CINE 589DArchival Interventions

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In Archival Interventions, we will examine research as an integral act in the creation of moving-image works. We will expand our definition of 'research', straying into and beyond the institutions of libraries and archives to consider the manifold ways our work is informed by and in conversation with other media. Meeting artists and thinkers such as Harun Farocki, Sondra Perry, Mary Helena Clark, Teju Cole, and Saidiya Hartman, we will critically engage with the ways documents, images, and ephemera are transformed through artists' creative practice. In addition to exploring artworks and texts by other makers, students will examine their own patterns of research, auditing the media they ingest and reflecting on their habits of collection. Over the course of the semester, students will complete two creative projects, transforming their research into moving image works.