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

• Mondays, 11:45 am - 2:30 pm
• Instructor: Dr. John Di Stefano

This course examines various notions of time and temporality in relation to 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 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 moving image works, and through 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.