Martin Irvine, Georgetown University

Martin Irvine
Founding Director and Associate Professor
Communication, Culture, and Technology Program
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Georgetown University
irvinem@georgetown.edu

Recent Graduate Seminars, 2003-2008

CCT 725: Cultural Hybridity: Mixing Media, Music, Visual Culture

CCT 738: Contemporary Visual Art: Theory, Practice, Institutions

CCT 748: Media Theory and Visual Culture

CCT 797: Discourses of Culture: Self-Reflexive Critique of Cultural Theory

CCT 510 (2005): Institutions of Visual Culture

CCT 510 (2004): Globalization in a Post-9/11 World | Intro Topics | Readings and Bibliography |

CCT 737: The Post-Internet University

Metapedia: Prof. Irvine's Cultural Theory Wiki for Students

Lectures, Essays, and Seminar Notes

Media Theory

The Postmodernism Node [Post-Postmodernism]

Media Theory and Semiotics: Key Terms

Media Theory: Applied Model (.jpg image) | Powerpoint

Semiotics and Cultural Theory: Basic Assumptions

(Trans.) Regis Debray, "What is Mediology?" Le Monde Diplomatique, August, 1999.

Why Mediology? An Overview of Theory and Method

Visual Culture

Introduction to Visual Culture

Visual Culture Examples: Slide Show

Visual Culture: Map of Disciplines

Representational Codes: Representing Depicting

Statement / Representation / Reference / Image / Sign

Photography to Post-Photography and the Hybrid Image

A Theory Map for Media Studies and Mediology

Art Theory / Art Economics / The Art Market

Introduction to Contemporary Art: Theory and Insitutions

Introduction to Art Theory Contexts

Introduction to Photography (powerpoint)

Intro to the Institutional Theory of Art and the Artworld

Semiotics of Art: The Art/Non-Art Binaries

The Situation of the Art Museum Today

Introduction to Art Market Economics

The Structure of the Art Industry and the Art Economy Network

For Student Writers: Unperplexing Guide for Writing to Get Read

Writing to be Read: A Rhetoric for the Post-Digital Age

Earlier Lectures, Articles, Presentations, Seminar Websites

IRVINE CONTEMPORARY

Dr. Irvine is also the President and Director of Irvine Contemporary, a leading art gallery in Washington, DC.

Martin Irvine
email: irvinem@georgetown.edu
Communication, Culture, and Technology Program
3520 Prospect St., NW, Suite 311
Georgetown University
Washington, DC 20057
phone: 202-687-3097

University CV | Professional Resume (brief)

"I thought of a labyrinth of labyrinths, of one sinuous spreading labyrinth that would encompass the past and the future and in some way involve the stars." --Jorge Luis Borges, from "The Garden of Forking Paths"