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Assorted Lectures Given 2001-2003Dr. Steven Dixon Intentions and Receptions: Genre theory and the 21st Century Critique: From Benjamin, Kuhn and Bakhtin to the Contemporary Reception theory The Message is the Medium: The Theory of Media from the Renaissance to the age of the Broadcast signal. Gender Constructions and Residues: Contemporary Feminism and the production of art Who Says So? - Meaning What you Paint vs. Painting What you Mean. The development of the concept of the Painting Language. A History of Abstract Cinema and Video: From Viking Eggeling to Bas van Koolwijk Now I See: The Artist and Light from the camera Obscura and the Magic Lantern to James Turrell and Olatur Eliasson. The Culture Industry and the Dilemma of Subversion and Sameness: Adorno's critique and the work of the artist and the studio industry. The Work of the Animation Studio: The Multiplane camera, Rotoscope and the striving to realism. A Genealogy of Queer Theory: QueerTheory from Foucault to Butler Greenberg and Rodchenko: Explication of the art work as Language and Reality The Crisis of Representation: From the concepts of abstraction and figuration to the ideologies of the real and the social in reproduction and the art work Multiculturalism and the Other: Edward Said, Lacan and the use of Cultural Critique in Late 20th Century Art Post-Colonial theory and the questions of the Global and the Local. The Path and the Landmark: Towards a Theory of the Photograph and the Digital Print. History of the Computer: from the Turing Device to the Desktop environment. The Crisis of Mediation and the New Paradigms of the 90's to now, Art Theory in the 21st Century A survey of the history of the Avatar and the concept of Artificial Intelligence Textuality and the Body: the Theory of Inscription and the Body from the 60's to the Present Art and the Interactive: A survey of concepts and history of the Notion of the Interactive Art Piece The Memory of Messages and Matter: The Medium of the Brush Stroke, the Video Signal and the Installation, and the theories of the Repetition and Appropriation From Robotics to Cyberfeminism: Artists and the Assumptions of Automation in 20th Century art A History of Robotics and Automation from the Renaissance to Now The Strategies of Survival for the Artist and Activities of Art production: the advent of the Guttenberg press, the artist run space, Broadband broadcasting and the Net Theories of Real - Time Art: Processes and meanings in the Concept of real-time from the VJ to Digital media The Ideas of Transparency, Motion and Permeability: Jean Baulliraud and Paul Virilio Theory and Practice of Hypertext and Hyperprocess in Art: Computer, software art and its ideology and concepts Digital Theory and the intersection of the Human Body: The Concept of Immersive Environments and Performance in the Virtual Era The Dream of Reality, Or is that the Reality of Dreams?: Reflections of and on the Documentary from the Era of Mechanical Reproduction to the Virtual Space of the Bit. A Survey of Experimental Film and Video Theory: From the Abstract to the Expanded Cinema (1916 to 2003) A History and ideology of the Vampire From Lilith to Nosferatu A History of Video Synch and Synthesizing in Art 1960-70 Reflections of the past and readings of the present: Positions of Photographic theory from it's beginning to the New Millennium Sight and Speed: Philosophical considerations and conflicts of Augmented Reality and Intertexuality The Homo Sapian Other From the Monstrous Races to the Freak Show A History of Teratology: its Assumptions and influences on Artistic practice in the 90's A History of Computer Animation and the rebirth of representation in the dissolved pulse 1960-70 Theories of the Graphic and the Human Interface in the Computer Milieu The Plane of Space: the Density of representation, the Aether and the art of the Rococo and Baroque. The Strife of Idealization. Antique Sculpture, Ancient Philosophy and its intersections in the Greeks and Romans |