This is the website for ARTD/DMST 3325, Site Specific Design, a seminar/studio course in the Electronic Media Arts Design (eMAD) program at the University of Denver, Fall, 2010.

Texts

t e x t s
required:
Kwon, Miwon. One Place After Another: Site-Specific Art and Locational Identity.
Rugg, Judith. Exploring Site-Specific Art: Issues of Space and Internationalism.

recommended:
Doherty, Claire. Situation.
Doss, Erika. Memorial Mania: Public Feeling in America.
Kaye, Nick. Site-Specific Art: Performance, Place, and Documentation.
Miessen, Markus, ed. Did Someone Say Participate? An Atlas of Spatial Practice.
Suderburg, Erika. Space, Site, Intervention: Situating Installation Art.
Wodiczko, Krzysztof. Critical Vehicles: Writings, Projects, Interviews.

other readings to be provided as .pdfs or handouts:
Debord, Guy. Theory of the Dérive.
Koolhaas, Rem. Junkspace.
Krauss, Rosalind. Sculpture in the Expanded Field.
Manovich, Lev. The Poetics of Augmented Space.
McIver, Gillian. History of Site-specificity in Art.
Rendell, Jane. Critical Spatial Practice.
Thayer, Pall. On Narrative, Abstract, and Location.
Thompson, Nato. Tresspassing Relevance, from The Interventionists.
Wolf, Gary. Exploring the Unmaterial World.
...there may be others...