A Producer Prepares: Advanced Topics in Curation, Ethics, and Arts Programming

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This course continues students' orientation to the complex relationships between cultural entrepreneurs, buyers, sellers, producers, managers, audiences and artists. Through readings, guest speakers and case studies, with particular emphasis on emerging media technologies, business practice and live art administration, “Advanced Topics…” will arm students with the critical, historical, managerial and curatorial tools necessary to produce work in the contemporary cultural economy, with particular emphasis on memes, think tanks, and the relationship between the state and art. This class seeks to situate arts curation and production within histories of cultural practice, management and technology, and ultimately aims to endow student producers with the tactical, critical and strategic acumen necessary to thrive in an arts sector in flux.