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Exhibition Thematic Exposure — AH4101.01

Instructor: Andrew Spence
Credits: 4
The primary goal in this class is for each student to create a theoretical thematic exhibition consisting of objects, artifacts, images or anything that has justifiable relevance. Originally born out of a visual art context, broader themes outside of visual art are possible. Students are expected to do independent research using source material from the library and the Internet

Expanding Fields: Histories and New Practices of Curating the Rural — VA4152.01

Instructor: Anne Thompson
Credits: 4
Artists and curators have long embraced the southwestern U.S. desert as the landscape equivalent of the sublime yet neutral “white cube.” This course addresses the history of land art and landscape-based institutions alongside current strategies for moving these practices into literal and metaphorical new territories. Lecture-based discussions and research assignments examine

Experimental Documentary — FV4314.01

Instructor: Kate Purdie
Credits: 4
This intermediate moving image course will explore experimentation in form and content in non-fiction moving image.  From the earliest experiments in actualities by the Lumiere brothers to the recent homage project “Labour in a Single Shot” including autobiography, memoir, and even recreations, experimental documentaries acknowledge the fact that the very process

Experimental Filmmaking — FV4307.01

Instructor: Warren Cockerham
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This intermediate studio course centers on experimentation with form in moving image making. Students will complete a series of film and video projects exploring approaches and techniques including but not limited to non-narrative, lyrical, abstract, structural, and materialist forms. The course will contextualize contemporary practice within the history of avant-garde and

Experimental Making in Ceramics — CER4214.01

Instructor: Barry Bartlett
Credits: 4
This course will investigate the material nature of clay as a medium to create three-dimensional forms. Students will explore the material aspects of clay such as dryness, wetness, mass and scale using a variety of mechanical processes that include extrusion, slab rolling, slip casting and digital fabrication. In doing so, the pieces created will be used to convey ideas of

Experimental Making in Ceramics — CER4214.01

Instructor: Barry Bartlett
Credits: 4
This course will investigate the material nature of clay as a medium to create three-dimensional forms. Students will explore the material aspects of clay such as dryness, wetness, mass and scale using a variety of mechanical processes that include extrusion, slab rolling, slip casting and digital fabrication. In doing so, the pieces created will be used to convey ideas of form

Experimental Making in Ceramics — CER4214.01

Instructor: Barry Bartlett
Credits: 4
This course will investigate the material nature of clay as a medium to create three-dimensional forms. Students will explore the material aspects of clay such as dryness, wetness, mass, scale and incorporating mix media. We will be using a variety of mechanical processes that include extrusion, slab rolling, slip casting and traditional hand building techniques. In doing so,

Experimental Narrative in Moving Image — VA4323.01

Instructor: Beatriz Santiago Muñoz
Credits: 4
Self-reflexive narratives, improvisation, non-linearity, slow cinema, alternative representations of time and space, experimental film grammars, poetic scripts, collective direction, Brechtian techniques.  All of these processes and more will be explored in this hands-on production based course. Working collaboratively and on your peers’ work in various roles is required

Experimental Narrative in Moving Images — FV4334.01

Instructor: Beatriz Santiago Muñoz
Days & Time: TH 1:40pm-5:20pm
Credits: 4

Self-reflexive narratives, improvisation, non-linearity, slow cinema, alternative representations of time and space, experimental film grammars, poetic scripts, collective direction, Brechtian techniques.  All of these processes and more will be explored in this hands-on production based course. Working collaboratively and on your peers’ work in various roles is

Experimental Narrative: Film/Video Production — FV4142.01

Instructor: Kate Purdie
Credits: 4
This is an intermediate production course that will explore experimental narrative structures in film and video art practices. Emphasis will be on analyzing innovative storytelling in film and literary forms as we examine aspects of dramatic production: mise-en-scene, working with actors, script breakdown, storyboards and collaborative production units. Students will be

Experimental Projects in Ceramics — CER4171.01

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
The process of developing within ceramics a vision of how your work interfaces with contemporary art making practices will be the major focus of this class.  This class is designed to be a combination of research and making that can include ceramic and non-ceramic materials. The class is meant to support the development of continuing advance work and new experimental

Exploring the White Cube: A New York Intensive — VA4125.01

Instructor: Elizabeth White
Credits: 2
This class will meet weekly to explore contemporary art exhibitions in New York. We will visit commercial galleries and non-profit art spaces in Midtown, Chelsea, the Lower East Side, and Brooklyn, as well as major museums. Relevant readings will be assigned and short response papers will be required. Students will be responsible for their own expenses, including transportation

Fake Revolution: Media Culture and Hollywood's Insurrection Fantasy — FV4331.01

Instructor: Jen Liu
Credits: 2
In this course, we will explore Hollywood's fixation with fictional revolutions as depicted in big budget sci fi and fantasy TV and films throughout the 20th and 21st century, often unified by themes such as the triumph of the underdog, traumatic but narratively low-stakes sacrifices, and totalitarian overlords who bear superficial resemblance to real world geopolitical powers,

