SUMMER 2021 CLASSES COURSE# CLASS DAY + TIME INSTRUCTOR IMA 78066 Socially Engaged Art and New 15 sessions - 3 credits Betty Yu Media Practices for Social Justice Mondays + Wednesdays, 4-7pm June Production 7th - July 26th hybrid IMA 78318 Public Humanities for Digital 5 sessions - 1 credit James Levy Media Artists: Engaging "Place" Thursdays, July 8 - July 29th 5-7pm + and History in New York Saturday July 31st from 11am-3pm Production online IMA 78346 Immediate Site: Requiem Tuesdays June 15, 29, & July 13 Kara Lynch Production synchronous from 4-7pm & Tuesdays June 22 & July 6 will be one-on-one meetings online FALL 2021 CLASSES 1-CREDIT CLASSES: COURSE # CLASS DAY + TIME INSTRUCTOR IMA 78301 Intensive Tools and Techniques Sat + Sun September 11th + 12th JT Takagi Sound Recording 10:30am - 6pm in person IMA 78303 Intensive Tools and Techniques Sat + Sun September 18th + 19th Sean Hanley Camera Fundamentals 10:30am - 6pm in person IMA 78302 Intensive Tools and Techniques Sat + Sun September 25th + 26th Sean Hanley Lighting 10:30am - 6pm in person IMA 78313 Premiere Editing and Post Fri, Sat, Sun, October 1st, 2nd, 3rd Iris Devins Production Workflow 10:30am - 3pm online 3-CREDIT CLASSES: MONDAYS: COURSE # CLASS DAY + TIME INSTRUCTOR IMA 78087 Digital Resistance M, 3:10-6pm Kara Lynch Production or Analytical online IMA 78204 Documenting Histories, Asian, M, 6:10-10pm Reiko Tahara Asian American online Analytical TUESDAYS: COURSE # CLASS DAY + TIME INSTRUCTOR IMA 77100 Community Media and Advocacy & T, 10:10-1pm Kelly Anderson The Urban Environment hybrid Production IMA 74400 Microcultural Incidents T, 2:10-5pm Michael Gitlin Production in person IMA 76700 Intro to Physical Computing T, 2:10-5pm Jesse Harding Production in person IMA 72400 Developing and Producing T, 6:10-9pm Véronique Bernard Analytical / Production online WEDNESDAYS: COURSE # CLASS DAY + TIME INSTRUCTOR IMA 78052 Story Strategies W, 10:10-1pm Andrew Lund Production online IMA 78048 Culture Jamming W, 3:10-6pm Clarinda Mac Low Production hybrid IMA 75400 Advanced Studio: Emerging Media W, 6:10-9pm Rachel Stevens Production online IMA 75000 Emerging Media 1 W, 6:10-9:40pm Zach Nader Production TBD THURSDAYS: COURSE # CLASS DAY + TIME INSTRUCTOR IMA 78076 Multi-Channel Video Installation Th, 10:10-1pm Andrew Demirjian Production in person IMA 70200 History of New Media Art Theory Th, 2:10-5pm Amanda McDonald and Exhibition Practices online Crowley Analytical IMA 70000 Visual Culture Seminar Th, 6:10-9pm Marty Lucas Analytical online IMA 76400 3D Animation + Modeling Th, 6:10-9pm TBD Production in person OTHER: COURSE # CLASS DAY + TIME INSTRUCTOR IMA 78100 Collaborative Media Residency Andrew Lund IMA 78800 MFA Thesis Project class Class Times TBD Advisors 3 credits (old thesis model) IMA 79600 MFA Thesis Preproduction Class Times TBD Advisors 3 credits (new model) IMA 79800 MFA Thesis Production Class Times TBD Advisors 3 credits (new model) CLASS DESCRIPTIONS SUMMER - IMA 78066 Socially Engaged Art and New Media Practices for Social Justice 15 sessions Mondays + Wednesdays June 7 - July 26 from 4pm - 7pm 3 credits Betty Yu This class will highlight best practices and tools for engaging with new media practices to support social justice, community development and political change. We will explore the fine art of resistance, creative action, cultural praxis, and new media strategies in historic and contemporary social movements. Now more than ever, we are witnessing an increased civically-engaged public and grassroots community movements that are embracing arts, culture and media as vital tools to advance their issues. Combining theory and practice, this course will interrogate cultural practices that reimagine and, perhaps even help transform structural relations, while offering just alternatives. Some of the social issues and intersecting concerns we will explore include racial justice, climate catastrophe, gentrification, labor, LGBTQIA and immigrant rights. Collectively, students will explore the possibilities and limitations of socially-engaged artistic practices through case studies, lectures, workshops, and reflections upon their own creative interventions. Through involvement in community-engaged projects that integrate new media, video, audio, photography or other mediums - students will be immersed in the practices of collaborating, critical-thinking and making work that challenges social inequalities and plot toward creative alternatives. This course will place emphasis upon the collective process and community-building as foundational to social justice and social practice work, students will work in groups to develop a final project. The class will culminate into a public exhibition and community celebration of socially engaged projects