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ARHI 187 SC-01: Old New Media

  • Instructor: Hackbarth, Daniel
    • Tuesday, 2:45-5:30 PM
    • Baxter Hall Room 108
    • Art History

Beginning with the birth of photography in the 1830s, attending to telegraphy, telephony, radio, and television, and ending with video, this seminar explores the history of the fascination, fear, and peculiar associations that have accompanied new technological developments in Europe and the United States. Prerequisite(s): One previous art history course or permission of the instructor.

ART 134 SC-01: Trad & Digital Printmaking

  • Instructor: Zaleha, Sarita
    • Tuesday/Thursday, 10:00-12:30
    • Lang Art Bldg, Room 106
    • Intermediate/Advanced Production

Moving Between Media: Traditional and Digital Printmaking. The digital print is considered something of a hybrid in the print and photo world. Crossing platforms between the etching studio and the digital art lab, students will create works that integrate both methodologies. Systems including transfer drawing, monoprinting, silk solar plates, digital transfer, and analog and digital printing will be explored. Pre-requisite: Art 141 SC. May be taken twice for credit.

ART 135 SC-01: Experimental Relief Printing

  • Instructor: Blassingame, Tia
    • Monday/Wednesday, 1:15-3:45 PM
    • Lang Art Bldg, Room 100
    • Elective

Through open and structured assignments, students will learn the basics of experimental and relief printing. In library and artist visits, the class will explore how artists utilize printmaking with original text to entertain, educate, connect, shift consciousness, and build community. Unique and editioned prints will represent the effort and vision of each student.

ART 136 SC-01: The Artist’s Book

  • Instructor: Blassingame, Tia
    • Monday/Wednesday, 10:00-12:30 PM
    • Lang Arts Bldg, Room 100
    • Elective

In this studio course at the Scripps College Press, each student will create a unique, limited-edition artist’s book. Students write text, generate imagery using traditional and alternative printing techniques, hand set metal and wooden type, letterpress print on antique printing presses, and hand-bind an edition of 12-15 copies of an artist’s book. While some assignments will be collaborative, the final book project will represent each student’s individual vision and effort.

ART 141 SC-01: Introduction to Digital Art

  • Instructor: Macko, Nancy
    • Tuesday/Thursday, 10:00-12:00 PM
    • Steele Hall, Room 05
    • Introduction to Production

This course is designed to provide students with a working knowledge of digital art through the use of digital art software. The curriculum is designed to assist students in approaching their artistic ideas from a fine arts perspective, to draw upon formal elements in art and conceptual issues related to art and technology thus influencing and informing their creative process, projects, and goals. Also listed as MS 041 SC.

ART 142 SC-01: Intermediate Digital Art

  • Instructor: Charlesworth, Vivian
    • Tuesday/Thursday 1:15-3:45 PM
    • Steele Hall, Room 05
    • Intermediate/Advanced Production

This intermediate level course will explore digital approaches, history, concepts and techniques with a fine art context. Intermediate digital art will encourage students to develop mobility and fluidity between mediums and techniques, analogand digital. This approach mirrors the way in which digital media exists in practice for many artists-where the relationship between different ideas and approaches shifts and adapts between projects, and production techniques are significantly determined by conceptin project necessity. Assignments will develop proficiency across a range of programs. This is not intended to be a technical training course. Prerequisite: Either Art 141, Art 148 or MS82.

ART 143 SC-01: Adv Digital Art

  • Instructor: Charlesworth, Vivian
    • Tuesday/Thursday, 4:15-6:45PM
    • Steele Hall, Room 05
    • Intermediate/Advanced Production

This advanced level course will build upon techniques, methodologies and approaches developed in Intermediate and Introductory Digital Art. Assignments will develop proficiency in a range of software in conjunction with digital fabrication techniques. Advanced Digital Art will encourage cross-disciplinary experimentation; the relationship between physical and digital space will be interrogated. Prerequisite: Art 141 SC, Art 142 SC. Fee: $75.

ART 145 SC-01: Intro B/W Darkroom Photo

  • Instructor: Gonzales-Day, Ken
    • Monday/Wednesday, 10:00-12:00 PM
    • Lang Art Bldg, Room 119
    • Introduction to Production

A studio course in black-and-white photography with an emphasis on image production, developing, and printing 35mm film, in a wet darkroom. Instruction in basic camera operation, and darkroom techniques, and considers historical and contemporary uses of the photographic medium. Students should have access to a 35mm camera. Some cameras are available for check out from Scripps AV. Prerequisites: Art 100A, Art 100B, Art 141, Intro to Media Studies.

