Fall 2013 Course Catalog - School of the Museum of Fine Arts

Fall 2013 Course Catalog
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Research as Practice
PER 3500 01 (2 Credits)
Tony Schwensen
T
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
B209
This seminar is intended to provide a forum in which research based practices are examined,
investigated and developed enabling students to prepare to enter their thesis year. Research
based practices attempt to answer research questions. Research is initiated in practice,
where questions, problems, challenges are identified and formed by the needs of practice
and practitioners. The research strategy is carried out through practice, using predominantly
methodologies and specific methods familiar to practitioners in the visual arts. Practice-led
research is just one of many approaches to research. Methodologies for research often cross
over or combine. The approaches are united in the aims of presenting original knowledge
through developing research methodologies. There is a responsibility to communicate
clearly and explicitly about the artwork/process/research. Admission to the class is by
submitting a research proposal and working bibliography of 10 information resources that
are highly relevant to the research project you intend to address to tony.schwensen@smfa.
edu. Be sure to clearly explain why each resource is both relevant to and appropriate for
your research project. Submitting a proposal is not a guarantee of admission to the class.
Signature Required. Attendance Required.
Contemporary Performance
Theory and the Practice of Art
PER 6400 01 (2 Credits)
Marilyn Arsem
M
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
B209
This course builds on the Graduate CAP Seminar, “The Body in Art: Presence and
Ephemerality.” In this class we will continue to examine, through practice, different approaches
to incorporating bodies and live action into one’s practice. Students will explore the use of
performance as both a tool and a product, be it in the context of performance, or installation,
web-based events, photography, painting, etc. This approach considers the work to be
inclusive of the site of production and the site of presentation, the act of making and the
act of consumption, while recognizing the histories that inform the present moment of
comprehension. Pre-Req: MFA 6100 01, Arsem, Graduate CAP Seminar “The Body in Art:
Presence and Ephemerality”
Photo 1
PHT 1011 01 (4 Credits)
Laura Blacklow
TR
6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
B010
Students learn camera operation and develop skills with both analog and digital cameras
and outputs. (SLR Cameras, wet lab printing, DSLR’s: Digital Canon Rebel Cameras, Epson
Archival printers, flatbed and film scanners.) How to produce a correct exposure for negatives
and prints is emphasized as well as optimum digital capture. Photography/image ideas and
history are introduced as well as art history; related media image history, photojournalism,
activism, appropriation, advertising, photo archives, the internet and new media. There
is a strong emphasis on the interpretation of images, developing a vocabulary to discuss
issues, ideas, and critical thought. Students develop their own individual ideas and interests
for creative and cultural production while actively engaging with image history. Field trips to
exhibitions and archives. Introduction to ideas from photo media through readings from art/
photo/media history and the contemporary mass media. Students with some high school
photography should begin with Photo 1.
Photo 1
PHT 1011 02 (4 Credits)
TBA
T
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM /
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
B010, B019
Students learn camera operation and develop skills with both analog and digital cameras
and outputs. (SLR Cameras, wet lab printing, DSLR’s: Digital Canon Rebel Cameras,
Epson Archival printers, flatbed and film scanners.) How to produce a correct exposure
for negatives and prints is emphasized as well as optimum digital capture. Photography/
image ideas and history are introduced as well as art history; related media image history,
photojournalism, activism, appropriation, advertising, photo archives, the internet and
new media. There is a strong emphasis on the interpretation of images, developing a
vocabulary to discuss issues, ideas, and critical thought. Students develop their own
individual ideas and interests for creative and cultural production while actively engaging
with image history. Field trips to exhibitions and archives. Introduction to ideas from photo
media through readings from art/photo/media history and the contemporary mass media.
Students with some high school photography should begin with Photo 1.