Fashion and Modernism — VA4129.01

Instructor: J Blackwell
Credits: 4
“Let There Be Fashion, Down With Art” –Max Ernst The rise of capitalism and the Industrial Revolution led to radical shifts in politics and art in the late 19th century. Fashion acts as a powerful analogue to and forecaster of Modernism. Artists such as Henri Matisse, Leon Bakst, Sonia Delaunay and Salvador Dali took note of fashion's nascent agency and created clothing as a

Fashion and Modernism — DRW4109.01

Instructor: J Blackwell
Credits: 4
“Let There Be Fashion, Down With Art” –Max Ernst The rise of capitalism and the Industrial Revolution led to radical shifts in politics and art in the late 19th century. Fashion acts as a powerful analogue to and forecaster of Modernism. Artists such as Henri Matisse, Leon Bakst, Sonia Delaunay and Salvador Dali took note of fashion's nascent agency and created clothing as a

Feeling Photography — PHO2307.01

Instructor: Faculty TBA
Days & Time: WE 8:30am-12:10pm
Credits: 4

How do we read images? How do they act on us? What do they ask us to do––to feel? In Camera Lucida, Roland Barthes illuminates a crucial link between feeling and photography, positioning

Female Architect / Fictive Archive — VA4130.01

Instructor: Anne Thompson
Credits: 2
A readings course centered on the Usdan Gallery survey of fictional twentieth-century Czech architect Petra Andrejova-Molnár, created by artist Katarina Burin as a feminist meditation on the absence and erasure of women designers within the modernist canon. Exhibition components such as biographical texts, staged photographs, drawings, furniture, décor, and models provide the

Feminist Perspective and Practices in Contemporary Art — AH2107.01

Instructor: Carol Stakenas
Credits: 4
This course will consider how feminist theory has evolved over the past four decades and how artists, curators and scholars of all genders and nationalities, advocate feminism in their practices. To examine its impact on the art world, Feminist Perspectives and Practices in Contemporary Art will explore the feminist movement in the US from the 1970s through its evolution to

Femme Film — FV2207.01

Instructor: Beatriz Santiago Muñoz
Days & Time: Tu 2:10PM-5:50PM, M/Th 7:00PM-8:50PM
Credits: 2

In his re-interpretation of psychoanalytic structures, Jacques Lacan described the feminine position not as a gender or an identity but as a form of “jouissance”, a word that is related to enjoyment, but in his use is more akin “getting off on”. This feminine jouissance is available to any subject regardless of gender. According to this proposition, the

Field Research in Unconventional Space — SCU2128.01

Instructor: John Umphlett
Credits: 2
This class will push the envelope of closed membrane structure design. A membrane is more than an impermeable skin; it can selectively filter particles, chemicals, light, sound, and smell. A balloon has an expandable latex surface easily manipulated by air and water pressure. However, a rigid fabric material that has a less forgiving response to pressure forced on its walls

Field Research of Closed Cells - Part 1 — SCU2119.01

Instructor: John Umphlett; Guy Snover
Credits: 2
This class will push the envelope of closed membrane structure design. A membrane is more than an impermeable skin; it can selectively filter particles, chemicals, light, sound, and smell. A balloon has an expandable latex surface easily manipulated by air and water pressure. However, a rigid fabric material that has a less forgiving response to pressure forced on its walls

Field Research of Closed Cells - Part 2 — SCU4119.01

Instructor: John Umphlett; Guy Snover
Credits: 2
This class will be fabricating a large inflatable structure (ultimate synthesis of the first seven weeks). The first two classes will be dedicated to critical discussions on form, membrane properties, and the final showing environment. The chosen form will be digitized and the 3D model will be used to leverage logistics of the large form and patterning. The digital model will

Film Adaptations of French Literature — FRE4492.01

Instructor: Noëlle Rouxel-Cubberly
Credits: 4
Since the very beginnings of cinema, French literature and film have reciprocally inspired one another. From the Surrealists to the New French Extremity movement, many directors have brought French literary works onto the screen. This course will offer students the opportunity to analyze literature and their film adaptations in terms of intermediality and intertextuality.

Film and Anti-Film — FV2208.03

Instructor: Beatriz Santiago Muñoz
Days & Time: Tu 2:10PM-5:50PM, M/Th 7:00PM-8:50PM
Credits: 2

This is an intensive seminar on films about film, films that undo themselves, films that analyze their own methods of construction, and films that examine the assumptions of filmic grammar. The course is a primer on film theories through the work of the filmmaker-as-theorist such as  Harun Farocki, William Greaves, Straub and Huillet, Jean-Luc Godard, Laura Mulvey,

Film Night — CSL2007.01

Instructor: Noëlle Rouxel-Cubberly
Days & Time: Sa 6:00PM-6:00AM
Credits: 1

In this one-credit film course, students will watch 5 out of the 10 international films screened in Kinoteca and Tishman on Saturday September 5, between 6pm and 6am. The films, all selected for their thought-provoking nature, cover a variety of cinematographic genres. The event is designed to enhance filmic appreciation in a collective experience. Assignments will