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NMCC Winter 2022 Course Listing

Initial Registration for Winter Term 2022 runs November 15th through the 24th; below are the NMCC’s course offerings for the term.

The NMCC Common Seminar will be offered only once this year, in Winter. Note that this course is not reserved for NMCC students only. If you’re taking it next term, you should enroll as soon as possible to guarantee your place.

If you are curious if a course not listed on the website can count towards the certificate, please check out our course petition process or contact us at nmcc@uoregon.edu for more information.

THIS FALL: Lumi Tan and Andrew Thomas Huang @ UO Fall 2021 Visiting Artist Lectures


Image source: Baseera Khan, By Faith, 2020, The Kitchen at Queenslab. Photo: Ariana Sarwari.

Lumi Tan: “Invisible Rooms: Performance and Institutions”
Critical Conversations Lecture

Thursday, October 28, 4:00 PM
Live on zoom and on the Department of Art Facebook.
Free and open to the public; details here.

Lumi Tan will speak about “the ways in which performance practices shift institutional value systems through her work curating time-based art for the white cube gallery, black box theater, and most recently, the computer screen. Thinking of issues of process, intimacy, documentation, audience, and site, Tan will connect this current work to the historical context of The Kitchen and the role of small scale institutions in the contemporary art ecosystem.”


Image source: Still from FKA Twigs – “Cellophane” directed by Andrew Thomas Huang.

Andrew Thomas Huang: “Queer Morphologies & Digital Spirits”
Davis Family Lecture

Thursday, November 18, 4:00 p.m.
Lawrence Hall, Room 177
Free and open to the public; details here.

Huang will share an overview of his “mixed media filmmaking career which interweaves live action, visual effects, puppetry and animation with his passion for folklore, mythology and queer futurism. The lecture will explore the process of world building and focus on the emergence of hybrid methodologies within one’s visual practice. This talk will also explore how combining digital tools with performance can enable new forms of self-reinvention and the construction of digital identities.”

Both lectures are part of the Department of Art and the Center for Art Research’s Fall 2021 Visiting Artist Lectures.

THIS FALL: Digital GLAM Spaces Conference

UO Libraries and the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art presents Digital GLAM Spaces

ONLINE · November 10th, 2021
Opening Keynote featuring Snowden Becker at 9 AM PST
11 panels, presentations, and lightning talks from 10 AM – 3:30 PM

Digital GLAM Spaces is a free conference about building community around web accessibility and user experience. It’s a place for GLAM practitioners to share definitions and best practices for what is UX and accessibility; communicate digital strategies for incorporating user research into digital projects; and talk about the people, skillsets, and support needed to be better and make web accessibility and user experience part of our work instead of bolted on.”

Registration + details here.

NOW SHOWING: Comics Journalism Exhibit at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art

Image source: Dan Archer, “What is Comics Journalism?,” 2014, digital.

NOW SHOWING: The Art of the News: Comics Journalism
September 24th, 2021 to January 16th, 2022
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art

Curated by NMCC faculty affiliate Katherine Kelp-Stebbins (Assistant Professor, English), with associate curator and director of Comics Studies, Ben Saunders (Professor, English), The Art of the News is the “first major retrospective devoted to this increasingly influential genre of visual narrative.”

“By focusing not only on the finished works, but also on the methodology and techniques that each artist employs—the painstaking gathering of information through extensive research and interviews, and the labor-intensive production of comics pages—the exhibition highlights the ethical imperatives that drive this form of documentation.”

View The Art of the News through January 16th, 2022, at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art. Museum hours and details here.

Announcing: NMCC Fall 2021 Invited Panel

ANNOUNCING NMCC’s Fall 2021 Invited Panel: Technology | Media

Featuring Lexi Neame and Jake Fraser:

Lexi Neame, Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science at Reed College, is a political theorist and science and technology studies scholar. More on Lexi’s work here.

Jake Fraser, Assistant Professor of German and Humanities at Reed College, works at the intersections of media history, literature, and philosophy. More on Jake’s work here.

ANTICIPATED IN PERSON · EVENT DETAILS FORTHCOMING: STAY TUNED!

New Class: Art and/as Finance

As we gear up for Fall term, be on the lookout for exciting goings-on with NMCC.  In the meantime, ride out the rest of your summer, but also take note of an exciting new class that is being offered in the Art History Dept which will be of great interest to some of you.

 

ARH 457/557: Art and/as Finance

Wednesdays, 2:00-4:20 pm
Prof. Murphy

What is art’s role within our increasingly complex
global economy? Is it just another luxury commodity,
to be bought, sold, and insured? Or can art critique,
and perhaps even disrupt, the concept of commodity
exchange itself? This seminar explores these
questions by surveying modern and contemporary
artists who explicitly use money and other financial
instruments as their medium. From Dada iconoclasts
who doctored government-issued bonds in the 1920s,
to South American conceptualists who manipulated
paper bills during the period of the region’s
dictatorships, to contemporary creators who make
digital works based on the structure of
cryptocurrency, artists have often sought to blur the
boundaries between art’s aesthetic value, its financial
value, and its material form. Tracking these artistic
blurrings, we will dive into some of the major
theorizations of modern capitalism and its alternatives
across a range of fields such as contemporary critical
theory, critical race theory, and postcolonial studies,
with the goal of developing conceptual tools for
analyzing the ways in which art embraces, or resists,
monetization.

2021 Spring Shelfie with Gabriela Chitwood, PhD in History of Art and Architecture

Gabriela Chitwood is a second year PhD student in the History of Art and Architecture at the University of Oregon. She holds a BA in Art History from UCLA where she also minored in Digital Humanities.

