Occupy the Monitors
All over campus, flat screen monitors silently stream useful information-upcoming events, student award-winners, CSE activities and the like-more than a dozen networked monitors all doing what they were designed to do: communicate event information. In this course, we will use these monitors as a venue for exhibiting original works and calling attention to things we care about. Solo and collaborative projects, as digital stills and silent videos, will be screened on these school monitors throughout the term. Some projects will in inserted among the usual flow, while others will take over the monitors completely for a day or more.
Class time will be split between the production, exhibition and critique of original student work and the exploration of historical precedents relevant to our project, exploring practices that "occupy" sites not normally intended for an encounter with art, disrupt the dominant visual economy, or meet their audience in a range of unexpected places, from inside a gallerist's ear to outside the earth's atmosphere.