This studio seminar explores the creative landscape at the intersection of the aesthetics and ethics of representational media. Students working in single channel films, installations, socially engaged practices using video, site-specific projections, video performances, VR, and on-line/social media platforms will have the opportunity to imagine the potential that lies between poetics and the document. Through their practice students will investigate how the public presentation of imagery shapes the fundamental process of creating work with representational media. We will critically consider the limitations of objectivity and transparency in pursuit of a representation of reality and lived experiences. In this seminar, we will study the contemporary expanded field of Non-Fiction film including Sensory Ethnography, Essay Films, Hybrid films, Re-enactment, Archival and Observational Documentary, Slow Cinema, Video Art, and Experimental Cinema. Contemporary artists will be investigated in relation to their historical precedents as a means to develop a critical discourse around the representation of truth, the concept of point of view, the objective/subjective paradox, and the dynamic forces of context. This course will be a hybrid of online course work and lectures as well as in person meetings and field trips. Students will complete project exercises and assignments, complete readings and write responses, as well as complete a final project. There will be group and one on one feedback and critiques.Hybrid course sections will be delivered both online and in-person. Required online synchronous meeting times are listed as the meeting pattern for this course section. Additional course components will be delivered asynchronously or in-person as outlined in the syllabus.

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