ART 296 - Photography in the Expanded Field

This course invites students to reconsider photography beyond its medium specificity and explore its intersections with sculpture, painting, and installation art. Through an integrated approach combining conceptual inquiry and material experimentation, students will examine photography’s shifting definitions within contemporary art. The class will emphasize both technical skill and critical thinking through projects, readings, discussions, demonstrations, and critiques. Students will develop hands-on experience in darkroom printing, large-format digital output, and the creation of photographic structures using wood, fabric, and aluminum, as well as laser cutting and related fabrication processes. Basic photographic knowledge is expected. Students must be self-motivated and willing to engage in studio work and workshops outside of scheduled class time.

Unit(s): 1
Group Distribution Requirement(s): Distribution Group I
Prerequisite(s): One course from ART 190, ART 191, ART 192, or ART 298
Instructional Method: Studio
Grading Mode: Letter grading (A-F)
Notes: Enrollment limited to 16.
Group Distribution Learning Outcome(s):

Understand how arguments can be made, visions presented, or feelings or ideas conveyed through language or other modes of expression (symbols, movement, images, sounds, etc.).
Analyze and interpret texts, whether literary or philosophical, in English or a foreign language, or works of the visual or performing arts.
Evaluate arguments made in or about texts (whether literary or philosophical, in English or a foreign language, or works of the visual or performing arts).