ART 122 Foundations in Motion 4-D
This course is designed to give you a foundational introduction to, and practice with, the aesthetics and histories of video art and its correlations to other digital media. You will explore the technical, theoretical, and conceptual facets of the digital video medium as a means of informing your own art-making process. Photoshop and iMovie will be used as software to compose along with digital SLR cameras. Student projects, notebooks, reading and exams will be required to complete the class.
Prerequisite
Prerequisite:
ART 120 Foundations in Digital Imaging Processes or
ART 121 Computers in Visual Arts with a grade of C or better.
Offered
Offered Fall only
Notes
Lower Division Transfer (LDT) Course
Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
Create videos with attention to issues of audience and interactivity as well as issues of race, gender, and identity. Write critically about art video in the context of both its origins and contemporary practices and have this critical foundation provide a framework for your own video work. Exploit the medium of video in combination with other media. Have a working verbal and visual vocabulary of art video as a springboard to further exploration of art video beyond this course.