Vassar Moodle

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This Course introduces digital production tools to explore the Image and ways that digital mediums can be used to produce and transform experiential meaning. 

Students will develop hands on technical familiarity with Adobe Creative Suite software: Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, and Animate while also being introduced to contemporary artists, scholars, and predominate concepts engaged with digital media.

We will be using digital cameras, Artificial Intelligence, and stylus drawing tablets to create source materials for this course as well as exploring 3d printing, CNC laser cutting, web platforms, and video projection as ways to bring images into the material world. 

This course is designed to build off students’ existing digital skill base at any level. Previous technical experience is not required.

What does it mean to visualize Asian America in the nineteenth century? What tools do we have for responsibly and rigorously engaging the communities, objects, images, and histories that predate the term “Asian America”? How can an Asian Americanist approach to visual culture expand our understandings of citizenship and empire, land and landscape, display culture, intersectional constructions of gender, and archival authority? Through readings in critical methods and thematic historical topics, we will develop a familiarity with the field’s past and present, and interrogate what constitutes “Asian American art/history.”