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Painting and Acrylics is an introductory studio art course open to all students. In this class you will be exposed to a range of strategies and subject matter for painting with acrylics. Each week students will be shown new techniques and asked to put them into practice with class projects e.g., cloud painting, self-portraits, and making your own masterpiece. At the end of this course students will understand how to use acrylic paint to render any and all representational subject matter.

This class will provide students with different techniques, inspiration, and exercises to experiment Drawing as a tool for invention and discovery. Exploring materials such as charcoal, pastel, and ink, students will be involved in drawing exercises for the development of an individual language or research. We will approach drawing as a language with many uses and "speakers" instead of an established academic tool. Each week we will take inspiration from the drawings of filmmakers, animators, sculptors, illustrators, and artists to copy their styles as a way of learning, and exploring their language and thought. The classes will start with simple drawing exercises to warm up, then proceed to look at the drawings of different kinds of artists to copy the linework, thinking, and techniques in class as a way of exploring the different possibilities and materialities of the medium. No previous experience is required, open to all students, majors, and non-majors, at all skill levels.

This studio and lecture course situates the history of internet art within broader narratives of networks, computing, and digital culture. We will explore theory, history, and practice of art on the internet, following its evolution from the birth of the web, through Web 2.0, and into the contemporary era of so-called AI. You will engage in close study of canonical works of internet art along with foundational texts in media theory, digital preservation, history of technology, hacker culture, and cybernetics. You will also make websites, break software, and explore the dying art of *surfing* the web. This course emphasizes curiosity and creativity over held knowledge. It should be resonant whether or not you've ever written a line of code, and supportive of your ability to navigate the internet with agency.

In this 4-unit course, students will explore the transformative potential of Augmented Reality (AR) as a medium for artistic expression and intervention in public spaces. The course delves into the world of interactive AR art, equipping students with the skills to create site-specific AR interventions that not only transform public spaces but also unlock historically important, unseen, or politically relevant layers of these spaces. The course covers storytelling techniques, audio recording and editing, and the use of Unity and other spatial tools for AR creation, equipping students with the skills to weave complex narratives into their AR projects. These narratives can bring to light the hidden histories, untold stories, and socio-political nuances of the chosen spaces, adding a depth of meaning and engagement to their work. Students will engage in a series of projects, culminating in a final project where they will create an interactive, immersive AR piece for a specific location on campus

Students use electronics and software to create kinetic and interactive elements in artwork. No prior knowledge of electronics or software is required. Students learn to program the Arduino, a small easy-to-use microprocessor control unit ( see http://www.arduino.cc/ ). Learn to connect various sensors such as light, motion, sound and touch and use them to control software. Learn to interface actuators like motors, lights and solenoids to create movement. Learn to connect the Arduino to theMAX/MSP/Jitter programming environment to create media-intensive video and audio environments. Explore the social dimensions of electronic art. (lower level)

Acoustic, digital and analog approaches to sound art. Familiarization with techniques of listening, recording, digital processing and production. Required listening and readings in the history and contemporary practice of sound art. (lower level)

Storytelling Through Light is an intermediate digital photography course designed to teach students the fundamentals of using light to construct narratives, communicate emotions and create evocative images. Through lectures, screenings and hands-on practice, students will gain a better understanding of how light works in photography and how it can be used to affect the mood, atmosphere and overall look of their work. Most weeks involve an Outdoor Shoot to a location on the Stanford campus for demonstration and real-time practice. Students should be expected to have prior understanding of fundamental principles of camera operation, shooting in manual mode, and editing. Students can use either their smartphone or a DSLR.

This 2-unit studio course introduces students to still-life photography. Students will create photographs using personal and found objects, focusing on placement, scale, lighting, and perspective. Weekly assignments will develop compositional skills. The course aims to teach students how image arrangements communicate and provide vocabulary for discussing, appreciating, and evaluating still-life photography. Through hands-on practice and group discussions, students will deepen their understanding of visual communication in still-life imagery.

This course investigates the practice of re-photography as a critical and creative method for reimagining personal, collective, and diasporic archives. Bringing together diverse concepts of bricolage and postcolonial theory, students will explore how artists employ fragmentary and contemporaneous frameworks to challenge hegemonic narratives of Western-colonial history. Through an interdisciplinary approach that bridges photography, sculpture, and film, this class will consider how materiality, authorship, and temporality intersect within diasporic cultural production to resist the imposed order of the colonial matrix of power. Students will engage with the works and methodologies of contemporary artists such as Sarah Sze, Andina Marie, Bahar Enshaeian, Dawit Petros, Eve Tagny, Gonzalo Reyes Rodriguez, Karice Mitchell, Luther Konadu, Olukemi Lijadu, Sandra Brewster, Timothy Yanick Hunter, Zinnia Naqvi, Zun Lee, Ernesto Cabral de Luna, Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Oghobase Abraham, Alana Fields, and Abass Kelani, among others. In addition to critical readings and discussions, students will experiment with material languaging and interdisciplinary modes of making, utilizing the Print Lab and Wood Shop to realize their own projects. The course will culminate in a public exhibition at McMurtry, where students will present works that probe the sculptural and filmic potentials of photography as a medium of remembrance, resistance, and futurity.