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Living Archives: Finding Stories of Peoples, Plants and Places (Topics in Media Art)
Tanika Williams | IMNY-UT.260 | Fri 12:20pm to 3:20pm in 370 Jay St, Room 409 Meetings:14
4 Point, Elective, In-Person, Spring 2025
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4 Point, Elective, In-Person, Spring 2025
Last updated: October 11, 2024
Can a plant tell the story of your people and the planet?
This course aims to facilitate student relationships to the planet through the construction of personalized genealogies from family narratives, historical migrations, and plant relationships. Plants, like people, are intelligent life forms that hold memory and transmit knowledge. Students will study edible medicinal plants (herbs) to unlock their expertise on the past, present and future of the planet and its peoples. Participants will learn how to grow medicinal plants, employ ethical research practices, and develop their family archives.
Students will begin by examining various ways plants establish communities across the planet and studying the complex chemical and social lives of plants. Next, learners will parallel postcolonial theories of plants and peoples to connect the ways plants, like humans, seeded themselves across the globe for survival. Finally, students will incorporate primary sources from the family narrative, oral history, and government archives to help students visualize botanical imprints on their ethnic, racial, and national identities.
Learners will survey the research of botanists, horticulturalists, folk medicine practitioners, and urban gardeners. The works of Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, Jamaica Kincaid, and Fred Moten will provide the course’s literary foundation. The art practices of Fred Wilson, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Alison Janae Hamilton, and Deb Willis will create avenues for social art exploration. Importantly, students will read research from a cross section of postcolonial theorists challenging Western cartography and naming conventions of land.
About Tanika Williams: www.tanikawilliams.net
Topics in Media Art: Stories of Illness: Graphic and Narrative Medicine
Daniel Ryan Johnston | IMNY-UT.260 | Thur 3:40pm to 6:40pm in 370 Jay Street, Room 316C Meetings:14
4 Point, Elective, Fall 2024, Spring 2025
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4 Point, Elective, Fall 2024, Spring 2025
Last updated: October 11, 2024
Narrative holds a central role in the discourse of health, illness, caregiving, and disability. It also holds an increasingly growing role in clinical practice, research, and health education. This course examines its role in both Graphic Medicine and Narrative Medicine. Students will interrogate health culture through readings, observational exercises, and weekly creative practice. Additionally, students will create a final project, in any medium, communicating stories about health, medicine, and the experience of illness.
Topics in Media Art: Living Archives: Finding Stories of Peoples, Plants and Places
Tanika Williams | IMNY-UT.260 | Fri 12:20pm to 3:20pm in 370 Jay St, Room 409 Meetings:14
4 Point, Elective, Fall 2024, In-Person, Spring 2025
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4 Point, Elective, Fall 2024, In-Person, Spring 2025
Last updated: October 11, 2024
Can a plant tell the story of your people and the planet?
This course aims to facilitate student relationships to the planet through the construction of personalized genealogies from family narratives, historical migrations, and plant relationships. Plants, like people, are intelligent life forms that hold memory and transmit knowledge. Students will study edible medicinal plants (herbs) to unlock their expertise on the past, present and future of the planet and its peoples. Participants will learn how to grow medicinal plants, employ ethical research practices, and develop their family archives.
Students will begin by examining various ways plants establish communities across the planet and studying the complex chemical and social lives of plants. Next, learners will parallel postcolonial theories of plants and peoples to connect the ways plants, like humans, seeded themselves across the globe for survival. Finally, students will incorporate primary sources from the family narrative, oral history, and government archives to help students visualize botanical imprints on their ethnic, racial, and national identities.
Learners will survey the research of botanists, horticulturalists, folk medicine practitioners, and urban gardeners. The works of Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, Jamaica Kincaid, and Fred Moten will provide the course’s literary foundation. The art practices of Fred Wilson, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Alison Janae Hamilton, and Deb Willis will create avenues for social art exploration. Importantly, students will read research from a cross section of postcolonial theorists challenging Western cartography and naming conventions of land.
