor Christian Rattemeyer on Mark Lombardi's diagrams of power
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What do war and peace have to do with chandeliers and portraits?
Deana Lawson on Nation, 2017
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Power-Abuse of Power
How do artists critique power?
Two responses to abuse of power
Wolfgang Tillmans on Sendeschluss / End of Broadcast I, 2014
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Power-Sources of Power
Power: sources and resources
Outer space to inner earth
Curator Paola Antonelli on Massoud Hassani's on Mine Kafon wind-powered deminer, 2011
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Rania Ghosn on After Oil, 2016
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Power-Review & Respond
Optional Readings & Resources
End-of-course survey