MA, Theory, Culture and Politics, Trent University
BA, Art and Culture Studies, SFU
Bio
Yani Kong is a writer, editor, and scholar of contemporary art. Her writing appears in publications across Canada and internationally. Their research areas are reception aesthetics, contemporary art history, digital ecology and eco-aesthetics. As a member of the Low Carbon Research Methods Working Group and director of the Small File Media festival, they explore sustainable practices in streaming media.
Yani’s research interests include reception aesthetics, contemporary art history, digital ecology and eco-aesthetics.
Courses
Course Name
Department
Course Code
Term
Art History
AHIS 336
27/SP
Description
This special topics course examines a specific
historical movement (e.g. the Renaissance, the
Rococo, the Baroque) through its impact on the
production of contemporary art and visual
culture. Taking a thematic approach the course
will address questions of genre, style and
influence within an art historical,
socio-political and cultural context. Students
will be invited to consider how and under what
conditions, the ideas, beliefs and practices that
have shaped an art historical movement continue
to reverberate in the present historical moment.
The course provides students with a greater
understanding of the movement taken as special
topic focus and an increased awareness of its
continuation and/or re-emergence in contemporary
practices.
Each section of this course covers a
different topic. See
here.
Pre-requisites
No prerequisites.
Humanities
HUMN 101
27/SP
Description
Continuing with the development of modes of
literacy and visual/textual analysis initiated in
HUMN 100: Academic Core I, this course will
prioritize how representation makes meaning, and
how art, media, design, and textual practices
participate in a broader social and political
sphere. Analysis of both visual images/objects
and texts from a variety of historical periods,
from the 16th century to the present day, will be
emphasized through shared case studies (from
Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Europe, and the
Americas), keywords, and themes. Throughout, an
integrated approach to the humanities will be
prioritized, involving the development of
critical thinking, writing skills, and class
participation and engagement. Combining weekly
lectures and smaller breakout seminar sessions
for art, design and media, students will be
exposed to the specificities of a Humanities
curriculum (drawing from Art Media + Design
History, Visual Culture, English, Composition and
Rhetoric, and Cultural and Media Studies), and to
the conceptual and practical skills necessary for
further courses in Critical + Cultural Studies,
as well as their subsequent studies as a whole.
As students persist in building the skill set
necessary for critical and contextual inquiry,
emphasis will be placed on
processes of visual perception, the cultural
meaning of images and objects, and their many
intersections with knowledge, power, and
technology. Throughout, students will be
encouraged to situate their own practice in
relation to a broader history of representation,
in order to articulate their own perspective on
what it means to participate in cultural
production.
Pre-requisites
No prerequisites.
Media History
MHIS 405
26/FA
Description
This course is designed to enable students to
focus on various issues, concepts and ideas
relevant to contemporary photography.
Consideration will be given to the changing role
of photography in relation to new technologies
and societal transitions. While the historical
evolution of photography will inform much of the
discussion, the emphasis throughout will centre
around current applications and critical thinking
about the medium in art and society at
large.
Each section of this course runs with a
different topic. See
here
.
Pre-requisites
No prerequisites.
Humanities
HUMN 100
26/FA
Description
Focusing on issues and modes of literacy and
visual/textual analysis, this course helps
students to develop the tools necessary for
reflective and engaged looking, reading,
thinking, and writing about art, media, design,
and text.
Analysis of both visual images/objects and texts
from a variety of historical periods, from
ancient antiquity to the 15th century, will be
emphasized through shared case studies (from
Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and Europe),
keywords, and themes. Throughout, an integrated
approach to the humanities will be prioritized,
involving the development of critical thinking,
writing skills, and class participation and
engagement. Combining weekly lectures and smaller
breakout seminar sessions for art, design and
media, students will be exposed to the
specificities of a Humanities
curriculum (drawing from Art Media + Design
History, Visual Culture, English, Composition and
Rhetoric, and Cultural and Media Studies), and to
the conceptual and practical skills necessary for
further courses in Critical + Cultural Studies.
Art from the past and present will be grounded in
a broader context, with emphasis placed on
processes of perception and the cultural meaning
of images and objects. The point is to
interrogate how representation, both through its
production and reception, becomes politically
activated, and to develop the critical and
theoretical tools to begin to deconstruct and
acknowledge this process.
Pre-requisites
No prerequisites.
Humanities
HUMN 101
26/FA
Description
Continuing with the development of modes of
literacy and visual/textual analysis initiated in
HUMN 100: Academic Core I, this course will
prioritize how representation makes meaning, and
how art, media, design, and textual practices
participate in a broader social and political
sphere. Analysis of both visual images/objects
and texts from a variety of historical periods,
from the 16th century to the present day, will be
emphasized through shared case studies (from
Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Europe, and the
Americas), keywords, and themes. Throughout, an
integrated approach to the humanities will be
prioritized, involving the development of
critical thinking, writing skills, and class
participation and engagement. Combining weekly
lectures and smaller breakout seminar sessions
for art, design and media, students will be
exposed to the specificities of a Humanities
curriculum (drawing from Art Media + Design
History, Visual Culture, English, Composition and
Rhetoric, and Cultural and Media Studies), and to
the conceptual and practical skills necessary for
further courses in Critical + Cultural Studies,
as well as their subsequent studies as a whole.
As students persist in building the skill set
necessary for critical and contextual inquiry,
emphasis will be placed on
processes of visual perception, the cultural
meaning of images and objects, and their many
intersections with knowledge, power, and
technology. Throughout, students will be
encouraged to situate their own practice in
relation to a broader history of representation,
in order to articulate their own perspective on
what it means to participate in cultural
production.
Pre-requisites
No prerequisites.
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