MCST 212 - Artists’ and Experimental Video

This course will integrate history, theory, and practice in a critical examination of experimental and artists- video as an art form, political tool, and social process. The course will be structured around various key issues, including portraiture and autobiography, appropriation and collage, assertions or representations of identity, the presence of the maker and reflexivity, and conceptual, feminist, performative, and structuralist approaches. Art video-s relationships to experimental film, gallery and museum exhibition, and television will be considered. Coursework will include readings, screenings, writing, critique, and visual analysis. Video installation and other work not available in the classroom will be viewed in gallery and museum contexts around the Twin Cities. Offered occasionally. (4 Credits)