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February 6, 2010

Undergraduate Courses

1A Visual Literacy (5 Units) Large lecture course. Overview of art movements, and representational and conceptual theories relevant to contemporary art making. The emphasis will be a broader understanding of reasons for certain types of imagery presented in the media, museums, publications, galleries etc. Lectures will include presentations by contemporary artists who will present, and contextually discuss their work. 1C Introduction to Contemporary Art (2) This symposium format course presents contemporary artist's creative projects in relation to recent developments in art and cross-disciplinary practices. Lectures by faculty from UCSB's Art Department as well as distinguished guests invited to expand on art, theory and cultural production. 7A The Intersections of Art and Life (5) This course explores art in relation to time-based activity and integration with everyday life. Conceptual introduction to authorship, authenticity, and narrative through exercises and examples of performance, video, film, book arts, sound, digital media and interactive/chance derived work. 7B Introduction to Contemporary Practice I: Image Studies (5) The study of visual perception and image-making across visual art disciplines, both material and digital. Studio assignments are combined with related critical theory, historical practice, current strategies and new evolutions. 7C Introduction to Contemporary Practice II: Spatial Studies (5) The study of spatial arts in all forms, including material, interactive and dynamic digital. Studio assignments are combined with related critical theory, historical practice, current strategies and new evolutions. 7D Introduction to Contemporary Practice III: Art, Science and Technologies (5) The study of the foundations of digital and technological arts in all forms, including the history, theory and practice of optical, kinetic, interactive, interdisciplinary and systems-oriented art. Lectures and assignments introduce concepts, methods, movements and practitioners that have shaped the fields. 10 Introduction to Contemporary Painting Practices (4) A broad range of projects designed to provide strong foundations in fundamental 2D image making, utilizing a variety of media, including acrylic and oil painting. Further supplemented with slide lectures and demonstrations. Both contemporary and historical practices are employed and discussed. 12 Lower-Division Sculpture (4) Introduction to sculptural problems and techniques dealing with the expanding field of traditional sculpture and contemporary terms. 14 Lower-Division Print (4) Introduction to making prints. Emphasis on technical fundamentals and conceptual aspects of graphic arts. “Print” incorporates hand produced, and electronically replicated media. 18 Lower-Division Drawing (4) Introductory problems in two-dimensional representation with various drawing media, including structural and symbolic implications of human form. Emphasis on organization of vision and thought in terms of drawing techniques and materials. 19 Lower-Division Photography (4) Examines photography as a means of artistic expression through a variety of media based on, but not limited to, photos. Conceptually-based projects explore how we view, interpret, and manipulate visual information. Lectures cover major historical and contemporary artists. Lab work in digital. 22 Visual Thinking and Application of Computer Images (4) A class focusing on digital media approaches specific to fine arts practice; exploring conceptual, technical and artistic methods of digital media arts. Techniques covered include digital graphics, video, sound and HTML. 100 Intermediate Contemporary Painting Issues (4) Problems in emphasizing the development of personal expression in various media. Consideration given to historical painting as well as trends in contemporary painting. The relationship between drawing and painting will be explored. 101 Advanced Contemporary Painting Issues (4) Advanced studies in painting utilizing particular faculty interests, media collaborations, and/or special departmental facilities. The exact nature of the course will be specified in the Department of Art Studio syllabus. 102 Digital Media Tool Box: Concepts and Skills (4) A project based course with a technological skills emphasis within the digital media arts context. Topics may include telecommunications, wireless, database aesthetics, networks, interactivity, digital 3D, virtual reality, immersive environments, algorithmic aesthetics, visualization, media theory and others. Topic to be determined by instructor. 105 Intermediate Spatial Practices (4) Designed to develop student knowledge and proficiency of material and method, cultivating both manual and conceptual skill-levels in three-dimensional practices. Course focus varies by quarter, but may include mold-making, casting, metal fabrication, foundry and related kiln practices. 106 Advanced Spatial Practices (4) Advanced study of new forms and spatial practices. Individual projects may encompass formal sculptural practices as well as investigations that engage new and alternative technologies such as data-driven dorms, alternative architectures, interactive media, cyber/nano/nuero/bio forms and virtual environments. Course content detailed in syllabus each quarter. 