About Tanika Williams: www.tanikawilliams.net
Topics in Media Art: Living Archives: Finding Stories of Peoples, Plants and Places
Tanika Williams | IMNY-UT.260 | Fri 12:20pm to 3:20pm in 370 Jay St, Room 409 Meetings:14
4 Point, Elective, Fall 2024, In-Person, Spring 2025
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4 Point, Elective, Fall 2024, In-Person, Spring 2025
Last updated: October 11, 2024
Can a plant tell the story of your people and the planet?
This course aims to facilitate student relationships to the planet through the construction of personalized genealogies from family narratives, historical migrations, and plant relationships. Plants, like people, are intelligent life forms that hold memory and transmit knowledge. Students will study edible medicinal plants (herbs) to unlock their expertise on the past, present and future of the planet and its peoples. Participants will learn how to grow medicinal plants, employ ethical research practices, and develop their family archives.
Students will begin by examining various ways plants establish communities across the planet and studying the complex chemical and social lives of plants. Next, learners will parallel postcolonial theories of plants and peoples to connect the ways plants, like humans, seeded themselves across the globe for survival. Finally, students will incorporate primary sources from the family narrative, oral history, and government archives to help students visualize botanical imprints on their ethnic, racial, and national identities.
Learners will survey the research of botanists, horticulturalists, folk medicine practitioners, and urban gardeners. The works of Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, Jamaica Kincaid, and Fred Moten will provide the course’s literary foundation. The art practices of Fred Wilson, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Alison Janae Hamilton, and Deb Willis will create avenues for social art exploration. Importantly, students will read research from a cross section of postcolonial theorists challenging Western cartography and naming conventions of land.
About Tanika Williams: www.tanikawilliams.net
Topics in Physical Computing and Experimental Interfaces: Adapting Everyday Items
Holly Cohen | Syllabus | IMNY-UT.248 | TBD Meetings:7-First Half
2 Point, Elective, Fall 2024, Spring 2025
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2 Point, Elective, Fall 2024, Spring 2025
Last updated: March 12, 2024
For individuals with disabilities, custom adaptations can be critical for a myriad of activities, including work, play, daily living, and actively participating with family and community. Recent advancements in affordable DIY technologies have created opportunities for individuals and communities to build, modify, and adapt countless everyday items. This course examines accessibility and barriers to inclusion, the field of custom adaptations, and the open source and maker communities working together to deliver affordable solutions. Students will develop weekly prototypes as well as a final project.
Topics in Media Art: Geopositioning Genealogy: Personalizing Histories of Plants, Peoples and Places
Tanika Williams | IMNY-UT.260 | Fri 12:20pm to 3:20pm in Meetings:14
4 Point, Elective, Fall 2024, IMA Major Elective, In-Person, Spring 2024, Spring 2025, Studies/Seminar (Old Structure)
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4 Point, Elective, Fall 2024, IMA Major Elective, In-Person, Spring 2024, Spring 2025, Studies/Seminar (Old Structure)
Last updated: October 20, 2023
Can a plant tell the story of your people and the planet?
This course aims to facilitate student relationships to the planet through the construction of personalized genealogies from family narratives, historical migrations, and plant relationships. Plants, like people, are intelligent life forms that hold memory and transmit knowledge. Students will study edible medicinal plants (herbs) to unlock their expertise on the past, present and future of the planet and its peoples. Participants will learn how to grow medicinal plants, employ ethical research practices, and develop their family archives.
Students will begin by examining various ways plants establish communities across the planet and studying the complex chemical and social lives of plants. Next, learners will parallel postcolonial theories of plants and peoples to connect the ways plants, like humans, seeded themselves across the globe for survival. Finally, students will incorporate primary sources from the family narrative, oral history, and government archives to help students visualize botanical imprints on their ethnic, racial, and national identities.
Learners will survey the research of botanists, horticulturalists, folk medicine practitioners, and urban gardeners. The works of Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, Jamaica Kincaid, and Fred Moten will provide the course’s literary foundation. The art practices of Fred Wilson, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Alison Janae Hamilton, and Deb Willis will create avenues for social art exploration. Importantly, students will read research from a cross section of postcolonial theorists challenging Western cartography and naming conventions of land.
About Tanika Williams: www.tanikawilliams.net