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The Languages of New Media II:
Life in the Network

Institute for Multimedia Literacy
University of Southern California
Fall 2006/Spring 2007

Hybrid production/theory undergraduate seminar examining depictions and experiences of metaverses, both historically and in contemporary multi-user online virtual environments.

 
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Ideas in Intermedia:
The Nexus of
Art and Horror

University of Southern California
Spring 2006

Undergraduate seminar exploring the history and theory of horror as a means for understanding its recent resurgence in film, video, painting, comic books and video games.

 
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History and Theory of New Media

Art Center College of Design
Fall 2005

Graduate seminar tracing shifts in twentieth century visual culture that correlate with the advent of new media art practices.

 
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Stealing Pictures

Art Center College of Design

Fall 2005

Graduate transdisciplinary seminar examining the ways in which painting, film and video have influenced each other, and their cross-pollination in contemporary digital media.

 
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From Problematic to Popular

University of Southern California
Fall 2005

Undergraduate seminar analyzing contemporary moving image artwork, placing it within a larger historical context of the cinematic and video avant-garde.

 
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Digital Culture

University of Southern California

Fall 2005

Undergraduate seminar looking at experiments in digital cinema, video art, motion graphics, Net art and new media with an overview of the major theories of digital culture.

 
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Exploding Narrative

University of Southern California
School of Fine Arts
Intermedia Program

Spring 2005

This undergraduate seminar examines new forms of storytelling in film, video and new media in light of the impact new tools for production, distribution and exhibition.

 
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New Digital Cinema

California Institute of the Arts
Spring 2005

This graduate class asks how contemporary narrative filmmaking has been affected by digital culture and filmmaking tools.

 
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