An introduction to the use of digital media in the context of contemporary art practice. Students explore content development and design principles through a series of projects involving text, still image and moving image. This class involves critical discussions of studio projects in relation to contemporary art and theory. A required fee of $25 to cover group-supplied materials is charged at the time of registration. Enrollment limited to 14.

Students may take up to two semesters of ARH 291, “Topics in Art History,” as long as the topics are different.: This course looks at the famed third-century BCE library at Alexandria, Egypt, precedents like the library of the Assyrian king Assurbanipal at Nineveh (with epics and omen texts on clay tablets) and later extant examples like the Library of Celsus at Ephesus to discuss the development of the library as a public building type.

Topics course. Students may take up to four semesters of ARH 280 Art Historical Studies, as long as the topics are different.: This colloquium explores Latin America’s designed objects and spaces of the twentieth century. In addition to material objects, we will investigate various design philosophies and strategies in the region, considering them within global design discourses.

Topics course. Students may take up to four semesters of ARH 280 Art Historical Studies, as long as the topics are different.: For more than a thousand years, ink has been maintained as the principal medium of painting and calligraphy in East Asia. This course surveys the continuities and ruptures of East Asian ink art seen through the formal, cultural, and political factors. It also unravels the constant re-appropriation of the “archaic” medium.

Topics course. Students may take up to four semesters of ARH 280 Art Historical Studies, as long as the topics are different.: In 2012, Kodak declared bankruptcy and the OED’s 2013 Word of the Year was “selfie.” These historical events signal a transformative moment in vernacular photography: analog practices have been eclipsed by digital, dematerialized operations. This course reflects back on these material objects: snapshots, amateur or vernacular photographs.

Same as ARH 247. Will books as material objects disappear in your lifetime? Or will the book, a remarkably long-lived piece of communication technology, continue to flourish and develop alongside its electronic counterparts? This course surveys the history of books from the ancient world through medieval manuscripts, hand press books, and machine press books to the digital media of today. We discover how books were made, read, circulated and used in different eras, and explore the role they have played over time in social, political, scientific and cultural change.

Same as ENG 293. Will books as material objects disappear in your lifetime? Or will the book, a remarkably long-lived piece of communication technology, continue to flourish and develop alongside its electronic counterparts? This course surveys the history of books from the ancient world through medieval manuscripts, hand press books, and machine press books to the digital media of today. We discover how books were made, read, circulated and used in different eras, and explore the role they have played over time in social, political, scientific and cultural change.

This course explores how art and architecture have profoundly shaped visual experiences and shifting understandings of the past and present. Featuring different case studies, each section includes work with original objects, site visits and writings about art.

This course explores how art and architecture have profoundly shaped visual experiences and shifting understandings of the past and present. Featuring different case studies, each section includes work with original objects, site visits and writings about art.

This course is designed for graduating South Asia concentrators. The goal is to provide an opportunity for every student to synthesize the material to which she has been exposed through her concentration courses and internships, and to present her integrating project to the rest of the class for feedback. The product of such work is presented publicly at the Collaborations event in April. Students read assigned material, do Moodle posts and participate in class discussion. The course meets for the first seven weeks in a semester.