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SS399i: Human Origins
ID350: Installation Art
[3 CREDITS]
ID321: Advanced Interactive Applications
Exploration of world prehistory from an
[3 CREDITS] PREREQUISITE GD320
Students explore art as a spatial experience that
anthropological viewpoint. Subjects include
Expands on applications and techniques learned in
brings together a variety of visual skills and media
evolutionary theory, primate studies, hominid
Interdisciplinary Digital Applications for use both on
to create installations. Working both collaboratively
evolution, and the development of human culture.
and off the web. Emphasizes individual exploration
and on individual projects, students study issues such
of styles, techniques, expression, and collaboration as
as site-specificity, temporality, scale and context, and
well as efficient, technical and conceptual execution.
interdisciplinary artistic practice. The course looks at
Explores the history and the current state of
the history of installation art and contemporary issues
interactive media and uses this knowledge to produce
that include the dynamics of «place» and how context
portfolio quality project work.
informs content. Students are expected to do research
INTER DISCIPLINARY COU RSES ID202: Hand Lettering [3 CREDITS]
In this course, students incorporate hand lettering into their illustration process. They explore lettering as free gestural expression, outside of the confines of the computer, made by hand using a variety of traditional media. Students gain appreciation for hand lettering as art as well as learn how to incorporate hand lettering into their illustrations. Hand lettering is the synthesis of typography and illustration.
ID320: Interdisciplinary Digital Applications [3 CREDITS] PREREQUISITE GD221
Advanced digital studies in sequence, animation, sound, interactivity, scripting, and three-dimensional form. This course explores the possibilities of creating interactive content for use on the internet or other media through efficient, technical, and conceptual execution. Students explore the history, as well as the current state of interactive media and use this knowledge as a basis for advanced projects.
[3 CREDITS] PREREQUISITES FA240B
on current installation artists and keep a process
ID330: The Book
journal used for the development of ideas.
[3 CREDITS] PREREQUISITE FA230A
“The Book” exposes students to the book format
ID355: Digital Imagery
through various structures, media, and techniques.
[3 CREDITS] PREREQUISITES GD221 AND PH240
Critical, historical, and theoretical issues are
Exploration of expression and style utilizing advanced
discussed as they pertain to contemporary book
digital applications. This course explores the
art and emphasis is placed on the application and
possibilities of creating and manipulating imagery
incorporation of previously mastered skills and
on the computer. It strives for an understanding
techniques. The essential question: “why use the book
of the current theories of the role of the digital in
format?” will drive investigations of traditional book
the creative process. In addition, students examine
elements, linearity, image/text relationships, and the
alternative methods of output and presentation.
nature of narrative.
Emphasis is placed on conceptual and artistic development. Final presentations and exhibitions stress professionalism.