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<h1>Art 190 - Contemporary Art Photography I </h1>
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Full course for one semester. This course introduces students to the
fundamentals of black and white photographic processes and
investigates the use of photography in the context of contemporary
art. The class will cover camera operation, principles of exposure,
basic understanding of light, film development, and darkroom
printing. Technical, aesthetic, and conceptual possibilities of
photography are explored through shooting assignments, readings, slide
presentations, lab work, and critiques. Students will learn to respond
to assignments with technical competence and critical
clarity. Prerequisite: Art 161. Studio.
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<h1>Art 195 - Digital Imaging/Processing </h1>
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Full course for one semester. This course introduces students to the
fundamentals of digital media. Technical and conceptual units will be
presented both in a historical context and in light of contemporary
arts practice. We will explore the link between art, technology, and
the computer through readings, slide presentations, and class
discussions. Topics will include the nature of the digital document;
the relationship of digital forms to traditional hand-based media; the
machine/digital aesthetic; and intersecting discourses of art, new
media, and the sciences. Students will learn to acquire, manipulate,
and print digital images. The class will also explore the use of the
computer as an autonomous art tool through programming and examine the
possibility of process-based art. Students will be expected to respond
to assignments with technical competence and critical
clarity. Studio.
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<h1>Art 196 Digital Video/Interactive Art</h1>
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Full course for one semester. We will explore artistic concepts and
technologies involved in the creation of video art and interactive
time-based art. Students will learn nonlinear video editing (Final
Cut) and interactive graphical programming (Max/MSP/Jitter) while
being exposed to the history and discourse of video art and new media
art. Class time will be spent in lectures, viewings, lab work,
critique, and occasional field trips. Students will be expected to
respond to assignments with technical competence and critical clarity.
Enrollment limited to 12. Prerequisite: Art 161 or consent of the
instructor. Studio.
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<h1>Art 293 Internet Literacy, Culture, and Practice</h1>
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Full course for one semester. Students will develop an understanding
of the technology and the issues surrounding the Internet and the web
through studio activities, readings, and fieldwork. Students will gain
literacy in web development languages (HTML, CSS, and javascript) and
design web applications. We will cover the history of the use of
computers and networks as a tool for empowerment, explore topics such
as hypertextuality, non-linearity, interactivity, authorship, web as
archive, net-neutrality, and the open source movement. With the newly
acquired literacy in hand we will investigate how the convergence of
the web/social-media with social practice/activism reconfigures the
ways in which artists and citizens view, participate in, understand,
and narrate real-world issues. Prerequisite: Art 161 or consent of
the instructor. Studio.
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<h1>Art 291 - Contemporary Art Photography II</h1>
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Full course for one semester. The course will introduce color,
larger-scale printing, fiber-based printing, and medium-format
materials. With elementary skills and historical context in place, the
class will focus on manifestations of the photographic image as an art
object, both physically and conceptually. Technical, aesthetic, and
conceptual possibilities of photography are explored through shooting
assignments, readings, slide presentations, lab work, and
critiques. Class time will be spent in lecture, slide presentations,
lab work, critique, and occasional field trips. Students will be
expected to respond to assignments with technical competence and
critical clarity. Prerequisite: Art 190 or consent of the
instructor. Studio.
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<h1>Art 361 - Intermediate Photography and Digital Media I</h1>
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Full course for one semester. This intermediate studio course provides
a forum for more advanced and independent work for students who have
completed the introductory sequence in photography or digital
media. It will function as both a studio intensive and a junior
seminar, with regular discussion of articles in contemporary media
arts and theory, as well as selected historical writings and
works. Assignments will be open-ended, providing thematic guidelines,
which build on skills and conceptual awareness from the introductory
courses. Assignments will also respond directly to individual and
group interests. Possibilities include electronic visualization,
collaborative video or still production, documentary, large-format
photography, mural printing (photographic and digital), and
hybridization of traditional and electronic photography. Topics of
reading and research will include the aesthetics and politics of
visual truth, the collective imagination of popular culture, the
science and psychology of optics and seeing, and the indexical as a
mode of representation. Class time will be spent in lecture, slide
presentations, lab work, critique, and occasional field
trips. Students must be highly self-motivated and will be expected to
respond to assignments with technical competence and critical
clarity. Studio
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<h1>Art 374 - New Media Old Media</h1>
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The course will examine and experiment with various forms of old and analog
media combined with new and speculative twenty-first-century media technology to
see if they can be productively remade and integrated into contemporary art
practices. Our goal is to defamiliarize photography and new/digital media by
finding alternative uses, or by revisiting a time when they had not separated
themselves into distinct and different discourses looking at historical devices,
methods, and tools that shared common aspirations and limitations. Technical,
aesthetic, and conceptual possibilities are explored through studio workshops,
projects, readings, presentations, and critiques. Students must be highly
self-motivated and will be expected to design independent projects. </p>
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