Video Art and Alternative Media: History, Theory, & Practice

This intermediate-level course provides a constructive and critical framework for the development of independently conceived projects in Video Art and Alternative Media. Course readings and screenings provide insight into the radical nature of this field, which embraces marginalized voices and perspectives, interdisciplinary methods and research, alternative production and distribution, and experimental and activist media. Students expand their visual literacy through creative work that considers one’s own subjectivity and agency within a dominant cultural ideology that promotes consumption, familiarity and stasis over diversity, creativity, and innovation.