| Grad Survey Mod/Cont Art |
5002 (001) |
Daniel Ricardo Quiles |
Mon/Thurs
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
In Person
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Description
This advanced course investigates modern and contemporary art from the late 19th century to the present. Key issues include formal, contextual, and technical developments and are discussed in relation to socioeconomic, intellectual, political, and cultural contexts. Emphasis is placed on theoretical and critical issues. This course is required for the Master of Fine Arts or Post-Baccalaureate Studio Certificate. If a student has previously taken a 20th century survey or its equivalent, this requirement may be waived with permission. PLEASE NOTE: This section is open to students in the Low-Residency MFA Program Only.
Prerequisites
This course is primarily for incoming MFA students, and students should only take this survey once.
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Class Number
1322
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Credits
3
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Department
Masters in Fine Arts Low Residency
Location
MacLean 707
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| Year 2 Review |
5212 (001) |
Kelly F. Kaczynski |
Fri
9:00 AM - 3:30 PM
In Person
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Description
SAIC¿s Low-Res MFA Program conducts Y2 Reviews for students in their second summer residency. These reviews provide an evaluative milestone midway through the program, and consists of critical responses to second-year students from a panel of faculty and peers. The Y2 Reviews are an opportunity for students to be involved in evaluative discussions with multiple voices directed toward their work, enhancing and challenging the conversations they¿ve experienced with the faculty, mentors, and peers they have already worked closely with. These critical discussions are designed to prepare students for their thesis year and to provide reciprocal feedback to faculty in understanding our students¿ overall progression.
The course will center on the review of student work, with supplemental readings offered by faculty to contextualize the critiques. These might include Daniel Buren's 'Function of the Studio,' Andrea Fraser's 'The Critique of Institutions and the Institution of Critique,' and other artist-centered texts that examine the critical stakes of studio practice.
All Y2 students are asked to prepare a 3 - 5 min introduction of their work. You may choose to script your introduction, or speak candidly. The following questions may serve as a guide:
What are the concepts, contexts, or histories that meaningfully position your work?
What are the set of questions or problems that you are working through?
How do you understand your craft, methodology, or approach to your practice?
If you intend to present written work or time-based media or documentation of performance work, please consider sending materials a few days ahead of time (preferably 1 week or 3 days minimum) to give your panel time to review. You may then wish to present an excerpt during your review. If you wish to present time-based work in the review, it is recommended to keep this to under 10 min to give time for qualitative discussion.
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Class Number
1323
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Credits
1.5
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Department
Masters in Fine Arts Low Residency
Location
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| Year 2 Review |
5212 (002) |
John D Neff |
Fri
9:00 AM - 3:30 PM
In Person
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Description
SAIC¿s Low-Res MFA Program conducts Y2 Reviews for students in their second summer residency. These reviews provide an evaluative milestone midway through the program, and consists of critical responses to second-year students from a panel of faculty and peers. The Y2 Reviews are an opportunity for students to be involved in evaluative discussions with multiple voices directed toward their work, enhancing and challenging the conversations they¿ve experienced with the faculty, mentors, and peers they have already worked closely with. These critical discussions are designed to prepare students for their thesis year and to provide reciprocal feedback to faculty in understanding our students¿ overall progression.
The course will center on the review of student work, with supplemental readings offered by faculty to contextualize the critiques. These might include Daniel Buren's 'Function of the Studio,' Andrea Fraser's 'The Critique of Institutions and the Institution of Critique,' and other artist-centered texts that examine the critical stakes of studio practice.
All Y2 students are asked to prepare a 3 - 5 min introduction of their work. You may choose to script your introduction, or speak candidly. The following questions may serve as a guide:
What are the concepts, contexts, or histories that meaningfully position your work?
What are the set of questions or problems that you are working through?
How do you understand your craft, methodology, or approach to your practice?
If you intend to present written work or time-based media or documentation of performance work, please consider sending materials a few days ahead of time (preferably 1 week or 3 days minimum) to give your panel time to review. You may then wish to present an excerpt during your review. If you wish to present time-based work in the review, it is recommended to keep this to under 10 min to give time for qualitative discussion.
