Course utilizes basic graphics and photographic manipulation programs to introduce important concepts in computers and computer-based image making. Integration of tools to student's own artistic process is emphasized. This course will explore the essence of the myth that the artist is a precursor, a seer and that significant work is art that prepares for the future. The course will explore the role that photography plays in such avant-garde movements as Dada, surrealism, futurism, photorealism, pop art, conceptual art and abstract expressionism. The major emphasis is on the individual's learning to identify and articulate a personal response to his or her environment through the medium of photography.
Students design their own projects and work under the guidance of the professor.
Traditional silver, as well as nonsilver, photography techniques may be utilized. Topics covered include post-modernism, genderism, pornography, censorship, altered images, connoisseurship and others. The course format allows review and exploration of such themes as the landscape, the nude, portraiture, conceptual art, trompe l'oeil and so on. Students prepare an oral debate or a written term paper. Students develop a working knowledge of the roles of women both as subjective content in images and as creators of values and ideas in the visual form.