Bibliography

In keeping with the technological-presentation focus of the class, some course materials and resources will be accessible through on-line network mechanisms, with readings/recordings/videos/images developed in tandem with the classroom lectures. The newly-hired Digital Education Developer at the CMC (Dan Trueman) will be assisting in this effort. Other materials will be made available to students through the more conventional reading packets.

Historical Background

Selected Readings from:

• Total Art: Environments, Happenings, and Performance, Adrian Henri
• A Critical Anthology of Performance Art, Edited by Gregory Battcock
• A Split Second of Paradise: Live Art, Installation and Performance, Edited by Nicky Childs
• Performance: Live Art Since 1960 and Performance Art: From Futurism to the Present, Roselee Goldberg
• Great Western Saltworks, Jack Burnham
• Experimental Music, Michael Nyman
• Silence, John Cage
• Noise, Jacques Attali
• "The Music of the Future,"Richard Wagner; in Art, Life and Theories of Richard Wagner, edited by Edward Burlingame
• selections from The Source magazine

Critical and Theoretical Background

Selected Readings From:

• Art After Modernism: Rethinking Representation, edited by Brian Wallis.
• Contextual Media: Multimedia and Interpretation, Edited by Edward Barrett and Maria Redmond
• The Postmodern Condition, Jean-Francois Lyotard
• Sociomedia, edited by Edward Barrett
• The Return to the Real, Hal Foster
• Society of the Spectacle, Guy Debord
• DIGITAL, George Negroponte
• The Originality of the Avant-Garde: A Postmodern Repetition, Rosalind Krauss
• The Author as Producer, Walter Benjamin
• The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, Walter Benjamin
• The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception, in Dialectic of Enlightenment Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno.
• Postmodern Culture, Cornel West
• Ways of Seeing, John Berger
• Auditory Scene Analysis, Alex Bregman
• Formalized Music, Iannis Xenakis
• Orientations, Pierre Boulez
• Out of Control, Kevin Kelley
• Technoculture, Andrew Ross