produced through the course. Class expectations will include a research based assignment on a socially engaged artist, minimal readings, and a team-oriented final project where students will explore community-based cultural and media production for social change. Students will be working with two orgs during this class: Wing on Wo in Chinatown, and FABnyc in the lower east side. SUMMER - IMA 78318 Public Humanities for Digital Media Artists: Engaging "Place" and History in New York 5 sessions Thursdays, July 8 - July 29 from 5-7pm and Saturday, July 31st from 11am-3pm 1 credit James Levy Public Humanities – an outgrowth of the increasingly popular “public history” discipline – applies the methods, practices and expertise of humanities scholarship to public settings. Whether in museum exhibitions, public websites, site-specific installations or locales of public memory such as historic buildings, grounds or cultural venues, public humanities seeks to engage the public in dialogue about important social and political issues that affect people in their daily lives. This 1-credit course seeks to introduce IMA students to the basic methods and philosophy of public humanities. Students will learn about the history of the emerging field, they will learn how to identify and assess key elements of effectiveness in public humanities sites and installations, and they will produce short artistic public humanities media pieces based on local NYC sites. There will be a short essay-length reading each week and a final group or individual media project due at the end of the course to be presented and discussed during the final extended Saturday session. Students will venture into at least one New York neighborhood during the run of the class but may do so in a way that aligns with their own work and other outside commitments. While students will be encouraged to work in small teams, no one will be required to and all class activities will be Covid-safe according to the needs and comfort level of each student. SUMMER - IMA 78346 Immediate Site: Requiem Tuesdays June 15, 29, & July 13 synchronous from 4-7pm & Tuesdays June 22 & July 6 one-on-one meetings. 1 credit Kara Lynch The thematic focus of the seminar will critically engage issues of place-making, public and private space, memory, aftermath, the archive, and public demonstration. This course will focus on developing methods and tools to approach installation making as a practice in conversation with diverse media: video, digital, audio, photo, film, performance, and the plastic arts. As artists, we will actively address calls to decolonize this place, recover lost and stolen histories, and the need for public sites of memorial, mourning, politics, and celebration. Students will consider what remains - how the past persists in the present, how the future is shadowed, and the ways in which no framework is stable. This is a rigorous theory/practice workshop class designed specifically for students to produce work that engages questions of site, space, time, experience and the senses within an historical context. Participants will be introduced to Deep Listening methods, diverse installation art practices, and various readings around decolonization, wake work, and approaches to the archive and remembrance. We will challenge traditional modes of production and presentation collectively. Each participant in this course will generate ‘research’ as they respond to weekly prompts to stimulate their daily practice within their respective locations. This research will culminate in interventions and projects to share for feedback with peers in the course. Students will focus on their critical skills and be required to complete concise written responses to readings/viewings and each others’ projects. Readings wander through poetry, critical theory, memoir, manifesto, historical fiction, and cultural studies predominantly written by BIPOC artists, theorists, activists, and scholars. This course will encourage students to take risks, broaden their perspective of artistic production, and generate self-initiated works in a community of peer artists. Course format :: Three biweekly, synchronous meetings for discussion and feedback, and two breakout meetings with one on one consultations with the professor on the off weeks. FALL - IMA 78303 Intensive Tools and Techniques - Camera Fundamentals Sat + Sun September 18th + 19th 10:30am - 6pm 1 credit Sean Hanley This workshop will provide a complete breakdown of best practices for using the Canon C100 cinema camera for in the field situations. Topics will include practical tips and tricks for both tripod and handheld use, choosing lenses, using an external monitor, and other techniques for determining proper exposure, focus, and white balance.