Luis Valdovino has been working in collaboration on video art works with professor emeritus Dan Boord from Critical Media Practices since 1990. Their projects have been emotionally and intellectually involved, either directly or indirectly, with autobiographical experiences involving how individuals fit within a larger culture. Their collaborations are distinguished by their interest in the experience of everyday life. Seen from their perspective, everyday experience has a form and character, which often seems to fall outside the application of logic. Certain aspects of social and cultural meaning appear to defy reasoning or systematic attempts to unify that experience into something comprehensible. This situation is, as they see it, their backyard, the place where their poetic ideas and the ethos of their videos reside. Their video essays range from Chinese Immigration, Jean Cocteau and the exploration of cultural identity at the edges of globalized corporate culture.
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video art, visual anthropology, digital media art, documentary film/video, experimental film, photography, contemporary art, transmedia
ARTS 3017 - Special Topics in Studio Arts
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Spring 2024
Introduces timely subjects in studio arts courses that cannot be offered on a regular basis. Information concerning the topics in any given semester is available prior to pre-registration from the department of Art and Art History. May be repeated up to 7 total credit hours.
ARTS 4017 - Special Topics in Studio Arts
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Spring 2018 / Fall 2018 / Spring 2019 / Fall 2019 / Spring 2020 / Fall 2020 / Spring 2021 / Fall 2021 / Spring 2022 / Spring 2023 / Fall 2023 / Spring 2024
Introduces timely subjects in studio art courses that cannot be offered on a regular basis. Information on topics in any given semester is available prior to pre-registration in departmental office. May be repeated up to 18 total credit hours. Same as ARTS 5017.
ARTS 4246 - Beginning Video Production
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Spring 2018 / Summer 2018 / Fall 2018 / Spring 2019 / Summer 2019 / Fall 2019 / Spring 2020 / Fall 2020 / Spring 2021 / Summer 2021 / Fall 2021 / Spring 2022 / Summer 2022 / Spring 2023 / Summer 2023 / Fall 2023 / Spring 2024
Presents a studio course on basic single camera video production strategies and concepts. Through class screenings, projects, demonstrations, discussions, and readings, students gain an introductory familiarity with camera, lighting, sound, editing and the organization and planning involved in a video project. Explores a basic theoretical understanding of video as an art form and its relationship to television, film, art, history, culture. May be repeated up to 9 total credit hours. Same as ARTS 5246.
ARTS 5017 - Special Topics in Studio Arts
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Spring 2018 / Fall 2018 / Fall 2019 / Spring 2020 / Fall 2020 / Spring 2023 / Fall 2023 / Spring 2024
Introduces timely subjects in studio art courses that cannot be offered on a regular basis. Information on topics in any given semester is available prior to pre-registration in departmental office. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Same as ARTS 4017.
ARTS 5246 - Graduate Beginning Video Production
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Summer 2018 / Spring 2019 / Summer 2019 / Fall 2019 / Fall 2020 / Fall 2021 / Summer 2022 / Spring 2023 / Spring 2024
Presents a studio course on basic single camera video production strategies and concepts. Through class screenings, projects, demonstrations, discussions, and readings, students gain an introductory familiarity with camera, lighting, sound, editing and the organization and planning involved in a video project. Explores a basic theoretical understanding of video as an art form and its relationship to television, film, art, history, culture. May be repeated up to 9 total credit hours. Same as ARTS 4246.
