The Expanded Arts Studio provides an introduction to a range of "intermedia" practices. Students investigate issues related to the body, gesture, conceptual art, scores and scripts, research methods, the rhetoric of art making, time-based media, installation, and social practice.
The class consists of hands-on experimentation and production supplemented by lectures, class discussions, demos, visiting artist talks, readings/podcasts, field trips, critiques, and academic research. As part of the suite of foundation courses at Arizona State University, it is organized around a series of themes and embedded in a philosophy of inquiry-based learning to facilitate critical thinking, conceptual depth, and broad-based historical and cultural awareness.
Projects and Exercises are selected from the following Units:
Unit I: The Body as First Site
Internal processes: Body/self awareness (e.g, the five senses, breathing, meditating, listening, walking, health/wellness, reaction time, physical endurance, altered states, automatic writing, journaling)
Unit II: Drawing, Gesture, Object
Reaching out: Bodily transformations (e.g., makeup, hair, costuming, masquerade); drawing as an extension of the body/gesture; object making as wearable sculpture/prosthesis/extension; Found gestures; assisted readymades; remote sensing.
Unit III: Scores, Scripts, Story-boards, and Codes:
From Fluxus scores, to scripted performance, to manifestoes, to generative algorithms and AI.
Unit IV: Cross-Disciplinary Research: Concepts, methods, and mapping
Thematic inquiry, heuristics, methodological frameworks, institutional critique, maps, interdisciplinary research.
Unit V: Time Machine: audio, video, media, performance, kinetics
Investigations of temporal processes, duration, expanded notions of time (e.g., clock of the long now).
Unit VI: Interaction and Interactivity
Input versus output; “interactivity” as emergent condition, participatory practices, relational aesthetics, installation.
Unit VII: Socially Engaged Art: Interventions in the Real World
Artists as agents of social change, activists, or interpreters of community stories. Socially engaged artists devoting time to developing relationships and embedding in specific communities and/or environments and catalyzing change.
Expanded Arts Matrix (Readings, Themes, Projects) Work in Progress.
Environmental Health & Safety (Safety Video / Quiz, Field Trips, COVID 19)
Lecture
Equipment for Audio and Video Production
General artCORE Resources and Links