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The course is an immersive exploration of the creative possibilities offered by interactive media, focusing on integrating video, sound, and physical elements to construct captivating worlds and experiences. Students will learn the fundamental principles of storytelling, spatial design, sound design, and interactive technologies and apply them to create engaging and interactive installations. This course provides a unique opportunity to delve into installation art, projection mapping, Touch Designer, and Arduino circuits and sensors. Throughout the course, students will gain hands-on experience designing and developing immersive environments, learning how to construct interactive narratives, incorporate soundscapes, and employ cutting-edge technologies. They will explore the power of projection mapping to transform physical spaces, understand the capabilities of Touch Designer for building interactive video and sound systems, and harness the potential of Arduino circuits and sensors to integrate physical elements into their installations. Prerequisites: None. This course is open to students interested in creative media, art, storytelling, and technology. Basic familiarity with multimedia tools and concepts is beneficial but not required.

This introductory photography course invites students to explore, reflect on, and be inspired by the color blue. Through the historical process of cyanotype, a low-cost photographic printing method from over a century ago now echoed in contemporary aesthetics such as Instagram filters, students will create their own blue-toned images and artworks. Co-taught with the department's Photography Professor, the course uses these "blueprints" as a foundation to examine blue as a physical, natural, artistic, and spiritual phenomenon. Students will engage with themes of site specificity, ecological memory, migration, and transformation, while also learning research-based practices that consider the histories of California and of students themselves, and explore how these histories intersect with broader global narratives. Field trips will offer opportunities for on-site research, and the course will culminate in the creation of a large-scale installation in the Coulter Art Gallery. Students will use their own cell phone cameras, and all necessary software and materials will be provided.

Painting and the Figure is an introductory painting course designed to equip students with a toolkit for depicting the figure in different ways, using acrylic paint as a material constraint. Students will be exposed to weekly slide lectures comprising work from contemporary artists. The slide lectures will highlight different strategies for depicting the figure based on the artistic goals and style of each artist we review. Students will be asked to complete weekly assignments and projects to put these ideas into practice and build confidence in their powers of observation and composition. Individual feedback will be given throughout the quarter and group critiques will be held at the end of each project. Active participation in discussion is strongly encouraged.

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Relief printing, being one of the oldest forms of printmaking techniques, involves inking a carved block or plate on its non-recessed surface and then transferring it onto paper. Throughout this introductory course, we will examine examples dating back to 9th century China up to the present, exploring a diverse range of possibilities ranging from traditional to contemporary styles. Students will acquire proficiency in various techniques, including linoleum and wood, while also having the opportunity to explore unconventional materials. Class time will encompass demonstrations, presentations, critique sessions, and dedicated independent work time. Students should anticipate creating two editions of their prints and participating in a class print exchange.

In this introductory course, students will develop a technical foundation in etching, allowing them to create and edition original intaglio prints. With a conceptual emphasis on print as a fundamentally and historically collaborative medium, students will first learn the skills needed to produce their own etchings, then will work in groups to assist each other in the process of creating an editioned artist's print. Course instruction will guide students through the process of designing an image, translating it into the marks and gestures available through etching, and producing a clean and consistent edition. Class time will consist of presentations, demonstrations, critique, and instructor-assisted work time.

In this studio art course combining theory and practice, students will gain the knowledge to critically examine and challenge the traditional structures of archives and data collection. We discuss topics in relation to data ownership, information access, digital colonialism, AI libraries, cultural heritage, and alternative radical modes of knowledge production. What do we really mean when we say decolonize? Who should have access to a particular story, archival folder, or technological legacy? How can we go beyond decolonization as a theory or metaphor and arrive at a tangible practice of dismantling dominant power structures? Students engage in readings and hands-on creative projects that challenge traditional archival practices and produce alternative narratives using basic video production tools and AI-created imagery.

In our present day, multidisciplinary art making is everywhere. With the sheer amount of access we have to information at our fingertips, genres continue to blur, and artists are constantly employing more than one discipline to create work. Painters are also installation artists, composers are also performers, and photographers are also digital media artists. With a multi-faceted approach that centers research, collaboration, play, and generative exercises, in Multidisciplinary Art Making, students will explore different art forms to create composite pieces throughout the Summer. Embracing a spirited Do-It-Yourself ethos, students will be challenged to experiment with multiple art forms to create new and exciting work.

How do music and art relate? How does one speak for, with, the other? In the past century, Western visual art turned towards abstraction and time-based works. Techniques and processes for interaction between image and sound expanded dramatically. What better place to learn about them than the Anderson Collection? Through students' own visual and aural creations, we will explore and share individual approaches to time, symbol, memory, and meaning. Previous experience in music composition is welcome but not required. This course must be taken for a minimum of 3 units and a letter grade to be eligible for Ways-AII credit.