Lecturer: Wang Ruobing
Class hours: Friday, 10am-1pm
Location: B209
Synopsis:
Artist/Curator explores the potential overlaps, complements, and conflicts roles of the two disciplines. Through lectures and studio work, students will expose to how artistic practices can be expanded beyond the boundaries of the production of objects, and incorporated with curatorial practices including collaboration, time and space management, writing and editing. The objective of this workshop is to develop in the students both an appreciation and understanding of the blurring boundaries between the artist and the curator. The workshop will also provide the students an opportunity in engaging with such a hybrid practice via curating exhibitions.
Class hours: Friday, 10am-1pm
Location: B209
Synopsis:
Artist/Curator explores the potential overlaps, complements, and conflicts roles of the two disciplines. Through lectures and studio work, students will expose to how artistic practices can be expanded beyond the boundaries of the production of objects, and incorporated with curatorial practices including collaboration, time and space management, writing and editing. The objective of this workshop is to develop in the students both an appreciation and understanding of the blurring boundaries between the artist and the curator. The workshop will also provide the students an opportunity in engaging with such a hybrid practice via curating exhibitions.
Lecturer: Hilary Schwartz
Class hours: Wednesday, 12pm-3pm
Location: B309
Synopsis:
Acquired Taste: The Semiotics of Food is a Level 3 Studio Elective that will encourage students to conceptually engage with and create work about and/or with food. The course will provide an overview of some of the artists and theorists who have worked with similar concepts and materials and have influenced contemporary discourses. In two individual projects and one group project as well as occasional weekly assignments, students will develop their own work that explores themes of personal and cultural identity, food production and consumption, and political activism. During this course, students may choose to work in any media including but not limited to sculpture, installation, performance, social practice, and/or conceptual art. Because of the nature of the materials, there will be a focus on documenting ephemeral sculptures and performances. Students will be encouraged to reflect upon how the themes addressed in class relate to their own lives and the lives of others. Through fieldtrips, lectures, research, and class discussion, students will examine the ways in which artists have responded to and recontextualized food in their work.
Class hours: Wednesday, 12pm-3pm
Location: B309
Synopsis:
Acquired Taste: The Semiotics of Food is a Level 3 Studio Elective that will encourage students to conceptually engage with and create work about and/or with food. The course will provide an overview of some of the artists and theorists who have worked with similar concepts and materials and have influenced contemporary discourses. In two individual projects and one group project as well as occasional weekly assignments, students will develop their own work that explores themes of personal and cultural identity, food production and consumption, and political activism. During this course, students may choose to work in any media including but not limited to sculpture, installation, performance, social practice, and/or conceptual art. Because of the nature of the materials, there will be a focus on documenting ephemeral sculptures and performances. Students will be encouraged to reflect upon how the themes addressed in class relate to their own lives and the lives of others. Through fieldtrips, lectures, research, and class discussion, students will examine the ways in which artists have responded to and recontextualized food in their work.
Lecturer: Michelle Lim SL
Class hours: Friday, 2pm-5pm
Location: B309
Synopsis:
This course is an introduction to ceramic art. It covers the basic techniques of clay forming: pinching, coiling, slab building and surface treatments that includes glazing. Students will also have the opportunity to experience the entire process of working with clay from the making to firing stage.
Class hours: Friday, 2pm-5pm
Location: B309
Synopsis:
This course is an introduction to ceramic art. It covers the basic techniques of clay forming: pinching, coiling, slab building and surface treatments that includes glazing. Students will also have the opportunity to experience the entire process of working with clay from the making to firing stage.
Lecturer: Gilles Massot
Class hours: Wednesday, 10am-1pm
Location: B209
Synopsis:
This elective aims to look ‘beneath the surface’ of photography, both in its physical and narrative aspects, while exploring the representations of the ‘self’.At the heart of the photographic process is a translation of time-space that sees real life events turn into 2D images. But what are these images truly made of? How do they happen? How do they exist? In which form, on which support? One part of the project will consist in a study of the different physical states of the photographic images, how they are shared and used. This will lead to a range of formal experimentations in the way photographs can be displayed, an experience used for the final showcase that will close the elective program. The other part of the project will focus on a specific topic in photographic portraiture: the self-portrait and its contemporary digital form known as ‘selfie’. The invention of photography resulted in a radical transformation of the representation of the self, and the flexibility of the medium was put to great use in the field of self-portraiture to produce highly poetic or powerful images reflecting the artist’s introspection. By the turn of the 21st century the digital evolution of the medium, concomitant to the development of the social media platforms, resulted in a much more social and anecdotal form of self-representation. This evolution from individuation to individualism is arguably representative of a trend characterizing the infocom society. The contrast/tension between these two forms of self-representation will be the topic of exploration from a visual point of view. In the last phase, formal and narrative explorations will be brought together in the form of site-specific installations that will interact with the campus space.
