Thematic Exploration: Sound and Video Art

Intermediate-level course in the study and production of sound and video within the context of contemporary art. Each year, the thematic focus of this course will change based upon current trends in the field. Possible topics may address methods of production (audio/video synthesis, online broadcasting, or multimedia performance and installation), genres significant to the field of contemporary art (appropriation, performance, documentary, narrative), or broader themes that have sustained lasting interest and significance (landscape and the environment, protest and social practice, media criticism, gender and identity politics). In addition to learning production and postproduction techniques, students participate in seminar discussions and presentations that seek to expand our understandings of the theme and/or mode of production in question. May be repeated for credit.