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Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson
Made in Catalunya

John Cage (1912-1992)
Cheap Imitation
Variations V

Kuo Hsi (1020-1090)
Clearing Autumn Skies Over Mountains and Valleys

David Hockney (b.1937)
Notes on Rumpelstiltsken

Joseph Kosuth (b.1945)
Five Words In Red Neon
(1965)

Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008)
Portrait of Iris Clert

Terry Riley (b.1935)
Dream Music

Takahashi Shohachiro (b. 1933)
Environmental Circuit

Marian Zazeela (b.1940)
The Soul of the Word

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Art and Technology
Alan Brody, Evan Ziporyn, Jay Scheib, Krzysztof Wodiczko

Jean Baudrillard (1929-2007)
The Violence of the Image
(2004)
Cultural Identity and Politics
(2002)

Irving Singer
Ingmar Bergman, Cinematic Philosopher

Susan Blackmore (b.1951)
talks on memes and "temes"

Richard Brody
Video essay for Nicht versöhnt oder Es hilft nur Gewalt wo Gewalt herrscht /
Not Reconciled or Only Violence Helps Where it Rules
(1965, Jean-Marie Straub, co-written by Daniele Huillet)

Collective Intelligence
MODERATOR: DAVID THORBURN
MIT Professor of Literature, MacVicar Faculty Fellow Director, MIT Communications Forum

Morgan Fisher
About Film and the Richness of Life (2007)

Temple Grandin
The Mind of a Visual Thinker: Photo-Realistic Images

Peter Greenaway (b.1942)
Filming and Directing Night Watch
(2006)
The Slavery of Music and Sound
(2002)

Michel Houellebecq (b.1956)
The Combination of Fiction and Truth (2006)

Fred Dretske (Frederick Irwin Dretsk born 1932)
What We See

Video essay on HITLER: A FILM FROM GERMANY
(1977, dir. Hans-Jurgen Syberberg)
Text taken from Susan Sontag,"Syberberg's HITLER" (1979)

Frida Kahlo (1907-1954)
Art historian Hayden Herrera presents an opening-day talk about Kahlos life and art

Daniel Kahneman (b.1934)
Intuition: The Marvels and the Flaws

Lewis Lancaster
Buddhism in a Global Age of Technology

Kevin B. Lee
Video essay for JOHNNY GOT HIS GUN

David Lynch
Consciousness, Creativity and the Brain

Thomas Metzinger (b.1958)
Being No One: Consciousness, The Phenomenal Self, and First-Person Perspective

John Perry (b.1943)
Thinking and Talking About the Self

Photography and Contemporary Performance Art (2007)
Marina Abramovic, Vanessa Beecroft, RoseLee Goldberg, Babette Mangolte

Porn, Peep Shows and Public Space
Jeffrey Escoffier, Dagmar Herzog, Amy Herzog, William Kornblum, Rachel Kramer Bussel,
Linda Norden, Aoibheann Sweeney

Rebecca Saxe
How we read each other's minds

Thomas Scanlon (b.1940)
The Ethics of Blame

Video essay on HITLER: A FILM FROM GERMANY 1977, dir. Hans-Jurgen Syberberg
Text taken from Susan Sontag,"Syberberg's HITLER"

Agnès Varda (b.1928)
The Things We Leave Behind

Kristin Thompson on Variety (1925), E.A. Dupont
Video essay on Variety

Kara Walker (b.1969)
Confronting History, Race, and Stereotypes

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Vito Acconci (b. 1940)
Videoviews (1973)

Chantal Akerman (b.1950)

Akerman discusses her documentary journey into the lives of illegal migrants crossing into the U.S., and her 78-minute film about a short stay in a Tel Aviv apartment that is comprised of just a few shots of long duration and voice-over. She also describes the process of creating some of the installations that appear in the current museum tour.

