Course overview
This studio course introduces students to the repurposing of everyday images, found objects, materials, media, spaces, and situations for the creation of artworks. The forms of collage, assemblage, bricolage, ready-mades, hacks, mashups, installations, and happenings produced will be explored as vehicles for low-stakes experimentation, and as critical modes with the capacity to reframe the world and its systems. Through this, students will be invited to reflect on the value of constraints and conceptual and material investigations for the generation of creative ideas and be introduced to the iterative, practice-based research methods used in subsequent courses in the Fine Arts program.
- Matter and Materials
- Walking
- Food
Course learning outcomes
- Apply readily available materials to develop technically and conceptually creative outcomes
- Explore everyday materials and technologies to generate ideas for creative works.
- Work independently and/or collaboratively to develop ideas and creative outcomes.
- Demonstrate resourcefulness and creativity in the use of available materials and technologies.
- Reflect critically upon creative process/outcomes and demonstrate understanding of how these relate to historical or contemporary practice in related fields.