Study practical, technical and theoretical strategies of performing with and through media. This is an in-depth course that investigates a narrow scope drawn from topics that may include dance/movement, the illustrated lecture, projection environments, digital sensing, responsive lighting or acoustic strategies for performance. Requisites: Requires prerequisite course of CMDP 3820 (minimum grade D-).
Explores the aesthetics of sound through the study of sound art and sound culture. Reading and discussion covers theories, technologies, and histories that drive the medium. Students apply concepts by designing and building their own soundscapes. Classes will be organized around hands-on activities, lecture, and discussion of readings. Department consent required. Requisites: Requires prerequisite course of CMDP 2500 or 2860 or MUSC 2081 (minimum grade D-). Restricted to College of Music (MUSCU) or Department of Critical Media Practices (DCMP) undergraduate students only.
Surveys the various tools and techniques in the field of music technology. Topics include an introduction to basic synthesis, digital signal processing, MIDI and audio sequencing, music notation and a historical perspective on electronic music. Department consent required. Same as MUSC 4081 and MUEL 4081. Requisites: Restricted to College of Music (MUSCU) or Department of Critical Media Practices (DCMP) undergraduate students only.
Learn aspects of professional development in media production. Through workshops, class trips and assignments students will learn of the many opportunities found within media production. Requisites: Requires prerequisite course of CMDP 2600 (minimum grade D-).
Introduces students to a variety of critical scholarship and debates about our sonic environment through an examination of how sound interfaces with different facets of media production. Consisting of listening, analyzing and differentiating sound in different contexts, students will deepen their understanding of the relationship between sight and sound in cultural production. Requisites: Requires prerequisite course of CMDP 2400 (minimum grade D-).
Examine the theories and methods underpinning the use of archival materials in non-fiction media production while simultaneously exploring questions of ethics, truth and representation that the use and manipulation of archives raises. Through weekly lectures, seminars, readings and screenings, students will discover the theories and interpretive approaches to understanding the archive and its uses. Requisites: Requires prerequisite course of CMDP 2400 (minimum grade D-).
Examine the formation of screen cultures (narrative, experimental, documentaries and multi-media video art) in the context of the cultural globalization of the moving image. Through lectures, seminars and research projects students explore the formation and evolution of screen cultures on various platforms such as digital cinema, web environments, video art, multi-channel installations and the moving image on mobile interfaces. Requisites: Requires prerequisite course of CMDP 2400 (minimum grade D-).
Offers students critical and interpretive frameworks for understanding the cultural and historical significance of digital diasporas and these communities' use of digital technologies for communication, community building and the creation of digital documents about migration and connectivity with the homeland. Requisites: Requires prerequisite course of CMDP 2400 (minimum grade D-).
Focus on the development and application of media technologies in moving image aesthetics and emergent media practices. Topics rotate according to faculty expertise, but may include new imaging technologies for small screen and mobile devices, web-specific media or emerging modes of production. Through lectures, screenings and seminar, students explore the work of contemporary thinkers and practitioners in the field. Requisites: Requires prerequisite course of CMDP 2400 (minimum grade D-).
Focus on the development and application of media technologies in moving image aesthetics and emergent media practices. Topics rotate according to faculty expertise, but may include new imaging technologies for small screen and mobile devices, web-specific media or emerging modes of production. Through lectures, screenings and seminars, students explore the work of contemporary thinkers and practitioners in the field. Requisites: Requires prerequisite course of CMDP 2400 (minimum grade D-).
Shoot footage on or for mobile screens including narratives, microdocumentaries, music videos, short stories and collaborative exquisite corpse projects. Students will complete work and distribute through various outlets on the internet. Requisites: Requires prerequisite course of CMDP 2600 (minimum grade D-).
Explore the design and implementation of multimedia environments. Students will develop strategies for creating media exhibitions and/or performance environments with projection and sounds activated by sensors. This course is ideal for performers, dancers and media artists as well as those desiring to present information in novel ways, such as working with archival or non-fiction materials. Requisites: Requires prerequisite course of CMDP 3830 (minimum grade D-).
Develop the technical and conceptual skills for computational media practices. Through individual and collaborative projects, students will explore the creative use of electronics and microcontrollers (including wearable and other embedded systems) through relevant programming environments. This course will also introduce visual programming with a focus on signal processing for image and sound. Requisites: Requires prerequisite course of CMDP 2600 (minimum grade D-).
Learn what sound is and where it comes from; how to create, analyze, alter, mix, and record it digitally in the studio and in the field; and how it can interact creatively with other media. In addition to analyzing how professionals use sound, students will create five sound-based projects of their own.
Design and implement projection-based media projects and explore projection practice as a distinct field. Through individual and collaborative projects, this course explores projection for live events, installation, moving images and site-specific or community-based projects. Students will be introduced to emergent software and hardware for projection design. Requisites: Requires prerequisite course of CMDP 2600 (minimum grade D-).
Focusing on live image and sound processing in constructed or natural environments, students will work individually or collaboratively on an installation project that engages with the intersection of performance and media. Potential models include site specific work, illustrated lecture, gallery installation, movement and dance with projection mapping, participatory media and virtual environments. Requisites: Requires prerequisite course of CMDP 4620 (minimum grade D-).
Explores digital artistic practices across contexts and disciplines in various contexts. This course emphasizes web and networked media as it applies to digital practices in sound, image, language, spatial and time-based arts. Requisites: Requires prerequisite course of CMDP 2600 (minimum grade D-).
Combine research and production to produce short documentary media projects, which explore the world we live in. Focusing on practice, this course explores stylistic options employed on documentaries that give voice to different perspectives on the world. Students will be able to identify the tactics and strategies of documentaries in a variety of media, and will include visits with professional documentary makers. Students will complete a final documentary project. Requisites: Requires prerequisite course of CMDP 3810 (minimum grade D-).
Explores emerging creative documentary practices through visual research, fieldwork, oral histories and the construction of innovative ethnographies. Through ethno-fiction, eco-ethnography, photography, indigenous media and cinema, students explore the development of ethnographic documentary and visual anthropology in both traditional and experimental forms. Projects are developed with an emphasis on the ethical and political challenges of representation through media technologies. Requisites: Requires prerequisite course of CMDP 4810 (minimum grade D-).
Exploration of issues, techniques and tools of music and sound technology. Topics vary and may include: interactive systems for performance; music and mobile media; electronic music instrument design; digital synthesis and signal processing; music in multimedia; sound practices and analysis. Lecture during work sessions will support student projects. Requisites: Requires prerequisite courses of CMDP 3860 or MUEL 4081 (minimum grade D-).
Explores the application of new media technologies in depth, and engages students in an ongoing dialogue about the cultural context of new media technologies and their own work. Students will produce a major media project that synthesizes methods of media making into modes of communication and expression. This is the capstone course for undergraduates in Media Production. Requisites: Requires prerequisite course of CMDP 3500 (minimum grade D-).
Explores documentary media preproduction tactics and strategies, including basic research approaches, planning, pre-visualization, stylistic approaches, scheduling, working with archive and documentary materials, and documentary ethics. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
