New Genres in Digital Photography

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Explores the ways in which contemporary technology and the key changes--ubiquity, speed and reproducibility--have spawned new genres in photo-based art. Explores these emerging and changeable genres and examines the potential they present for creative expression and in-depth conversation about new ideas. Defines these new genres: selfie sticks, Instagram, screenshots from Google Streetview or remote cameras that we control from our home computer. Students are given weekly assignments and at the end of the course create a project within one of the new genres.