INTEGRATED ARTS

INTEGRATED ARTS

Integrated Arts courses are primarily designed to combine the study of two or more arts, whether from a critical-historical point of view, or within creative workshops. Note that the courses may be cross-listed from other programs.

CRN	92454	Distribution	A/F
Course No.	IA 2122 / LIT
Title	Exploding Text: Poetry Performance
Professor	Bob Holman
Schedule	Fr 11:00 am - 1:00 pm OLIN 101

Language is the essence of humanity; poetry is the essence of language. The reemergence of the oral tradition in the digital age has given an edge to word art which this course follows to the culture heart. Exploding Text is a hands-on exploration of a full-bodied literature, providing a theoretical basis for spoken word poetics via deep reading and analysis of text with a launch into physical analogues via performance practice. There is a microphone in the room. This semester we will concentrate on freestyle, thinking with tongue, and the epic poem, The Battlefield Where the Moon Says I Love You by Frank Stanford. Hiphop, Dada, Futurism, New York School, Rock, Beat, Black Mountain and other traditions weave through the curriculum. We engage media other than print: video and audio recording, live music collaborations, poets theater, and the internet are all considered - visual artists are especially urged to apply. Students will participate in class collaborations with painters and musicians, and create a performance in at least two media as a final project. Several classes will be held at The Bowery Poetry Club in NYC, where we will be visited by a variety of NYC artists and have a chance to discuss their work with them.

CRN	92252	Distribution	F
Course No.	IA 301
Title	Major Conference: Location Recording For Music And Media Makers
Professor	Peggy Ahwesh / Bob Bielecki
Schedule	Tu 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Cross-listed: Film

This course is an investigation of the natural environment through various mediating recording technologies which enhance, refine or make manifest the qualities of the environment, some techniques offering sights and sounds beyond the conventional spectrum of our eyes and ears. This is a workshop for students interested in location sound recording, sound effects, ambiant environmental recordings, use of contact mics, very low frequency radio and the complementary and associated image capturing techniques: such as, infrared photography, night vision, pinhole and time lapse, among others. Each student is responsible for several short audio and video works made on location and a final project which could be a film or video, music composition or media installation. We will rarely meet in the classroom. Students must be willing and able to travel away from campus for short field trips during the scheduled class time.

CRN	92413	Distribution	A
Course No.	IA 310 / PHOT
Title	The Real, the Ideal and the Challenge of Representation
Professor	Laurie Dahlberg
Schedule	Th 10:30 am - 12:50 pm OLIN 301

Cross-listed: Art History, Photography

The contest between realism and idealism has been central to the discourse of art for centuries. This debate took on particular force in 1839 with the advent of photography, which exploded previously imagined limits of the representation of the "real" in visual art. Until recently, painting and photography have typically been viewed as strange bedfellows in the world of modern art, rendered mutually exclusive by a set of essential differences. This course reconsiders those old assumptions and the shifting, often indeterminate positions of painting and photography around those seemingly opposite poles of the real and the ideal. We will also consider how and why painting and photography have each been embraced as the optimal medium of modernity in different moments. Finally, in addition to studying the historically determined differences between these two media, we will examine their common ground, and the implications of their new rapprochement through the technology of digital imaging. Significant reading in 19th and 20th century art, short writing assignment(s), gallery visit(s) and a final paper will be required. Prerequisite: at least one art history course or history of photography course.

CRN	92340	Distribution	F
Course No.	IA 319 / FILM
Title	Reading Texts: The Robot
Professor	Leah Gilliam
Schedule	Mon 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm HDR 106

This think-tank styled seminar will consider the shifting boundaries between human and machine. With a specific emphasis on the robot and autonomous, service-oriented, "thinking" machines, we'll consider everything from Jacques de Vaucanson's 18th Century mechanical duck to the pesky software bots that disabled eToys®. Through discussion, directed readings, presentations and field work, we'll examine specific theories, art practices and representations. Queries to include: How is our impassioned ambivalence towards automation and digitization filtered through creative practices? How do issues of mastery, control, identity and experience broached by robotics and artificial intelligence relate to actual histories of labor, domination and enslavement? Robots to include: Dr. Frankenstein's Monster, Asimo, HAL, Maria, the CoWorker, Sojourner rover, Stepford Wives.

CRN	92410	Distribution	A
Course No.	THTR 334
Title	Artists in Education
Professor	Shelley Wyant
Schedule	Tu 1:10 pm - 4:10 pm AVA

Cross-listed: Integrated Arts

See Theater section for description.

ADDITIONAL COURSES CROSS-LISTED IN INTEGRATED ARTS:

ART 100 Introductions to Cybergraphics

ART 300 Cybergraphics III: Virtual Sculpture

FILM 303 Film in the Age of Digital Media

FILM 362 Electronic Discourses: Art and the Internet

PHOT 213 Photography and the Human Condition

THTR 325 Site Specific Theater Workshop