106W Introduction to 2D/3D Visualizations in Architecture The course develops skills in reading, interpreting, and visualizing 3D objects and spaces by offering exercises in sketching, perspective, orthographic projections, isometric drawings, and manual rendering practices. Relevant for those interested in history of architecture, sculpture, and such spatial practices as installations and public art. 110 Intermediate Print (4) With its concern for the individual print, the sequential use of pictorial information, the intermedia aspects of image and text, and the book as an expressive form, “print” focuses not only on how prints are made, but also on when and why they are used. Assigned projects and supervised group and independent study are required. 111 Digital Intermedia I (4) The investigation of imagination and visual communication. Students create image and/or text based projects using digital and hybrid tools, including digital drawing, photography, vector imaging. Project themes and methodologies include site-responsive public space art, and distributed multiples. 112 Artists’ Books (4) An investigation of the book as an art form. Based on conventional media, artists’ books encompass a variety of methods, techniques, and ideas. Assigned and self-directed projects using traditional and innovative practices, combining reading with pictorial and tactile experience. 113 Digital Intermedia II (4)  The development of independent, innovative projects that utilize digital or hybrid means to make images, including animation and projection, on surfaces. Projects may employ a variety of strategies in concept, production, and distribution. 117 Intermediate Drawing (4) A continuing investigation into the challenges of two-dimensional representation . Course focus to depend on instructor, but may include structural and symbolic implications of the human form, historical and contemporary strategies of visual analysis, and exploration into experimental media. 118 Advanced Drawing (4) Problems emphasizing development of personal expression in drawing, utilizing various media. Consideration given to historical as well as contemporary trends in drawing. 120 Intermediate Photography (4) Continued refinement of digital and traditional photographic technique, and development of photography as an art making tool. Course to range by instructor, but may include photo narrative, journalism, fashion, artists' books, desktop publishing, web design, time-based work, and intermedia collaborations. 121 Advanced Photography (4) Advanced studies in photography utilizing particular faculty interests and/or special departmental facilities. Exact nature of course will be specified in the Department of Art syllabus. 122 Advanced Topics in Digital Media (4) An advanced project-based course in digital media arts. Students are expected to have relevant conceptual, aesthetic, and technological grounding in digital media. Topic to be determined by instructor. 123 Papermaking (4) Introduction to historical and contemporary methods of handmade papermaking leading to innovative uses of handmade paper as an integral part of art forms. 125 American Art Since 1950 (4) Developments in American and European art since 1950 with an emphasis on the most recent decades. Focus ranges from the post-war impact of the New York School, Pop Art, Minimalism and Conceptualism to more recent, “postmodern” trends. 126 Introduction to Contemporary Theory (4) A basic beginning survey of contemporary art, film and media theory, focusing specifically on: realism, formalism, semiotics, phenomenology, psychoanalysis, feminism, Marxism, gender/queer studies, post-structuralism, and broader issues of authorship, narratology, postmodernism and multiculturalism. 130 Visual Art As Culture (4) Exploration of the visual arts in a wide range of socio-cultural and economic contexts. Topics include art’s changing institutional role in relation to the shifting parameters of ideology and the state apparatus, history, revolution, nationalism, Orientalism, multiculturalism, postmodernism, high and low culture and new technologies. 132 Video (4) The use of video as an artmaking tool in relation to its increasing prominence and pervasiveness in American culture. Hands on production and postproduction are combined with viewing, discussion, and criticism. Integration with other artistic media is encouraged. 134 Performance (4) A workshop introduction to the forms, styles, and strategies relating to the use of the body as both a physical and psychological basis for making art. Method, space, narrative, audience, object, games, chance and rituals are explored. 136 Personal Narrative (4) A writing based workshop designed for formulating and producing artwork based on one’s own personal experiences and histories. Experimentation and expansion into other artistic media are encouraged. 137 Spoken Word (4) A workshop introduction to the use of voice as an artistic medium, with emphasis on improvisation, personal monologue, and slam poetry. 192 Internship in Art (1-4) Opportunities in applied learning related to visual art through local business, government, or institutional organizations, working under faculty direction with periodic and final written reports and supporting portfolio. 194 Special Group Studies (2-4) A means of making special studies or meeting special curricular problems. 196 Honors Seminar (4) Open to qualified art studio majors with at least a 3.5 grade-point-average in the major and at least a 3.0 grade-point-average overall; upper-division standing; and acceptance into the departments honors program. 199 Independent Study (1-5) Advanced study in a variety of media. To be determined by the professor and the student. Student must have upper-division standing and a minimum of a 3.0 grade-point-average. 199RA Independent Research Assistant (1-5) Coursework shall consist of faculty supervised research assistant. Student must have upper-division standing.

