ARTH 358 Studies in the History of Media Art: Temporality and the Moving Image in Contemporary Art

• Mondays, 11:45 am-14:15 pm
• Course delivery TBA
• Instructor: Dr. John Di Stefano

This course examines various notions of time and temporality particularly in relation to spectatorship and reception of the moving image today, and its specific iterations within the context of contemporary art practise and discourse. The course focuses particularly on current developments and artworks of the last decades including theoretical concepts such as the anachronistic and the heterochronic, especially in relation to ideas of space, movement, duration and performativity. The course also surveys the development of the moving image (as manifest in video art, projection, installation, experimental film, etc.) across historically significant exhibitions, and includes the critical screening of significant moving image works, and a survey of current key texts in the field. The goal is to provide students with an extended and expanded vocabulary to better understand the complexities of ‘temporality’ within contemporary art discourse.