one thousand dots

Course Description:

This course is your thesis-project course. During it, you produce the thesis project you proposed in DDA-650, Thesis Research, and had approved by your Thesis Committee. The course is run as a seminar. That is, there is no preset list of instructional topics. Rather, issues—conceptual, artistic, and technical—are dealt with as they are raised by your projects. Students are expected to work regularly and at a steady pace without formal tests or assignments. This requires independence, maturity, self-motivation, and self-scheduling on your part.

Course Description:

Digital Arts MFA thesis candidates will be required to define the objectives of their thesis/final project, as well as the methodology they plan to use. Students will work in close collaboration with their faculty advisor, and will be required to do all the research necessary to present a coherent, realistic and acceptable thesis proposal.

Course Description:

‘Art of the Book’ provides a variety of approaches to the theory and practice of artist books. We focus on the craft of making books, sewing single & multiple sections, teaming about fold & glue bindings, making slipcases, portfolios, and boxes, and exploring a range of non-adhesive structures. At the same time as developing the craft, we consider content and development, as welt as the visual literacy needed to create unique artist books and book objects. Sequencing, rhythm, the choreography of reading, and the interactive quality unique to book arts is explored, as well as the historical aspects of book structures, contemporary artist books, and current activities in this exploding new field.

Course Description:

This course will provide a critical and practical foundation in contemporary video art, including various approaches to video, such as performance, installation, surveillance video, narrative structures and essayist practices. Advanced Video will introduce students to the multiplicity of contemporary video work within the field of fine art production and the festival circuit. All aspects of digital video production will be addressed, including exhibition, distribution, audience and authorship. Sessions will include workshops in advanced editing, utilizing Final Cut Pro, DVD Studio Pro and After Effects. The focus of this course will be on an integrated approach; including technical instruction, formal experimentation and critical dialogue. Students will engage in new media applications/production techniques alongside exposure to key contemporary and historical video art movements, in order to develop their own persona! body of video work. Through screenings, projects, technical lectures, critiques & discussions the course will offer students myriad strategies that a contemporary artist might investigate, to situate him/herself in the context of new media art.

Course Description:

In this course the students will examine works of seminal figures in electronic music, from Karlheinz Stockhausen to John Zorn, and incorporate the aesthetics and structural concepts learned to original music compositions. Special attention will be given to crafting transparent music mixes using reverberation, automation, compression and equalization. The course will be divided into two segments. The first segment will be largely devoted to hard disk recording. The second segment will entail MIDI-based recording. The final result will be the creation of music compositions which encompass the worlds of digital audio and MIDI.

The course work focuses on the use of digital signal processors and MIDI-based applications. It will be conducted partly as a research environment, with the instructor guiding students through technical complexities, and with students expected to experiment and research a variety of techniques on their own. The results of this research will be shared with the other members of the class.