Francis Bacon (1909-1992)
Talking to David Sylvester (1966)
The South Bank Show (1985)

Matthew Barney (b. 1967)
The Body as a Matrix: Matthew Barney's Cremaster Cycle (2002), by Maria Anna Tapeiner
Matthew Barney and Walker Chief Curator Richard Flood discuss Barney's Cremaster Cycle
Matthew Barney at the Hirshhorn
Document filmed during the preparation of the exhibition "The Cremaster Cycle" at the Astrup Fearney Museum of Modern Art, Oslo.

Christian Boltanksi (b. 1944), Boltanski

Leo Castelli (1907-1999), About the Arts (1976)

Robert Rauschenberg and Leo Castelli, 1977 Conversation

Paul Cohen (1934-2007)
Paul Cohen talks about working on the Continuum Hypothesis and his interaction with Kurt Gödel.

David Cronenberg (b.1943)
Aleix Pitarch interviewed David Cronenberg
see here: From the Drain (1967)

Merce Cunningham, Nam June Paik & John Cage
Time and Space Concepts in Music and Visual Art (Part I) (1978)
An Interview with Merce Cunningham and John Cage (1981)
Interview by Barbaralee Diamonstein
Merce Cunningham and Sage Cowles in conversation (2009)

Documenting Culture, Elizabeth Peyton, Jim Walsh, Xavier Tavera, Melba Price, Chuck Olsen

Frank Gehry (b. 1929) Conversation

Philip Glass and Tim Page
In Conversation (2009)

Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997)
Face to Face with Jeremy Isaacs: An Interview with Allen Ginsberg (1995)

Ken Jacobs (b.1933) Conversation

Lee Krasner (1908-1984) Conversation

Ang Lee and James Schamus, In Conversation (2009)

Robert Lepage, "Performing Past and Present" (2007)

Isabella Rossellini (b.1952)
and film critic/author John Anderson will discuss her bold and distinctive career in the cinema, illuminated by clips from her films.

Tony Oursler (b. 1957) 'Synesthesia: Genesis P-Orridge' (2001)

Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968), Marcel Duchamp et "Nu descendant l'escalier" (1963)

Sergej Parajanov (1924-1990), Paradshanow, ein Requiem, (1994)

Andrei Tarkovsky (1932-1986), Documentation

Bill Viola (b.1951)
at MIT
The Tristan Project 2006

Amos Vogel and Cinema 16, Film as a Subversive Art

John Zerzan (* 1943) Pretentions of Modernity

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Nobuyoshi Araki
Naked City: An Interview by Nan Goldin (1995)

Roland Barthes
the death of the autor

Bernd and Hilla Becher
Interview (2002)

Walter Benjamin
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

William S. Burroughs
The Cut-Up Method of Brion Gysin

Eröffnungs-Manifest
1. Dada-Abend Zürich, 14. Juli 1916

Poetry and the Film: A Symposium
Maya Deren, Parker Tyler, Dylan Thomas, Arthur Miller, Willard Maas

Ian Hamilton Finlay
Letter to Pierre Garnier, 1963

Kleine Geschwisterkunde
Kalen Fischer, Markus Strieder, Frank Reitenspieß

Eugen Gomringer
From Line to Constellation (1954)
Concrete Poetry (1956)
Max Bill and Concrete Poetry (1958)
The Poem as Functional Object (1960)

Edward Hopper Interview 1959

Georg Kubler
style and representation of historical time

Paul McCarthy
Interview 2003

Henry Munn
WRITING IN THE IMAGINATION OF AN ORAL POET

Wen Ching-Ming
The Idea In the Brush and the Brush In the Idea

Wolfgang Ramsbott
Chronologie der kinetischen Kunst im 20. Jahrhundert
Filmografie
Wolfgang Ramsbott, Nam June Paik
»Performance im Hause Ramsbott«

Wolfgang Ramsbott, Harry Kramer
Grenzwerte
(1961)

Erik Satie
A Day in the Life of a Musician

Susan Sontag
The Aesthetics of Silence

Tristan Tzara
A Note On Negro Poetry