Intermediate Time-Based Media
ARST 386
Fall 2026
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| Crosslisting:
DDC 386, IDEA 386 |
We live in a world where screens are often taken for granted. How has the omnipresence of video transformed visual perception? This course focuses on video installation and the ways moving images shift our relationship to objects, space, and one another.
Students will gain hands-on experience with projection-mapping software and learn to edit video for multi-channel installations, focusing on how to create truly immersive environments. Through weekly exercises and regular group critiques, we will unpack how the videos we encounter daily change our relationship with both our own bodies and the material world. We will look at work by artists who emphasize the physicality or immateriality of video through installation, performance, and web-based art.
Building on the history of experimental and avant-garde practices of the 20th and 21st centuries, work in this course may take the form of installations, performances, videos, texts, participatory projects, or site-specific works. Successful completion of the course provides a solid foundation for experimentation in the expanded field of contemporary artistic practice.
Enrollment preference will be given to students who have successfully completed ARST 286 or ARST 287. |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA ART |
| Course Format: Studio | Grading Mode: Student Option |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: (Art Studio)(Integrated Design, Engineering, Arts & Society Minor) |
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Past Enrollment Probability: Not Available |
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Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
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Additional Requirements and/or Comments:
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Please email Professor Harris-Babou (iharrisbabou@wesleyan.edu) by Friday, April 10th at Noon with your answers to the following questions:
1. What is your major?
2. Why are you interested in taking this course?
3. Please describe any past experiences with video or time-based media.
4. What creative classes have you taken while at Wesleyan?
5. Optional: Please share a link to documentation of past work you are particularly proud of. |
| Instructor(s): Harris-Babou,Ilana Yacine Times: ..T.R.. 01:20PM-03:50PM; Location: TBA |
Permission of Instructor Required
Enrollment capacity: 10 | Permission of instructor approval will be granted by the instructor during pre-registration through the Electronic Portfolio. Click "Add to My Courses" and "To request a POI electronically, click here" to submit your request. |
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