Disaster After Digitality

Thomas Stubblefield, PhD

Professor of Art History

University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth

10/5/2015

Jochen Gerz and Esther Shalev-Gerz, Harburg Anti-Fascist Memorial , 1986-1993

Jochen Gerz and Esther Shalev-Gerz,

The Invisible Monument, Saarbrücken, 1993

Art Spiegleman,

Maus: A Survivor’s Tale,

1980-1991.

Daniel Libeskind, Jewish Museum, Berlin, 2001

Via Lewandowsky, Gallery of the Missing

Week 5

Barnet Newman,

Vir, Heroicus, Sublimis,

1950-1

“To write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric… Absolute reification, which presupposed intellectual progress as one of its elements, is now preparing to absorb the mind entirely. Critical intelligence cannot be equal to this challenge as long as it confines itself

to self-satisfied contemplation.”

- Theodor Adorno, "Cultural Criticism and Society,“, 1949

Gerard Richter, Uncle Rudi, 1965

Gerard Richter, September, 2005

Andy Warhol, Death and Disaster Series

Thomas Ruff, JPEG series

Luc Delahaye

Elephant, dir. Gus Van Sant, 2003

First Person Views from Google Glass

Richard Misrach,

Destroy this Memory (2010)

Richard Misrach,

Destroy this Memory (2010)

Wolfgang Staehle,

Webcam Stills from 9/11

Trevor Paglen’s

photographs of “black sites” --"non-existent"

Air Force and CIA installations in the Nevada desert.

Trevor Paglen –

Untitled (Drones) Series

Life After People (TV Show)

“Ruin Porn” and the Post-Industrial City

(Detroit)

The Day the Earth Stood Still (1961)

Automata (2014)

Snowpiercer (2013)

Snowpiercer (2013)