You will find links to the online readings here.

Here is a tentative schedule of events:

• August 31: Roll Call + Syllabus Reading + Course Introduction
• September 7: Opening Readings + Blog Entries + Discussion: Sukenick, Borges, and Burroughs
• September 14: "Artist-Medium" Reports Due + Presentations
• September 21: Screening of Time Code
• September 28: Discussion of Time Code + Variable Narratives: "The Babysitter" + Assorted Websites + Screening of Slacker
• October 5: Continue discussion of Time Code, Slacker and Assorted Websites + Discussion of "(De)realizing Cinematic Time"
• October 12: Screening: Le Jette + Assorted Websites + Discussion

  Bad Timing on reserve at Media Library in Norlin

• October 19: Reading: Introduction and Chapters 1 & 2 from "New Philosophy for New Media"
• October 26: Reading: Chapter 5 & 6 & 7 from "New Philosophy for New Media"
• November 2: Interactive DVD screening: "Switching" (DK with subtitles)
  Reading: "What is Digital Cinema?"
• November 9: VJ Culture and Image E-criture: Screenings and Demos
  Readings: "Excerpt from Portrait of the VJ" and "Excerpt from Mind Time"
• November 16: Video Blogging - Performance Art - Contagious Media
• November 23: HOLIDAY
• November 30: Anime / Machinema Screenings TBA
• December 7: D-I-Y Aesthetics, Social Networking, Distributed Audiences: Using the Net to Develop Your Artist Theory / Poetics: Readings TBA
• December 14: FINAL PROJECTS DUE

Each week throughout the semester, YOU ARE REQUIRED to compose a 400-500 word entry to your "blog" detailing your thoughts about the various readings, art works, artists, curators, events, and classroom discussions you encounter over the course of the semester. Try and make at least two links to external sites from each of your main entries to help document your online research. Quote from these sites if possible. You can see how I do it at my Professor VJ blog here.

Feel free to include digital images, sounds, Quicktime movies, and any other useful media in your "blogs" in addition to your writing. If you have the capability, or are interested in proactively researching the phenomenon known as "moblogging" or expanding the concept of writing to include "video blogging" (where you script or improvise your reactions to the course material), feel free to discuss that with me before proceeding.

Keep in mind that these "blogs" should be both well-thought out subjective responses to various issues covered throughout the semester and, when possible, should come across as spontaneous artist theories that express your own personal writing style. Feel free to speculate and offer insights into how the work you are being exposed to this semester is starting to effect your own developing practice as an artist, theorist, interdisciplinary media practitioner, performer, etc. You may want to ask yourself a lot of questions, right in the blog itself, and then set out to answer these questions as best you can. Creative writing remixed with personal narrative remixed with theoretical discourse remixed with scholarly history remixed with experimental artist poetics is encouraged.

Since these will be online, that means they are "always already published" and, as such, are open to the public. Keep that in mind!

NOTE: Your weekly blogs are due at noon on Wednesday before class.

LINKS: You can check out Professor Steve Shaviro's blog here. To keep up with the latest in interdisciplinary media art practice, two blogs stand out: here and here too. Definitely pay attention to this video blog site (and while you're at it, this one too). The theoretical concept of a video blog was first developed here. Literary types will surely want to to track the current fictional underground here.

If you look for it, you will find A LOT of blog art out there. For example, this exhibition at Alt-X, this net art blog site, and this experimental collage work that was recently exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver as part of their "Decades of Influence" show.

• who is this artist, what are they known for, what has been their life trajectory as an artist?
• what did the form and content of their writing, or their voice (in the case of interviews), reveal to you about them as artists?
• what did this book teach you about the interrelationship between image, text, publication, exhibition, performance, practice, philosophy, aesthetics, etc.? How essential is developing your own artist theories to the construction of your identity as an (interdisciplinary media) artist or theorist?
• what did you learn from this artist that struck you as particularly relevant for your own practice today? how do you see using this knowledge to create new work or generate new ideas about your work?
• did the artist/author remind you of other artists or writers who you are interested in?

• It must have a title
• It must self-consciously deal with issues of time, the body (embodiment), the artist as filter/processor, art+fiction+performance, etc.

This project is due on December 14th. Presentations that day too!