Description
In this experimental studio class, we will explore how to digest, appropriate, reconfigure, and rewrite popular media using mostly, but not only, painting, drawing, and collage and also open to video, animation, sculpture, and performance. We will examine how artists operate as consumers and as catalysts, motors, and destroyers of TV, film, music, social media, and advertisement. Slideshows, readings, and presentations will exemplify the tight relationship between art and popular media throughout history, and contemporary art and will serve as inspiration for students to create their own works. Students will be encouraged to deconstruct their own spectacles of adoration and critique and celebrate images that are impactful to them. We will promote generative group conversations, studio time, experimentation, collaboration, creativity, and improvisation.