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MEMORANDUM
ATTENTION
FROM
RE:
Senate
date
Wade Parkhouse. Dean of Graduate
No.
Studies
Faculty of Communication. Art and Technology
16 January 2013
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For information:
At its meeting of 3 December. 2012, SGSC approved the Master of Arts in Comparative Media
Arts by Cohort Special Arrangements and forwarded it to SCUP for information at its meeting
9 January 2013.
Acting under delegated authority at its December, 2012 meeting, SGSC approved the following
curriculum revisions:
Effective Date is Fall 2013
Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology
School for the Contemporary Arts
[GS2012.35]
l.New courses related to the Proposal for a Master of Arts (MA) in Comparative Media Arts
by Cohort Special Arrangements:
FPA 821-4 Research Methods in Comparative Media Arts
FPA 822-4 Research Colloquium in Comparative Media Arts
FPA 823-4 New Approaches in Art and Visual Culture
FPA 824-4 New Approaches in Moving-Image Studies
FPA 825-4 New Approaches in Digital Art Studie
FPA 826-4 New Approaches in Performance Studies
FPA 827-4 Practicum in Comparative Media Arts
FPA 829-6 Extended Essay in Comparative Media Arts
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SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
DEAN OF GRADUATE STUDIES
GS2012.35
New Graduate Course Proposal Form
PROPOSED COURSE
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FPA
Number (eg. 810] 821
Course Title (max 80 characters)
Research Methods in Comparative Media Arts
Short Title(appears on transcripts, max 25 characters)
Methods Comp Media Arts
Course Description for SFU Calendar
0 see attached document 0 Learning outcomes identified
Available Course Components:
• Lecture
0Seminar • Laboratory
• Practicum
DOnline
•.
Units (eg. 4)4
Grading Basis 0 Letter grades • Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory D
In Progress/Complete
This is a capstone course CDYes 0No
Prerequisites (if any)
Qsee attached document (if more space is required)
Enrollment in MA in Comparative Media Arts or permission of instructor
• This proposed course is combined with an undergrad course: Course number and units:
Additional course requirements for graduate students
• See attached document (if this space is insufficient)
Campus at which course will be offered (check all that apply) DBurnaby 0 Vancouver • Surrey [~JGNW •.
Estimated enrolment
15
Date of initial offering
September 2013
Course delivery (eg. 3 hrs/week for 13weeks)
3 hrs/week for 13 weeks
• Yes 0 No
Practicum work done in this class will involve children or vulnerable adults
(If the "Yes" box is checked, all students will require criminal record checks)
Justification
QSee attached document (if more space is required)
New course for MA in Comparative Media Arts by Cohort Special Arrangements
HS»- RESOURCES
If additional resources are required to offer this course, the department proposing the course should be prepared to
provide information on the source(s) of those additional resources.
Faculty member(s) who will normally teach this course
0 information about their competency to teach the course is appended
Dr.
Laura Marks, Dr. Denise Oleksiczjuk
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Additional space required in order to offer this course
Q see attached document
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D
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committee where there might be an overlap in course content. The chairs will indicate that overlap concerns have
been deallwith by signing the appropriate space or via a separate memo ore-mail (attached to this form).
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Once overlap concerns have been dealt with, signatures indicate approval by the department, home faculty and
Senate Graduate Studies Committee.
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Department / School / Program
School for the Contemporary Art
Contact name
Arne Eigenfeldt
Contact email
arne_e@sfu.ca
FPA 821-4 Research Methods in Comparative Media Arts
Description:
This core course is taken in the first semester of the MA program. It develops
thinking across the media arts in a comparative perspective that synthesizes the historical
and theoretical approaches of art history, cinema studies, performance studies, and
computer-based media studies. The term
media
indicates both the traditional media
of the
arts and communications media, the art forms of which interest us. The course devotes
some time to the issue of aesthetics, which comprises a set of ways to identify and
evaluate the effects
of art forms in a variety of media. It establishes bases for
understanding the relationships among the visual arts, visual culture, performing arts, and
art forms that incorporate reproducible and digital media; these include cinema, video,
photography, and computer-based media. In addition to this the courseinvestigates some
of the useful emergent methods for making comparisons among media, across history,
and across cultures. While other courses in the MA in Comparative Media Arts focus on
the distinctive nature of specific media arts, this course considers what properties cross
different forms of media arts.
The course will develop basic graduate-level research skills. Students are
expected to know how to identify a topic, develop a research question, research
appropriate sources, craft an argument, and write within a determined academic genre;
we will develop these skills further. Next, general interdisciplinary research methods will
occupy about two weeks of the course. The interdisciplinary researcher must be at least
somewhat acquainted with the different disciplines that inform the specific topic under
study. However, interdisciplinary scholarship can'tcover the history of all media art
forms: the other courses in the MA program help to do this. This course prepares students
to develop research questions for particular objects of studyin the mediaarts by teaching
them how to developrigorous investigative approaches
among
disciplines. The objectof
study,i.e. the media artwork or practice in question, will guide the research questions. To
help identify our objects
of study and research methods, we will study philosophies of
emergence, newness, and durability.
Mark Zuss writes, "Theoreticalcuriosity always emerges from the phenomenal,
perceptual world to which it gives expression." In particular, research in the arts needs to
cultivate perceptual acuity. Thus one of the goals of the seminar is to hone ourperceptual
skills through phenomenology andother object-based andembodied forms of inquiry.
