Theory & Practice classes are interdisciplinary, research oriented studio courses that foster an idea-based, non-media specific inquiry focusing on concerns within and outside the visual arts
This hybrid media studio course will explore a diverse range of strategies in identifying, creating and activating a site through expanded performative actions. Basic skills tied to intended gesture, incidental movement, stillness, repetition, fracture/rupture, prop and site manipulation, voice, language and sound will be the topics and actions explored during this course. Emphasis will be placed on the active, deployed body so a great deal of the course will involve physically engaged solo and collaborative workshops, exercises and activities. Historical precedents and the work of contemporary practitioners will give the student a deeper understanding of the discipline. This exposure coupled with research, projects, critique, proposal development, scoring and scripting techniques, visiting artists, readings, attending performances, and video /film screenings will give the student the primary tools and conceptual strategies to successfully develop performative work. Engagement with PICA's annual TBA festival will give the students exposure to top contemporary time based artists and potential collaborative opportunities with these visiting artists.
Special topics courses are approved to take advantage of timely subjects, the expertise of a faculty member, or to test student interest in a topic which may later be added to the curriculum.
Theory & Practice classes are interdisciplinary, research oriented studio courses that foster an idea-based, non-media specific inquiry focusing on concerns within and outside the visual arts. Titles have included: Art & Anthropology, Art and the Everyday, Body Politics, Art Ethics & Transgression, Utopia/Dystopia, Homeland.
Intermediate level Intermedia courses including: Hybrid Painting, Offsite Projects, Screen+Devices, Video Installation, other upper-division hybrid studio courses are offered on a rotational basis. Topics include collaboration, video and sound in non-traditional environments, conceptual work and more involved installation applications.
Special topics courses are approved to take advantage of timely subjects, the expertise of a faculty member, or to test student interest in a topic which may later be added to the curriculum.
Intermediate level Intermedia courses - including: Hybrid Painting, Offsite Projects, Screen+Devices, Video Installation, other upper-division hybrid studio courses are offered on a rotational basis. Topics include collaboration, video and sound in non-traditional environments, conceptual work and more involved installation applications. Prerequisite: Senior level standing.
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