InterMEDIA Workshop

Professor: Ben Pranger

Spring 2004

Description

This intensive studio class encourages students to work across creative media. 
The class focuses on art as conceptual and experimental process bridging diverse media, form, process and ideas. 
This semester, students will work on individual and group projects later combined in a final public performance event. 
Students will employ a wide array of media including writing, animation, drawing, sound, installation and performance. Two projects in the computer labs (Flash animation and sound) will fulfill the Hollins Applied Quantitative Requirement.  Reading, discussion, demos and showings provide context and feedback for this rich and emerging field of interdisciplinary study.

Evaluation

projects  60%

attendance and discussion  20%

journal  20%

Grading criteria evaluates the following:

--the ability to think and work between media

--developed ideas, process and execution

--applied quantitative reasoning in projects and discussion

--open-minded attitude and commitment to class

--willingness to collaborate and share ideas

--critical and conceptual ability

--improved computer skills

Required text:

The Annotated Flatland by Edwin A. Abbot
handouts (tba)
sketchbook for class journal