courses /spring 07 /danm 211 B /projects

When critics disagree, the artist is in accord with himself.
– Oscar Wilde

Reading

There is no required text. Selected readings will be recommended and listed here.

Assignments

THEA 31c is primarily about engaged, active participation. Through regular engagement in individual and group critique sessions, we create and sustain an artistic and intellectual community.

• Elevator Speech. Create a 3 minute oral presentation as if your were speaking to folks who might give you funding. To be videoed in the second meeting on 4/16/07.
  
  
• Self-assessments. You are required to produce two (2) self-assessments of your expectations and experiences in the course and of your own work. Self-assessment (or self-appraisal, self-evaluation) plays a central role in artistic practice. Typical self-appraisal questions – i.e., what did I learn, what risks did I take, and what will I change – reflect the highest level of assessment, self-examination, because they require you to judge personal strengths and weaknesses.
  
  
• Peer critiques. You are required to present works-in-progress for group critique and to participate in critique discussions using Liz Lerman’s Critical Response Process. Peer critique uses collaborative observation and analysis to more closely resemble the way a community of artists (or cohort of students) live and learn together. The peer critiques can only be completed in class.
  
  
• Final assignment. You are required to visit the 2nd year cohort's MFA Graduate Show, Emergence 2007 at the Digital Media Factory lieu of a final class on June 14th.