February 6, 2010

Undergraduate – Frequently Asked Questions

How do I become an Art major? You must take at least 3 Lower Division Art classes and receive a letter grade (C or better) for each. These should include 1A, and Drawing if possible, but NOT 1C. After you have completed three classes, you may fill out the form to declare a major, which is available in the Art Office, and submit it to the Academic Advisor along with your New Student Profile and an unofficial copy of your transcripts, both available from GOLD. There is no portfolio requirement. Is there an Art minor? No, and we do not expect to add one in the near future. Do art classes taken in the College of Creative Studies count for the Art major? CCS classes count as Upper Division Art units. You are allowed a total of 8 P/NP units within the major; all CCS classes are taken P/NP. The department only accepts CCS Art classes numbered 100 and above. How many 199 units may I take? You may take a total of 16 199 units for the Art Major. More than 5 units per quarter requires an “exception to 199 unit” form. 30 199 units are allowed college wide for double majors. How do I make sure I am ready to graduate? See the academic advisor one quarter before you plan to graduate. Process your own Senior Progress Report through GOLD for your GE requirements. How do I add/drop a class after the deadline? Go to the College of Letters and Science, Cheadle Hall Room 1117, and pick up the appropriate form. Get the Instructor’s signature and bring the form to the Art office before you return it to the Registrar’s office with a self-addressed, stamped envelope. How do I change a grade? You must confer with your Instructor concerning a grade change, and provide the following to him/her: • Name (Last, First, Middle) • Perm # • Course # • Quarter and year • Enrollment Code • Instructor • Major It is up to the Instructor to determine if you are deserving of a grade change. The Registrars will not accept a request for a grade change directly from the student. How does a Student file an Incomplete grade? When a student feels that they cannot complete all of the necessary coursework by the end of the quarter, they should discuss the matter with their instructor before the end of that quarter. To file for an incomplete grade, the student must file an “Incomplete Petition”, which is only available at the Registrar’s office. The petition requires the Instructor’s signature and should be filed with the Registrar before the end of that quarter. When should a student finish an Incomplete? The incomplete work must be completed and submitted to the instructor by the deadline indicated by the instructor on the Incomplete Petition. If a specific deadline is not given on the petition, the student is expected to finish the work by the last day of the following quarter. In other words, if a student takes an Incomplete Fall quarter, they must finish the work by the last day of Winter quarter. How does a student get a New Grade? In order to replace an "I" (Incomplete) with a letter grade, it is the student’s responsibility to submit the completed work to the instructor by the deadline. The instructor will then submit a new grade electronically. An incomplete grade reverts to an F at the end of the deadline if the student does not finish the work. What if a student needs more time to finish an Incomplete? The student must file an "Incomplete Grade Extension Petition" with the Registrar's Office by the end of the quarter in which the incomplete work is due. Extension Petitions are available from the academic advisor in the Art office, NOT the Registrar’s office, and require the instructor’s signature. Students are strongly encouraged to be in communication with the instructor when they have an Incomplete. Do I need to submit slides or a portfolio to be accepted into the major? Not at this time. How can I receive more information about the resources at UCSB? For more general information about the campus, housing, student resources, other departments, faculty, and so forth, you should purchase a copy of the UCSB General Catalog: UCSB University Center Phone (805) 893-2961 Bookstore, Mail Order Department University of California Santa Barbara, CA 93106 How can I receive more information about financial aid? UCSB Student Financial Services Phone (805) 893-2432 2101 Student Affairs/Administrative Services Building (SAASB) Santa Barbara, CA 93106