ART 146 SC-01: Int/Adv Black & White Photography

  • Instructor: Gonzales-Day, Ken
    • Monday/Wednesday, 1:15-3:15 PM
    • Lang Art Bldg, Room 119
    • Intermediate/Advanced Production

This course continues training in traditional darkroom black-and-white photography, and may include alternative processes, large and medium format cameras, and studio lighting. The course includes readings on photography, student presentations, self-directed projects, and group critiques. Prerequisite: Art 145. Laboratory fee: $75.

ART 148 SC-01: Introduction to Video Art

  • Instructor: Lin, Jessica
    • Tuesday/Thursday, 10:00-12:30 PM
    • Lang Art Bldg, Room 214
    • Introduction to Production

A studio course introducing students to the basic techniques of digital video production: camerawork, audio recording, lighting and non-linear editing. Production is augmented by critiques, screenings, and discussions of conceptual and formal ideas. Course has pre-req.

ART 181D SC-01: Special Topics in Studio Art- Polemics in Contemp Art/Culture

  • Instructor: Lin, Jessica
    • Tuesday/Thursday, 1:15-2:30 PM
    • Lang Art Bldg, Room 214
    • Media Theory

On Transparency: Polemics of Representation and Embodied Practices in Contemporary Art and Culture. The act of using language to define one’s identity is crucial for discussing and understanding social inequalities. However, it can also serve as an oppressive tool that perpetuates the subjugation of marginalized groups. When expressions of resistance are co-opted and institutionalized, their impact can become diluted, rendering them ineffectual. In this course, we will explore how contemporary artists approach the concepts of identity in their work, whether by addressing, resisting, or subverting these notions. Our exploration will include readings, screenings, and a class project. The course emphasizes critical engagement with discourse and theory, discouraging the mere repetition of ideas. This course meets the Fine Arts GE.

MS 125 SC-01: Critical Games Studies

  • Instructor: Moralde, Oscar
    • Monday/Wednesday, 2:45-4:00PM
    • Steele Hall, Room 101
    • Media History or Media Theory

This course engages with Western practices of looking, exhibiting, and evaluating the natural world. Over the course of the semester, students will examine Western representational practices (film, TV but also museums and other institutions) and how they work to create and reinforce specific attitudes towards nonhuman entities. Structured as a seminar, the class will create a space in which students will engage with relevant scholarly work, discuss, and analyze these practices, and create tangible, non-language-based responses through artmaking.

MS 131 SC-01: Interactive Narrative Design

  • Instructor: Moralde, Oscar
    • Monday/Wednesday, 10:-12:30 PM
    • Steele Hall, Room 05
    • Intermediate/Advanced Production

This course situates narrative writing as a key design practice for the creation of games and other interactive experiences. Students will learn to use Twine, HTML/CSS, Adobe Photoshop & After Effects, to build their own websites as interactive narrative games. They will also embark on creative writing and web design projects that integrate visual art, animation, narrative and rule-based play.

MS 139 SC-01: Socially-Engaged Software

  • Instructor: Xin, Xin
    • Monday/Wednesday, 2:45-4:00 PM
    • Lang Art Bldg, Room 214
    • Intermediate/Advanced Production

This course introduces the theories and practices of socially-engaged software, a DIY and grassroots approach to making software that challenges society’s pre-existing power relations. Through archival materials, technical demonstrations, and site visits, we will study how hackers, activists, and artists incorporate software to challenge authoritarian regimes and uplift communities. Students will form independent research topics throughout the semester and study software as a cultural artifact.

MS 160 SC-01: Computational Photography II

  • Instructor: Goodwin, Doug
    • Tuesday/Thursday, 1:15-2:30 PM
    • Steele Hall, Room 229
    • Intermediate/Advanced Production

Computers can correct flaws in traditional photography, and photographers are happy to use some or all of these tools to improve their images. Focus, aperture, and shutter may be automated alone or in concert. These fixes are just the beginning of the ways that computation will change photography. Soon cameras will make images without optics, manipulate time to sharpen the image, even see around corners to recover faces. We will study the impacts that computational photography will make on the arts, consider the consequences of new propaganda, and propose tactics to deal with these disruptions. Part 2 builds on our study of cameras and representation and moves into computer vision, image processing, digital cameras, image segmentation, high- dynamic-range imaging, texture analysis and synthesis, object detection, and projector-camera systems. Course work includes implementing relevant algorithms and completing a final project. Prerequisite: MS159SC (CP1) or introductory programming class.

MS 187 SC-01: Coded Poetry

  • Instructor: Xin, Xin
    • Monday/Wednesday, 4:15-6:45 PM
    • Lang Art Bldg, Room 214

Coded Poetry is a part-seminar, part-studio course that introduces computation and code as an expressive tool for poetry reading and writing. In the seminar portion, we will study a diverse range of poetry that incorporates avant-garde and generative techniques. In the studio portion, we will interpret, remix, and write original poems using computational methods such as markup languages, character encodings, interactive typography, and printing technologies. A series of assignments will lead up to a poetry reading event at the end of the term.