1. Introduction

Course Description: The purpose of this studio course is to offer a practice based learning environment with an Art & Text focus. It will provide a context and framework for students to learn about, and explore how text operates within contemporary visual culture, and within their own art practices.  A core learning outcome is to examine current practices that engage with text in a number of ways; from text-as-image, to artworks that use the book form, to works that include text and employ alternative structures of distribution (libraries, online database projects, hypertext experiments, etc.) to sound and writing-based art practices.  By working on independent text-based art projects, students will actively engage with text within their individual art practices, while considering the current discourse and production within the field.

This course will be run much like any face-to-face (f2f) senior-level studio course. You will be required to make 1-2 independant bodies of work related to the course topic, with one mid-term and one final critique. You will each have at least one individual meeting with me during the term, and there will be a sries of assignments, presentations, readings, discussions, and slide lectures along the way.

Most of the course will run asyncronously (meaning we will not met up as a group online at a specific time) but there will be times where scheduled meetings/critiques will take place (times and dates TBD).

I have set the course to start on Wednesdays, so each new week will begin on a Wednesday, and all assignments and weekly tasks will be due at 5pm on Wednesdays.