Intermediate Painting and Technology (PAI-0151)

Fall 2024 · PAI 0151 · Tufts University · 4 credits · Undergraduate

This course is designed to introduce students to a range of possibilities for generating painting source material from technologies such as photography, video, film and digital images. This class will be 25% demo and slides, 75% studio. Students will be given a practical and critical overview of the relationships between traditional and new technologies. More and more painters are using photography, digital imaging, video and other new media to create interdisciplinary works or as a tool for representation of images. This has been going on in one way or another since Vermeer. This course will help students realize the potential of the tools at their disposal. Some painting students feel using certain technologies is cheating. The real question is which technologies are appropriate to which goal. The course will help students to judge which technologies are appropriate for their own visions. The course will examine ideological and formal rationales for using various technologies and further help students explore the complex relationships between content and process. Students will leave this class able to create and/or find technological source material, able to transfer images to painting surface using gridding, transfer methods, and projection, and be able to manipulate source material and paint to develop student's painting proficiency and range of painterly expression. Recommendations: any introductory or intermediate painting course or permission of instructor. Non-SMFA students and MAT Art Education students will receive a letter grade.

Course codes: PAI-0151, PAI 0151, PAI0151, PAI-151, PAI 151, PAI151

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