Ontario College of Art & Design

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CROS 4B01
Witness: History, Memory and Creative Response NOT OFFERED 2013/2014
0.50 Credit(s)
Studio/Seminar
Prerequisite: One of the following – Contemporary Issues: Art Today courses, CRCP 2B01, DRPT 2B13, INTM 2B22, PHOT 2B12, PRNT 2B25 or GDES 2B03 Think Tank I: Awareness and 13.0 credits, including all first-year and second-year requirements (10.0 credits)
This studio-seminar introduces students to works of art and design that take up issues related to contemporary history and memory through diverse media. Open to students in either the Faculty of Art or Design, the course takes an interdisciplinary approach requiring students to prepare seminars, readings and short papers in conjunction with their self directed projects. Drawing on the themes of disaster, trauma and historical remembrance in contexts of war; poverty; HIV/AIDS; atomic weapons and many other issues, students will formulate questions of engagement: what are the challenges for artists and designers seeking to represent subject matter often thought difficult if not impossible to represent?
Notes: New title: formally Special Focus: Representation and Difficult Knowledge
Course was last updated May 13, 2013 - 3:51 PM