DescriptionThis 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. The seminar will conclude with a presentation of student
projects on Jim Campbell’s’ public video canvass on the top of the Salesforce
Tower.
The intertwining histories of experimental film (rooted in the materiality of
celluloid) and video art (rooted primarily in sculpture) will be examined as a
means to explore the intersection of these two histories in contemporary art
practice. 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. Guest artists and field trips will bring us out of the
classroom and into locations where work is created and exhibited.

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