DDA 500-03/04 Special Topics: Projects in Digital and Traditional Printmaking
linked with PRNT 561-01/02 Art & the Computer
with Melissa B. Lundquist, Visiting Instructor
Wednesdays, 5-7:50pm
ARC Rm E-16 and Fine Art print rooms

This course is designed for students who wish to create printed works using digital tools in conjunction with traditional printmaking methods. Students will expand their digital and traditional image-making abilities and employ processes appropriate to the conceptual focus of their work. Serigraphy (silkscreen), photo-lithography and digital printing processes will be addressed in the creation of printed editions, serial art, assemblages and installations.

Discussion of relevant contemporary artists and practices as well as regular demonstrations of digital and traditional printing methods will take place throughout the course. The class will meet in the digital labs and in the fine art print rooms throughout the course of the term. Readings and visits to gallery and museum exhibitions will be assigned.

Prerequisites: Basic familiarity with Photoshop and prior experience in any printmaking method. Please contact instructor for further information.

DDA 555-01/02 Subverting Digital Media
with Rob O'Neill, Adjunct Instructor
Mondays, 5-7:50pm
ARC Rm E-16

How does an artist live and work in a surveillance society? What are the ramifications of technology on society and art? Our evidence of human history is mainly through the remnants of our art and design - how will we make art in the future? This graduate studio class engages with these questions and others through art making and theoretical inquiry.

Topics include machine sensing and the human signal, hacking and social change, systems and networks, the use of surveillance technology in digital art, and the future of communication. Lectures and studios will be accompanied by guest speakers and in-the-field interventions.

Students are expected to have exposure to graphics programming, video, or interactive media and will exhibit a body of work at the end of the semester.