HCRT-252: Image As World Building

A photograph is one of many materials that can hold an image. Images can exist as text, sound, imagination, frequencies and more. The way we process and store images has a great deal of influence on our physiological beings, shifting the way we interface with the worlds around and within us. How does it inform our practice when we consider the anticipated ontology of the images imbued within our work and the way they shape our worlds? What do our current worlds consist of and what are the realities we aspire toward? After contextualizing ourselves in our contemporary environment, we will learn how to locate, identify and place information, with constructive intentions, in our own works. The semester will include various learning models, included but not limited to lectures, field trips, collaborative exercises, and critique. Students will be asked to propose an image based project that thematically relates to the course. At the end of this course, students will understand how to employ these techniques within their own practices and begin to anticipate the way their making will materialize in the world and be intentional about the world they're building.