Martin Luther King Holiday--No Class Meeting

Introduce class members, course goals, and projects.

Discuss frameworks for the study of spatial and visual rhetorics.

Read:

Barton, Ben F., & Barton, Marthalee S. (1993). Ideology and the map: Toward a postmodern visual design practice. In Nancy Roundy Blyler & Charlotte Thralls (Eds.), Professional communication: The social perspective (pp. 49-78). Newbury Park, CA: Sage. (Handout provided in your mailboxes)

Participate in a mapping exercise.

Readings on Theories of Spaces:

Lefebvre, Henri. (1991). The production of space. (Donald Nicholson-Smith, Trans.). Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing. (Original work published 1974) (entire book)

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Readings on More Theories of Space:

Soja, Edward W. (1989). Postmodern geographies: The reassertion of space in critical social theory. London: Verso. (pp. 1-118 and 190-222)

Schedule meetings to discuss your Spatial & Visual Rhetorics Project and Presentation.

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Discussion Questions: Erik & Nahal

Readings on Cities, States, & Institutions:

Baudrillard, Jean. (1997). America. In Neil Leach (Ed.), Rethinking architecture: A reader in cultural theory (pp. 218-224). New York: Routledge.(ER)

Foucault, Michel. (1997). Of other spaces: Utopias and heterotopias. In Neil Leach (Ed.), Rethinking architecture: A reader in cultural theory (pp. 350-356). New York: Routledge.(ER)

Foucault, Michel. (1997). Panopticism. In Neil Leach (Ed.), Rethinking architecture: A reader in cultural theory (pp. 356-367). New York: Routledge.(ER)

Foucault, Michel. (1980). Questions on geography. In Colin Gordon (Ed.), Power/Knowledge: Selected interviews and other writings 1972-1977 (pp. 63-77). New York: Pantheon. (ER)

Foucault, Michel. (1984). Space, knowledge, and power. In Paul Rabinow (Ed.), The Foucault reader (pp. 239-256). New York: Pantheon Books. (ER)

Virilio, Paul. (1998). Critical space. In James Der Derian (Ed.), The Virilio reader (pp. 58-72). Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers. (ER)

Optional
Some Things About Art & Cities Web Site
http://www.newmediastudies.com/art/index.htm

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Readings on Non-Places, Places, & Nature(s):

Bourdieu, Pierre. (1977). Outline of a theory of practice. (Richard Nice, Trans.). New York: Cambridge University Press. (Original work published 1972) (pp. 159-197) (ER)

De Certeau, Michel. (1984). The practice of everyday life. (Steven Rendall, Trans.). Los Angeles: University of California Press. (Original work published 1980) (pp. 115-130) (ER)

Haraway, Donna. (1992). The promise of monsters: A regenerative politics for inappropriate/d others. In Lawrence Grossberg, Cary Nelson, & Paula A. Treichler (Eds.), Cultural studies (pp. 295-337). New York: Routledge. (http://www.stanford.edu/dept/HPS/Haraway/monsters.html or ER)

Virilio, Paul. (1986). Speed and politics. New York: Semiotext(e). (pp. 1-34) (ER)

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Readings on Borders, Crossings, & Transgressions:

Anzaldúa, Gloria. (1999). La frontera/Borderlands. San Francisco: Aunt Lute Books. (pp. 23-35) (ER)

Giroux, Henri. (1993). Postmodernism as border pedagogy: Redefining the boundaries of race and ethnicity. In Linda Hutcheon & Joseph P. Natoli (Eds.), A postmodern reader (pp. 452-496). New York: State University of New York. (ER)

Johnson-Eilola, Johndan. (1997). Nostalgic angels: Rearticulating hypertext writing. Norwood, NJ: Ablex. (pp. 135-173) (ER)

Pratt, Mary L. (1991). Arts of the contact zone. Profession, 91, 33-40. (ER)

Sibley, David. (1995). Geographies of exclusion: Society and difference in the west. New York: Routlege. (pp. 137-156) (ER)

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Spring Break--No Class Meeting

Readings on Theories of Design & Visual Literacy:

Kress, Gunther, & Van Leeuwen, Theo. (1996). Reading images: The grammar of visual design. New York: Routledge. (Introduction and pp. 1-42) (ER)

Foss, Sonya K. (1994). A rhetorical schema for the evaluation of visual imagery. Communication Studies, 45, 213-224. (ER)

Heywood, Ian. (1999). "Ever more specific": Practices and perceptions in art and ethics. In Ian Heywood and Barry Sandywell (Eds.), Interpreting visual culture: Explorations in the hermeneutics of the visual (pp. 198-217). New York: Routledge. (ER)

Buchanan, Richard. (1986). Declaration by design: Rhetoric, argument, and demonstration in design practice. In Victor Margolin (Ed.), Design discourse: History | theory | criticism (pp. 91-109). Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (ER)

Buckley, Cheryl. (1986). Made in patriarchy: Toward a feminist analysis of women and design. In Victor Margolin (Ed.), Design discourse: History | theory | criticism (pp. 251-262). Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (ER)

