classes

For DESIGN MEDIA ARTS, UCLA, 2008-

For examples of pedagogical approaches and student outcomes in my classes, look at two multimedia articles

Colloidal Suspension: Immersion and the Pedagogies of Making

and

Solve for xFuturisms from the able Journal

DMA 8 Media Histories

Lecture, three hours; outside study, 12 hours. GE Course. Synthetic overview of optical media and aesthetic movements covering past two centuries: photography and industrialization/Romanticism (1850 to 1900), cinema and modernism (1900 to 1950), television and postmodernism (1950 to 2000), and digital media and unimodernism (2000 to 2050). How such movements can inform generative work and how understanding these media becomes essential in emerging era of digital humanities. P/NP or letter grading.

DMA 104 Design Futures

Lecture, three hours; outside study, 12 hours. Preparation: completion of preparation for major courses. Open to nonmajors with consent of instructor. Critical examination of design practice and theory of 20th and 21st centuries, incorporating historical as well as speculative methodologies. Consideration of how various design practices and techniques related to each other across cultures and media, with strong emphasis on communication design. P/NP or letter grading.

DMA 269 The Maker’s Discourse Graduate Seminar

This seminar discusses numerous approaches to writing, develop strategies for making writing a more fluid act of making rather than a mostly static textual exercise. It engages with the difference between architectonic planning and emergent structures, explores the tradition of the artist’s interview, and analyzes best practices for Web publishing. As well, the seminar models strategies for demoing work, mastering oral presentations, and overcoming performance anxiety.

DMA 404 – Graduate Tutorial

The tutorial is offered as a central part of the comprehensive MFA program. Discussions, readings, critiques and other interactions are designed to encourage and refine the student’s concentrated body of work to be presented in a master of fine arts exhibition. An accompanying record of the exhibition, including documentation appropriate to the media, for example, images of physical work, research material, other visual material, a written statement, and other materials as determined by the student’s Graduate Thesis Committee, is also required, and will be discussed and critiqued in tutorial.