Hello everyone,
I wanted to tell you bit about Art 130, and how we will be approaching this class. As many of you already know, I teach Art 130 as a seminar rather than as a lecture.
This class is intended to prepare you for advanced studies and graduate school. You will be in reading groups of 4-5 people, and your group will present the weekly readings to the entire class each week. This method, which is the foundation of the graduate seminar, engages everyone in interesting discussions about the reading materials and the works of art discussed. It is an intellectually stimulating and gratifying way to learn the material and to grow academically. It is even more gratifying when you work closely with your peers in a group because you learn so much by sharing your interpretations and perceptions with one another.
Our topic this quarter is Art in the Age of the Internet, and I eagerly anticipate our lively discussions about the art that we encounter together.
I look forward to meeting all of you in class when the quarter begins! Please be sure to go to the campus bookstore (or online HERE) to pick up your books, or you can order them from the publisher or Amazon. Please order them quickly because Summer Session is fast-paced and you need to be prepared on the first day. If you do not receive your copy before class begins, then please either purchase it directly from the campus bookstore or check out the copies on reserve at the library.
Art 130 lectures will be taught in-person. If you have time conflicts with work and with other classes, or you are planning vacations during Summer Session A, then you should take Art 130 another quarter. There are also two mandatory Los Angeles museum field trips that are an important part of the class. Please make sure that you are available on Saturday, July 8 and Saturday, July 22. These two class meetings will be in lieu of some on-campus meetings those weeks. LACMA will provide free tickets only to people registered in my class, and who filled out the liability waiver. The Getty Center will supply free parking to people registered in my class who carpool (2 or more Art 130/Art 1A students in each vehicle).
Mandatory Museum Field Trips & Liability Waivers:
- Fill out the Getty Center field trip (on Saturday, July 8) Liability Waiver: The Getty Center Liability Waiver
- Fill out the LACMA field trip (on Saturday, July 22) Liability Waiver: LACMA Liability Waiver
2) Weekly Reading Assignments: can be found HERE.
3) Art 130 Questionnaire: can be found HERE. Please fill this out and return it to me very quickly. There are numerous questions that relate to your access to technology during this time.
4) Research Paper Prompt: can be found HERE. You will be selecting the artist about whom you will write a formal research paper. You may use any of the assigned books for this class, but you will also want to utilize scholarly journal articles from the Davidson Library Website (HERE). You will note that I have linked to the Art 1A page of the Davidson Library website because it is very easy to navigate, and it is very helpful. Before you select your photographer, be sure to look through your four books for inspiration, and once you have narrowed down the field I will speak with each of you individually about your proposed subject of research.
5) If you need help finding research materials, then please reach out to our Art and Architecture Librarian, Chizu Morihara.
cmorihara@ucsb.edu
(805) 893-2766
6) Office Hours: By appointment. Email: taschian@arts.ucsb.edu
7) Group Reading Journals: You will submit your weekly reading summaries each Friday by 6:00PM PT. Your group reading journals are largely intended to help you learn the material, and to identify scholarly sources that can be used in your research paper. However, they also allow me to see how you are framing and interpreting the materials the we are covering.
You should be summarizing the most important points that are made by the authors, and those that you find particularly interesting. You need to write in full sentences, rather than listing abbreviated ideas in the form of bullet points.
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