Class hours: Wednesday, 10am-1pm
Location: B209
Synopsis:
This elective aims to look ‘beneath the surface’ of photography, both in its physical and narrative aspects, while exploring the representations of the ‘self’.At the heart of the photographic process is a translation of time-space that sees real life events turn into 2D images. But what are these images truly made of? How do they happen? How do they exist? In which form, on which support? One part of the project will consist in a study of the different physical states of the photographic images, how they are shared and used. This will lead to a range of formal experimentations in the way photographs can be displayed, an experience used for the final showcase that will close the elective program. The other part of the project will focus on a specific topic in photographic portraiture: the self-portrait and its contemporary digital form known as ‘selfie’. The invention of photography resulted in a radical transformation of the representation of the self, and the flexibility of the medium was put to great use in the field of self-portraiture to produce highly poetic or powerful images reflecting the artist’s introspection. By the turn of the 21st century the digital evolution of the medium, concomitant to the development of the social media platforms, resulted in a much more social and anecdotal form of self-representation. This evolution from individuation to individualism is arguably representative of a trend characterizing the infocom society. The contrast/tension between these two forms of self-representation will be the topic of exploration from a visual point of view. In the last phase, formal and narrative explorations will be brought together in the form of site-specific installations that will interact with the campus space.
Lecturer: Betty Susiarjo
Class hours: Tuesday, 5pm-8pm
Location: B209
Synopsis:
Artist and Community Art introduces students to key concepts and issues that surround the execution of art projects involving the communities. It discusses the shift of the public as audience to participant in the making of an art piece, the position of partners in the execution of the work, the nature of work itself in relation to venue and environment, as well as the intention and integrity of the artist amidst all these. Looking into various factors that an artist needs to consider before, during and after a community engagement project, the class takes place in the form of lectures, community engagement project, the class takes place in the form of lectures, presentations, discussions and actual/ on-site community art events. The class will be suitable for those who: are working with the public or intending to involve the public in their own artistic work; have interest in creating art events mainly for the public; are keen in using art as a tool to reach to a particular group/community (through a charity project or any project of a humanitarian nature); and to those who are passionate in bringing up certain social/cultural issues to the public through art awareness projects.
Class hours: Tuesday, 5pm-8pm
Location: B209
Synopsis:
Artist and Community Art introduces students to key concepts and issues that surround the execution of art projects involving the communities. It discusses the shift of the public as audience to participant in the making of an art piece, the position of partners in the execution of the work, the nature of work itself in relation to venue and environment, as well as the intention and integrity of the artist amidst all these. Looking into various factors that an artist needs to consider before, during and after a community engagement project, the class takes place in the form of lectures, community engagement project, the class takes place in the form of lectures, presentations, discussions and actual/ on-site community art events. The class will be suitable for those who: are working with the public or intending to involve the public in their own artistic work; have interest in creating art events mainly for the public; are keen in using art as a tool to reach to a particular group/community (through a charity project or any project of a humanitarian nature); and to those who are passionate in bringing up certain social/cultural issues to the public through art awareness projects.
Lecturer: Andreas Schlegel
Class hours: Friday, 10am-1pm
Location: B309
Synopsis:
“In as much as a system may contain people, ideas, messages, atmospheric conditions, power sources, and so on, a system is, to quote the systems biologist, Ludwig von Bertalanffy, a 'complex of components in interaction', comprised of material, energy and information in various degrees of organization.” Jack Burnham, System Esthetics, 1968. Drawing Machines is a course that will look at art making strategies that use systems and rule based approaches. Participants will be exposed to a range of artists, works, and techniques that make use of rules, instructions, systems, data or code. Although these are rather technological terms they are not reserved exclusively for technological applications but are being used by artists as materials and tools with diverse outcomes reflecting upon society, politics, culture, nature or beauty.This course aims to discover the Art of Systems and Rule-Based Art making by going back in time and looking at various artists and movements creating works by applying systematic approaches and rules. We will explore techniques that allow us to generate images through instructions, we will look at the beauty and complexity of systems and their visual expressions and we will study and evaluate these based on their rules and sets of instructions. During this course, students may choose to work in any media including but not limited to sculpture, installation, performance, social practice, and/or conceptual art. To capture the development and process of outcome, participants are required to document their individual journey in form of a journal, blog or documentary video. Through lectures, research, and class discussion, students will examine the ways in which artists have responded to and recontextualized systems and rule-based strategies in their work.
