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 In this module, we are investigating visual theory and artistic approaches that, like Vertov 100 years ago, respond to these contemporary challenges by creating a new type of “realism”, which the artist Paolo Cirio calls “evidentiary”. A visual language that is able to account for the reality we are living in. We are, among others, focussing on works by Trevor Paglen, Suzanne Treister, Marc Lombardi, and Forensic Architecture. In this module, we are investigating visual theory and artistic approaches that, like Vertov 100 years ago, respond to these contemporary challenges by creating a new type of “realism”, which the artist Paolo Cirio calls “evidentiary”. A visual language that is able to account for the reality we are living in. We are, among others, focussing on works by Trevor Paglen, Suzanne Treister, Marc Lombardi, and Forensic Architecture.
  
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 +=== Course requirements: ===
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 +Attendance (80%)
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 +Participation in reading, discussions, and group presentations
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 +Submission of a very short paper, personal interests in relation to the theme of the 
  
 ===== Monday ===== ===== Monday =====
  
-Human/Post-human Photography+=== Human/Post-human Photography ===
  
-Robert Frank: Americans, 1959 +[[https://www.arthistoricum.net/themen/portale/renaissance/lektion-iii-die-geistigen-und-kunsttheoretischen-grundlagen-der-renaissance/5-filippo-brunelleschi-und-die-zentralperspektive|Invention of the Central Perspective]] (1420)
-https://www.lensculture.com/articles/robert-frank-the-americans+
  
-Nan Goldin +Walker Evans (1903–1975), https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/evan/hd_evan.htm 
-http://www.artnet.com/artists/nan-goldin+ 
 +Robert Frank (1924-2019): Americans, 1959, https://www.lensculture.com/articles/robert-frank-the-americans 
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 +Nan Goldin (1953- ), http://www.artnet.com/artists/nan-goldin
  
  
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   * River Studies https://m.ash.to/en/Projects/riverstudies   * River Studies https://m.ash.to/en/Projects/riverstudies
   * Rivers as lines https://m.ash.to/en/Projects/WhatIfYouWouldPullRiversToAStraightLine   * Rivers as lines https://m.ash.to/en/Projects/WhatIfYouWouldPullRiversToAStraightLine
 +  * 7C-Days https://m.ash.to/en/Projects/7cdays
  
 Abu Ishaq al-Istakhri, 10th Century Abu Ishaq al-Istakhri, 10th Century
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 https://www.google.com/maps/@51.5075274,-0.0849736,11.26z/data=!5m1!1e2?hl=de https://www.google.com/maps/@51.5075274,-0.0849736,11.26z/data=!5m1!1e2?hl=de
  
-7C-Days +David Claerbout. Olympia (The real time disintegration into ruins of the Berlin Olympic stadium over the course of a thousand years). since 2016 
-https://m.ash.to/en/Projects/7cdays+https://davidclaerbout.com/Olympia-The-real-time-disintegration-into-ruins-of-the-Berlin-Olympic 
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 +[[https://youtu.be/ildxLpQ29yY?t=4963|Talk at HBK, Leizpig]], 2019 
  
