Who and what is in the so-called Expanded Field of Photography? Will we be able to recognize it when we see it? Will we agree on what belongs and what is excluded? What will our role be in deciding? Through readings, discussions, field trips to view exhibitions and collections, and meetings with curators at local institutions, we will take a deep dive into the current theoretical and critical discourse in contemporary photography. This course is ideal for, but not limited to artists whose work touches photography in some way. While we may revisit historically important texts, the aim of the course will be on writings from the past 15 years, as we will grapple with possible futures - including the relationship of photography to artificial intelligence. This will most certainly include surveillance anxieties and the ways in which these technologies could impact artists and us all.____

Fine Arts Seminars are intended to broaden and clarify students' perspective on contemporary art practice. Each semester these seminars shift in focus and subject matter. Seminars may concentrate on art from the perspectives of art history, philosophy, sociology, anthropology, psychology, and so forth, or may take the form of a discipline-based critique focusing on the history, theory, and practice of painting, sculpture, and photography, among others.

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