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Readings on Applications of Design & Visual Literacy:

Doumont, Jean-Luc. (2002). Verbal vs. visual: A word is worth a thousand pictures, too. Technical Communication, 49.2, 219-224.(ER)

Hilligoss, Susan. (2000). Visual communication: A writer's guide. New York: Longman. (pp. 1-27) (ER)

Woolsey, Kristina, Kim, Scott, & Curtis, Gayle. (1996). VizAbility: Change the way you see the world. Boston: PWS Publishing. (pp.12-39) (ER)

Williams, Robin. (1994). The non-designer's design book. Berkeley: Peach Pit Press. (pp. 63-70) (ER)

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Readings on Looking, Consuming, & Assessing in Visual Rhetoric:

Sturken, Marita, & Cartwright, Lisa. (2001). Practice of looking: An introduction to visual culture. New York: Oxford University Press. (pp. 72-108) (ER)

Wysocki, Anne F. (forthcoming). Seriously visible: Visual literacy and new media. In Mary Hocks & Michelle Kendrick (Eds.), Eloquent images. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. (ER)

Barthes, Roland. (1982). Camera lucida. (Richard Howard, Trans.). Noonday Press. (Original work published 1980) (pp. 3-38) (ER)

Select one of these two readings:
Berger, John. (1995). Ways of seeing. Baltimore: Viking Press. (pp. 7-34.) (ER)

OR

Benjamin, Walter. (1969). Illuminations. New York: Schochen Books. (http://www.student.math.uwaterloo.ca/~cs492/Benjamin.html or ER)

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Submit Plan either 4.7 or 4.14 for Seminar Paper.

Readings on Interactivity, Motion, & Movement:

Gasperini, Jim. (1999). Structural ambiguity: An emerging interactive aesthetic. In Robert Jacobson (Ed.), Information design (pp. 301-316). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.(ER)

Manovich, Lev. WHAT IS DIGITAL CINEMA? (ER or http://jupiter.ucsd.edu/%7Emanovich/text/digital-cinema.html)

Mirzoeff, Nicholas. (1999). An introduction to visual culture. New York: Routlege. (pp. 91-126) (ER)

Rokeby, David. (1995). Transforming mirrors: Subjectivity and control in interactive media. In Simon Penny (Ed.), Critical issues in electronic media (pp. 133-158). Albany: SUNY Press. (ER)

Virilio, Paul. (1998). The vision machine. In James Der Derian (Ed.), The Virilio reader (pp. 134-151). Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers. (ER)

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Submit Plan either 4.7 or 4.14 for Seminar Paper.

Readings on Producing Visuals:

http://www.bornmagazine.org/mother.html

http://www.pem.org/yinyutang/

http://www.crankbunny.net/movie/

http://www.6amhoover.com/index_flash.htm

Participate in Molly Bang Workshop:
Bang, Molly. (1991). Picture this: Perception & composition. Boston: Little Brown & Company.

Peer Exchange of 1st Draft of Seminar Paper.

Readings on Images & Graphic Design:

Kimme Hea, Amy C. (2002). Articulating (re)visions of the web: Exploring links among corporate and academic web sites. In Nancy Allen (Ed.), Working with words and images: New steps in an old dance (pp. 231-255). Westport, CT: Ablex Publishing. (ER)

McCloud, Scott. (1994). Understanding comics. New York: Kitchen Sink Press. (pp. 138-161.) (ER)

Mitchell, W.J.T. (1992). Word & image. In Robert S. Nelson & Richard Shiff (Eds.), Critical terms for art history (pp. 47-57). Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. (ER)

Ohmann, Richard. (1996). Selling culture: Magazines, markets, and class at the turn of the century. London: Verso. (pp. 175-218) (ER)

Sturken, Marita, & Cartwright, Lisa. (2001). Practice of looking: An introduction to visual culture. New York: Oxford University Press. (pp. 109-150) (ER)

Discussion Questions: David & Kristen

Peer Review of Seminar Paper Due.

Readings on Text, Words, & Typography:

Benton, Megan L. (2001). Typography and gender: Remasculating the modern book. In Paul C.Gutjahr & Megan L. Benton, Illuminating letters: Typography and literary interpretation (pp. 71-93). Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press. (ER)

Gutjahr, Paul C., & Benton, Megan L. (2001). Introduction: Reading the invisible. Paul C. Gutjahr and Megan L. Benton, Illuminating letters: Typography and literary interpretation (pp. 1-11). Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press. (ER)

Kinross, Robin. (1986). The rhetoric of neutrality. In Victor Margolin (Ed.), Design discourse: History | theory | criticism (pp. 131-143). Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (ER)

Tufte, Edward R. (1990). Envisioning information. Cheshire, CT: Graphics Press. (pp. 24-26, 104-105) (ER)

Zelman, Stephanie. (2000). Looking into space. In Gunnar Swanson (Ed.), Graphic design and reading: Explorations of an uneasy relationship (pp. 51-59). New York: Allsworth Press. (ER)

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Final Draft of Seminar Paper due on Wednesday, May 7th by 2 pm.