Lower-Division

In-person community colloquium on topics in contemporary creativity and creative practices. How does creative work address its most challenging problems, both in the arts and in broader social and professional contexts? How does creative labor intersect with other forms of labor to address power and inequity in society? Guest lecturers address the critical contexts—including racism, ableism, patriarchy, and other structures of power—for cultural work, and how those contexts, which are inseparable from the discipline of art-making and curation in 21st-century technological contexts, can be transformed. (Formerly Imagination and Intervention: a Creative Technologies Colloquium.)

Online community colloquium on topics in contemporary creativity and creative practices. How does creative work address its most challenging problems, both in the arts and in broader social and professional contexts? How does creative labor intersect with other forms of labor to address power and inequity in society? Guest lecturers address the critical contexts—including racism, ableism, patriarchy, and other structures of power—for cultural work, and how those contexts, which are inseparable from the discipline of art-making and curation in 21st-century technological contexts, can be transformed. (Formerly Imagination and Intervention: a Creative Technologies Colloquium.)

Introduction to digital design practices. How do contemporary design technologies and applications shape creative practice and expressive work? Students explore digital design tools and working methods, across a range of formats and mediums, through a project-centered framework. Technologies and projects are presented in conversation with visual design fundamentals, and a wide variety of historical and contemporary art and design works. Digital technologies for publishing and exhibiting work online are also introduced.

The proliferation of digital media since the early 2000s has shaped the way that we engage with every aspect of society. New social, political, economic, and creative forms have emerged, and so have our ways of relating to technology and each other. This course surveys a variety of digital media works, learning to analyze the expressive potential of a wide range of creative technologies. By the end of this course, students will have gained a deep understanding of the digital media landscape and its capacities (and limitations) toward creativity and social impact. (Formerly Issues in Digital Expression.)

Introduction to basic programming skills, including computer language tools and visual-interface programming tools for creative expression. Introduction to web authoring, image creation and editing, sound editing, and user experience design fundamentals, through skills acquisition-focused approach to individual and/or collaborative creative project(s). The final project is a work of playable media art/design, documentary media, interactive journalism/pedagogy/curation, or multi-media art/performance. Languages and applications will vary by instructor.