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Class Number
1324
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Credits
1.5
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Department
Masters in Fine Arts Low Residency
Location
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| Graduate Studio Seminar |
5600 (001) |
John D Neff |
Tues
9:00 AM - 3:30 PM
In Person
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Description
This seminar consists of weekly studio visits, discussions, and small group critiques. Students are expected to arrive with completed and semi-completed works and be prepared to make and re-make new works throughout the summer sessions. A wide variety of readings chosen by faculty will guide discussions that concentrate on problems concerning methods of artmaking, distribution, and interpretation. Readings will include examples drawn from the emerging category of conceptual writing as well as crucial art historical texts, literature, and poetry.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: Must be enrolled in the Low-Residency MFA Program.
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Class Number
1211
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Credits
3
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Department
Masters in Fine Arts Low Residency
Location
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| Graduate Studio Seminar |
5600 (002) |
Kelly F. Kaczynski |
Tues
9:00 AM - 3:30 PM
In Person
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Description
This seminar consists of weekly studio visits, discussions, and small group critiques. Students are expected to arrive with completed and semi-completed works and be prepared to make and re-make new works throughout the summer sessions. A wide variety of readings chosen by faculty will guide discussions that concentrate on problems concerning methods of artmaking, distribution, and interpretation. Readings will include examples drawn from the emerging category of conceptual writing as well as crucial art historical texts, literature, and poetry.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: Must be enrolled in the Low-Residency MFA Program.
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Class Number
1212
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Credits
3
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Department
Masters in Fine Arts Low Residency
Location
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| Graduate Studio Seminar |
5600 (003) |
Assaf Evron |
Tues
9:00 AM - 3:30 PM
In Person
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Description
This seminar consists of weekly studio visits, discussions, and small group critiques. Students are expected to arrive with completed and semi-completed works and be prepared to make and re-make new works throughout the summer sessions. A wide variety of readings chosen by faculty will guide discussions that concentrate on problems concerning methods of artmaking, distribution, and interpretation. Readings will include examples drawn from the emerging category of conceptual writing as well as crucial art historical texts, literature, and poetry.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: Must be enrolled in the Low-Residency MFA Program.
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Class Number
1213
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Credits
3
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Department
Masters in Fine Arts Low Residency
Location
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| Graduate Studio Seminar |
5600 (004) |
Mark Jeffery |
Tues
9:00 AM - 3:30 PM
In Person
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Description
This seminar consists of weekly studio visits, discussions, and small group critiques. Students are expected to arrive with completed and semi-completed works and be prepared to make and re-make new works throughout the summer sessions. A wide variety of readings chosen by faculty will guide discussions that concentrate on problems concerning methods of artmaking, distribution, and interpretation. Readings will include examples drawn from the emerging category of conceptual writing as well as crucial art historical texts, literature, and poetry.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: Must be enrolled in the Low-Residency MFA Program.
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Class Number
1214
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Credits
3
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Department
Masters in Fine Arts Low Residency
Location
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| Graduate Studio Seminar |
5600 (005) |
Terri Kapsalis |
Tues
9:00 AM - 3:30 PM
In Person
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Description
This seminar consists of weekly studio visits, discussions, and small group critiques. Students are expected to arrive with completed and semi-completed works and be prepared to make and re-make new works throughout the summer sessions. A wide variety of readings chosen by faculty will guide discussions that concentrate on problems concerning methods of artmaking, distribution, and interpretation. Readings will include examples drawn from the emerging category of conceptual writing as well as crucial art historical texts, literature, and poetry.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: Must be enrolled in the Low-Residency MFA Program.
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Class Number
1215
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Credits
3
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Department
Masters in Fine Arts Low Residency
Location
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| Graduate Studio Seminar |
5600 (007) |
Julietta Cheung |
Tues
9:00 AM - 3:30 PM
In Person
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Description
This seminar consists of weekly studio visits, discussions, and small group critiques. Students are expected to arrive with completed and semi-completed works and be prepared to make and re-make new works throughout the summer sessions. A wide variety of readings chosen by faculty will guide discussions that concentrate on problems concerning methods of artmaking, distribution, and interpretation. Readings will include examples drawn from the emerging category of conceptual writing as well as crucial art historical texts, literature, and poetry.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: Must be enrolled in the Low-Residency MFA Program.
