ARTS 111
Introduction to Video Art Spring 2025
Division I

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This introductory-level course offers an expansive definition of video art, exploring the overlap between video and other disciplines within contemporary art. Video art’s inherent heterogeneity is examined as a vital part of the medium’s identity and as a radical mechanism for cultural discourse. Coursework includes lectures, readings, discussions, hands-on tutorials, production assignments, and active participation in dialog/critique. Camera, sound, lighting, and editing techniques are taught alongside key theoretical, historical, and aesthetic approaches to video art. Experimentation and interdisciplinary approaches are encouraged in considering how video art hybridizes with other media, ingests emerging technologies, and develops new distribution models. Assignments emphasize the creation and presentation of an original body of video work for critique, alongside research, writing, and discussion of theoretical texts and artworks, including the work of Hito Steyerl, Trinh T. Minh-ha, Joan Jonas, Arthur Jafa, Pipilotti Rist, Cauleen Smith, Sondra Perry, Martine Syms, among others.
The Class: Format: studio
Limit: 14
Expected: 14
Class#: 3394
Grading: no pass/fail option, no fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation: Quality of work produced, depth and quality of investigative process, participation in critique and discussion, class citizenship, attendance
Prerequisites: none
Enrollment Preferences: Preference will be given to art majors, sophomores, juniors, and seniors in that order. In case of over enrollment, there will be a waitlist.
Materials/Lab Fee: $250-350 Lab and materials fees for all studio art classes are covered by the Book Grant for all Williams financial aid recipients.
Distributions: Divison I

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