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Dr. Ted Hiebert UW1-133 www.tedhiebert.net/classes/bisia319 Monday & Wednesday: 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm Click here to download the course syllabus |
Interdisciplinary Arts
Investigates relationships between the study and making of art. Explores connections among written, visual, and performance arts and engages their intellectual, social, and aesthetic dimensions. This is a core course in the Interdisciplinary Arts major.
Overview
Ours is a culture of interactivity, of self-directed engagement and user-generated content, where many creative choices are ours to make and shape. And yet, we also live in a world of interpretation – a world where media-saturation creates an expectation of immersion and spectacle to which we are held accountable. Between the two, an arena of participation is created – a place where rules and regulations meet their possibilities for creative reinterpretation, where established tradition meets the imagination, and where ways of understanding are subject to remix and reinvention. This is the world of interdisciplinary arts – a world where there are few rules and fewer conditions – yet one where the social gesture is that which relates the spectacle of creativity to the imaginations of others.
This course explores the arena of contemporary interdisciplinary arts, from visual and media arts to performative, conceptual and relational practices. Considerable attention will be placed on the cultivation of, and engagement with questions of interdisciplinarity and the imagination, mediated through the work of artists and theorists who engage these concepts in their work. Students will be expected to develop individualized projects, perspectives and ideas in the context of readings, class discussions and media presentations.
Required Texts
- Nicolas Bourriaud. Relational Aesthetics. (Paris: Les Presses du Réel, 1998)
- Roy Harris. The Great Debate About Art. (Chicago: Prickly Paradigm Press, 2010)
- Library Reserve (DVD): Ben Lewis, Director. Art Safari. (Icarus Films / Bergmann Pictures, 2002; 2005)