ART 260 Art in Motion: Real and Recorded (5 credits)
Distribution Area Fulfilled Humanities with Performance; General Transfer Elective
Course Description
A studio course that will introduce concepts of time-based artwork using a variety of processes and media. Students explore concepts of sequence, interactivity, process and documentation through video, audio and performance as an art.
Course Content
A. Basic formal design concepts, elements, and principles of time-based art.
B. Time-based processes, including sound, image, moving image, digital media, performance, and site-based concerns.
C. Basic video and audio editing.
D. Concepts of time as an art form.
E. Concepts of performance as an art form.
F. Interdisciplinary practice – the use of combined media in fine art and design.
G. The history of time-based media as an art form.
H. Conceptual awareness
I. The design process
Student Outcomes
1. Demonstrate knowledge of the terminology and processes that connect all time-based modes of creating art through created projects and written assignments.
2. Create and respond to class projects, from ideation to fruition, showing the progression of a work through sketches, experiments, and demonstrations to its final version.
3. Properly use the tools and technology related to time-based art presented through class projects.
4. Observe and utilize conceptual choices, tools/technology, and their outcomes to produce work that contains content reflective of those choices.
5. Consider and implement a level of finish appropriate to the medium in order to convey concept and context.
6. Engage in a constructive critical discourse and theory about time-based work of art through verbal and written critiques.
7. Explain the importance of context in time-based artwork, in relation to art history and contemporary practice.
Degree Outcomes
Humanities: Graduates acquire skills to critically interpret, analyze and evaluate forms of human expression, and create and perform as an expression of the human experience.
Critical, Creative and Reflective Thinking: Graduates will evaluate, analyze, synthesize, and generate ideas; construct informed, meaningful, and justifiable conclusions; and process feelings, beliefs, biases, strengths, and weaknesses as they relate to their thinking, decisions, and creations.
Effective Communication: Graduates will be able to exchange messages in a variety of contexts using multiple methods.
Lecture Contact Hours 35
Lab Contact Hours 30
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 65
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