Extensions of Mankind (ART-470)
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Course Description
When Marshall McLuhan stated “the medium is the message” in 1964, a new dialogue began about the nature of human communication. This survey/studio course will involve students in an investigation of the historical, social, economic, political, cultural, ethical, psychological, aesthetic, and philosophical aspects of mass communication and media. Special attention will be paid to developments and inventions that moved the exchange of human experience and ideas beyond cave drawings, storytelling, and tribal boundaries. The course will emphasize mass communication as it has developed during the 20th century—The Broadcast Century—and what role media have played in recording and shaping human history. Assuming students enter the course from a wide variety of message-making and interdisciplinary backgrounds, their projects will be created with previously developed skills and therefore may take on many possible forms, such as video, animation, performance piece, essay, photography, sculpture, installation, collage/assemblage, sound piece, cartoon, etc. Prerequisite: diploma requirement in art.
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ARTstor [1] includes approximately 500,000 images covering art, architecture and archeology. ARTstor's software tools support a wide range of pedagogical and research uses including: viewing and analyzing images through features such as zooming and panning, saving groups of images online for personal or shared uses, and creating and delivering presentations both online and offline.
