Credits: 4
Time: Monday, 2:10 p.m. - 6:00p.m.
Course Description:
Digital art naturally lends itself to working across disciplines and creating hybrid projects that may include photography, video, collage, sculpture, computing technology and more. In this course, students are encouraged to realize individual projects that are interdisciplinary in nature and that conceptually benefit from drawing upon the strengths of more than one medium.
Students working across multiple visual arts disciplines and who are ready for focused, advanced project work are encouraged to enroll in this course.
Requirements:
Active student participation throughout all aspects of this course will make your experience much more meaningful and is necessary for the successful completion of the assigned work. There are reading/research assignments, weekly discussions, student presentations, critiques and the production of work during this course. Students are expected to be present for all class meetings. Please email me if you must miss a class. Chronic lateness and/or more than 2 absences will seriously jeopardize your standing in this course.
Students will be evaluated based on the following: Participation/attitude, creative/conceptual work, documentation of work/wikipages and progress over the term.
Projects:
Students are to be working on self-defined projects throughout the term. These may be manifest as a suite of smaller works (there should be unifying ideas that tie the work together) or a single larger scale project. All projects are to be approved by the instructor.
Wikipages:
All students are required to maintain a personal wiki site for this class. This space should act as an electonic journal and contain your research, project ideas and progress, notes from all the class readings, and documentation of your creative work (past, current and progress this term). Individual pages are to be updated regularly (weekly). Each student is responsible for viewing and commenting on all student pages.
Over the course of the term you should create an annotated list of links to artists and artworks that you find compelling or are influencing your ideas (this should be updated each week).
Student Presentations/critiques:
Each student will present their ideas and work regularly over the course of the term. Presentation materials -- text, image, links etc. -- are to located on your wikipage.
>> Late work is not accepted!<<Office hours/help:
I am available for help or to discuss individual projects via office hours and email. If you would like to schedule a time to meet with me, please check my calendar (link above) and email me an appropriate time that works with both our schedules. Please do not leave voice mail! I am also readily available via email and will regularly respond within a few hours.
Preston Noon is the Digital Arts Technician and has regular help hours each week. For more information, please visit the POD website.
Books/Readings:
There are no required books that need to be purchased for this class. All readings will be handed out or can be found online. All books from the bibliography can be found on reserve in the library.Bibliography:
Altermodern: Tate Triennial 2009, Nicolas Bourriaud, Tate Publishing, 2009Conversation Pieces: Community and Communication in Modern Art, Grant H. Kester, University of California Press, 2004
Eve Said to the Serpent, On Landscape, Gender and Art, by Rebecca Solnit, University of Georgia Press, 2001
Hans Ulrich Obrist Interviews, Volume 1, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Charta, 2003.
In the Making: Creative Options for Contemporary Art, Linda Weintraub, d.a.p., 2003
Relational Aesthetics, by Nicolas Bourriaud, Presses du Réel, 1998
Right About Now, Art & Theory Since the 90's, by Ed. Margriet Schavemaker & Mischa Rakier, Presses du Réel, 1998
Space, Site, Intervention: Situating Installation Art, Erika Suderburg, editor.
The Art of Participation, 1950-Now, Rudolph Frieling, SF MOMA/Thames and Hudson, 2008.
Video Green: Los Angeles Art and the Triumph of Nothingness, Chris Kraus, Semiotext(e), 2004
What Do Pictures Want? The Lives and Loves of Images, W.J.T. Mitchell, University of Chicago Press, 2005.
This schedule is a guide and will change over the course of the term, check back often.
Session 1: March 2
Introduction to the course.Expectations.
Library demo.
Session 2: March 9
Discuss readings.Students present past work and essays.
Read:
Grant H. Kester, pages 17-49 from Conversation Pieces: Community and Communication in Modern Artand
Linda Weintraub, pages 122-124 (Sourcing Inspiration) from In the Making: Creative Options for Contemporary Art
Due:
(All writing and images are to be placed on your wikipage)Post a selection of past creative work (images, links to vide on Vimeo or youtube). Include a brief written description of each idea.
and
An essay (approx. 500 words) describing your current ideas and interests. What are you thinking about, reading, looking at? How might, or are, these ideas/interests be manifest in work this term?
Session 3: March 16
Discuss readings.Students present past work and essays.
Art critiques.
Read:
Linda Weintraub, pages 44-51, 131-141 and 262-267 from In the Making: Creative Options for Contemporary ArtRebecca Solnit, pages 184-187 from Eve Said to the Serpent, On Landscape, Gender and Art
Due:
A clear description of the project, or direction for a project, that you hope to develop this term.A clear plan of work for the term with schedule and milestones.
Session 4: March 23
Discuss reading.Students present new work/work in progress.
Read:
Nicolas Bourriaud, Pages 7-40 from Relational AestheticsSession 5: March 30
Discuss readings.Students present new work/work in progress.
Read:
Interview with Gabriel Orozco, by Carmen Boullosa, BOMB Magazine, Issue 98 Winter 2007.and
Interivew with Rirkrit Tiravanija by Hans Ulrich Obrist. From Hans Ulrich Obrist Interviews, Volume 1, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Charta, 2003.
Session 6: April 6
Discuss readings.Student work updates.
Dan Cameron
Read:
Ed. Margriet Schavemaker & Mischa Rakier, pages 59-68 and 73-85 from Right About Now, Art & Theory Since the 90'sSession 7: April 13
Discuss readings.Student work updates.
Dan Cameron
Read:
Interview with David Wojnarovicz by Barry Blinderman. From Tongues of Flame, 1990, Normal. Illinois State University. University Galleries.Session 8: April 20
Student work updates.Dan Cameron
Read:
Rudolph Frieling, pages 19-30 and 51-64 from The Art of Participation, 1950-NowSession 9: April 27
Student work updates and critique.Read:
Experpt from Letters to a Young ArtistSession 10: May 4
Student work updates and critique.Read:
W.J.T. Mitchell, pages 201-221 from What Do Pictures Want? The Lives and Loves of ImagesSession 11: May 11
Listen to O'Grady audio and disucss reading.Student work presentations and discussion.
Read:
Feature on Lorraine O'Grady, exerpted from Art Forum May 2009Session 12: May 18
View Bourriaud interview and discuss Altermodern.Student work presentations and discussion.
Read:
Nicolas Bourriaud, pages 11-24 from Altermodern: Tate Triennial 2009Session 13: May 25
TBASession 14: June 1
Final projects discussion and critique.Last class. Final projects due. (All work from the term must be complete and located on student wikipages by the start of class.)