General
Welcome to the course!
This course is dedicated to interrogating the concept of collage and to encouraging students to engage with the idea of collage as an "expanded practice". The aim of the course as a whole is to explore a wider notion of collage by providing an open space to make artworks that experiment, take risks, mix and 'mash up', appropriate, hijack, etc., materials and techniques and to think through these 'collage' experiments as a means of exploring new applications for your own artistic interests.
Please read through the information provided in the course folder (below) and listen to my introductory recording. If you have any questions, please use the 'troubleshooting' forum (above). The course folder contains:
1) syllabus and Course Information
2) assignments
3) an outline of material for forthcoming weeks -- to see what is ahead and also, orient yourself.
Each person is expected to post updates of your work in progress every week to your own forum.
Participation: Just to make sure everyone understands the implications of attending and participating in the weekly forums. Complete non-participation (i.e, no online presence) is marked as an absence. If you only upload your own reflections (by the first deadline -- taking into account that I am lenient about when that happens on wednesdays) this counts as 'present' for that week's session. If you do not follow up by developing the discussion/commenting on other people's posts (by Friday pm), then this is counted as 0 for participation. The more you chat with colleagues about the course content in a meaningful way, offer feedback to each other, and draw out a discussion, the higher your participation is rated. Please be mindful of these 'rules' of participation and attendance are 25% of your mark.
Personal Forums:This forum is for you to upload your 'work in progress' every week and any notes or information you wish to show to the class. It is important that this forum be used to track the development of your projects as it will be needed as reference for crits and discussions.
NOTES TO FACULTY:
This is an asynchronous course and was taught out pre-Covid, so I did not have a scheduled time for the class to meet. However, I l also wanted to facilitate some f2f, hence, the request for their availability.
Re: individual forums listed below: I set these up after the add/drop date has passed to avoid visual clutter and to not confuse students. After I organise the forums, I email the group to let them know and to remind them of what is expected. These individual forums are for each student to maintain an archive of their work as it develops through each week. I find this useful for checking on who is active each week and for sustaining an understanding of the development of their projects. It is also important to make sure that each forum is "disabled" so that when the student posts work, their messages are not sent to everyone's email. These forums are intended as "personal" spaces, so to speak (see "add an activity" > drop down box: "Forum"> navigate to "subscription and tracking" > drop down box: "disable").
