Expanded Media

Students are introduced to the medium and language of printmaking through hands-on demonstrations and technical and conceptual assignments. Discussions; critiques; readings and slide shows/movies add to the student's knowledge of printmaking and expose students to the versatility of the medium.

This core design studio course introduces students to graphic design through hands-on and process-oriented studio practice. A series of projects and exercises explore typography image-making. Emphasis is on visual literacy; critical thinking; craft; and empathy for audience experience. Problem solving embraces a wide variety of tools and materials. Studio practice includes digital equipment and design-related software such as InDesign; Photoshop; and Illustrator.

This design studio course focuses on expanding your artistic visual language and studio practice using digital media. Design is explored as form; ideas; process; and craft. Students work with a variety of digital tools and technologies in the Expanded Media computer studio using Illustrator; Photoshop; and InDesign applications. Course work is accompanied by demonstrations; critiques; and discussions.

Speculative Illustration & Design is an introductory course that establishes foundational understandings of art-based practices that bridge emerging science and technology through the lens of artistic investigation; future fictions; and worlding. Students will incorporate principles of design to explore the role of creativity in the applications of speculative visions to real world problems. Students will explore a multitude of practices that unravel; subvert; transplant; or disrupt dominate visual codes; these disruptions will in turn allow new visual languages to grow; flower and bloom into personal Illustration and Design Languages. Practices will include; glitch; XY plotters; augmented reality; VR (virtual reality); data visualization; character design; & integrative design techniques.

This course focuses on basic digital photography skills including camera function; color correction; organizing and editing images and inkjet printing. Through assignments; reading discussion; lecture and critique; students examine how photographs function in order to engage in critical discourse with the medium. A fully manual digital single lens reflex camera (DSLR) and a portable hard drive are required.

This course is focused on image making and image processing in relation to experiencing a broad range of printmaking processes and forms. It provides an introduction to the tools; technologies; and concepts necessary to develop the skills to make images within a contemporary print framework. Practices including woodcut; etching; lithography; monoprints; and new digital inkjet print technologies will be investigated. Printed images will evolve by working with a combination of hand and digital processes; with ink and with computer software; thus allowing the print to be understood as both physical and electronic process. Ideas inherent to the process of printmaking such as reproduction; translation; synthesis; remixing; proofing; recombination; and collage form the basis for discussion and inquiry. (Fall and Spring)

This course introduces the creative; technical and theoretical experience needed to explore video art; sonic composition and new media systems. Works take form as video works; experimental music; sound design; and introductory 3D animation. Experimentation is emphasized and students explore a wide range of digital; electronic and traditional art-making tools. No experience with computers or music composition required.

This course promotes an approach to drawing using digital formats that push the concept of computer beyond its status of tool. We approach the computer as a creative partner seeking answers to the questions most appropriate for its use in drawing. Newly developed technique and vocabularies will be explored; including raster drawing; micro marking; pixel displacement; wave set processing; gradient manipulations; spectral graphics; autopoiesis; non-destructive editing; data base collage; aleatoric composition; tweening animation; video still frame manipulation; and serialism. Traditional drawing tools are used alongside experimental approaches.

This studio course explores letters; words. and typography as expressive and emotive elements of art and design. Typography is explored as content concept; form; and craft. Work is created using Illustrator. Photoshop. and lnDesign applications. Students produce work using scanners; large fonnat printers. the laser engraver/cutter; the vinyl cutter; and/or the fabric printer in the Expanded Media computer studio. Projects encourage combining hand-made and digital media. Course work is accompanied by demonstrations; critiques; and discussions.

Junior Design Studio forefronts experimental approaches to graphic design; with an emphasis on form and format. Students advance their knowledge of typography; visual organization; hierarchy of information; and sensitivity to content; form; function; and context. Students build on existing technical skills; research methods; and are introduced to a variety of outputs for production; including the Risograph Duplicator. Work is produced in both print and digital media; with additional consideration for installation; distribution; activation; as well as ideas surrounding publics (and counter-publics). Design projects will encourage hybridity amongst the varied disciplines housed within the division of Expanded Media. * Two prior courses in Design; Video/Sonic; or Print Media Studio are recommended. May be taken up to four times for credit. (Fall and Spring).

In this course we focus on how the processes; tools and practices of design and marketing work together to support and enhance business goals. Students work with the elements and principles of design to communicate an intended message to an intended target audience. Students also experience the creative and strategic power of the design process. Design and marketing faculty participate in lectures and demonstrations. The semester culminates in an integrated marketing campaign for a not-for-profit entity. This junior studio course is open to Art students and to Marketing majors and minors.

Junior Design Studio I builds on foundational skills developed in the intro to Integrative Graphic Design course. This studio adopts a workshop model to refine students' ability to articulate visually using image and typography. With an emphasis on iteravtive practice; students will engage in projects that challenge their technical; conceptual and formal abilities. This course encourages precision in craft and intentionality in design; exploring how visual systems convey meaning. Through structured repetition; critique; and hands-on workshops; students will gain fluency in graphic production while advancing their understanding of form; hierarchy; and context. ( Fall).

