Featured Courses
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FEATURED CLASSES FOR FALL 2008
Listed alphabetically.
Course numbers that begin with E90.0 / E90.1 are for undergraduate students only.
E90.2 are graduate level.
Jason Murison and Brandon Stosuy
E90.1113
Mon 6:45 – 9:30
Open to all undergraduates
Taking cues from a recent interest in the various activities that took place in the East Village from the late 60's through the late 80's, the course will observe the material remnants of a scene (scenes) at once Artistic, Literary, Cinematic, Avant Garde, Pop and above all Punk. Using the wealth of information present in the Fales Library archives as a start, two surveyors of this material will describe the histories that watched NYC transform from the archetypal local community into the archetypal global community. (Jason Murison, a director of PPOW gallery in Chelsea is an independent critic and curator whose writing has appeared most recently in Brooklyn Rail and Paper Monument. He is currently working on a project on New York's Lower East Side "No Wave" films and videos from the period.) (Brandon Stosuy, an associate editor at Paper Thin Walls, staff writer/columnist at Pitchfork, and columnist at Sterogum, is a regular contributor to The Believer, Spin, and other publications. He has written for Blackbook, Bookforum, L.A. Weekly, Slate, etc. Up Is Up, But So Is Down, his anthology of Downtown New York literature, was selected by the Village Voice as one of the 25 books of 2006.)
Design: Materials and Techniques
Instructor: Aaron McDannell
E90.0384
Art Majors Only. Prerequisite: Fundamentals of Digital Art.
The course is modeled on the techniques, processes and workflows of a design studio. Emphasis will be put on storyboarding, concept modeling and collaborative problem solving. Advanced techniques in Photoshop, Illustrator and Indesign will be explored through tutorials and assignments. The student will not only learn the working models of the design industry, but will also be encouraged to use the models to their full potential, thinking beyond the structures introduced to produce innovative results.
Foundations of Visual Culture
Nicholas Mirzoeff
E90.2120.01
T 2:00-3:40
This course offers incoming and current graduate students the foundations required for study in the interdisciplinary field of visual culture. Students will first be introduced to techniques of visual, textual and on-line research; and the requirements of interdisciplinary and cross-cultural research. The core of the class examines the histories and theories of vision and visuality that are central to the field, as well as the “ways of seeing” that are specific to visual culture. The class prepares students for the specific engagement with methodology and research topics offered in the subsequent “core” classes for the MA and PhD in Visual Culture.
History of New Media
RoseLee Goldberg
E90.2035.01
Tuesday 1:00-12:40
This course surveys developments since the 60’s in video, performance art, film-installations, digitized photography, CD Rom, computer art or art on the internet. New Dance, New Music, Visual Theater and the Spoken Word will also be discussed in this broad understanding of the term new media, as it applies to the history of fine arts.
Interdisciplinary Projects: Sex and Contemporary Art
Kathy Burkhart
E90.1022 section 001
M 12:30-3:50
Open to Art Majors only others by permission of undergraduate advisor. Prerequisite: Visual Arts Praxis or equivalent.This interdisciplinary class combines studio practice and critique with slide lectures, readings, audiovisual material and visits to relevant exhibitions. The course presents an introduction to the relationship between sexual liberation movements and contemporary visual culture, with a particular focus on developments in the last thirty-five years, from Womanhouse to ‘post-feminism’; from bra-burning to backlash, from bad girls to victims, from gay pride to queer theory, and from theory to praxis. Special attention is given to the relationship between historical feminist work and its influence and derivation in contemporary art practice today. The articulation of the 'female subject', and LGBT issues in art practice will also be addressed.
Interdisciplinary Projects: Visionaries and Saboteur
Jonathan Berger
E90.1022 section 002
T 12:30-:50
Prerequisite: Visual Arts Praxis
This interdisciplinary course focuses on how artists engage with "institutions" in contemporary culture. These many "institutions:" fashion, the museum, the store, the government, the home, and music among them, are all structures, which make up the world in which we live. We will look at how artists utilize these structures as a means to change the way we experience life and living. Each week will be geared towards a specific institution through slide lectures I will give, screenings of films, field trips, and guest artists. There will also be presentations and critiques of the work you make in response to the projects you choose to do, and presentations you will do on topics of interest to you.
Introduction to Galleries & Museums of New York
Vida Schreibman
Thursday/Friday 12:30-3:00 PM
E90.1082.01/2182
Open to all students.
This course will enable students to become more familiar with the vast number of visual art resources located in New York City. Through weekly site visits we will examine a variety of topical issues that relate to both the professional artist and art administrator. Informal meetings with key personnel will provide a behind-the-scenes perspective on internship and career opportunities within the gallery and museum setting.
Introduction to Visual Culture
Haley Mellin
E90.1220
MW 2:00-3:15
Satisfies the MAP requirement for Expressive Culture for Steinhardt (non-art major) students. Art majors make take this as a department elective.
Visual culture studies how and why different modern ways of seeing have come to play a prominent role in contemporary society. The discipline draws from many established fields such as art history, film and media studies, sociology, internet culture and the history of vision itself. This course provides a broad conceptual introduction to visual culture, covering a range of media including painting, photography, film, television and the Internet.
Projects in Digital Art: Flash Website Design
Kathleen Graves
W 12:30-3:50 pm
E90.1652/2652
Open to all students. Prerequisite: one class in digital art
At Last – Create a Flash Website. This is a tech driven class with intense tutorials. Flash is Fun and you will be able to design and implement your own Flash Website. A textbook with exercises is required. I assign homework weekly from the text and give pop quizzes. We will have discussions about innovative functionality for artists on the Internet. Additionally, we’ll construct design and content through drawings and probative, insightful feedback as a group.
Projects in Printmaking “Book as Art”
Instructor: Trini Dalton
M 2-5:20 pm
E90.1670/2672
Open to all students.
Emphasizing a handmade approach to book making, this course will focus on the history of DIY aesthetics in book design with particular emphasis on collage, experimental book structures, and hand-rendered type. Art historical slide lectures about collage, revolutionary printed matter, zines, and books as sculptural objects will complement printmaking workshops in which students are encouraged to compare traditional concepts of the book with expanded possibilities. Students are expected to generate their own books for critiques, utilizing the print studio (such as letterpress or silkscreen) or other fine art mediums. The instructor will discuss how a book's structural elements support content to consider slippages between craft and fine art. Assignments investigating editorial structure, imagery, layout, typography, bookbinding, and cover design will illustrate the multiple stages involved in book coordination. Discussions of contemporary book publishers and designers will help students grasp currents and trends in today's book market. Though this course focuses on a book's visual aspects with emphasis in printmaking, textual matters are crucial in the study of book design and reading and writing will be required to underscore the fundamental connection between text and image.
Projects in Sculpture: Light Metals
Claus Burgel
E90.1646/2646 section 001
Prerequisite: two sculpture or jewelry classes and Junior or Senior standing.
This class is for students interested in challenging their abilities and motivated to develop a better understanding of metal as a media of three dimensional thinking and object making. The aim of this course is to to explore the physical and visual properties of metal, strengthen awareness of the underlying meaning of material and execution and to train a repertoire of fundamental technical skills used in metalsmithing and jewelrymaking along with the correct use of hand and studio equipment. This is a course that engages the independent minded sculpture student to achieve proficiency in a variety of metal working skills, nameriveting, soldering, piercing, and move on to more advanced work such as die-forming and complex scoring and folding.