UPDATE: (regarding analysis of description assignment for 1/24)
Please write about the description that is posted after your own in the comments below. Except: The last person to post by 9:30 Monday (Ed Park) will write about the first post (Alina's). Leesha and Kirsten please write about each other's posts.
If you wrote about the wrong painting (you didn't go to the museum) please go see the Measure of Time exhbit and post a description of a different work of art in that show as a comment to the new post on that topic. You do not have to 're-do' your Stella description.
Welcome to our blog...
The syllabus and course policies are posted (you can see them by clicking on the menu to the left). We'll update the syllabus here if anything changes so you can refer to it here as the semester goes on.
Please post your paragraph describing Battle of Lights, Coney Island as a COMMENT to this post. (Click on "___ Comments" below this post, paste your paragraph into the window on the right, and then "Publish" your comment). Check your post for errors and typos and try to edit it before logging off. Be sure to sign your post with your first and last name.
Also, read the selections I handed out from Lessing carefully and bring this with you on Monday. I should have warned you, these selections are from a text written in 1766. Lessing was writing about classical (greek and roman) art and poetry. Photography and film had of course not yet been invented...
Thursday, January 11, 2007
Course Policies - updated 2/16
Your grade will be based on attendance, participation, and written assignments. You are expected to attend, for the full time scheduled, not only class meetings but also screenings, lectures, and other events scheduled on the syllabus. If you are not sure what you are required to attend it is your responsibility to ask. If you are absent it is your responsibility to find out what you missed and to catch up; ask other students and check the course blog. Late work will not usually be accepted except in special situations that have been arranged in advance. Quizzes and in-class assignments cannot be made up. Participation consists in showing up prepared (having done the scheduled reading and assignments), and contributing to class discussion and activities. We strongly encourage you to attend our office hours but doing so does not add to your participation grade. We will always answer your e-mails but please put “R1B” in the subject line, sign with your full name, and give us several days to respond.
You will be required, one time over the course, to post a reading response to the blog. This should consist of three or four numbered paragraphs which each reference a specific passage in the text and focus on that passage in order to make an argument or offer an insightful interpretation. You will also be required, at least twice, to respond to other students’ posts on the blog. Append your comments to their reading response; refer to the numbered paragraph you are commenting on and the relevant passage in the text; go back to the text yourself and offer an elaboration or counterargument. Your comments should not be as much about ‘liking’ or ‘disliking’ the student’s response but either lending further support for their argument or offering an alternative reading of the same material. Always sign your full name to your blog posts since your login may not be recognizable.
Unless otherwise specified, all non-digital assignments must be handed in typed, printed, and stapled, and must include your name, the date, the course title, and an assignment title on the cover page. Papers must be formatted in black Times 12 font, double spaced, one-sided, with 1” top and bottom margins and 1.25” left and right margins. Please use a header or footer with page numbers and your last name since sometimes pages become detached. I know this seems nitpicky but please don’t use paperclips; in piles of papers they tend to slide off or attach to other people’s pages and ‘steal’ them.
Please help up create a productive academic environment by acting professionally and respectfully. If you have special needs or concerns please let us know as soon as possible and we will try to accommodate them. Academic dishonesty will not be tolerated, and any form of plagiarism will be grounds for failure of the course. If you are unsure about standard academic guidelines and campus policies please consult the following:
http://students.berkeley.edu/osl/sja.asp?id=983&rcol=1202 (academic dishonesty)
http://students.berkeley.edu/uga/conduct.asp (undergraduate code of conduct)
http://dsp.berkeley.edu (accommodating disabilities)
Point Breakdown (so far)
Ongoing Assignments
20 (once)- Reading Response
5 (twice)- Comments on someone’s reading response
Assignments/Quizzes
10 - 1/22 description of Stella painting
20 - 1/24 analysis of painting descriptions
5 - 1/29 reading quiz
5 - 2/11 reading quiz
Midterm
20 - 2/21 10-on-1 on photograph
30 - 2/26 passages with paraphrases
100 - 3/5 paper
150 - 3/21 revised paper
(200 total)
Events
25 - film review
25 - film or event review
50 - 4/22 performance
Attendance/participation
2 x (number of meetings)
Optional Bonuses
10 (up to three times) - extra event reviews
2 (up to 5 times) - extra comments on blog
You will be required, one time over the course, to post a reading response to the blog. This should consist of three or four numbered paragraphs which each reference a specific passage in the text and focus on that passage in order to make an argument or offer an insightful interpretation. You will also be required, at least twice, to respond to other students’ posts on the blog. Append your comments to their reading response; refer to the numbered paragraph you are commenting on and the relevant passage in the text; go back to the text yourself and offer an elaboration or counterargument. Your comments should not be as much about ‘liking’ or ‘disliking’ the student’s response but either lending further support for their argument or offering an alternative reading of the same material. Always sign your full name to your blog posts since your login may not be recognizable.
