web page for this course: http://www.pooter.net/intermedia/index.html
The School of Art and Art History: http://www.uiowa.edu/~art
Since this course meets only once per week attendance is mandatory and essential to a passing grade.
Week
01:: Introduction to Intermedia. Syllabus, Requirements, Questionnaire 8/25
Assignment: Photomontage/Collage
(#1)
Week 02::Futurism and
Dada. Dada Poetry, the Readymade, Art Events 9/1
Readings: Dada, Futurism
excerpts; Duchamp
Assignment:
Critique photomontage assignment. Readymades (#2).
Week 03: Speaker Art Spiegelman
Week 04: Bauhaus , Constructivism, De
Stijl 9/15
Readings: Smithson
Assignment:. Critique
Readymades(#2). Performance (#4).
Week 05: Earthworks and
Installation 9/22
Readings: Smithson,
Judd
Assignment: Earthworks
assignment , Critique Performance
Week 06: "The American
Action Painters", Rosenberg; John Cage, Black Mountain 9/29
Readings
: Rosenberg, "Action
Painters"
Assignment: Critique Earthworks
Week 07: Fluxus, Happenings, Neo Dada and Pop 10/6
Readings: Kaprow
Assignment: Critique Earthworks
Week 08:: A Short History of Video Art 10/13
Readings: Viola, "Video Black"
Week 09:: Discuss Collaboration/Group Project; Video Art 10/20
Assignment: In-Class Video Project
Graduate Open House Friday, October 22
Week 10:: Perform and document Group Project; Computer 10/27
Week 11:: Group Project 11/3
Undergrad Open House Friday, November 5
Week 12: Work on Class Project 11/10
Readings:
Week 13: 11/17
Assignment: Critique Penultimate Project
11/24 Thanksgiving Break no class
Week 14: Assignment: Critique Penultimate Project 12/1
Week 15:: Presentation of Final Projects 12/8
Week 16: Final Week No classes 12/15
finals weeks follows; no classes