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ARCHIVED COURSES
FALL 2009 Course Offerings
IART 3395/ 6395: Selected Topics in Interdisciplinary Arts / 3 Cr. "Mitchell Center Mentorships"
Description: Many creative endeavors are driven by context and broad engagement in social, geographical, or historical environments. This class provides a small group of advanced level undergraduate and graduate students, across and beyond the arts, to work directly with Mitchell Center visitors at various stages of planning, implementation and realization of the visiting artists’ projects and for those students to have direct input from visiting artists and faculty in the realization of their own projects.
Participating students work on their own projects addressing ideas of collaboration and social interaction within a community context. All phases of project development are explored, including research, feasibility, project proposals, execution and documentation. These processes are guided by a UH faculty member, who also provides the historic and aesthetic contexts to realize projects that are timely and relevant. Additionally, students engage with Mitchell Center visitors at various stages of planning, implementation and realization of their projects. To bring the experience full circle, Mitchell Center visitors mentor students through review and critique of student projects, with attention to the effectiveness of strategies of social interaction.
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Prerequisite: IART 3300, or consent of the instructor. Course may be repeated for credit when topics vary.
Instructor: J. Hill
Time: Monday/Wednesday 2:00–5:00 pm
Room: FA 318
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IART 3395/ 6395: Selected Topics in Interdisciplinary Arts / 3 Cr. "Digital Tools and Technology for Collaboration"
Description: A laboratory focused on tools that visual, movement, sound, and text artists may use to collaborate without the obstacles of discipline-specific vocabulary. Technologies may include the Apple iLife package, Mac-based software, and motion capture technology.
Prerequisite: IART 3300, or consent of the instructor. Course may be repeated for credit when topics vary.
Instructor: Abinadi Meza
Time: Monday/Wednesday 11:00–2:00 pm
Room: FA 318
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SPRING 2009 Course Offerings
IART 3395/ 6395: Selected Topics in Interdisciplinary Arts / 3 Cr. "Efficacy in Practice"
Description: "Efficacy in Practice" is a course that will survey a range of activist practices through presentation and discussion around the work of various artists and collectives. Students will take an active roll by outlining their own concerns and experimenting with diverse modes of making through assignments involving collaborative approaches, web-based projects, and projects that explore and reinterpret history. This course looks at an array of practices that address political, social, and cultural themes. Relational aesthetics, community activism, green / environmental and land based work, various collaborative practices, and other politically charged modes of art making will be presented and discussed. Through class discussion, students will become familiar with contemporary reception and theory around an array of activist practices. A range of visiting artists and curators will visit with the class to talk about their practices and answer questions.
Prerequisite: IART 3300, or consent of the instructor. Course may be repeated for credit when topics vary.
Instructor: Sasha Dela
Time: Monday 5:00–8:00 pm
Room: FA 318 |