Little Magazines
The theme designated for the Program in Media and Modernity for the academic year 2004-05 is the little magazines, polemical books, films and exhibitions of the 1960s and 70s. In the Fall 2004 semester, the program will sponsor a series of seminars and lectures by invited speakers. This series will take place in conjunction with Beatriz Colomina's PhD proseminar on little magazines in architecture. It will include a lecture and a seminar by Peter Cook on Archigram and a seminar by Detlef Mertins and Mike Jennings on G. In the Spring 2005 semester, Esther da Costa Meyer and Beatriz Colomina will team-teach the Media and Modernity core seminar MOD 500 on the topic of the Internationale Situationniste and Learning from Las Vegas, two influential and contrasting publications on the city. Both pay attention to the everyday, advertising, popular culture, and media to critique modern architecture but they take seemingly opposite positions. In parallel, there will be a series of screenings of experimental films by the Situationists curated by Keith Sanborn, and a series of invited speakers, including Dirk van Heuvel on Team 10, Karin Jaschke on Forum, Mark Wigley on Constant's New Babylon, Thomas McDonough, Thomas Y. Levin, and Keith Sanborn on the Situationists, and Gianni Pettena on the Radicals. There will be a symposium on Oppositions and October and an exhibition of Peter Eisenman's collection of little magazines and polemical books curated by Joaquim Moreno. A workshop in the Spring of 2005 will continue the research into little magazines and prepare it for a major exhibition next year with an associate conference.