Her current research delves into the relationship between architecture and liturgy, with a particular focus on papal coronations at the French papal palace of Avignon. This focus on late medieval architecture is a change from her earlier work, which focused on early gothic architecture of the twelfth century.

More broadly, Gabriela’s research approaches gothic architecture as embodied space – fundamentally connected to how people use the space. She is also interested in the life of buildings and how the relationships between buildings and people change over time.

Gabriela’s engagement with the NMCC is rooted in her interest in digital modeling and architectural reconstructions. Her digital humanities approach concentrates on using digital tools to excavate lost architecture. She is currently experimenting on how to best integrate this formalist approach into her research on the use of buildings.

Recommendations:

St. Paul’s Outside the Walls: A Roman Basilica, from Antiquity to the Modern Era by Nicola Camerlenghi

International Journal for Digital Art History

Forensic Architecture

Dissimilar Similitudes: Devotional objects of Late Medieval Europe by Caroline Walker Bynum

The Gothic Screen: Space, Sculpture, and Community in the Cathedrals of France and Germany, ca 1200-1400 by Jacqueline Jung

UX Study: Leveraging GLAM Assets in Library-Museum Collaboration: Call for Research Study Participants

The UO Libraries Digital Scholarship Services Department and Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art are seeking teaching faculty, students, museum education staff, museum and archive curators, librarians, humanities, and social science researchers to help enhance the digital exhibits created in partnership with UO faculty members during the 2018-2020 Andrew W. Mellon GLAM collaboration that brought the following digital projects to the University of Oregon:

Madness Outside In
Tekagami and Kyōgire
The Artful Fabric of Collecting
The March
United Collections
Yōkai Senjafuda

We hope with this user experience study that your feedback regarding paint points, opportunities, and successes will guide us to create better user interface interactions for digital exhibits hosted in partnership between the UO Libraries and JSMA.

Below is information about the research study that will take place during June 2021.

Who can participate?

Participants must meet the following criteria to join the study: 

Must be teaching faculty, students, museum education staff, museum and archive curators, librarians, humanities, and social science researchers at the University of Oregon
Must be over the age of 18
Must have experience and access to Zoom
Complete this recruitment survey
Be available at some point during June 2021 to participate in a remote user test
Individuals with no to a lot of specific knowledge or experience with digital exhibits

How will you participate in this study?

If you are selected to participate then you will be invited for a one-on-one 45-minutes Zoom video call in mid-June.  You will be asked to perform a set of tasks on the website and share with us your feedback.

The session will be video recorded so that we can conduct a detailed analysis of how participants engage with the digital projects.

Will you be compensated for your participation?

Yes, At the end of the session, you will receive a $20 Visa gift card for supporting this study. 

Interested in participating?

If you are interested in participating then please consider completing this recruitment survey.

Do you have questions about this research study?

Please contact
Anna Lepska, alepska@uoregon.edu, Mellon GLAM Library/Museum Collaboration UX GE at the University of Oregon
Kate Thornhill, kmthorn@uoregon.edu, Digital Scholarship Librarian at the University of Oregon Libraries

NMCC Course offerings 2021-2022

The NMCC’s course offerings for Fall 2021 are below. They can also be accessed here.

Fall 2021 Course Listings

 

Topics

Course Number Course Title Professor
CINE 510 Top Cinema & Censorship Alilunas
CIS 510 Intro Artificial Intelligence Nguyen
COLT 616 Transmedial Aesthetics Allan
J 529 Studying Games Cote
J 529 Social Media and Democracy Nah
J 531 Digital Media Law Newell
J 611 Mass Communication & Society Newton; Lewis
J 649 International Communication Martinez

 

Methods Courses

Course Number Course Title Professor
ARTD 510 Data Visualization Vala
EDLD 651 Intro Educ Data Sci Nese
EDLD 654 Mach Learn Edu Data Sc Zopluoglu
EDUC 611 Surv Educ Res Methods Irvin; Alonzo
EDUC 612 Social Sci Res Design Giuliani
EDUC 616 Phil Found Soc Sci Mazzei
EDUC 642 Multi Regress & Ed Res Zopluoglu
J 660 Visual Ethnography Newton
LA 550 Env Data Visualization Lee
PSY 512 Applied Data Analysis Pennefather
PSY 611 Data Analysis 1 Weston

 

Electives Courses (note also that any Topics or Methods course counts as an elective)

Course Number Course Title Professor
ARCH 510 Bldg Info Model Revit Mladinov
ARCH 523 Media Design Devel Williams; Cheng
ARTD 510 Interactive Spaces Park
ARTD 510 Interactive Video Ives
ARTD 510 Net Art Silva
ARTD 515 Video Art: Exper Film Vala
ARTD 563 Communication Design Salter
CINE 511M US Film Industry Hornof
CINE 590 Top Global Blockbuster Ok
CIS 543 User Interfaces Elias
ENG 695 Top Queer Pop Miller
PPPM 570 The Arts in Society Blandy
J 531 Understanding Disney Wasko
J 560 Top Advert & Culture Chavez
J 560 Top Design Tech & Culture Ewald
J 560 Design Studio Asbury
J 563 Top Data Journalism Walth
J 563 Solution Journalism Walth
J 566 Top Adv Photojrlism Kjellstrand
J 612 Media Theory 1 Ofori-Parku
LA 510 Landscape Media 1 Abelman
MUE 639 Top Elec Mus Ped/Prac Stolet
MUP 765 Perf ST Data Drivn Ins Stolet
MUS 548 Interactive Media Perf Stolet
MUS 576 Digital Aud Wrk Tech 1 Bellona
MUS 583 Audio Eff Theory Dsgn Bellona
MUS 693 Hatakeyama Ore Electr Device Orch