Class hours: Friday, 10am-1pm
Location: B309
Synopsis:
“In as much as a system may contain people, ideas, messages, atmospheric conditions, power sources, and so on, a system is, to quote the systems biologist, Ludwig von Bertalanffy, a 'complex of components in interaction', comprised of material, energy and information in various degrees of organization.” Jack Burnham, System Esthetics, 1968. Drawing Machines is a course that will look at art making strategies that use systems and rule based approaches. Participants will be exposed to a range of artists, works, and techniques that make use of rules, instructions, systems, data or code. Although these are rather technological terms they are not reserved exclusively for technological applications but are being used by artists as materials and tools with diverse outcomes reflecting upon society, politics, culture, nature or beauty.This course aims to discover the Art of Systems and Rule-Based Art making by going back in time and looking at various artists and movements creating works by applying systematic approaches and rules. We will explore techniques that allow us to generate images through instructions, we will look at the beauty and complexity of systems and their visual expressions and we will study and evaluate these based on their rules and sets of instructions. During this course, students may choose to work in any media including but not limited to sculpture, installation, performance, social practice, and/or conceptual art. To capture the development and process of outcome, participants are required to document their individual journey in form of a journal, blog or documentary video. Through lectures, research, and class discussion, students will examine the ways in which artists have responded to and recontextualized systems and rule-based strategies in their work.
Lecturer: Kim Chui
Class hours: Wednesday, 2pm-5pm
Location: B209
Synopsis:
The studio workshop Video Art 2 is an elective that will introduce students to the contemporary practice of video art and the tools for creating their own video work. The course will provide an overview of the moving image as a medium and will explore performance-based, experimental, narrative, and documentary work in video and film. Throughout the semester students will be exposed to a variety of artists working in the field and will consider video art in relation to other artistic mediums such as painting, theater and photography. Technical aspects of video production and post-production such as operating the camera, lighting a scene, sound design, and editing will be covered. Students will be required to produce a short video and participate in critiques and weekly discussions throughout the semester.
Class hours: Wednesday, 2pm-5pm
Location: B209
Synopsis:
The studio workshop Video Art 2 is an elective that will introduce students to the contemporary practice of video art and the tools for creating their own video work. The course will provide an overview of the moving image as a medium and will explore performance-based, experimental, narrative, and documentary work in video and film. Throughout the semester students will be exposed to a variety of artists working in the field and will consider video art in relation to other artistic mediums such as painting, theater and photography. Technical aspects of video production and post-production such as operating the camera, lighting a scene, sound design, and editing will be covered. Students will be required to produce a short video and participate in critiques and weekly discussions throughout the semester.
Lecturer: Effendy Ibrahim
Class hours: Wednesday, 3pm-6pm
Location: B309
Synopsis:
This module will introduce students to performance art practice and examine how this art form remains one of the most contentious, problematic, potent, and controversial in the art world, resisting efforts by state machinery, art academics and audiences, and even artists themselves, to categorize and contain it. Students will work in a workshop class setting and explore different sets of performance art sensibilities and discourse theoretically and practically. Students are expected to share ideas, engage in open critiques, and collaborate on performance strategies and tools throughout this module towards designing performance works that are evocative, intelligent, and that communicates.
Class hours: Wednesday, 3pm-6pm
Location: B309
Synopsis:
This module will introduce students to performance art practice and examine how this art form remains one of the most contentious, problematic, potent, and controversial in the art world, resisting efforts by state machinery, art academics and audiences, and even artists themselves, to categorize and contain it. Students will work in a workshop class setting and explore different sets of performance art sensibilities and discourse theoretically and practically. Students are expected to share ideas, engage in open critiques, and collaborate on performance strategies and tools throughout this module towards designing performance works that are evocative, intelligent, and that communicates.