MAC 296 Topics in Visual Art and Media

Topic for Fall 2024: Subversive Art and Media

An 8-unit course on the ways visual artists challenge and critique dominant systems of power, and catalyze movements of social change . We will explore how photography, film, visual and media arts play powerful roles in shaping liberatory and empowering narratives in the present, as well as reimagining, reconstructing, and reclaiming histories of the past. Through readings, discussions, writing, and art practice, students will center questions of power, belonging, exclusion, visibility and invisibility among others. Students will also engage in collaborative projects and studio visits with artists, filmmakers, curators, historians, and media makers in LA/the US, South/Southeast Asia, Mexico, and Europe. Finally, students will create a final visual media social justice project. By the end of the immersive, students will have gained critical skills in discussion, research, and writing alongside creative skills in visual media making. This course is part of the Humanities for Just Communities curriculum.

Credits

Class will meet 4-5 hours/week, depending on the class schedule as it is both an art history course and a visual art and media practice course which includes hands on, project-based work

Cross Listed Courses

ARTH 296

Corequisite

First-Year Seminar: FYS 2

Core Requirements Met

• Global Connections
• Fine Arts