This course will consider  “glitch” aesthetics, crowd-sourcing, and AI and computer-generated art, where signs of the human hand are invisible, non-existent, and/or let fade to the background. Other features of the digital era the class will consider, via both technical and social analyses, include online streaming, surveillance/voyeurism, irony and meme-culture, and what these phenomena do to both cultural production and reception. What are the geneses and the consequences of the gif, the loop, the mashup? What are the effects and artifacts in practices of “higher” art produced by online and video gaming? And how do particular platforms such as social media impact art projects as either foundational sites for presenting work or as reference in the outside or offline world “in real life”?HAAVC 2000 courses develop students' visual analysis skills while providing the opportunity for in-depth study of the visual/structural artifacts associated with a particular topic, region, or movement. Students will also engage with the relevant primary/secondary literature for the topic at hand. Courses will pay particular attention to the larger cultural, historical, and theoretical/ideological contexts in which the visual artifacts and structures under consideration were created.

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