While students are encouraged to utilize traditional venues, we also strongly emphasize the importance of the creation of alternative exhibitions in public spaces. We understand operations in public space to include not only the material production of site specific installation work, but also interventions in the burgeoning field of electronic communication. Our program focuses attention on the integration of traditional photographic practices with new technologies within the structure of the area curriculum. Our traditional lab includes a full array of black and white and color equipment including a Kreonite color processor which prints up to 40 inches in width. Graduate and advanced undergraduate students have access to the Photography area's Hyper Arts Laboratory production facility equipped with Macintosh computers and up to date versions of the most prevalent production software, including a G4 video editing station and an Epson 9000 digital printer which prints up to 42 inches in width.
Undergraduates work in a group facility area equipped for both black and white and color processing.
There is a studio and copy room facility available to all students in the area. As an extension of our emphasis on interdisciplinary exchange, students and faculty from other disciplines are encouraged to attend, creating an environment of lively debate and exchange. All Photo faculty members are also available by appointment, and students are encouraged to meet for individual critiques and advice. Additionally, there are vigorous programs of visiting artists, theorists and historians to the School, to the Harn Museum, and to the University at large. Director of School of Art and Art History, Barbara Jo Revelle, is stepping down as director after the 1999-2000 school year to return to teaching full time.