Week 41 Master of Fine Arts Creative Arts Research: an introduction Semester 1, 2015

Week 41 Tuesday October 6 - Master of Fine Arts Creative Arts Research: an introduction Semester 1, 2015

10:00 Check in.

10:00 – 11.30
PechaKucha – MA2 – Enrique Roura
PechaKucha – MA1 – Yanir Shani
PechaKucha – MA1 – Thea Meinert
PechaKucha – MA1 – Susann Jamtøy

Break 11.30 – 11.45 (15min)
11.45 – 12.45
PechaKucha - MA2 - Mahmoud Khaled Abdellatif
Lecture The Performance of Code Nancy Mauro-Flude.
The ‘performance of code’ encompasses semiotics and code in a social sense and slips within descriptions of code in functional senses, such as lexicon and grammar, encoding systems and heuristics and algorithms, politics of programming and language (which are considered as dynamic, ephemeral, and always in motion). The terms ‘performance of code’ is developed and applied to examine an oeuvre of computer culture figureheads, and artists.

Break 12.45 – 13:45 (1 hour)
13:45-14:55
Reading / Writing Group 03: Sercan Gundogar, Stian Hatling
Topic: Kantian Aesthetics
Presentation 30min, followed by peer feedback & group discussion

Readings:
Schiller, Friedrich. On The Sublime Of the Sublime ~ Toward the Further
Elaboration of Some Kantian Ideas. 1801. Available from: http://www.schillerinstitute.org/transl/trans_of_sublime.html [Accessed 20, September 2015].

Burke, Edmund. A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1990 (Second edition, 1759). (Selected parts!)
Available from: http://www.english.upenn.edu/~mgamer/Etexts/burkesublime.html [Accessed 20, September 2015].

Discretionary Extra readings:
Roberts, W. Rhys Editor. Longinus on the Sublime. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1899. Available from: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/17957/17957-h/17957-h.htm [Accessed 20, September 2015].

Kant, Immanuel. Critique of the Power of Judgment. The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant in Translation. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2001.
Available from: http://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/1217 [Accessed 20, September 2015].

Break 14.55 -15.05 (10 min)
15.05 – 16:00
Reading and Writing Group 04: Serhed Waledkhani, Mahmoud Khaled Abdellatif
Topic: Surrealism, Semiotics - Post structuralism
Presentation 30min, followed by peer feedback & group discussion

Readings:
Eco, Umberto. Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language, Bloomington: Indiana U.P., 1984, Midland Book Edition, 1986. Available from:
http://monoskop.org/images/b/b3/Eco_Umberto_Semiotics_and_the_Philosophy_of_Language_1986.pdf [Accessed 20, September 2015].

Bataille, Georges. Visions of Excess. Selected Writings, 1927-1939. Edited and with an Introduction by Allan Stoekl. Translated by Allan Stoekl, with Carl R. Webber. Available from:
https://itp.nyu.edu/classes/germline-spring2013/files/2013/01/Bataille-Visions-of-Excess-The-Pineal-... [Accessed 20, September 2015].

Discretionary Extra readings:
Barthes, Roland, S/Z, trans. Richard Miller, intro. Richard Howard, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1974; Blackwell, 1990; 2002, Available: http://monoskop.org/images/d/d6/Barthes_Roland_S-Z_2002.pdf [Accessed 20, September 2015].

Buchler, J. (Ed.) Philosophical Writings of Peirce. Dover, New York. 1955.
Available: http://theory.theasintheas.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Peirce-C-S-Logic-Semiotic.pdf [Accessed 20, September 2015].

Doy, Gen Claude Cahun: A Sensual Politics of Photography. I. B. Tauris. 2007.
Reference copy .pdf available from Nancy feel free to ask (too big to print)

Weber, S 1987, 'Texts/Contexts', Institution and Interpretation, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis. (I can not find it in the NTNU library –but eventually it's a good text to read, so I am including it here in case you want to go back and study this more in the future. Nancy will bring it next semester)