ARTSTUDI 242A: Drawing and Cameras

Course Description

How do images move, and what does living in the crossfire of so many cameras do to our seeing? What else can we do with drawing, besides becoming perfect cameras? Students respond to their own questions and archives by thinking visually through a series of fun, hands-on exercises that integrate drawing and the experimental use of cameras. Students lift images by redrawing and transforming them using charcoal, ink, color. We learn about diverse voices, including Queer and Latin American artists and thinkers, inviting us to ponder the ways in which they've shifted the mediums of drawing, photography, video. Prerequisite: Drawing 1 or permission of instructor.