Site-Specifics + Socially-Engaged Media

Course Description

Students will gain an understanding of how digital media technologies can serve as tools for creative cultural practice through the production of site-specific video, sound, and new media artworks. Site-visits, meetings with community experts, and collaboration with local organizations will contribute to the development of works that will be distributed and displayed through mobile devices, projection, installation and online platforms. Lectures, readings, and discussions will provide a historical overview of the intersection of site-specificity and community-based sound and video works. Students will develop technical skills in camerawork, lighting, audio recording, and editing, and be introduced to video and sound artists whose works investigate race, class, gender, sexuality, labor, and environmental politics.