ENROLL

Ross Elfline

This course is a survey of major artistic movements after 1945 as well as an introduction to significant tendencies in current art and craft production. The goal of this course is to develop a familiarity with the important debates, discussions, and critical issues facing artists today. By the end of the course, students will be able to relate their own work as cultural producers to these significant contemporary artistic developments. Students will read, write about, and discuss primary sources, artist statements, and theoretical essays covering a wide range of media with the ultimate goal of articulating their own artistic project.

Prerequisite: Any two studio art courses or permission from the instructor. Not open to students who have previously taken Art History 240

Extra Time Required

Benjamin Lenzner

Study nature aesthetics and examine your assumptions about the landscape photograph. Question the formal, moral and biological implications of your “framed view-point,” as you move your lens across the natural, urban and domestic landscapes of your community. Reflect on the ways in which nature has been visually represented throughout topographical spaces while creating a three-way intersection between art, science and technology. In particular, what are the effects of two-dimensional representation on our estrangement from nature itself? Demonstrations, readings, discussions, exploratory field trips we share together, and sensory examinations will help us create a final portfolio of digital images and text. Harness your own digital camera (smartphone or DSLR) in new ways, while engaging in its relationship to analog photographic traditions.

Sophomore Priority

Waitlist for Juniors and Seniors: ARTS 140.WL0 (Synonym 54535)

Benjamin Lenzner

In this course we will explore the rich history of photography’s experimental development through an examination of its lineage within digital photographic processes. Our focus will be on digital experimentation and harnessing experimental creative play with photoshop and the natural world. Demonstrations will cover a wide range of digital photography techniques, highlighting the digital relationship to analog photography, photomontage, digital post-production and its connection to toning, solarization and photograms. Students will harness their own digital cameras (DSLR or smartphone) in new ways to create a visual portfolio amongst writings of their experimental investigations.

Sophomore Priority

Waitlist for Juniors and Seniors: ARTS 141.WL0 (Synonym 53057)

Noboru Tomonari

This course examines the extraordinary achievement of anime (Japanese animation), from the modern classics by Hayao Miyazaki, Isao Takahata, and Mamoru Oshii, to more recent anime directors. The anime will be studied for their aesthetic, cultural, and auteur contexts. Particular attention will be paid to the relationship of the anime to traditional arts, culture and society. This course is conducted in English and all the course materials are in English translation or in English subtitles.

In Translation. Extra Time required.

Palmar Alvarez-Blanco

Since the death of Franco in 1975, Spain has undergone huge political, socio-economic, and cultural transformations. Changes in the traditional roles of women, the legalization of gay marriage, the decline of the Catholic church, the increase of immigrants, Catalan and Basque nationalisms, and the integration of Spain in the European Union, have all challenged the definition of a national identity. Through contemporary narrative and film, this course will examine some of these changes and how they contribute to the creation of what we call Spain today.

Prerequisite: Spanish 204 or equivalent

Zoe Cinel

We live in a world where the presence of digital technology is ubiquitous. Our reality is augmented by portals that open up universes of undiscovered possibilities for expanding, creating, archiving and documenting art. Yet these media have a physical presence that demands the artist find new ways of negotiating space and time on a stage. This class explores the ways in which digital media shape the everyday and ways in which they relate to performing and performance art in a historical, cultural and technological sense. Students will experiment with processes for incorporating digital technologies into their performances, while engaging in conversations around embodiment, identity and space.

Prerequisite: Any course in Theater Arts, Dance, Cinema and Media Studies, Studio Art, creative writing or musical composition.