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Class Number
1217
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Credits
3
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Department
Masters in Fine Arts Low Residency
Location
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| Graduate Studio Seminar |
5600 (008) |
Aliza Shvarts |
Tues
9:00 AM - 3:30 PM
In Person
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Description
This seminar consists of weekly studio visits, discussions, and small group critiques. Students are expected to arrive with completed and semi-completed works and be prepared to make and re-make new works throughout the summer sessions. A wide variety of readings chosen by faculty will guide discussions that concentrate on problems concerning methods of artmaking, distribution, and interpretation. Readings will include examples drawn from the emerging category of conceptual writing as well as crucial art historical texts, literature, and poetry.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: Must be enrolled in the Low-Residency MFA Program.
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Class Number
1218
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Credits
3
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Department
Masters in Fine Arts Low Residency
Location
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| Graduate Studio Seminar |
5600 (009) |
Asha Iman Veal |
Tues
9:00 AM - 3:30 PM
In Person
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Description
This seminar consists of weekly studio visits, discussions, and small group critiques. Students are expected to arrive with completed and semi-completed works and be prepared to make and re-make new works throughout the summer sessions. A wide variety of readings chosen by faculty will guide discussions that concentrate on problems concerning methods of artmaking, distribution, and interpretation. Readings will include examples drawn from the emerging category of conceptual writing as well as crucial art historical texts, literature, and poetry.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: Must be enrolled in the Low-Residency MFA Program.
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Class Number
1220
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Credits
3
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Department
Masters in Fine Arts Low Residency
Location
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| Low-Residency Colloquium |
5610 (001) |
John D Neff |
Tues/Fri
4:00 PM - 6:30 PM
In Person
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Description
Over the course of each six-week summer residency period, all students in the Low- Res MFA program engage with a series of world renowned artists and scholars to expand our collective conceptual frameworks and discourses. Invited speakers participate in our Visiting Artist & Scholar Lecture Series. They deliver a public lecture open to the entire SAIC and Chicago community and the general public, and then participate in a Colloquium the next day exclusively for Low-Res MFA students. Each Colloquium takes place with the artist present, and is a space where the artist¿s work and concepts (direct or adjacent) are discussed, questions are raised, and topics are debated. Colloquium asks for consensus, but rather a dynamic and in depth discursive exploration of ideas. This form allows for a multiplicity of voices to build on concepts through questioning, contributing, challenging, and listening to each other. The colloquium is considered a Gift anchored with the presence of the visiting artist. This Gift is generated by enacting full attention to the concepts present in the artist or scholar¿s work. In the spirit of Lewis Hyde, the Gift is an exchange which generates or propagates further attention and exchange in culture. Thus, the Colloquium is a Gift meant to propagate further exchange in the world, as artists and citizens.
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Class Number
1210
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Credits
1.5
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Department
Masters in Fine Arts Low Residency
Location
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| Low-Residency Colloquium |
5610 (002) |
Kelly F. Kaczynski |
Tues/Fri
4:00 PM - 6:30 PM
In Person
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Description
Over the course of each six-week summer residency period, all students in the Low- Res MFA program engage with a series of world renowned artists and scholars to expand our collective conceptual frameworks and discourses. Invited speakers participate in our Visiting Artist & Scholar Lecture Series. They deliver a public lecture open to the entire SAIC and Chicago community and the general public, and then participate in a Colloquium the next day exclusively for Low-Res MFA students. Each Colloquium takes place with the artist present, and is a space where the artist¿s work and concepts (direct or adjacent) are discussed, questions are raised, and topics are debated. Colloquium asks for consensus, but rather a dynamic and in depth discursive exploration of ideas. This form allows for a multiplicity of voices to build on concepts through questioning, contributing, challenging, and listening to each other. The colloquium is considered a Gift anchored with the presence of the visiting artist. This Gift is generated by enacting full attention to the concepts present in the artist or scholar¿s work. In the spirit of Lewis Hyde, the Gift is an exchange which generates or propagates further attention and exchange in culture. Thus, the Colloquium is a Gift meant to propagate further exchange in the world, as artists and citizens.
