Course Description
For upper-level undergraduate and graduate students who are working within expanded forms of installation, video, sound, performance, and interactive electronic arts. Students are expected to work independently setting their own projects and goals. The class combines theory, studio, critique, and discussion.
Additional Requirements for Graduate Students:
More complex projects or larger body of completed work.
Athena Title
Special Topics in Art and Tech
Undergraduate Pre or Corequisite
ARST 3800
Semester Course Offered
Offered fall and spring
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Course Objectives
Students will expand their time based media techniques to arrange complex installations, video and sound art. Using current technology, students will explore areas of performance and electronic interactive arts. The course encourages experimentation in pushing the recognized boundaries of the Art & Technology. They will learn how technology can improve ones art making vocabulary.
Topical Outline
The course will begin with a brief two-week historical overview of this hybrid area. The next three weeks will be devoted to bringing everyone up to speed on the current technology in art. Students will then write proposals for three projects that they wish to carry out through out the semester. Group critiques will take place every other week. The final grade will be based on three completed works of art. A grading emphasis will be placed on effort.