OPEN GRAD COURSE - SPRING 2020

This course is for any student who wants experience creating and participating in a public exhibition.  The class merges practicing artists and art scholars and focuses on making and curating a multi artist public exhibition of media art and other contemporary art practices. Students from different disciplines, with different roles and skills, work together as a team culminating in a public exhibition of screenings, art installations and performance. Students from multiple disciplines are welcome: those who make and perform, and those who research and critically theorize art and exhibits.

Some students will make media (films, video, games, interactive, computer based). Some will work in other art mediums; some will perform, and others will curate and write critical texts. Students are welcome from Depts. of Media Study, Art, Critical Museum Studies, Arts Management, Theater and Dance, Music, English, Visual Studies, and Architecture. You will work in your own discipline contributing to the creation of a public exhibition.

In addition, students will do research for their individual degree requirements such as develop bibliographies and abstracts, learn proposal writing and grant application skills. All students write critiques of Buffalo media and art exhibitions paying particular attention to the artist’s relationship to their audience. Students write a critical analysis and assessment of the final exhibition addressing issues of aesthetics, space, venue, public interaction and flow, evaluation of art works, publicity, and the unexpected.  Other assignments include researching venues, designing artist statements, writing and designing exhibition programs/catalogues, publicity, and social media.

Students may develop new iterations of works-in-progress. Credit hours are flexible depending on your needs and participation. Discuss credit hours with your advisor or Prof. Sarah Elder.  Join us.