Unless otherwise specified, all non-digital assignments must be handed in typed, printed, and stapled, and must include your name, the date, the course title, and an assignment title on the cover page. Papers must be formatted in black Times 12 font, double spaced, one-sided, with 1” top and bottom margins and 1.25” left and right margins. Please use a header or footer with page numbers and your last name since sometimes pages become detached. I know this seems nitpicky but please don’t use paperclips; in piles of papers they tend to slide off or attach to other people’s pages and ‘steal’ them.
Please help up create a productive academic environment by acting professionally and respectfully. If you have special needs or concerns please let us know as soon as possible and we will try to accommodate them. Academic dishonesty will not be tolerated, and any form of plagiarism will be grounds for failure of the course. If you are unsure about standard academic guidelines and campus policies please consult the following:
http://students.berkeley.edu/osl/sja.asp?id=983&rcol=1202 (academic dishonesty)
http://students.berkeley.edu/uga/conduct.asp (undergraduate code of conduct)
http://dsp.berkeley.edu (accommodating disabilities)
Point Breakdown (so far)
Ongoing Assignments
20 (once)- Reading Response
5 (twice)- Comments on someone’s reading response
Assignments/Quizzes
10 - 1/22 description of Stella painting
20 - 1/24 analysis of painting descriptions
5 - 1/29 reading quiz
5 - 2/11 reading quiz
Midterm
20 - 2/21 10-on-1 on photograph
30 - 2/26 passages with paraphrases
100 - 3/5 paper
150 - 3/21 revised paper
(200 total)
Events
25 - film review
25 - film or event review
50 - 4/22 performance
Attendance/participation
2 x (number of meetings)
Optional Bonuses
10 (up to three times) - extra event reviews
2 (up to 5 times) - extra comments on blog
SYLLABUS - updated 4/2
R1b MEASURE OF TIME
M/W 9:30-11am 188 Dwinelle
M 6-8pm screening 188 Dwinelle
Brooke Belisle bbelisle@berkeley.edu
Norman Gendelman mnorm65@earthlink.net
Arts of Time:
Counting Machines and Human Measures
Focusing on the ‘technological’ arts of photography, film, and digital media, this course will explore how particular media represent time or create temporal experiences. We will consider how technologically mediated works of art present time as either linear, mechanical, and objective or as heterogeneous, affective, and subjective. We will locate our exploration between the implementation of standardized ‘clock-time’ around the turn of the twentieth century, and the globalization of digital technology and ‘real time’ around the turn of the twenty-first century. We will compare the philosophies, technologies, and material realities of time at these two transitional moments and ask what difference it makes how we imagine, experience, and represent temporality.
