The purpose of this studio course is to provide a practice-based learning environment with a focus on Art & Text. Students will explore how text operates within contemporary visual culture and their own art practices. The course offers a framework for examining diverse approaches to text in art, including text-as-image, artworks utilizing the book form, and projects that employ alternative methods of distribution, such as libraries, online databases, hypertext experiments, sound, and writing-based art practices. Through independent text-based art projects, students will engage deeply with text in their work while critically considering current discourse and production within the field.

This studio course focuses on the temporal and sequential aspects of typography, image, sound and interactivity. Projects focus on sequential organization of information in time, and how pacing, rhythm, and transition can influence and construct meaning. This course considers font formats; the anatomy of digital type; factors affecting resolution and therefore type choice for animation and interactive applications; grids and modular composition systems for the screen; and the effects of sequencing and motion on typographic communications.

Priority is given to COMD and INTD students in Years 3 and 4. Students outside of the registration priority group may register/waitlist for this course as of the registration rule release date.

In this course students will explore and expand the definition of the book as an expressive medium. Emphasis is placed on the relationships between form, content, materiality, and distribution. The course will develop intermediate techniques and methods for printing, binding and editioning artists’ books. Students will develop, design, produce and publish self-directed artists’ books. Through lectures, studio demonstrations, field trips, readings, and research, students will learn the contemporary and historical contexts for artists’ book publishing, distribution, and discourse.