Description
Prerequisite: New Genres: Abstract Video (ARTS 3350), New Genres: Diary Forms Artificial Intelligence (ARTS 3351), or New Genres: Art from Code (ARTS 3392). This course will be a hands-on, project-based studio that explores special topics in art and technology, including generative art, simulation, interactive narrative, artificial intelligence, interactive sound, and immersive transmediality. Students will be expected to experiment with a wide range of electronic practices and will be guided through the design of individualized reading lists and tutorials based on personal interest. Students should plan on producing two portfolio works of interactive, computational, or artificial-intelligence art and at least one comprehensive, yearlong installation project that expands upon skills, conceptual thinking, and creativity.