Schedule
1/17 Intro
+ go to Measure of Time
Week 1: Time and the Arts--Representing Simultaneity and Succession
1/22 Lessing’s Laocoon
*Written description of Battle of Lights, Coney Island due on Blog before class
1/24 +writing workshop: description, crafting your prose+
*Analysis of description Due in Class, hard copy
Week 2: Turn of the 20th Century
1/29 Walter Kern The Culture of Time & Space, The Nature of Time
1/31 Walter Kern The Culture of Time & Space, The Present
Week 3: Photographing Time and Movement
2/5 ***No class this morning, class will be held during screening time, 6pm
River of Shadows on Muybridge
Images from Muybridge and Marey
2/7 Bergson Creative Evolution p.99-108 of reader (p.298-316 of text)
Week 4: Thinking Like a Camera
2/12 Bergson Creative Evolution p.109-120 of reader (p.329-370 of text)
2/14 Bragaglia "Futurist Photodynamism"
Midterm paper Assignment Given
2/14 PFA screening 7:30pm Together Again
Week 5: Cinematic Time
2/19 Holiday
2/21 in-class screening and discussion of 'actualities'
(if you missed this class or want to revisit the films, many are on the DVD in Media Resources titled Landmarks of Early FIlm, DVD 277. They also have a collection of all the early Edison films; most of the ones we saw are from the first DVD in the series.)
**10-on-1 Due
Week 6: Cinematic Time
2/26 Doane, Mary Ann The Emergence of Cinematic Time “Zeno’s Paradox”
**Passages and Paraphrases Due
2/26 screen The Adventurer (Chaplin, 1917), Odessa Steps sequence from Battleship Potempkin (Eisenstein, 1925 ), opening sequence from Modern Times (Chaplin, 1936), Choreography for Camera (Deren, 1945)
(2/27 7:30 screening of Pine Flat at PFA)
2/28 discuss selections from Bela Balazs "Theory of the Film" and from Marilyn Fabe "Closely Watched Films" and the films screened 2/26 at screening time
Week 7: 'Live' time
3/5 **MIDTERM DUE**
Intro to Video Art (in-class screenings, no reading due this week)
3/7 Video Art (in-class screenings)
Week 8: Film – Movement Image
3/12 Intro to Deleuze
3/12 screen Without Limits
3/14 Deleuze
Week 9: Film –Time Image
3/19 Deleuze
3/19 Screen Fallen Angels
3/21 Deleuze
*Revised Midterm Paper Due
Week 10 spring break 3/26 & 3/28
Week 11: Real Time
4/2 Virilio “The Perspective of Real Time” Open Sky
4/2 screen Minority Report
4/4 Virilio "Optics on a Grand Scale" and Minority Report
Week 12: The ‘Electronic’
4/9 Vivian Sobchack Carnal Thoughts “The Scene of the Screen”
4/9 Screen tba
4/11 discuss Sobchack and screening
discussion of finding and using sources
* (by 10pm) Proposed Topic for Final Paper Due on Blog
Week 13: "Body Times" of the Digital/Virtual
4/16 Mark Hansen "Embodying Virtual Reality"
Presentation and Discusion of Osmose, Ephemere
4/16 Screen The Gleaners and I
4/18 discuss The Gleaners and I
* One paragraph scene analysis due
Weeks 14 & 15: Presentations and Final Paper
4/22 Required Attendance at Berkeley Theater's 2007 Dance Project
4/23 Discussion of performance, in-class paper workshop
*Final Paper Outlines Due
4/23 Screening of your clips
4/25 Presentations
4/30 Presentations
4/30 +Peer Edit (in lieu of screening)+
*Rough Draft Due (6-8 pages)
5/2 Conclusion
5/7*Final Papers Due (8-10 pages)
M/W 9:30-11am 188 Dwinelle
M 6-8pm screening 188 Dwinelle
Brooke Belisle bbelisle@berkeley.edu
Norman Gendelman mnorm65@earthlink.net
Arts of Time:
Counting Machines and Human Measures
Focusing on the ‘technological’ arts of photography, film, and digital media, this course will explore how particular media represent time or create temporal experiences. We will consider how technologically mediated works of art present time as either linear, mechanical, and objective or as heterogeneous, affective, and subjective. We will locate our exploration between the implementation of standardized ‘clock-time’ around the turn of the twentieth century, and the globalization of digital technology and ‘real time’ around the turn of the twenty-first century. We will compare the philosophies, technologies, and material realities of time at these two transitional moments and ask what difference it makes how we imagine, experience, and represent temporality.
