InterMedia: A New Area of Concentration in Art Studio
**all courses taught by me unless specified the link is to the most recent syllabus
Fundamental instruction in digital media as a creative tool. Students will learn the basics of digital collage using Photoshop, flatbed and slide scanners. Basics of video editing, digital editing and sound design.
Web Design- with a Twist! This class will teach you the basic structure of server/image/web page development. However you will use these skills for Public Service Announcements and Performances.
Students will learn advanced video compositing methods, image control and key effects in the digital world specific to the Final Cut Pro environment. Basic storyboarding, sound design and title effects will be taught. This class will explore video for performance and as metaphoric narrative. Work will be collaborative in theory but individual in execution.
A-S 385 Digital Methods for Photography (Taught by Ruth Adams or Bones Carpenter)
An intermediate level course designed to help students integrate traditional silver-based photography processes with new digital based imaging tools such as Adobe Photoshop. Students will be required to produce original photographic imagery for use in creating digital artwork output to printed material with inkjet printers. Advanced methods of input and output calibration, as well as advanced methods of image manipulation will be covered. Emphasis will be placed on aesthetics and ethics of digital photographic art and creating meaningful and effective images. Prerequisites: A-S 200 and A-S 380.
An advanced course focusing on a specific area of Intermedia art production, i.e. video, installation, robotics, or digital techniques, emphasizing personal development of theoretical and skill-based foundation. Maybe repeated for a maximum of nine credits. Nine studio hours per week. Prerequisites: A-S 200 and either a 300 level Intermedia course or consent of instructor, or graduate enrollment.
A-S 390 Topical Studies: Studio.Post.Studio. (taught by Dima Strakovsky)
Exploration of the role of studio practice in contemporary art climate. Evolution of post-studio art production will be discussed as well as challenges to this production model. Students will be challenged to redefine and possibly re-invent their artistic practice.
A-S 390 Topical Studies: Digital Printmaking (taught by Melissa Schwartz)
An advanced course focusing on creating digital prints on a variety of media. Maybe repeated for a maximum of nine credits. Nine studio hours per week. Prerequisites: A-S 200 and either a 300 level Intermedia course or consent of instructor, or graduate enrollment.
A-S 390 Topical Studies: Intro to Software and Hardware Topics in Arts (taught by Dima Strakovsky)
Introduction to a variety of software and hardware solutions used in electronic installation and performance practice. Specific case studies and labs will focus on: motor control, lighting control, and a variety of sensor input scenarios. Custom, as well as of-the-shelf, solutions to common installation problems will be discussed. Discussion of art historical and theoretical issues will provide a proper context to direct technical investigation into the most artistically enriching areas.
Students are expected to explore how installation, performance and interventions can demonstrate an idea, experience, implicate the viewer, address location specifically (and non-specifically) and shift an audience's perception of time and/or space. The class will introduce students to some of the concepts in the history of installation and current shifts in the definition of installation art and the emergence of actions and interventions.
A-S 546 Intermedia Studio Topical Studies: Software and Hardware Topics in Arts (taught by Dima Strakovsky)
Continued exploration of software and hardware solutions used in electronic installation and performance practice. The class is geared towards directed project productions.
This class will explore video for performance and documentary. Work will be collaborative in theory but individual in execution in that storyboarding and extensive critique will be an integral part of the course prior to the actual filming. In this course students will investigate how to present fiction as truth as well as how artistic portrayal of reality creates rhetoric. Work can be based on fact or fiction, but developed as either performance or documentary. Class is open to any student that is a junior in status in the hopes that it will appeal to students working in geography, anthropology, english, sociology or like subject area as well as art. Class meets Monday and Wednesday from 2:30-6:20. Instructor will assume students have little to no video experience, however a keen mind willing to experiment fearlessly with ideas is required.
