Course Description
This course examines multiples in historical and contemporary contexts in order to develop criteria for understanding and strategies for reconfiguring the concept. Our exploration will include examples from craft, design, art, media, and technology and the intersections and exchanges between these interrelated fields. Throughout, we will be interested in exploring relations between making and thinking, hand and mind, human and machine, objects and systems, materiality and abstraction and the ramifications of the pairs' interactions for perception, sensibility and intelligence. The course will also address issues relevant to the course material raised by and related to the MFA lectures and invited guests. In addition to preparing weekly readings, students will engage in a semester-long research project and present their findings in both written formats and oral presentations.
College/School
Hallie Ford School of Graduate Studies
Locations
Portland
Credit Hours Min
3