Graduate Photography


Introduction This section of 5161 suggests that the course title, "Graduate Photography," is something of a misnomer. Is taking a picture with your mobile phone considered photography? Or are you just capturing more "data" that you can aesthetically manipulate as you see fit? The course will navigate through some exciting new areas of art research while always looking back at the historical, philosophical, and aesthetic processes that have brought us to this pivotal moment in making art. Possible subjects we may address include:

  • net art
  • digital narrative
  • DJ/VJ culture
  • brain/consciousness studies and performance-based work
  • emerging forms of expanded cinema (post-film culture)
  • "being online" and the exhibition context
  • folksonomic tech: art blogs, Flickr, mobile and location based art, iPods, etc.
  • "culture jamming" / "open source lifestyles" / hactivism (hacking+activism)
  • music video / video art / video installation / anime / machinima
  • rhythm science / sonic sculpture
  • new media writing / artist poetics / spontaneous theory

Many of these subjects will blend into each other as we investigate how using digital processes creates a more fluid playing field for the artist to make their work in. We will also look at how artists use new media technology to construct alternative identities in the "networked space of flows" as part of their emerging practice.

More info here... Syllabus * Readings * blogs et al