Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO EXPERIMENTAL VIDEO AND INSTALLATION ART

Department: *Visual and Dramatic Arts*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Learn to create unique experiences by sculpting time and space. With an emphasis on production and practice, this course introduces students to installation art and non-traditional, experimental uses of video, including non-linear narrative, experimental documentary, and video art. Students will learn the basic tools and techniques of digital video production and work with a wide range of materials and media to create installation works on the Rice campus. Students will also be asked to engage and experiment with the visual language of video by working to complete a number of short projects that will be critiqued in class. In addition to short reading and writing assignments, we will look at a variety of video art and installation works from the 1960s to the present. Cross-list: ARTS 387.