INTRODUCTION TO MEDIA / VIS 70N [back to homepage]
LECTURE: CENTER HALL 6:00PM - 8:50PM

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INSTRUCTOR: MICHAEL TRIGILLIO
EMAIL: MTRIGILIO@UCSD.EDU
Online Resource: http://www.starve.org/70N_TAsched.html
Fall 2009: April 1 - June 11th
Office Hours (Mandeville 222): Wednesdays 4-5:00pm

TA: Micki Davis
Office Hours (VAF 266): Tuesdays 2-3:00 pm
Online Resource: mickidavis.com/vis70.html

WEEK 1: The Shot
Video Production Terms and Examples
Jargon: Glossary of Video Production Terms by Charles Fuller
mediacollege.com: online examples
The Circle of Life : a great introduction to the basics of shooting with the camera and the Lion King

READING:
David Antin's "Video: The Distinctive Features of the Medium"
Sergei Eisenstein's "The Cinematic Principle and Ideogram"

LECTURE EXAMPLES:
Auguste and Louis Lumiére

IF YOU LIKED THAT, THEN YOU SHOULD LOOK AT...
Georges Mélies
Maya Deren
Sergei Eisenstein

WEEK 2: The Edit

LIGHTING download PDF

READING:
Rosalind Krauss' "Video: The Aesthetics of Narcissism"
Hollis Frampton's "State of the Art"

LECTURE EXAMPLES:
The Godfather Francis Ford Coppola
The Birds Alfred Hitchcock
Window Water Baby Moving Stan Brakhage

IF YOU LIKED THAT, THEN YOU SHOULD LOOK AT...
Maya Deren
Sadie Benning
William Wegman
Martha Rossler
Cindy Sherman


WEEK 3: Authenticity (and Breaking the 4th Wall)

LECTURE EXAMPLES:
The Cruise Timothy Levitch
The Birds Alfred Hitchcock
Don't Look Back D. A. Pennebaker
Mr. Baseball Ken Burns
Thing Blue Line Errol Morris
Mr. Death Errol Morris
Reassemblage Trinh T. Minh-ha
Zelig Woody Allen
Series 7: The Contenders Daniel Minahan
Tom Snyder interviews Johnny Rotten

WEEK 4: Radical

LECTURE EXAMPLES:
Triumph of the Will Leni Riedenstahl
Color Adjustment Marlin Riggs
Living Room Candidate Goldwater vs. Lyndon B. Johnson 1964
Television Delivers People Richard Serra and Carlitta Fay Schoolman
Cornered Adrian Piper
Undertone Vito Acconci
The Yes Men

IF YOU LIKED THAT, THEN YOU SHOULD LOOK AT...
Apple Grown in Wind Tunnel Steven Matheson
Naim June Paik
Johan Grimonprez
Errol Morris' Move On Ads
Born in Flames Lizzie Borden


WEEK 5: From Surveillance to Sousveillance, Intervention to Choreography

READING:
"Reflectionism and Diffusionism: New Tactics for Deconstructing the Video Surveilance Superhighway"- Steve Mann

LECTURE EXAMPLES:
Works by Trish Stone
Tracking Transcience Hasan Elahi
Busby Berkeley "By a Waterfall" from Footlight Parade (1933)
Fred Astaire "Ceiling" dance from Royal Wedding
Water Motor Trisha Brown
Points in Space Merce Cunninham
LaLaLa Humansteps
Ghost Catcher Bill T. Jones
From a Classical Position William Forsythe
Michel Gondry

IF YOU LIKED THAT, THEN YOU SHOULD LOOK AT...
Yvonne Rainer
Babette Mangolte
Gene Kelly


WEEK 6: Sound

LECTURE EXAMPLES:
Damages excerpt from TV program
William's Mix John Cage
Bill Cosby excerpt from "The Playground"on Wonderfulness
Laurie Anderson
David Tudor
Matt Volla
Maryanne Amacher
Helena Keefe
Cory Archangel's 666
David Lynch Mulholland Drive
Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now



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