Readings
REQUIRED READING FOR TUES 1.SEPTEMBER:
Freeland, Cynthia (2001). But Is it Art? New York: Oxford University Press.
Chapter 7, Conclusion, pp.177-209 (.pdf)
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REQUIRED READINGS FOR 10.SEPTEMBER (Prof will give password in class 9/08):
Marx, Leo (1964). The Machine in the Garden, Oxford University Press: Oxford, pp. 3-33. (.pdf, 7.3MB)
recommended:
Flam, Jack (ed) (1996). Robert Smithson: The Collected Writings, University of California Press: Berkeley and Los Angeles.
“A Tour of the Monuments of Passaic, New Jersey (1967),” pp. 68-74 (.pdf, 2MB)
Kastner, Jeffrey and Brian Wallis (2005). Land and Environmental Art, Phaidon Press
Required Readings for 24.September 2009:
Nye, David E. (2007). Technology Matters: Questions to Live With. MIT Press: Boston. (.pdfs)
Chapter 1: Can We Define “Technology”?
Chapter 2: Does Technology Control Us?
Chapter 6: Sustainable Abundance, or Ecological Crisis?
Readings for 20.October:
Kac, Eduardo (2007). Signs of Life: Bio Art and Beyond. MIT Press: Cambridge.
Chapter 10: Life Transformation — Art Mutation: 163-184
Climate Change Readings (in addition to Climate Debates handout in class):
Kolbert, Elizabeth (2006). Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature and Climate Change. Bloomsbury:NY.
Suburbs Reading:
Teyssott, Georges (1999). The American Lawn. Princeton Architectural Press.
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Suburbanization
Selections from Archer, John (ed) (2008). Worlds Away, Walker Art Center: Minneapolis:
Brook, David (2004). “Our Sprawling, Supersize Utopia,” pp.26-32.pdf (.pdf, 4.5MB)
Colomina, Beatriz (2007). “Learning from Levittown: A Conversation with Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown,” pp.49-69.pdf (.pdf, 13.2MB)
Wlodarczyk, Holley (200). “Intermediate Landscapes: Constructing Suburbia in Postwar American Photography,” pp.101-112.pdf (.pdf, 8.7MB)
Please also see the World’s Away: New Suburban Landscapes website: http://design.walkerart.org/worldsaway/
And perhaps browse the related websites: http://visualarts.walkerart.org/detail.wac?id=4048&title=Current%20Exhibitions
recommended:
Jackson, Kenneth T. (2008 2nd ed) Crabgrass Frontier, Oxford University Press: Oxford.
Nicolaides, Becky and Andrew Wiese (2006). The Suburb Reader, Routledge: London.
recommended:
Dessler Andrew and Edward Parson (2006). The Science and Politics of Global Climate Change: A Guide to the Debate. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp.1-17. (.pdf, 8.9MB)
Timothy Egan, June 26, 2005, The Race to Alaska Before it Melts
Tahmima Anam, March 4, 2007, Losing Bangladesh by Degrees
recommended:
(Autumn 2000) “Biocollage” in Art Journal, vol.59, no.30, pp.43-63
Hayles, N. Katherine (1999). “What does it mean to be Posthuman?” in How We Became Posthuman. University of Chicago Press: Chicago, pp.283-291.
Heim, Michael. “introduction” from Virtual Realism (copy of a conference talk),
Bensaude-Vincent and William R. Newman (2007). “Introduction,” in The Artificial and the Natural, pp.1-20.
Bensaude-Vincent, “Reconfiguring Nature through Syntheses: From Plastics to Biomimetics” in
Bensaude-Vincent and William R. Newman The Artificial and the Natural, pp.293-312.
Haraway, Donna (2004). “A Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology, and Socialist Feminism in the 1980s,” in Donna Haraway, The Haraway Reader, Routledge: London, pp.47-62.
Roald Hoffman. “Concluding Comments” in Bensaude-Vincent and William R. Newman The Artificial and the Natural, pp. 313-314.
Huw, Ursula (2000). “Nature, Technology and Art: The Emergence of a New Relationship?” in Leonardo, vol 33, no.1, MIT Press: Boston, pp.33-40.