Aimee Beaubien

Photographic information permeates our daily lives. PHOTO MATTER explores the materiality of photographic image-making by delving into the realms of appropriation, montage, and collage to strategies interwoven with the sculptural and installation. Through a dynamic combination of creative exploration and critical inquiry, students will craft a compelling body of work in their chosen form that resonates with their line of inquiry. Our course activities will revolve around the cultivation of individual artistic production, embrace the tangible nature of photographs while analyzing the works of influential artists, and noteworthy exhibitions. As artists and creators, we will experiment with innovative approaches to presentation methods, venturing into alternative spaces and exhibition making. By seamlessly fusing research, materials and techniques, we will create surface tensions and expand the capacities of photographic meanings.

Photography is everywhere. Sequences and series are the ubiquitous ways we most often see photographic images. Photographic meanings are pliable in shifting contexts from published sequences online and in print, to images in photobooks, exhibitions and installations. This class critically examines how series of images are structured and the significance those structures hold.

?That photography resists being shaped by any single set of imperatives or standards ? as it literally permeates our public and private and our rational and fantasy lives ? renders it, by its very nature unruly and hard to define.? Marvin Heiferman. This course will address the complex and continual shifting nature of photography; what influences our understanding of how a photograph functions while exploring a diverse array of photographic genres and applications.

Assignments develop skillful use and understanding of serial imagery by engaging narrative and non-narrative strategies in a variety of sequences, books, zines, portfolios, web-based projects, installations, videos, and projected presentations.

Taken every semester, the Graduate Projects courses allow students to focus in private sessions on the development of their work. Students register for 6 hours of Graduate Project credit in each semester of study.

Taken every semester, the Graduate Projects courses allow students to focus in private sessions on the development of their work. Students register for 6 hours of Graduate Project credit in each semester of study.