ClassInfo - Fall 2017 Art Classes

Fall 2017 | ARTS 5610 Section 001: New Media: Making Art Interactive (17150)

Instructor(s): Diane Willow
Class Component:: Laboratory
Credits:: 4 Credits
Grading Basis:: Student Option
Instructor Consent:: No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:: In Person Term Based
Meets With:: ARTS 3240 Section 001
Times and Locations:: Regular Academic Session

09/05/2017 - 12/13/2017

Mon, Wed 09:05AM - 12:05PM

UMTC, West Bank

Regis Center for Art W123

Course Catalog Description:: Conceptual/aesthetic development with digital, interactive art. Experimental approaches to interactive technologies. Projects with responsive/tangible media. Theory/history of new media. prereq: 3601 or instr consent
Class Description:: New Media :: Making Art Interactive introduces new ways of imagining and creating art that transforms the role of viewers into participants. During the semester we will use the concept of permeable boundaries to begin our explorations with interactive art. This theme will spark a series of playful studio and public art processes as well as a semester-long independent project. Through a series of individual and collaborative explorations, we will experiment with interactive art as a form of experience, a creative process, and a way of conceptualizing artistic ideas. We will learn about tangible media, a hybrid medium that involves digital technologies that connect us with our sensory experience of the physical world. The course is structured to encourage the emergence of a community of learners that benefits from the active exchange of ideas and resources from each participant as well as the extended open source communities of ideas that we access online. New Media :: Making Art Interactive focuses on dynamic art, art that interacts with your sense of time, place, and social space.
Who Should Take This Class?:: This course is designed for all students interested in art that is experiential and requires the participation of people. The mix of students from art, architecture, engineering, computer science, dance, theater, poetry and music make this a very dynamic experience.
Grading:: 40% Special Projects
20% In-class Presentations
20% Class Participation
20% Other Evaluation
Exam Format:: critiques
Class Format:: 15% Lecture
20% Discussion
40% Small Group Activities
15% Student Presentations
5% Field Trips
5% Guest Speakers
Workload:: 3 Special Project(s)
Other Workload: 1 artist presentation a series of short project idea sketches 1 project concept proposal weekly blog posts weekly short readings for discussion
Textbooks:: https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/17150/1179
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:: 29 June 2017

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