This course introduces students to black and white darkroom photography through the use of large-format cameras. Using monorail; 4x5 view cameras students learn the mechanics of the camera; develop new sheet film and make silver gelatin prints. Through lectures on contemporary artists; videos and related readings; students begin to synthesize technique and concept by developing their own projects. View cameras are provided.

This course provides an opportunity for students to go deeper into the digital skills they acquired in the introductory photography course. Advanced digital editing; including tablet use; Photoshop; and layers and masks; offer students the possibility of creating seamless manipulations and the opportunity to explore the full potential of the digital platform. These techniques are presented through discussion of contemporary practice and culture.

An extensive investigation into the traditional and non-traditional uses of materials and processes that grow out of the concepts inherent in kinetic; photographic and electronic printmaking processes. The focus is on issues involving specific forms of print media (book; print-suite; single print; mass production; CD-ROM; print installation). Time and instruction provided help to deepen students experience in one or more printmaking processes including etching; lithography; woodcut; and digital inkjet technologies. Content varies from instructor to instructor. At least one Sophomore Design; Video/Sonic; or Print Media Studio is required or permission of instructor. ART 225 highly recommended. May be repeated once for credit. *(Fall and Spring)

A Printmakers Approach to Illustration is a contemporary look at the power to communicate across the printed page ; through illustration . Students are encouraged to investigate their own personal visual research along with an emphasis placed on the use of a variety of materials and processes available . We will extend the students' awareness of illustration through continuous presentations of both historic and contemporary forms of visual communication.

This advanced course explores ideas about artists' books and a wide range of printed multiple forms including objects; installations; CD-ROM and DVD. The notion of the multiple is explored in contrast to the traditional fine art print. Offset printing; traditional processes; and new emerging technologies will be utilized to produce work. Ideas inherent to the process of printmaking such as reproduction; translation; synthesis; remixing; proofing; recombination and collage will form the basis for discussion and inquiry At least one Sophomore Design; Video/Sonic; or Print Media Studio is required or permission of instructor. ART 225 highly recommended (Spring)

An exploration of printing activities and techniques that question and expand the interfaces of the traditional print media of lithography; woodcut; and etching with contemporary digital imaging activities and techniques. Through the making of work we will look at how digital technologies affect the contemporary vocabulary of printmaking. We work with moving and still images and with images on paper as well as on the internet. We make; send and receive images as ways of understanding how ideas about print media are expanding; how these same ideas have historically been rooted in notions about communication; and how we can conceive and make print translations that cross traditional media. ART 225 highly recommended. (Fall)

For many artists the photography book has become a significant vehicle for the display of their work and the communication of their vision to an audience. This course will investigate the potential of photographic description and representation in the form of a book. Through image-making exercises and prompts; assignments; readings; films; lectures; and visiting artists; students will explore various methods of photographic inquiry including but not limited to: documentary and fiction; fabricated images; the snapshot; and narrative construction. Students will follow the stages of creating a finalized photography book from idea; to image making; and image selection to strategies in sequencing. We will experiment and produce the books in multiple modes of production. Throughout the semester there will be a series of lectures which will present works of artists; artistic movements and key exhibitions around the photography book.

This course allows students to explore: video and sound production; video and sound editing; immersive video installation; video image processing and multi-channel video and sound projection. Students explore a wide range of contemporary and vintage electronic systems. May be repeated once for credit. (Fall and Spring)

Explore technological processes that expand and complicate relationships of art and audience. Design responsive environments; 3D stereographics; augmented realities onsite and across networks. Develop generative systems that visualize; sonify; or animate data. Make your own software for live cinema performance.

In this course students create dynamic motion graphics and animations in 2D and 3D spaces. We explore modeling techniques; applying models as virtual components of either cinematic or fully-abstract world of entities with behaviors – culminating in generative animations; data visualizations; and interactive games. May be repeated one time for credit.

In this course students learn to find; edit; process and combine sounds in many different ways. Coursework culminates in projects such as (but not limited to) radio play; sound for dance; ambient music; techno; folly sound and experimental electronic composition. No prerequisite and no experience in music or computers required.

This course introduces students to the building blocks of design for the web and screen-based media. Students explore the application of design principles and the design process for screen-based media with emphasis on content; aesthetics; user experience and craftsmanship. Students learn the basics of computer languages for interactive graphic design. Exercises and projects develop skills in software applications including InDesign; Photoshop; Illustrator and Dreamweaver.

This elective course is designed to introduce students to the primary software applications and concepts used in the preparation of a wide variety of print and digital media. The course will focus on acquiring the skills necessary to move easily between the most relevant page layout; imaging; video and sound software as well as developing skills in digital file and digital color management. This course is open to all students interested in expanding their knowledge and expertise of software used in the digital arts. It is strongly recommended for beginning as well as advanced students working in Design; Print Media; Sonic; Video and Interactive Arts. (Fall or Spring)

Project or media based independent study with a faculty member in the expanded media division. This course can only be used for elective credit; it does not replace sophomore; junior or senior studio requirements. Approved Plan of Study required.

Project or media based independent study with a faculty member in the drawing; painting; photography division. This course can only be used for elective credit; it does not replace sophomore; junior or senior studio requirements. Approved Plan of Study required.