Innovations have provided artist with new way to express themselves for centuries, from early optics to today's digital technologies. In this interdisciplinary course, students reimagine their current studio practice by leveraging technology to quickly explore new processes with an emphasis on pushing into new artistic territory while establishing a fluid dialogue between digital and analog methods of art making. Students combine drawing, painting, hand building with digital tools such as the Adobe Creative Suite, time-based media, laser cutting, vinyl cutting, 3D printing, digital embroidering, etc. Presentations introduce new topics and examine how technology affects our understanding of space and material, modes of production, and contemporary art practices. Also, students examine how digital imaging and fabrication technology is aiding artists to create in new ways-looking at Eric Standley, Blair Martin Cahill, Aaron Koblin, McArthur Freeman, Julie Mehretu and the experimental architecture and design studio, Minimaforms.
Prerequisite: FF 111 or FF 112