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Course Description:
Media Studio: Imaging and Interactivity is an introductory studio arts
course in digital photography, web design and interactive multimedia for
creative expression. Inquiry and experimentation are encouraged as students
develop basic skills through a series of short studies and a student
directed final project.
Projects reflect equal attention to student’s conceptual,
technical and artistic development. Screenings, related readings and
discussions of influential themes help give background to the history and
theory of contemporary artistic practice in a highly technological and
scientific culture.
The course includes a lecture and a studio lab. Lectures
provide an overview of digital arts and related cultural issues which
inform the required projects. Studio labs consist of skills development
workshops and critiques.
Students are also required to read, think and write critical responses on
essays concerning ethical, artistic and sociological issues of contemporary
society such as the influence of the military in new media and the role of
artists in the emerging field of nanotechnology.
Readings include:
New Media from
Borges to HTML
By Lev Manovich
Practices of Looking:
An Introduction to Visual Culture
by Marita Sturken, Lisa
Cartwright:
On Photography
By Susan Sontag
The Nanomeme Syndrome: Blurring of fact & fiction in
the construction of a new science
by Jim Gimzewski and Victoria Vesna
Nanotechnology: Issues
by Rudy Baum
Theaters of War: The
Military-Entertainment Complex
By Tim Lenoir and Henry Lowood
4 credit hours
Fall semester 2006
Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute (RPI)
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