Art After Deleuze: From Architecture to New Media

Level: Undergraduate, Graduate

Division: The New School for Public Engagement

School: School of Media Studies

Department: Media Studies

Course Number: NMDS 5276

Course Format: Lecture

Location: NYC campus

Permission Required: No

Topics:

• Media Studies

Description:
The writings of the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) have had an enormous impact on art theory and practice across a number of disciplines: architecture, cinema, music, and new media, among others. This course will explore multiple facets of Deleuze's influence, allowing students to consider the potential significance of his philosophy for their own critical and creative projects. The class will alternate close readings of key texts by Deleuze with recent art theory, as well as explore a number of works by contemporary artists and filmmakers whose practice can be productively linked to Deleuze's ideas on art and artistic process. We will read selections from numerous Deleuze texts including Nietzsche and Philosophy, Spinoza: Practical Philosophy, Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature, Cinema 2: The Time-Image, as well as A Thousand Plateaus, which he wrote in collaboration with Flix Guattari. Readings from art theory will focus primarily on Bernard Caches Earth Moves: The Furnishing of Territories, Nicholas Bourriaud's Relational Aesthetics, Daniel Frampton's Filmosophy, and Mark Hansen's New Philosophy for New Media. Contemporary artists and filmmakers to be discussed include Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Jean-Luc Godard, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Pierre Huyghe, Abbas Kiarostami, David Lynch and Greg Lynn. Students will write a number of short research papers, as well as develop a final project in consultation with the instructor. They will have the option to develop a final project that combines theory and practice.

Restrictions:

College

Open to New School Public Engagement students.

Level

Open to Graduate students.

Major

Open to Documentary Media Studies students.

Open to Environmental Studies students.

Open to Global Studies students.

Open to International Affairs students.

Open to Liberal Arts students.

Open to Media Studies students.

Open to Media Management students.

Open to Media Management students.