Schedule
1/17 Intro
+ go to Measure of Time
Week 1: Time and the Arts--Representing Simultaneity and Succession
1/22 Lessing’s Laocoon
*Written description of Battle of Lights, Coney Island due on Blog before class
1/24 +writing workshop: description, crafting your prose+
*Analysis of description Due in Class, hard copy
Week 2: Turn of the 20th Century
1/29 Walter Kern The Culture of Time & Space, The Nature of Time
1/31 Walter Kern The Culture of Time & Space, The Present
Week 3: Photographing Time and Movement
2/5 ***No class this morning, class will be held during screening time, 6pm
River of Shadows on Muybridge
Images from Muybridge and Marey
2/7 Bergson Creative Evolution p.99-108 of reader (p.298-316 of text)
Week 4: Thinking Like a Camera
2/12 Bergson Creative Evolution p.109-120 of reader (p.329-370 of text)
2/14 Bragaglia "Futurist Photodynamism"
Midterm paper Assignment Given
2/14 PFA screening 7:30pm Together Again
Week 5: Cinematic Time
2/19 Holiday
2/21 in-class screening and discussion of 'actualities'
(if you missed this class or want to revisit the films, many are on the DVD in Media Resources titled Landmarks of Early FIlm, DVD 277. They also have a collection of all the early Edison films; most of the ones we saw are from the first DVD in the series.)
**10-on-1 Due
Week 6: Cinematic Time
2/26 Doane, Mary Ann The Emergence of Cinematic Time “Zeno’s Paradox”
**Passages and Paraphrases Due
2/26 screen The Adventurer (Chaplin, 1917), Odessa Steps sequence from Battleship Potempkin (Eisenstein, 1925 ), opening sequence from Modern Times (Chaplin, 1936), Choreography for Camera (Deren, 1945)
(2/27 7:30 screening of Pine Flat at PFA)
2/28 discuss selections from Bela Balazs "Theory of the Film" and from Marilyn Fabe "Closely Watched Films" and the films screened 2/26 at screening time
Week 7: 'Live' time
3/5 **MIDTERM DUE**
Intro to Video Art (in-class screenings, no reading due this week)
3/7 Video Art (in-class screenings)
Week 8: Film – Movement Image
3/12 Intro to Deleuze
3/12 screen Without Limits
3/14 Deleuze
Week 9: Film –Time Image
3/19 Deleuze
3/19 Screen Fallen Angels
3/21 Deleuze
*Revised Midterm Paper Due
Week 10 spring break 3/26 & 3/28
Week 11: Real Time
4/2 Virilio “The Perspective of Real Time” Open Sky
4/2 screen Minority Report
4/4 Virilio "Optics on a Grand Scale" and Minority Report
Week 12: The ‘Electronic’
4/9 Vivian Sobchack Carnal Thoughts “The Scene of the Screen”
4/9 Screen tba
4/11 discuss Sobchack and screening
discussion of finding and using sources
* (by 10pm) Proposed Topic for Final Paper Due on Blog
Week 13: "Body Times" of the Digital/Virtual
4/16 Mark Hansen "Embodying Virtual Reality"
Presentation and Discusion of Osmose, Ephemere
4/16 Screen The Gleaners and I
4/18 discuss The Gleaners and I
* One paragraph scene analysis due
Weeks 14 & 15: Presentations and Final Paper
4/22 Required Attendance at Berkeley Theater's 2007 Dance Project
4/23 Discussion of performance, in-class paper workshop
*Final Paper Outlines Due
4/23 Screening of your clips
4/25 Presentations
4/30 Presentations
4/30 +Peer Edit (in lieu of screening)+
*Rough Draft Due (6-8 pages)
5/2 Conclusion
5/7*Final Papers Due (8-10 pages)
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