Course:
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ARTS 208 Understanding
Social Media |
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Professor:
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Fahmid Haq |
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CRN: |
15928 |
Schedule/Location: |
Mon Wed 11:50 AM
- 1:10 PM Henderson Computer Ctr Annex 106 |
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Distributional Area: |
AA Analysis of Art |
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Credits: 4 |
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Class cap: 20 |
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Crosslists: Experimental Humanities |
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Doing social media projects practically and analyzing their
role critically are two main objectives of the course. This course will raise
some critical question that evolve around social media which will include –
surveillance and privacy, labor, big data, misinformation, cyborg and
cyberfeminism. Topics will include the socio-historical perspectives regarding
technology and society, the nature and characteristics of different social
media such as Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, snapchat and more, big data
capitalism and imperialism, civic engagement through digital platforms,
mainstream media’s compelling realities to be more ‘social’, misinformation,
racism and right-wing authoritarianism in social media, the role of social
media influencers, branding and social media marketing and an exploration for a
true social media. The course will draw from a broad range of social theory
including communication and cultural theories, political economy and media
anthropology to critically evaluate the impact of social media on human
relationships, activism, branding, politics, news production and dissemination
and identity formation. Theoretical notions such as hyperreality by Jean
Baudrillard, network society by Manuel Castells and digital labor by Christian
Fuchs will be discussed in the class. As ‘prosumers’, students will create
social media projects and analyze some trendy cases evident in different platforms.
Course:
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ARTS 309 Vibrant
Matter: Archives of Contestation and Reanimation |
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Professor:
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Krista Caballero |
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CRN: |
15926 |
Schedule/Location: |
Wed 3:30 PM
- 6:30 PM New Annandale House |
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Distributional Area: |
PA Practicing Arts |
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Credits: 4 |
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Class cap: 12 |
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Crosslists: America Studies; Experimental Humanities; Human Rights |
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This advanced course will investigate the “aliveness” of
archives and collections and what political theorist Jane Bennett describes as
vibrant matter – that capacity of things “to act as quasi agents or forces with
trajectories, propensities, or tendencies of their own.” We will take up this
idea of archives and collections as a kind of lively, vibrant matter while
simultaneously exploring ways they reveal which bodies and whose histories
matter. Students will work in the media of their choosing to create artwork
utilizing archives as a tool for both contestation and reanimation. Alongside
this creative making will be an examination of key theoretical texts with
emphasis on those that center indigenous scholarship and BIPOC artists. As
such, course readings, active participation in class discussions as well as
group critique will be key to our investigation. Topics will include: collective
memory and erasure; repatriation and decolonization; fragmentation and digital
accumulation; the collection and indexing of other species; agency and control.
An integral component of this course will also include site-visits to both on
and off-campus archives such as the Associated Press in NYC, Hudsonia at the
Bard College Field Station, and local historical societies. Prerequisite: at
least one 200 level practicing arts course.
Course:
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ARTS 314 Beyond
Bollywood: Mapping South Asian Cinema |
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Professor:
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Fahmid Haq |
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CRN: |
15927 |
Schedule/Location: |
Tue Thurs 10:10 AM
- 11:30 AM OSUN |
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Distributional Area: |
AA Analysis of Art |
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Credits: 4 |
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Class cap: 16 |
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Crosslists: Experimental Humanities |
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South Asian Cinema is nearly synonymous with Indian Cinema to
the international audience, though other South Asian countries such as
Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal have developed strong film cultures
too. The objective of the course is mapping the cine profile of the South Asian
countries and examining Bollywood’s hegemonic presence in the region. This
seminar course will study some cases across a range of South Asian Cinema
cultures by exploring their common as well as different cultural backgrounds,
historiography, and sociopolitical realities. Topics will include both
historical and contemporary cinematic practices in South Asian countries such
as the Partition of India in South Asian Cinema, cinematic representation of
the Liberation War of Bangladesh, Bollywood’s cultural influence in other South
Asian countries, portrayal of Kashmir in Indian cinema, diasporic Indian cinema
and ‘other Bollywood’ cinema. Films by directors such as Raj Kapoor, Satyajit
Ray, Ritwik Ghatak and Anurag Kashyap from India, Zahir Raihan, Alamgir Kabir
and Tareque Masud from Bangladesh, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy and Shoaib Mansoor
from Pakistan, and Lester James Peries from Sri Lanka will be studied closely. This is an
OSUN class and is open to Bard students as well as students from multiple OSUN
partner institutions.