Site and Situation: Public Art

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Site and Situation: Public Art is an advanced course. Students will consider how economic, political and global entities use social space as means of perpetuating social constructs, collective identity, and human behavior? Public art is one aspect of how social spaces are defined and curated. However, what is “public art”? How is it interpreted and practiced? How can artists make their own moves to interpret and re-situate site? Students will use Shanghai as a case study to investigate how materials both inform and are informed by location and geography. Students will develop one semester-long individual project – a portfolio which includes a research paper, a scale model, an artist statement, a poster, and a presentation. Prerequisites: None. Anti-Requisite: ART-SHU 223 Site and Situation: Social Space and Public Art. Fulfillment: Humanities Interdisciplinary/other Advanced course; IMA elective; IMB major IMA/B elective.