Project Development and Research (New Structure)

Critical Experiences +

Sarah HakaniIMNY-UT.206 | Last updated: March 12, 2024 4 Point, 9.75 Ready to Schedule (Do not edit) YES, All, Art and Design (Old Structure), Elective, Fall 2024, In-Person, Media and Entertainment (Old Structure), Project Development and Research (New Structure)

Critical Experience is an experiential journey through a research driven art practice rooted in care, community, and somatic inquiry. This class is based on the premise that there are many ways to know things and we can draw upon these ways of knowing and our desire to know in order to nurture a creative practice grounded in research, clear intention, and a critical lens. Critical here means: discerning, eager to participate differently, cast new light on, re-examine, course-correct.

You will be guided through traditional research methods (library and interview techniques, citations, informal ethnographies) and experience design while also being asked to cultivate intentional awareness of your own positionalities, communities, personal strengths, emotions, and desires through experimentation, hunch following, rituals, and contemplative practices.This class was created for or artists/designers who are interested in participation/interaction and its relationship to social practice, critical design, and change-making as well as individuals curious about knowing what moves them.

Why experience? The work in this class will be looked at through the lens of its ability to transform (a user, participant, audience, viewer). Interactivity is one way of doing that, but through the lens of experience design, all art is temporal and embodied.

Creative Approaches to Emerging Media +

Ami Mehta Syllabus | IMNY-UT.205 | Last updated: March 12, 2024 4 Point, 9.75 Ready to Schedule (Do not edit) YES, All, Art and Design (Old Structure), Elective, Fall 2024, Media and Entertainment (Old Structure), Project Development and Research (New Structure)

We live in a world where we have more data, computational power, and access to digital connectivity than ever before. But how do we make sense of the promise inherent in this reality while holding space for the challenges that it presents for different groups and communities? How do we situate the technologies that we have come to take for granted? And more importantly, how do we leverage an artist’s perspective to creating active responses that interrogate and hint at the potential for different futures?

This course examines emergent technological fields, spanning topics like data collection/representation, digital archives, artificial intelligence, social algorithms, and automation and asks how the technologies inherent to each can be leveraged for artistic response, creation, and critique.

While this course is primarily conceptual and art theory-based, the content covered will be technical in nature and students will be tasked with making three creative responses to the content in the tradition of the new media, digital, and conceptual art worlds.

Category: Studies (aka Seminar) OR Computation and Data
Prerequisites – Creative Computing (IMNY-UT 101) or equivalent programming experience

Topics in Media Art: Open Call +

Blair Simmons Syllabus | IMNY-UT.260 | Last updated: October 20, 2023 4 Point, 9.9 YES, Art and Design (Old Structure), Elective, IMA Major Elective, New, Project Development and Research (New Structure), Spring 2024

This class is for students interested in making, displaying and installing art for interactive media art exhibitions. This class will prepare you to apply for and develop work for open calls and everything else that happens after you are selected. The class will have an opportunity to exhibit a group show in a real NYC gallery towards the end of the semester. The students will collaborate to title, describe and document the works in the show. They will also have an opportunity to do a public talk back about their work, organize a reception and add a piece to their portfolio.

Topics in Media Art: Storytelling for Project Development +

Sharon De La Cruz Syllabus | IMNY-UT.260 | Last updated: October 20, 2023 4 Point, 9.9 YES, Elective, IMA Major Elective, Media and Entertainment (Old Structure), Project Development and Research (New Structure), Spring 2024

This course challenges how you use technology to tell a story. We will start with storytelling linear basics and progress towards non-linear storytelling and new media arts considerations. This course is helpful for participants who want more grounding in storytelling, want to strengthen their voice, and are interested in building worlds beyond the one we currently experience. This course considers a range of mediums but does not expect you to be an expert in any; it allows you to experiment and explore different mediums throughout the semester.

We will spend the beginning of the semester researching and engaging in small assignments based on storytelling basics, primarily focused on writing and prepping storyboards and scripts, basics of visual design, and interaction design. Our midterm will ask the class to retell the same story by translating a prose text into the medium of your choice. The last section of the course will focus on a survey of new media storytelling. Students will concentrate on a final project which asks them to present a story (original or adopted) via the medium of their choice. Final projects are critiqued based on storytelling techniques discussed in class, clarity of story, and presentation. You do not have to come in with a project in mind; however, if you do, there will be plenty of space in your final assignment to explore it, considering the techniques practiced in class.