Syllabus - Description
Course Description
Theory and practice of interdisciplinary art. An advanced course in which students work with peers from Music, Theater, Dance, Creative Writing, and Visual Art to produce interdisciplinary collaborative works of art. Included are lectures, screenings, events, and presentations by of visiting artists working across disciplinary boundaries.
This semester, New Media Collaborations will focus particularly on questions of time and time-perception as they pertain to the arts in general and to performance arts in particular. We will draw on research and theoretical writing form cognitive and experimental psychology, philosophy, music theory and modern physics to study formal conceptions of the human experience of time, and will study of a selected number of works of music, dance, theater, video, installations and film (works outside of film and cinema will be emphasized.)
Objectives:
To provide a context for artistic experimentation across disciplinary boundaries.
Students produce three collaborative projects that explore both collaborative processes and interdisciplinary forms.
Course Requirements:
25% Active and thoughtful involvement in discussions and critiques, attendance at all out of class events, scheduled class meetings, and critiques. This includes being prepared to discuss all assigned readings.
Produce and present 5 interdisciplinary collaborative performance works.
5% Project # 1
10% Project # 2
10% Project # 3
15% Project # 4
25% Final: Project # 5
10% Attend two outside class event(s) and write report/critique on each
TOTAL semester points: 100