Technology, Art, and Public Space

Semester and Year	SP 2011
Course Number	ARTS-UG1440
Section	001
Instructor	Terence Culver
Days	Thu
Time	6:20 PM - 9:00 PM
Units	4.0
Level	U
Foundation Requirement

Description

This course explores the relationship of art, technology, and public space through the study of historical and contemporary examples, and through our own direct experience of creating and installing a work of public art. Special emphasis will be placed on the impact of recent technological developments on public art, but in turn, we use public art to reflect on emergent cultural and social transformations in New York City. The course will focus especially on the evolution of both Times Square and Union Square in New York City, to understand how art, commerce, politics, and public life have competed and converged to influence social and political change over the years. But the experiential component of the course is a technology-based public art project (most likely involving large-scale digital media) that students will plan and execute. The project will most likely utilize large-scale digital media, and the instructor will secure the necessary funds to carry it out. Students will keep a journal for the duration of the project, which will be used to evaluate the project and to connect it to other coursework. Readings for the course will be drawn from a number of sources, including: Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space;  Rosalyn Deutsche, Evictions: Art and Spatial Politics;  Barbara Goldstein, Barbara. Public Art By The Book; Hayden, Dolores. The Power of Place: Urban Landscapes as Public History;  Bruno Latour, (Editor), Making Things Public: Atmospheres of Democracy; Malcolm Miles,  Art, Space, and the City: Public Art and Urban Futures; Jacques Rancier, Jacques. The Future of the Image. 

Course Type

Arts Workshops (ARTS-UG)