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Wednesday, March 30, 2011

ASTU 5450 Now Offered Fall 2011

We are proud to offer our first Graduate New Media Art Studio this fall.
Priority will be given to MFA candidates, though grads from all disciplines are welcome. Direct students to Shane Mecklenburger for enrollment codes.

COLLABORATING WITH THE ENEMY
ASTU 5450: Graduate New Media Studio, Fall 2011
Instructor: Shane Mecklenburger, Assistant Professor of New Media Art

This combination seminar/studio course explores strategies of "COLLABORATING WITH THE ENEMY" as a broadly and collectively defined conceptual lens. Through discussion, art making and research by course participants, we will critically examine, articulate and re-imagine contemporary art practices and histories. Special attention will be given to interdisciplinary concerns between the arts and sciences.

Among topics addressed:

  • The nature, limits and potential definitions of COLLABORATION;
  • Potential constructions of THE ENEMY in art practices and cultures;
  • The usefulness of BARRIERS || the BARRIER as an art material;
  • Concurrent developments in the histories of ART & WAR;
  • Concurrent developments in WAR & SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGIES;
  • TECHNOLOGIES as manifestations of material power;
  • NETWORKS as manifestations of material power;
  • Effects of PERCEIVED VALUE on ART & SCIENCE;
  • Effects of PERCEIVED PURPOSE on ART & SCIENCE;
  • The limits of INTERDISCIPLINARITY;
  • CONFLICTS inherent in art activities;
  • COLLECTIVE MEMORY;
  • Strategies of INTERVENTION;
  • Notions of SECURITY;

Best Regards,

Shane Mecklenburger
Assistant Professor of New Media Art