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