BAUHAUS
Bauhaus
Revolutionary school of art, architecture and design established by the pioneer modern architect Walter Gropius at Weimar in Germany in 1919. Its teaching method replaced the traditional pupil-teacher relationship with the idea of a community of artists working together. Its aim was to bring art back into contact with everyday life, and design was therefore given as much weight as fine art. The name is a combination of the German words for building (bau) and house (haus) and may have been intended to evoke the idea of a guild or fraternity working to build a new society. The Bauhaus moved to Dessau in 1925¿6 where Gropius created a new building for it. In 1932 it moved to Berlin where it was closed by the Nazis. Teachers included Kandinsky, Klee, Moholy-Nagy and Albers. Its influence was immense, especially in the USA where Moholy-Nagy opened the New Bauhaus in Chicago in 1937. In 1933 Albers took
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The Time-Based Media Reading List
TIME BASED MEDIA READING LIST
LEVEL 1
O’PRAY, M Avant-Garde Film-Forms, themes and passions Wallflower 2003
MACDONALD, S. A CRITICAL CINEMA: Interviews with Independent Film-makers: Volumes 1-5, University of California Press 1992- 2006
COX, C, WARNER, D. Audio Culture: readings in modern music, Continuum International Publishing Group, 2004
TOOP, DAVID, OCEAN OF SOUND 2001 ISBN 1-85242 743 4
Ways Of Seeing, John Berger, Penguin
KAHN, D NOISE, WATER, MEAT : A HISTORY OF SOUND IN THE ARTS, MIT PRESS 2001
GOLDBERG, R. Performance Art: From Futurism to the Present,
Thames & Hudson, 2001
Video Art by Micheal Rush Thames and Hudson
ART SINCE 1900: MODERNISM ANTIMODERNISM POSTMODERNISM
Hal Foster, Rosalind Krauss, Yve-Alain Bois, Benjamin H D Buchloh Thames & Hudson March 2005
REEKIE, Duncan, Subverson: the Definitive history of Underground Cinema
Wallflower Press, 2007
Nicky Hamlyn, Film Art Phenomena BFI, 2003
Bordwell and Thompson Film Art, an Introduction, Publishers Mc Graw Hill 2004
Genders David Glover and Cora Kaplan
Routlendge 2000 ISBN 0 415 134927
Perec, Georges Species of Spaces and Other Pieces: (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)
Expanded Cinema, USA
artscilab.org/expandedcinema
Downloadable .pdf of Gene Youngblood's seminal book on expanded cinema.
Essential websites
UBUWEB http://www.ubu.com
Lux online http://www.luxonline.org.uk/
British Artists’ Film and Video Study Collection
Video Data Bank http://www.vdb.org
Artists Radio in London- Resonance FM 104.4 FM www.resonancefm.com
Lux http://www.lux.org.uk
Senses of Cinema http://www.sensesofcinema.com/
Video Art chronology http://ukvideoart.tripod.com
Videoblogging– lots of links and resources here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vlog
Mediamatic http://www.mediamatic.net/
Rewind http://www.rewind.ac.uk
no.w.here http://www.nowhere-lab.org
Secret Cinema http://www.secretcinema.co.uk/
Exploding cinema www.explodingcinema.com
Tanktv www.tanktv
TIME BASED MEDIA READING LIST
LEVEL 2
GOLDBERG, R. Performance: Live Art Since the 60's,
HEATHFIELD, A. (ED). Live: Art and Performance, Tate Publishing 2004
FORSTER H, KRAUSS M. BOIS Y, BUCHLOH H.D. (EDS)
Sonic Experience, a guide to everyday sounds Augoyard /Torgue published by MQUP
ELWES, C. Video Art a guided Tour, I.B.A. Tauris + co ltd. 2005
Thames & Hudson, 2004
Meigh-Andrews, Chris - A History of Video Art: The Development of Form and Function, Berg Publishers Ltd, 2006
CHION, M, GORGMAN, C MURCH, W. Audio-Vision, Columbia University Press 1994
HALL D and FIFER, J (EDS). ILLUMINATING VIDEO- An essential guide to Video art, Aperture 1991
HARRISON, Charles and Paul Wood ( Eds). Art in theory 1990-2000: An anthology of changing ideas, Blackwell, 2003
ZURBRUGG, N (ed) Art, Performance, Media: 31 Interviews, University of Minnesota Press 2004
Eyes Lies & Illusions Eds Mannoni, Nekes, Warner, Hayward Gallery/ Lund Humphries 2004 ISBN 1 85332 244 X
WACK!: art and the feminist revolution Ed Lisa Gabrielle Mark. Los Angeles : Museum of Contemporary Art ; Cambridge, Mass.
The Fundamentals of Animation Paul Wells AVA Publishing 2006 ISBN
294037 02 7
AT A DISTANCE: PRECURSORS TO ART AND ACTIVISM ON THE INTERNET
Ed Annmarie Chandler and Norie Neumark The MIT Press 2005
Representing Reality – Bill Nichols
Indiana University Press 1991 ISBN 0 253 20681 2
Level 3
Ranciere, Jacques THE POLITICS OF AESTHETICS
Continuum 2004 ISBN 08264895401
Mulvey ,Laura Death 24x a Second: Stillness and the Moving Image
Reaktion books
Le Grice, Malcolm, Experimental Film in the Digital Age, Malcolm Le Grice, BFI, 2001
Krauss, Rosalind, A Voyage on the North Sea: Art in the Age of the Post-Medium Condition, Thames & Hudson, 2000
Russell,Catherine, Experimental Ethnography: The Work of Film in the Age of Video Duke University Press, 1999
‘Femnist Theory and the Body’- a reader
Price, Jane and Shildrick, Margrit Edinburgh University press 1999
Butler, Judith, Gender Trouble, Routledge Classics
Nyman, Michael Experimental Music: Cage and Beyond Cambridge University Press, 1999
KAHN, D WHITEHEAD, G (Eds). Wireless Imagination: Sound, Radio and the Avant-garde, The MIT Press, 1994
THE PARALLAX VIEW
Zizek, Slavoj MIT Press 2006
Manovich, Lev, The Language of New Media, MIT Press, 2001
Prentergast, Mark The Ambient Century, Bloomsbury
DANINO, N, MAZIERE, M. The Undercut reader,
Wallflower Press, 2003
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