February 6, 2010

Graduate Academic Resources

In addition to the extensive access to department and university facilities, the Department of Art provides each graduate student with 24-hour access to a spacious private studio for their two-year period of research. The intimate graduate studio community, comprised of 16-20 students each year, is a vital component of the program, providing an active environment for discourse and interchange among students and their peers. The department maintains specialized studio facilities and equipment for experimentation in a range of media. Studio facilities include a woodshop, metalworks foundry, as well as print, paper-making and chemical-based photography labs. The department also has a comprehensive wing for digital media studies to include a range of research in digital photography, digital video, web interface design, with a specialization in interactive digital environments, a hardware, telecommunications and networks lab. Accessible to graduate students are campus state-of-the-art production and fabrication labs such as the Kerr Hall Instructional Development Center for Media Production, the Physics, Engineering and Geology machine shops for consultation and fabrication. Departmental resources also include a department-sponsored exhibition space, <a href="/facilities/gallery479">Gallery 479</a>, the recently renovated Old Gym project space, featuring weekly exhibitions by undergraduate and graduate students. Two additional on-campus exhibition venues, The College of Creative Studies Gallery and the University Art Museum (UAM) offer exposure to a range of exhibition programming. The UAM presents major traveling exhibitions and houses a permanent collection for research and presentation purposes. Students are encouraged to explore the possibilities for experimentation given the diverse resources available in a university setting as well as the urban opportunities presented in Santa Barbara, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Department and Academic Affiliations The Department is closely linked with the UCSB Interdisciplinary Humanities Center (IHC) and the University Art Museum whereby strong collaborations take place in programming and curricular initiatives, bringing distinguished practitioners to campus to participate in exchange forums such as exhibitions, symposia and lecture series. The department's joint affiliation with the Media Arts and Technology Program (MAT) expands the department's digital media studies to include interface with cross-campus interdisciplinary programming between the humanities, engineering and computer sciences. The Department of Art is also affiliated with the College of Creative Studies, a small experimental college designed to allow students to rigorously explore a field of knowledge, rather than merely expose them to a predetermined quantity of fixed subject matter. Graduate students are encouraged to take special topic and interdisciplinary coursework offered in it. The Department of Art co-sponsors with the College of Creative Studies the Visual Arts Symposium, which brings prominent artists to campus for public lectures and studio visits with graduate students. The UCSB Arts and Lectures program brings internationally recognized artists and performers to campus through its lecture presentations, poetry readings, performances and film screenings. Students also have an opportunity to participate in the Intercampus Exchange Program for Graduate Students (IEPGS). This program is designed to provide access to courses at other UC campuses not ordinarily available at UCSB. Approvals are required from the Department Chairs and the Graduate Deans on both campuses. IEPGS applications are available on the Graduate Division website. UCSB Research Resources Arts Library: houses one of the most important collections of exhibition catalogues in the country. It also hosts an artists' books collection, with works of Ed Ruscha, Laurie Anderson, Adrian Piper and others. The Architecture & Design Collection in the University Art Museum: a growing repository of architectural records containing over 400,000 original drawings as well as specifications, manuscript material, historic photographs, architectural models and furniture. Included in its holdings are the papers of Rudolph M. Schindler, Gregory Ain, Albert Frey, Kem Weber, Irving J. Gill and Cliff May. Additionally, the collection's importance derives from its interest in documenting work originally considered to be outside the mainstream of the modern movement. The Image Resource Center (formerly the Visual Resources Collection) consists of over 70,000 digital images and approximately 300,000 35mm slides, which provide comprehensive coverage of Western and non-Western art and architecture. The IRC catalogue contains images from both the IRC's own collection as well as images and data from the Archivision digital image library and several other UCSB image collections. Digital assets are available for searching and download to registered users: <a href="https://www.vrc.arthistory.ucsb.edu" target="_blank">https://www.vrc.arthistory.ucsb.edu</a>. The IRC staff can provide assistance with access to the various licensed and free digital image archives available, such as ARTstor, and can assist with implementation of new image technology in teaching. Map and Imagery Laboratory: advances the interdisciplinary use of spatial data and provides technologies for integrating diverse information formats. The facility is nationally recognized for the quantity of spatial data it holds and the availability of equipment for utilizing both analog and digital materials. The California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives (CEMA): a permanent program that advances scholarship in ethnic studies through its varied collections of primary research materials. These unique collections document the lives and activities of African Americans, Asian/Pacific Americans, Chicanos/Latinos, and Native Americans in California. Historical Sound Recordings: holds over 250,000 audio recordings in a variety of formats. Many of these recordings are unique while many more are commercially issued 78 rpm and cylinder recordings. Other relevant Library special collections include: African American Collections, Asian American Collections, Chicano/Latino Collections, Circus Collections, Environmental Studies Collections, Film and Television Collections, Humanistic Psychology Collections, Music Collections, Native American Collections, Printing and Presses Collections, Religions (American) Collections, Theater Collections, Trade Catalogs and Visual Arts Collections. UCSB Arts & Lectures brings international performances, films, lectures and special events featuring artists, scholars and professionals of all disciplines to the campus. The program also sponsors an Artists-in-Residence series that provides master classes, symposia and classroom engagement with invited professionals from around the world. UCSB has been designated as the future home site for the California Nanosystems Institute, currently under construction and projected to open in 2006. Also part of the campus arts plan is the construction of a the Center for Film and Television, which will house the Department of Film Studies and the School of Communications. This facility will maintain state-of-the-art, media research labs and a multi-seat theatre complex for presentations and screenings.