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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
The term "culture wars" originallydescribed Reagan/Bush era political efforts launched over matters like abortion, religion, gay rights, school curricula. Such controversies provided motivation and content for many artists. Addresses new culture wars emerging since 9/11 over privacy, technology globalization, terrorism. Prerequisites: Studio Art 10A, B, C, or 9A, B and 11A.
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4.00 Credits
Violence has been a key ingredient in story-telling throughout history in art, literature, religion, and entertainment. The continuing presence of media violence has provoked debates among parents, politicians, media producers, and academics. Examines history, theory, aesthetics, economics, and politics of violent representation.
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4.00 Credits
Examines, in a nonlinear and eclectic fashion of contemporary oppositional art practices, work not considered art-making within conventional definitions, and intermedia approaches from the postwar period. Reading and lectures will be drawn from a wide range of sources. Prerequisites: Studio Art 10A, B, C, or 9A, B and 11A. May be taken for credit twice.
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4.00 Credits
Provides an overview of Tactical Media as a practice and its theoretical influences. First half covers extensive readings relating to Tactical Media as a practice, whereas the second half involves projects and workshops developments. Prerequisites: Studio Art 10A, B, C, or 9A, B and 11A.
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4.00 Credits
Rigorous investigation of photographic practices and critical writings, the relationship of photography to the construction and maintenance of cultural institutions, the circulation of photographic ideas in society, and photography and technology. Prerequisites: Studio Art 10A, B, C, or 9A, B and 11A. May be taken for credit twice.
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4.00 Credits
Investigation of historical development of video as an artistic practice. Topics include relationships between art and video technology, artists' critiques of television, experimentation with image processing and synthesis, performances designed for video, experiments in documentary representation, video installation. Readings and screenings assigned. Prerequisites: Studio Art 81A and 81B.
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4.00 Credits
A critical study of experimental film/video art genres and production techniques considering their narrative, structural, iconographic, and cultural aspects. Hollywood narrative, Nouvelle Vague, American Independent, and Video Art are compared in terms of production innovation, design, and conceptual content. Prerequisite: Studio Art 127A.
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4.00 Credits
Investigates issues in post-studio practices, including concepts of time, relational aesthetics, site-specificity, institutional critique, and the post-medium condition. Prerequisites: Studio Art 10A, B, C, or 9A, B and 11A. May be repeated for credit as topics vary.
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4.00 Credits
Working with media such as electronic still cameras, desktop publishing, faxes, satellites, virtual reality, digitized imaging. Cultural issues pertinent to the emergence of new technology (e.g., ethical concerns, social impact, copyright laws, nontraditional approaches to distribution, cyberpunk, global markets). Prerequisites: two intermediate courses and consent of instructor. May be repeated for credit as topics vary.
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4.00 Credits
Investigates interior installation in particular spaces. Working in teams, students install, discuss, and remove projects. Technical information and hands-on experience with various media is provided. Prerequisites: two intermediate courses or consent of instructor. May be repeated for credit as topics vary.
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