About

Parsons School of Design
Integrated Design Program, School of Design Strategies
PUIC Media CRN 3291
Fall 2018
Tuesday/Thursday, 3:50-6:30pm

Faculty Zohar Kfir
Email address kfirz@newschool.edu

 

Course Description
This course primarily focuses on digital media. Students will work with various digital applications including, but not limited to, digital imaging, video and audio and various presentation platforms to represent concepts and processes. The course is a hands-on introduction to various software applications. The different class exercises comprise print and web, time based medias and virtual reality.

This course is designed to introduce visual media creators to the collaborative and narrative possibilities that current media practices can offer.  Students will explore the ways in which artists today use contemporary technology to create alternatives to dominant media practices; projects will be content-driven using various media formats, aiming to integrate theory and practice.

The course is structured as an in depth examination of ideas and opportunity for students to creatively delve into a semester long exploration in which they will receive the technical support, inspiration and critique for thematic projects they wish to produce in class.

 

Learning Outcomes

  • DEMONSTRATE AN ABILITY to situate oneself through art and design interventions to study, assess, and respond to the specific context and then propose possible alternatives for such contexts with the potential to amplify, enhance or alter its current state.
  • DEMONSTRATE A CAPACITY to constructively create and deploy physical, social and temporal prototypes into situational contexts via a range of demonstrated design skills and principles that are commensurate (proportional) to the desired impact and context.
  • DEMONSTRATE AN ABILITY to develop deployable design concepts in an iterative fashion where each build on findings from the outcome of the preceding deployment.
  • DEMONSTRATE AND AWARENESS of social justice in situational contexts, specifically, in diverse or dynamic demographic scenarios.
  • DEMONSTRATE AN ABILITY to use spontaneous design and creation practices as well as premeditated and planned design strategies.
  • DEMONSTRATE AN ADVANCED ABILITY to record, capture, and edit a video.
  • DEMONSTRATE creative vision, strong communication and sense of narrative.
  • DEMONSTRATE AN ABILITY to work constructively with others in collaborative contexts, to understand the relationship of self to team, and to utilize tools for self and team assessment.