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Class Number
1225
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Credits
1.5
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Department
Masters in Fine Arts Low Residency
Location
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| Low-Residency Colloquium |
5610 (003) |
Assaf Evron |
Tues/Fri
4:00 PM - 6:30 PM
In Person
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Description
Over the course of each six-week summer residency period, all students in the Low- Res MFA program engage with a series of world renowned artists and scholars to expand our collective conceptual frameworks and discourses. Invited speakers participate in our Visiting Artist & Scholar Lecture Series. They deliver a public lecture open to the entire SAIC and Chicago community and the general public, and then participate in a Colloquium the next day exclusively for Low-Res MFA students. Each Colloquium takes place with the artist present, and is a space where the artist¿s work and concepts (direct or adjacent) are discussed, questions are raised, and topics are debated. Colloquium asks for consensus, but rather a dynamic and in depth discursive exploration of ideas. This form allows for a multiplicity of voices to build on concepts through questioning, contributing, challenging, and listening to each other. The colloquium is considered a Gift anchored with the presence of the visiting artist. This Gift is generated by enacting full attention to the concepts present in the artist or scholar¿s work. In the spirit of Lewis Hyde, the Gift is an exchange which generates or propagates further attention and exchange in culture. Thus, the Colloquium is a Gift meant to propagate further exchange in the world, as artists and citizens.
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Class Number
1226
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Credits
1.5
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Department
Masters in Fine Arts Low Residency
Location
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| Low-Residency Colloquium |
5610 (004) |
Mark Jeffery |
Tues/Fri
4:00 PM - 6:30 PM
In Person
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Description
Over the course of each six-week summer residency period, all students in the Low- Res MFA program engage with a series of world renowned artists and scholars to expand our collective conceptual frameworks and discourses. Invited speakers participate in our Visiting Artist & Scholar Lecture Series. They deliver a public lecture open to the entire SAIC and Chicago community and the general public, and then participate in a Colloquium the next day exclusively for Low-Res MFA students. Each Colloquium takes place with the artist present, and is a space where the artist¿s work and concepts (direct or adjacent) are discussed, questions are raised, and topics are debated. Colloquium asks for consensus, but rather a dynamic and in depth discursive exploration of ideas. This form allows for a multiplicity of voices to build on concepts through questioning, contributing, challenging, and listening to each other. The colloquium is considered a Gift anchored with the presence of the visiting artist. This Gift is generated by enacting full attention to the concepts present in the artist or scholar¿s work. In the spirit of Lewis Hyde, the Gift is an exchange which generates or propagates further attention and exchange in culture. Thus, the Colloquium is a Gift meant to propagate further exchange in the world, as artists and citizens.
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Class Number
1227
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Credits
1.5
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Department
Masters in Fine Arts Low Residency
Location
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| Low-Residency Colloquium |
5610 (005) |
Terri Kapsalis |
Tues/Fri
4:00 PM - 6:30 PM
In Person
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Description
Over the course of each six-week summer residency period, all students in the Low- Res MFA program engage with a series of world renowned artists and scholars to expand our collective conceptual frameworks and discourses. Invited speakers participate in our Visiting Artist & Scholar Lecture Series. They deliver a public lecture open to the entire SAIC and Chicago community and the general public, and then participate in a Colloquium the next day exclusively for Low-Res MFA students. Each Colloquium takes place with the artist present, and is a space where the artist¿s work and concepts (direct or adjacent) are discussed, questions are raised, and topics are debated. Colloquium asks for consensus, but rather a dynamic and in depth discursive exploration of ideas. This form allows for a multiplicity of voices to build on concepts through questioning, contributing, challenging, and listening to each other. The colloquium is considered a Gift anchored with the presence of the visiting artist. This Gift is generated by enacting full attention to the concepts present in the artist or scholar¿s work. In the spirit of Lewis Hyde, the Gift is an exchange which generates or propagates further attention and exchange in culture. Thus, the Colloquium is a Gift meant to propagate further exchange in the world, as artists and citizens.
