Syllabi

Open Circuits: New Media Art from 1970 to Today

Selected Titles

Carolee Schneemann, Viet-Flakes (1962-76)
Joan Jonas, Vertical Roll (1972)
Anthony Ramos, Balloon Nose Blow-Up (1972) and Plastic Bag Tie-Up (1972)
Richard Serra, Television Delivers People (1973)
Nam June Paik and John Godfrey, Global Groove (1973)
Shigeko Kubota, My Father (1973-75)
Chris Burden, The TV Commercials 1973-1977 (1973-77)
Ulysses Jenkins, Mass of Images (1978) and Two-Zone Transfer (1979)
Jaime Davidovich, Portrait of the Best Artist (1982)
Cheryl Donegan, Head (1993)
Ryan Trecartin, A Family Finds Entertainment (2004)

Recommended Readings

The New Television: Video After Television (EAI and no place press), ed. Rachel Churner, Rebecca Cleman, Tyler Maxin
Allison Simmons, “Television and Art: A Historical Primer for an Improbable Alliance”
Fred Turner, “From Open Circuits to Surveillance Capitalism”
Nam June Paik, “The Video Synthesizer and Beyond”
Wulf Herzogenrath, “Notes on Video as an Artistic Medium”
Kris Paulsen, “In the Beginning, There Was the Electron,” Art Journal 45, no. 3 (Fall 1985)
David Antin, “Television: Video’s Frightful Parent,” Artforum (December 1975)
Rosalind Krauss, “Video: The Aesthetics of Narcissism,” October 1 (Spring 1976)