This is a new topical course being offered in the Spring 2002 Semester. It is not listed in the catalog.

Time - Tuesday and Thursday- two p.m. til 3:15 p.m.

Undergraduate registration numbers are: Index- 5297 Art 427 Section 03

Graduate registration numbers are: Index - 5298 Art 601 Section 03

Class Description

New technologies offer new visions, but do they make a difference or do they just make things different? Awareness of this distinction is essential in understanding how artists incorporate new media inventions into their perceptual awareness of art. The invention of pictorial perspective revolutionized the way we see the cosmos and our human relationship to it.The invention of photography in the 18th century offered an even different cosmology. Painters dared to break with Renaissance reality, while the photograph, became another way of creating images for inner/outer reflection. Muybridge's experiments in motion and the invention of film opened up even greater possibilities. The artist no longer had to rely on the implied motion of the still canvas/sculpture. Literal motion could be speeded up or slowed down revealing nuances never before seen. As media technologies advanced, artists continued to use them as tools of expression. Animated images, projections, live action film and video appeared in the gallery setting. Today the technological skills that once separated different media are now merging into a common digital format, the computer. Artists are exploring the new perspectives offered by the digital computer. Yet no tool is neutral. It carries imbedded within it unique symbol systems that profoundly affect our perceptions of reality.