Overview

Description

CALENDAR DESCRIPTION:

A studio course introducing topics in art-making practices as they relate to practical, conceptual, aesthetic and historical issues in contemporary art. May repeat for credit.

COURSE DETAILS:

This studio course will look at various historical and contemporary approaches to time­based media, including video and audio works, installation, and performance. Students will gain a basic understanding of workflows and some software associated with such work, develop projects based on individual research, and learn to think critically about their own work and the work of others through discussions and critiques. There will be three projects before the final project which will be the most substantial work created in this class. There will also be assignments/exercises that will increase skills and offer a chance to make “side projects” that may or may not morph into the research that will inform the final project.

General Outline of Projects For The Course
1: Three Course Projects and one Final Project
2: A cluster of work/ research/ toward these projects, the form of which may vary (reviewed during individual studio visits)
3: In Class and Weekly assignments and Reading

COURSE-LEVEL EDUCATIONAL GOALS:

This course is for students who wish to learn the basic skills of video and sound editing, and will provide them with the tools to be self-directed in learning additional skills that may be specific to their individual projects and practices. It is therefore not a course in which one will become an expert in Premiere Pro and associated programs and techniques. As video art is by nature exploratory, and has most often relied on a do it ­yourself approach to new technologies, this course will similarly attempt to reflect the spirit of curiosity and discovery associated with self-directed research and execution.

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