This sheet is to help you study for the December test. We hope that it may help you to identify key terms and ideas as you study and make connections that may be helpful for essay-type questions. Fill out the boxes to the best of your ability – there may be some you leave blank but you should be able to fill in most of this sheet. I’ve started the sheet with some of the easier items – the list is not exhaustive, just suggestive.

Texts assigned/ discussed in class

Artists/ thinkers discussed

ideas held by the artists or ideas circulating in the culture that gave rise to new art and/or Key terms or concepts that could appear on the test from this week’s readings/ta discussions/ lecture

Cultural Influences (technology? war/trauma? the factory? everyday life? Etc. etc.)

the kind of art produced + examples

Can you relate this week to emerging concepts interdisciplinarity discussed in class?

If the artist or movement isn’t contemporary, can you think of any contemporary resonances?

Connection to other artists/ ideas / themes/ looked at in the course?

Any connection to your own practices?

Your own examples

Other thoughts or connections? (from the listserv? another class? another set of ideas or practices you know about? etc.)

Evidence of collaboration?

Multidisci-plinary or new hybrid genres?

What kinds of artists involved?

Other?

A constellation of ideas: From Gesamtkunstwerk to the digital era Disciplinarity, interdisciplinarity and why are we all here?

Tick Tock Bang

Wagner Oulipo group

Gesamtkunstwerk the power of constraint

Performing interdisciplinarity: ideas, methods, examples

Film on Laurie Anderson

Laurie Anderson Vr cave and immersive environments website Examples of interdisciplinary artists generated in class

Avant-gardes THE FUTURIST MODEL

Futurist Manifestos Vita Futurista (film) Auden poem Stockhausen quotation

Marinetti Stockhausen Auden

Modernism Dada and Surrealism

Breton Saint-Simon Hannah Höch Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven

Modernity Changes wrt the Avant garde

Automation and automata

“Modern Times: Cinema/Americanism /The Robot” cdrom: ephemeral films (family life in the future, the robotic butler etc.)

Charlie Chaplin Fritz Lang Orlan Stellarc

Fordism Taylorism frankenstein ‘Americanism’

design issues à precision, regularity etc.: standardized artificial symbols (like washroom signs)

Everyday life and the situationists

Films: Metropolis Dancing in the Dark

situationists

Everyday life/daily life

Collagist practices of knowledge

“Hypertext as Collage Writing” “The Work of Culture in the Age of Cybernetic Systems”

Multimedia artists Shelly Jackson Walter Benjamin Alicia Vogel

Assemblage Collage Authenticity Frankenstein-writing Hypertext velcro texts

Machine-age/cybernetic age

Postmodernity and design

Deconstruction and Graphic Design

Derrida Saussure

Phonetic language Binary thinking Written/spoken word Negative space grammatology

Systems and conventions

Modern Hieroglyphs Sound-Code-Image

Neurath Stockhausen Cage

Isotype

Bauhaus

Walter Gropius, "My Conception of the Bauhaus Idea bauhaus archive museum of design

Walter Gropius Kurt Schmidt

High/Low Image/text theory/fiction: Graphic novels

Maus

Art Spiegelman Scott McCloud Adorno

Borders and border-crossing

“Art History’s Significant Other… Film Studies” “borders”