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Class Number
1228
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Credits
1.5
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Department
Masters in Fine Arts Low Residency
Location
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| Low-Residency Colloquium |
5610 (007) |
Asha Iman Veal |
Tues/Fri
4:00 PM - 6:30 PM
In Person
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Description
Over the course of each six-week summer residency period, all students in the Low- Res MFA program engage with a series of world renowned artists and scholars to expand our collective conceptual frameworks and discourses. Invited speakers participate in our Visiting Artist & Scholar Lecture Series. They deliver a public lecture open to the entire SAIC and Chicago community and the general public, and then participate in a Colloquium the next day exclusively for Low-Res MFA students. Each Colloquium takes place with the artist present, and is a space where the artist¿s work and concepts (direct or adjacent) are discussed, questions are raised, and topics are debated. Colloquium asks for consensus, but rather a dynamic and in depth discursive exploration of ideas. This form allows for a multiplicity of voices to build on concepts through questioning, contributing, challenging, and listening to each other. The colloquium is considered a Gift anchored with the presence of the visiting artist. This Gift is generated by enacting full attention to the concepts present in the artist or scholar¿s work. In the spirit of Lewis Hyde, the Gift is an exchange which generates or propagates further attention and exchange in culture. Thus, the Colloquium is a Gift meant to propagate further exchange in the world, as artists and citizens.
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Class Number
1230
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Credits
1.5
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Department
Masters in Fine Arts Low Residency
Location
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| Low-Residency Colloquium |
5610 (008) |
Aliza Shvarts |
Tues/Fri
4:00 PM - 6:30 PM
In Person
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Description
Over the course of each six-week summer residency period, all students in the Low- Res MFA program engage with a series of world renowned artists and scholars to expand our collective conceptual frameworks and discourses. Invited speakers participate in our Visiting Artist & Scholar Lecture Series. They deliver a public lecture open to the entire SAIC and Chicago community and the general public, and then participate in a Colloquium the next day exclusively for Low-Res MFA students. Each Colloquium takes place with the artist present, and is a space where the artist¿s work and concepts (direct or adjacent) are discussed, questions are raised, and topics are debated. Colloquium asks for consensus, but rather a dynamic and in depth discursive exploration of ideas. This form allows for a multiplicity of voices to build on concepts through questioning, contributing, challenging, and listening to each other. The colloquium is considered a Gift anchored with the presence of the visiting artist. This Gift is generated by enacting full attention to the concepts present in the artist or scholar¿s work. In the spirit of Lewis Hyde, the Gift is an exchange which generates or propagates further attention and exchange in culture. Thus, the Colloquium is a Gift meant to propagate further exchange in the world, as artists and citizens.
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Class Number
1231
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Credits
1.5
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Department
Masters in Fine Arts Low Residency
Location
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| Low-Residency Colloquium |
5610 (009) |
Vanessa Damilola Macaulay |
Tues/Fri
4:00 PM - 6:30 PM
In Person
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Description
Over the course of each six-week summer residency period, all students in the Low- Res MFA program engage with a series of world renowned artists and scholars to expand our collective conceptual frameworks and discourses. Invited speakers participate in our Visiting Artist & Scholar Lecture Series. They deliver a public lecture open to the entire SAIC and Chicago community and the general public, and then participate in a Colloquium the next day exclusively for Low-Res MFA students. Each Colloquium takes place with the artist present, and is a space where the artist¿s work and concepts (direct or adjacent) are discussed, questions are raised, and topics are debated. Colloquium asks for consensus, but rather a dynamic and in depth discursive exploration of ideas. This form allows for a multiplicity of voices to build on concepts through questioning, contributing, challenging, and listening to each other. The colloquium is considered a Gift anchored with the presence of the visiting artist. This Gift is generated by enacting full attention to the concepts present in the artist or scholar¿s work. In the spirit of Lewis Hyde, the Gift is an exchange which generates or propagates further attention and exchange in culture. Thus, the Colloquium is a Gift meant to propagate further exchange in the world, as artists and citizens.
