SHARE WITH STUDENTS: ART 457 Interactive 3D: Expanded Performance in Media open to all students for Spring 2021
Spring 2021 - ART 457 Interactive 3D: Expanded Performance in Media open to all students!
This advanced studio course utilizes the expansive modes that emerging media technologies allow artists to interact, perform, and synthesize artworks through virtual and 3D environments. The course will focus on how bodies manifest and engage differently through video streaming, 3D animation, video games, virtual reality, custom avatars, and expanded cinematic technologies. Questions about how we choose to replicate our bodies into the virtual and how (in turn) this act of replication and expansion informs our sense of self are critically important. Virtualizing technologies are altering the relationship between the 'individual' and society in ways that are as fascinating as they are complex. Through lectures, discussions, workshops, readings, and screenings, this course will address subjects of body, queerness, gender, sexuality, labor, and how user identities fuse with the technical medium themselves. that present to the student many of these technologies and topics mentioned.
The skill sets pertaining to the software covered in class will be introductory and no prior programming experience or software expertise is required of the students. Unity will be the primary application covered. Laptop Required.
Prereqs: ART 150 or Consent of Instructor (email Prof. Sabrina Raaf at sraaf1@uic.edu with your full name and UIN for departmental approval.)