H82.1030 Studio 4 Credits
Prerequisite: Photography & Imaging II, Photography II for Nonmajors, or equivalent.
The focus of this class is on the completion of a body of work; an intensive environment will be created for the development of one's own vision. The project will be self-directed from the student's personal interest and concerns. The instructor will help direct, challenge and teach the practice of questioning, analyzing and completing a creative project. Students are expected to be self-reliant and responsible for ideas and intentions. Independent thinking and working is fostered, as well as form, content and the way the work addresses a given audience. Classes include lectures along with group and individual critiques. Lively, insightful and supportive exchanges will be encouraged.
For Fall 2008, Directed Projects theme is:
Directed Projects section 001: Neighborhood Narratives
How does photography play a role in visualizing the new networks? This class will explore this question in a site-specific, context aware manner that employs pervasive and ubiquitous computing technologies (a.k.a everyday consumer devices) such as cell phones, GPS and socially networked image management systems. We will look at how invisible communication networks within a city intersect with the physical spaces around them, examining the relationship between the visual and the sonic environment.
This class will engage in theory complimented by hands on practice - locating, examining and documenting networks within the city. Theoretically we will investigate the philosophical and psycho-social narratives of borderline areas between public and private, physical and mediated, place and non-place. Creatively we will work on assignments and projects that narratively explore these invisible layers and how they intersect with the more physical and visual aspects of our daily lives.
Looking at conventional story-telling form, we will rethink how these new media - GPS trails, image-networks, mapping, and the body in space (including all combinations between them) – form new narrative frameworks that are open, additive, persistent, and engage with the multi-cultural constitution of urban neighborhoods.
Hana Iverson is a creator of art in digital, video and sound media. In
2004 she joined the Temple University School of Communications and
Theatre as Director of the New Media Interdisciplinary Concentration.
She is also a member of the full-time faculty, teaching Computer Arts,
at the International Center of Photography/Bard College of Art’s
Graduate Program in Advanced Photographic Studies, New York. She has
taught at Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City, and the University of
Colorado, Boulder’s Graduate Department of Fine Arts, and has lectured
at Parsons School of Design, The Jewish Museum and other institutions.
She has received support for her work from the Covenant Foundation, the
Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, and the New York Foundation for
the Arts. Iverson holds a BA from the Gallatin School of Individualized
Study, New York University and a Master of Professional Studies degree
from the Interactive Telecommunications Program, Tisch School of the
Arts, New York University.
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