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Class Number
1232
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Credits
1.5
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Department
Masters in Fine Arts Low Residency
Location
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| Professional Practices: Digital Interfaces |
5630 (001) |
Kelly F. Kaczynski |
Wed
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
In Person
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Description
This specialized professional practice course prepares students for active participation in the artistic and scholarly life of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, including familiarizing them with on-campus and online components of the Low-Residency MFA infrastructure. Students will be introduced to in-person and online library resources, including SAIC¿s special collections. We will become familiar with both bricks-and-mortar and digital research, communication, and production tools available through the school. Students will be trained on digital platforms including Canvas, SAIC's learning management system, in preparation for their fall and spring online courses. Additionally, this course will introduce Chicago area resources that may be useful in students research and practice. Through this course, students may be authorized on some equipment for use during the residency.
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Class Number
1209
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Credits
1.5
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Department
Masters in Fine Arts Low Residency
Location
Sharp 328
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| Professional Practices: Digital Interfaces |
5630 (002) |
John D Neff |
Wed
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
In Person
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Description
This specialized professional practice course prepares students for active participation in the artistic and scholarly life of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, including familiarizing them with on-campus and online components of the Low-Residency MFA infrastructure. Students will be introduced to in-person and online library resources, including SAIC¿s special collections. We will become familiar with both bricks-and-mortar and digital research, communication, and production tools available through the school. Students will be trained on digital platforms including Canvas, SAIC's learning management system, in preparation for their fall and spring online courses. Additionally, this course will introduce Chicago area resources that may be useful in students research and practice. Through this course, students may be authorized on some equipment for use during the residency.
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Class Number
1223
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Credits
1.5
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Department
Masters in Fine Arts Low Residency
Location
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| Attention |
6510 (001) |
Asha Iman Veal |
Mon/Thurs
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
In Person
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Description
This seminar will look at the mental faculty of attention and the role it plays in the production and reception of art, specifically how attention mediates experience between artists and viewers. We will examine the attempt to direct attention as a basis for making meaning within artworks, particularly in moving-image, spatial, and place-related work. We will also ask how the issues of attention and attention span that have become so ubiquitous, may impact the art context. In short, we will take up attention as an attribute, tool, or condition for making work in relation to other subjects rather than as a subject in itself, treating attention as a register for looking at artworks. The seminar will consist of readings and screenings drawn from philosophy, psychology, art theory, film theory, fiction, and other disciplines.
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Class Number
1205
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Credits
3
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Department
Masters in Fine Arts Low Residency
Location
MacLean 920
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| Perception |
6530 (001) |
Jennifer Dorothy Lee |
Mon/Thurs
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
In Person
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Description
Hong Kong¿s revolution of our times. Taiwan¿s White Terror. Xu Bing¿s fake Chinese characters. Lu Yang¿s deep brain stimulation. Considering such multisensorial phenomena unfolding on a global stage, to what extent shall we regard human perception as a biological fact rooted in neurological functions best left to the understanding of scientists? How is perception particularized and socialized in critical social theory and everyday practice? What are some of the under-examined histories of perception for persons beyond the Euro-American west? Our class will take up these questions through a deep dive into critical texts, theories, and artworks that intersect across East Asia and North America, historically and in the present. Grounding our examinations of revolutionary movements of perception and creative practice, the class will address a selection of discourses that challenge the purported objectivity and universality of perception in transnational and diasporic frames, with special attention to contemporary China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.
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Class Number
1206
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Credits
3
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Department
Masters in Fine Arts Low Residency
Location
MacLean 620
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| Professional Practices: Curatorial Liaisons |
6630 (001) |
Judd Morrissey |
Wed
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
In Person
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Description
This course examines an artist?s professional practice tactically, within the context of a contemporary networked international art world in which online presence rivals real-world gallery and museums, and media documentation of works can be as significant as physical versions in their impact. In relation to these transformations, traditional museum curation has morphed into a hybrid practice - museumology - in which curators work in teams with education and media departments and museums consider ?community outreach? rather than archiving or connoisseurship their primary missions. The art world is, like most others, a shifting ground post ubiquitous media. Students will consider the Internet, the possibility of tactical virality and their own artistic identities in relation to such transformations through site visits and active discussion with members of the Chicago gallery and museum community. These will be augmented by online Skype meetings with organizers and art professionals outside of Chicago in both the national and international context.
