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From gifs and memes to confessions and controversies, what can the riotous festival of contemporary expression in video teach us about living together?
In this hybrid lecture/production course, students will tune into the aesthetic, social, and political frequencies of video through individual and collaborative study, creation, and performance. Art history will commingle with social media as we put works of video art from the 1970s to the present into conversation with gifs, memes, and other forms of contemporary viral transmission. In-person lectures, discussions, technical demonstrations, and collective workshops will be punctuated by virtual gatherings on Zoom where we will host guest presentations and experiment with video as a medium of livestreamed performance. Together we will examine and develop a range of approaches to thinking, feeling, and making with video, creating space to reflect on the instability of our times through its signature medium. Students will respond to this collective inquiry by creating and sharing one short video per week.