Art Theory

Royal College University of Art, Stockholm
Fall Term 2004
Dr. Steven Dixon

Sept. 24th - Subjectivity, Flesh, and Contention - Body Art and its Theoretical Development in the 20th Century

Oct. 1st - Being Objectively Relative - Plato, Kant, Hume, Nietzsche and the Binary Concept of Aesthetics in the West

Oct. 8th - Real-Time Art - Translation, Process, Presence, and Information in the Theory of the Unfolding Art Piece

Oct. 15th - "Staging the Hybrid - considerations concerning contemporary mediaart-praxis ".

Oct. 22nd - The Demon in the Machine - from Ethics to Absurdity in the 'Anime' ('Japanese Animation') of Akira, Ghost in the Shell , Spirited Away , and Princess Mononoke

Oct 29th- Methodologies of Feminism - "reading against the grain", Cultural Critique, and the Archaeology of Language

Nov. 26th - Burning Desires: Necromancy, Witchcraft, Demons and Power in the 10th to the 15th Century.

Dec 3rd - Theory and Practice of Hypertext and Hyperprocess in Art Assorted NetArt from the 20th Century

Dec 10th - Art and the Female Construct: Femininist theory from Wollstonecrarft to Pollock Video works of Dara Birnbaum and Mona Hartoum Dec.

17 th - The Absent Body and the Ground of Self - Parallel Considerations in the Ideologies of Personhood in China and the West