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Class Number
1208
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Credits
1.5
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Department
Masters in Fine Arts Low Residency
Location
Sharp 329
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| Professional Practices: Curatorial Liaisons |
6630 (002) |
Mark Jeffery |
Wed
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
In Person
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Description
This course examines an artist?s professional practice tactically, within the context of a contemporary networked international art world in which online presence rivals real-world gallery and museums, and media documentation of works can be as significant as physical versions in their impact. In relation to these transformations, traditional museum curation has morphed into a hybrid practice - museumology - in which curators work in teams with education and media departments and museums consider ?community outreach? rather than archiving or connoisseurship their primary missions. The art world is, like most others, a shifting ground post ubiquitous media. Students will consider the Internet, the possibility of tactical virality and their own artistic identities in relation to such transformations through site visits and active discussion with members of the Chicago gallery and museum community. These will be augmented by online Skype meetings with organizers and art professionals outside of Chicago in both the national and international context.
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Class Number
1224
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Credits
1.5
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Department
Masters in Fine Arts Low Residency
Location
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| Professional Practice: Expanded Networks |
6830 (001) |
Aliza Shvarts |
Wed
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
In Person
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Description
This third-year professional practices course looks beyond the MFA to critically examine questions of 'professionalization' while preparing students to represent themselves and their work across various professional contexts. Together, we will workshop practical skills - such as how to write an artist statement and project proposal - and will participate in a mock grant panel exercise. At the same time, we will delve into theoretical readings and art historical precedents that problematize concepts of professionalism and success. Through this dialectical approach, students will explore different historical and contemporary frameworks for creating a sustainable professional life after graduation - as well as the role that the expanded networks of community can play.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: Must be enrolled in the Low-Residency MFA Program.
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Class Number
1207
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Credits
1.5
|
Department
Masters in Fine Arts Low Residency
Location
Sharp 332
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| Professional Practice: Expanded Networks |
6830 (002) |
|
Wed
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
In Person
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Description
This third-year professional practices course looks beyond the MFA to critically examine questions of 'professionalization' while preparing students to represent themselves and their work across various professional contexts. Together, we will workshop practical skills - such as how to write an artist statement and project proposal - and will participate in a mock grant panel exercise. At the same time, we will delve into theoretical readings and art historical precedents that problematize concepts of professionalism and success. Through this dialectical approach, students will explore different historical and contemporary frameworks for creating a sustainable professional life after graduation - as well as the role that the expanded networks of community can play.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: Must be enrolled in the Low-Residency MFA Program.
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Class Number
1221
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Credits
1.5
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Department
Masters in Fine Arts Low Residency
Location
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| Thesis Studio: Public Presentation |
6870 (001) |
Irina Botea Bucan |
Fri
9:00 AM - 3:30 PM
In Person
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Description
Students in their final residency enroll in Thesis Studio: Public Presentation, a two-part course that guides students through their thesis presentation that will be given in the SAIC Galleries during the MFA Thesis Exhibition. The first portion functions as a seminar, during which students learn about historical modes and forms of the artist¿s talk and prepare for their own public presentations. These presentations consist of two parts: an artist talk to be delivered live in relation to the Thesis Exhibition, and a creative video work that synthesizes ideas in each artist¿s practice in a new way. The second portion of the course consists of presenting the talks and videos to the entire graduating cohort and SAIC faculty.
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Class Number
1219
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Credits
3
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Department
Masters in Fine Arts Low Residency
Location
Sharp 328
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| Thesis Studio: Public Presentation |
6870 (002) |
Aliza Shvarts |
Fri
9:00 AM - 3:30 PM
In Person
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Description
Students in their final residency enroll in Thesis Studio: Public Presentation, a two-part course that guides students through their thesis presentation that will be given in the SAIC Galleries during the MFA Thesis Exhibition. The first portion functions as a seminar, during which students learn about historical modes and forms of the artist¿s talk and prepare for their own public presentations. These presentations consist of two parts: an artist talk to be delivered live in relation to the Thesis Exhibition, and a creative video work that synthesizes ideas in each artist¿s practice in a new way. The second portion of the course consists of presenting the talks and videos to the entire graduating cohort and SAIC faculty.
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Class Number
1222
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Credits
3
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Department
Masters in Fine Arts Low Residency
Location
Sharp 329
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