 === Reading: === === Reading: ===
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 Foster, Hal. 2017. “Real Fictions. Alternatives to Alternative Facts.” Artforum International, https://www.artforum.com/print/201704/real-fictions-alternatives-to-alternative-facts-67192. Foster, Hal. 2017. “Real Fictions. Alternatives to Alternative Facts.” Artforum International, https://www.artforum.com/print/201704/real-fictions-alternatives-to-alternative-facts-67192.
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 +Braidotti, Rosi, and Maria Hlavajova, eds. 2018. Posthuman Glossary. Theory. London Oxford New York New Delhi Sydney: Bloomsbury Academic.
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 +Entries: Art (Tom Holert) / Posthuman Critical Theory (Rosi Braidotti) / Postimage (Ingrid Hoelzl) / Sensing (Jennifer Gnabris, Helen Pritschard)
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 +===== Tuesday =====
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 +=== Realism(s) ===
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 +Realism, 19th Century Painting, Gustave Courbet (1819–1877) https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/rlsm/hd_rlsm.htm
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 +Tsiga Vertov: Kino-Pravda (1920s) Man with the Movie Camera, 1929
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 +Cinema Verité / Direct Cinema
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 +Photo Realism 
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 +=== Evidentiary Realism ===
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 +Evidentiary Realism. GROUP SHOW. FEBRUARY 28 - MARCH 31, 2017
 +https://nomegallery.com/exhibitions/evidentiary-realism/
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 +Exhibition Catalogue, https://nomegallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/ER_Catalog.pdf
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 +**Read** 
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 +Introduction by Paolo Cirio 
 +  * The Other Nefertiti, by Nora Al-Badri and Jan Nikolai Nelles
 +  * Seamless Transitions, by James Bridle
 +  * Reconnaissance,  by Ingrid Burrington
 +  * 2 Works, by Mark Lombardi.
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 +Paolo Cirio https://www.paolocirio.net/
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 +===== Wednesday =====
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 +=== Conversation with Paolo Cirio ===
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 +via Zoom
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 +=== Seeing Machines ===
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 +**Read:**
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 +Trevor Paglen: Seeing Machines, 2014, https://www.fotomuseum.ch/de/2014/03/13/seeing-machines/
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 +Harun Farocki, Eye/Machine, 2000, https://www.harunfarocki.de/installations/2000s/2000/eye-machine.html
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 +**Read:**
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 +Crawford, Kate. 2021. Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence. New Haven: Yale University Press. (Chapter 5, Affect. p.151-179)
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 +**Lecture:**
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 +Kate Crawford, Trevor Paglen. Datafication of Science, 2019, 32 min
 +https://www.hkw.de/de/app/mediathek/video/69622
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 + * Kate Crawford and Trevor Paglen, [[https://www.excavating.ai/Excavating|AI. The Politics of Images in Machine Learning Training Sets]] 
 +  * [[http://www.fondazioneprada.org/project/training-humans/?lang=en|Fondazoione Prada: Training Humans]], Fondazione Prada, Venice, 12 Sep 2019 – 24 Feb 2020 [[https://we-make-money-not-art.com/training-humans-how-machines-see-and-judge-us|Review]], we-make-money-not-art.com, Dec. 16.2019
 +  * Lyons, Michael J. 2020. “Excavating ‘Excavating AI’: The Elephant in the Gallery.” ArXiv:2009.01215 [Cs], September. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4037538.
 +  * Lyons, Michael J. 2021. “‘Excavating AI’ Re-Excavated: Debunking a Fallacious Account of the JAFFE Dataset.” ArXiv:2107.13998 [Cs], July. http://arxiv.org/abs/2107.13998.
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 +  * Paglen, Trevor. [[https://thenewinquiry.com/invisible-images-your-pictures-are-looking-at-you/|“Invisible Images (Your Pictures Are Looking at You).”]] The New Inquiry (blog), December 8, 2016
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 +===== Thursday =====
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 +=== Forensic Architecture ===
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 +https://forensic-architecture.org
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 +**Read:** 
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 +Weizman, Eyal. 2017. Forensic Architecture: Violence at the Threshold of Detectability. Brooklyn, NY: Zone Books. Introduction p. 13-33
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 +Weizman, Eyal. 2019. “Open Verification.” E-Flux Architecture (June 2019), 2019. https://www.e-flux.com/architecture/becoming-digital/248062/open-verification
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 +**Lecture: **
 +Weizman, Eyal: Forensic Architecture – Lecture, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Nov. 2018 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bc49ppFXG1w&t=463s (start at 11:30)
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 +**Works:**
 +  * The Killing of Nadeem Nawara and Mohammed Abu Daher, https://forensic-architecture.org/investigation/the-killing-of-nadeem-nawara-and-mohammed-abu-daher
 +  * Triple Chaser: https://forensic-architecture.org/investigation/triple-chaser
 +  * Intentional Fires in Papua https://forensic-architecture.org/investigation/intentional-fires-in-papua
 +  * The Murder of Halit Yozgat; https://forensic-architecture.org/investigation/the-murder-of-halit-yozgat, https://www.nsu-tribunal.de/en/
 +    * Lawrence Abu Hamdan: 77sqm_9:26min at Documenta 14 https://forensic-architecture.org/programme/exhibitions/77sqm_926min-documenta-14
 +    * https://news.artnet.com/art-world/documenta-14-kassel-forensic-nsu-trial-984701
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 +**Additional references:**
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 +Matthew Fuller, Eyal Weizman. 2021. Investigative Aesthetics. Conflicts and Commons in the Politics of Truth. London: Verso 
 +  * [[http://petitpoi.net/investigative-aesthetics/|Conversation with Fuller/Weizmann]], Oct. 10, 2021
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 +===== Friday =====
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 +=== Forensic Architecture ===
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 +Cont.
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 +=== Writing of papers ===
 +1-2 pages, personal interest, relating to themes discussed during the week.
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 +Presentation of ideas for paper
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 +**Afternoon**
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 +individual writing 
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 +personal mentorat (if interest)
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