Analog photography is an introduction to traditional, darkroom-based, B&W photography. In this class, we will cover basic camera and darkroom skills, including the use of medium format cameras, exposing and developing film, and making traditional 8x10 silver gelatin prints. In addition to acquiring a working knowledge of analogue techniques, the class will concentrate on how to critically read and interpret photographs by engaging in weekly critiques of students' work.

This course will explore a range of experimental musical practices and various approaches to thinking theoretically and critically about them. We will consider musical forms such as minimalism, indeterminacy, musique concrete, free improvisation, turntablism, and electronica, and examine these via texts by theorists, composers, and musicians. Investigating different modes of listening to and talking about contemporary music, we will ask such questions as: What are the relationships between music, noise, sound, and silence?

What is power? Who or what has it? How is it exercised? Are we ever power-less? If not, what power do we have and how can we exercise it? To understand what power we have, we need to understand the systems and structures that control and shape our actions, thoughts, and capabilities. In this course, we will examine how power and power relations have shifted over time and examine various systems of modern power: sovereign power, disciplinary power, biopower and necropolitics, societies of control, surveillance capitalism, etc.

This course invites students to investigate the indistinct borders between two-dimensional art, multi-media art installations, and performative art forms. With a focus on abstraction and non-representational studio art practice, students will learn how to develop an individual approach to a subject matter through research, assigned readings, and digital image lectures. While exploring visual culture from a transcultural perspective, we will as well address issues such as composition and color theory.

This seminar on media analysis and production will consider how constructions of power are embodied in technologies and conversely, how technologies shape our notions of authority and how we actively mobilize against it. In recent years, access to information and images has shifted dramatically. Handheld technologies, social media networks, live web-streaming, video games, and podcasts eclipse mass-media broadcast channels distributing entertainment, news, and information.

All designed objects share one thing in common--they are engineered interactions between objects and bodies. While each wholly unique, the central connection between all artistic and creative practices is the human experience. This course critiques object-centrism in design and explores the philosophical, physiological and experiential relationship between objects and bodies. This course covers topics of time/narrative, phenomenology/sensation, language, aesthetics and function through a non-disciplinary lens as a means to discuss, describe and apply a subject-centric approach to design.

Students will gain experience in the fundamentals of painting, including color, composition, materials and technical considerations. We will explore a range of painting surfaces, sizes, materials and artistic approaches. Assignments will include color mixing, landscape, self-portrait, figure painting, conceptual painting, narrative painting, and work inspired by street art and graffiti. Assigned readings, artist research, individual critique, group discussions, slide presentations and film screenings will round out the experience. Every student will be expected to keep a sketchbook.

This course will introduce students to the production of animated short films with the tools and techniques of three-dimensional (3D) computer graphics. Readings and lectures will cover the theoretical foundations of the field, and the homework assignments will provide hands-on, project-based experience with production. The topics covered will include modeling (the building of 3D objects), shading (assignment of surface reflectance properties), animation (moving the objects over time), and lighting (placing and setting the properties of virtual light sources).

This course is designed to give students a strong introduction to concept art using digital tools. No experience is necessary, and all students are welcome! By the end of the course, successful students will be able to create concept art using a variety of digital tools, and will provide a solid foundation for further digital art courses.