This course will introduce students to found and collected materials from personal archives, family albums, official state archives, police files, as well as online archives. We'll dive into the process of generating artwork through the appropriation and repurposing of images while also exploring tools (both analog and digital) for the reproduction, alteration and display of visual material. We will be questioning the nature of memory and its visual representation in photographs by reading and discussing assigned texts. And finally, we will look at a series of artists, filmmakers and illustrators who use archival imagery as a strategy in their artwork including Julie Coburn, Alexandra Lethbridge, Joe Sacco, Art Speigelman, Thomas Ruff, Okwui Enwezor, Carrie Mae Weems, Christian Boltanski, and Morris Lum etc.
Students will leave this workshop with a series of works that focuses on experimentation in a variety of
photo-based medium incorporating drawing, collage, text and image.
There will be no class on May 18th due to the Victoria Day Holiday.
Base Tuition: $406 + $25 Material fee = $431
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