Students explore interactive screen-based media as a design tool and environment. Focus here is on digital creations that embody their own application software, suiting them not only for the web, but for use in CDs and other independent media. Students gain experience with graphics, video, sound, 3D objects, and markup and scripting languages as they consider issues of usability, transitions, duration and motion to create and control meaning. Emphasis on flowcharts and project management.
Students explore the expressive possibilities of the 3D animation environment through a variety of narrative and thematic assignments. Virtual objects are modeled and placed into scenes that are then textured, animated, and rendered. An emphasis on planning, and project management strengthens the storytelling possibilities created by integrating the motion of objects, cameras, lighting and sound.
Building on the fundamental concepts of Art History I, this course surveys the major period styles of the art of Western civilization from the Renaissance through 20th century modernism. Emphasis is placed on major works within the relevant cultural contexts, on visual analysis and analytical writing. The course includes visits to area museums.
Building on the fundamental concepts of Art History I, this course surveys the major period styles of the art of Western civilization from the Renaissance through 20th century modernism. Emphasis is placed on major works within the relevant cultural contexts, on visual analysis and analytical writing. The course includes visits to area museums.
Theories of art examines the history of ideas that have shaped art practices and their interpretation. Foundational texts include historical writings from Plato to Kristeva. Twentieth and twenty-first century criticism by artists as well as theorists will be examined in depth. The course introduces all students to the philosophical underpinnings of art making, and it provides art history minors with a foundation in art-historical methodology.
