FYS 2 Subversive Art and Media: Reimagining History and Narrative
Modules in this course will center reading, discussion, writing, and art practice around questions of power, belonging, exclusion, visibility and invisibility among others. Issues of race, gender and sexuality will also inform our work together. Collaborative projects with locally and globally diverse communities and individuals will further shape this course, as will studio visits with artists, filmmakers, curators, historians, and media makers in LA/the US, South/Southeast Asia, Mexico, and Europe. By the end of the immersive, students will have gained critical skills in discussion, research, and writing alongside creative skills in visual media making to independently produce a visual media project. Open only to first year frosh.
This immersive program will center on visual artistic practices that challenge and critique dominant systems of power by manipulating historical and contemporary media to reimagine, reconstruct, and reclaim history and narratives. We will explore how photography, film, visual and media arts play powerful roles in the shaping of histories, both those we think of as “back in time” and those of our present day world.
The program consists of two linked courses
- FYS 2: Subversive Art and Media: Reimagining History and Narrative (4 units)
- ARTH 296/MAC 296: Subversive Art and Media (4 units)
By participating in this program, you will fulfill your Fall FYS, Core Global Connections, and Core Fine Arts requirements.
Corequisite
Linked with
ARTH 296 / MAC 296