Course outcomes:
Students will gain an advanced understanding of moving-image studies, its
history, discourses, and practices. The course will enable students to identify
methodological approaches and to understand their historical trajectories, in order to
contextualize their ownresearch practice. Students should be able to select an object of
study and determine what approaches will bestilluminate its qualities and effects. They
should be ableto select approaches that will allow them to comparequalities and effects
across two or more art forms or media arts.
Prerequisite: Enrolment in MA in Comparative Media Arts or permission of the
instructor.
3
Grading:
Short essay testing methods on an object of study
10%
Annotated bibliography
20%
Essay proposal
5%
Presentation on reading
10%
Presentation on proposed essay
10%
Final essay
25%
Participation
20%
Syllabus
An enlarged understanding of'medium'and 'media'
Siegfried Zielinski, "Introduction: The Idea of a Deep Time ofthe Media" and
"Fortuitous Finds instead of Searching in Vain: Methodological Borrowings and
Affinities for an Anarcheology of Seeing and Hearing by TechnicalMeans,"
Deep Time
ofthe Media: Towardan Archaeology ofHearingand Seeing by TechnicalMeans
(Cambridge and London: MIT Press, 2006), 1-11,13-38.
Identifying emergence
Henri Bergson,
Creative Evolution,
trans. Arthur Mitchell (London: Electric Book Co.,
2001 [19110,1-16.
Gilbert Simondon, "The Genesis of the Individual," trans. Mark Cohen and Sanford
Kwinter, in Jonathan Crary and Sanford Kwinter, eds., Incorporations (New York: Zone
Books, 1992), 296-319.
DanielW. Smith, editor's introduction,and Gilles Deleuze, "Painting and Sensation" and
"The Painting Before Painting,"
Francis Bacon: The Logic ofSensation,
trans. Daniel W.
Smith (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002), vii-xxxiii, 31-38,71-80.
Cultivating novel, durable connections
Alfred North Whitehead, "Process,"
Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology,
ed.
David Ray Griffin and Donald W. Sherburne (New York: The Free Press, 1978), 209-
215.
BrianMassumi, "The thinking-feeling of what happens: putting the radical back in
empiricism,"
Semblance and Event: activistphilosophy and the occurrent arts
(Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2011)
Bruno Latour, "Why Has Critique Run out of Steam? From Matters of Fact to Matters of
Concern,"
CriticalInquiry
30:2 (Winter 2004): 225-248.
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New Graduate Course Proposal Form
PROPOSED COURSE
Subject [eg. MAPH)
FPA
Number (eg. 810)
822
Units (eg. 4)4
Course Title (max 80 characters)
Research Colloquium in Comparative Media Arts
Short Title[appears on transcripts, max 25 characters)
Colloquium Comp Media Arts
Course Description for SFU Calendar
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attached document
0 Learning outcomes identified
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Estimated enrolment
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Date of initial offering
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Course delivery (eg. 3 hrs/week for 13weeks)
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Practicum work done in this class will involve children or vulnerable adults
(If the "Yes" box is checked, all studentswill require criminal record checksl
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committee where there might be an overlapin course content. The chairs will indicate that overlap concerns have
been dealt with by signing the appropriate space or via a separate memo or e-mail (attached to this form).
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Senate Graduate Studies Committee.
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department/School/ Program
School for the Contemporary Art
Contact name
Arne Eigenfeldt
Contact email
arne_e@sfu.ca
FPA 822-4 Research Colloquium in Comparative Media Arts
Description.
The research colloquium is a core course is taken in the final semester ofthe MA
program. It develops students'research presentation skills and other aspects of
professional development. In it students develop the extended research essay under the
supervision of the faculty member leading the colloquium. The course guides students in
methods ofwriting extended prose works, including strategies to move through writer's
block. We will devote timeto developing public presentation skills for a variety of
venues. During the first half ofthe semester, students submit a draft of their extended
essayto theirpeers and makea formal presentation in the colloquium, which is followed
by detailed discussion, the goal ofwhich isto evaluate the framing ofthe research topic
and research problem, timeliness, originality, appropriateness of research methods, depth
of research, structure andeffectiveness of argument, and style. Students are guided in
peerreview, developing useful andspecific comments thatwillhelp their peers in
revising the essay for publication.
In the colloquium students also learn how to develop theirwork for publication,
including identifying theiraudience, choosing an appropriate venue forpublication, and
submitting their work for publication. We discuss issues regarding publication such as
permissions for reproducing artworks, contracts, and responding to peerreview.
The colloquium will also help students plan for their career after the MA. For
those who intend to work in thearts, for example as curators, cultural programmers, arts
administrators, and arts writers, we will examine some relevant career paths and plan first
steps aftercompletion of the degree. Forthose who intend to continue to a PhD, we will
study the steps involved in proposing a research topic, identifying a program, and
researching funding opportunities. Students will practice writing proposals and grant
applications, develop their curriculum vitae, and identify and practice appropriate means
of self-promotion. Students have the opportunity to develop proposals for curated
exhibitions, screenings, lecture series, andother public events. Wewill also devote some
time to teaching skills.
The colloquium will also invite speakers from throughout the university and
elsewhere in the city whoseworkrelates to comparative mediaarts.
Theresearch colloquium, andtheMA program as a whole, culminate in the
research symposium, a public event for students to professionally present their work to
friends, colleagues, and the interested public and to celebrate their achievements.
Course outcomes:
Students will be able to complete a publishable work, be prepared to submit it for
publication, and be equipped to present their work formally. They will be able to
effectively review the work of their peers. They will beprepared for academic and
professional careers following the completion of the MA.
Prerequisite:
Enrolment in MA in Comparative Media Arts or permission of the instructor.
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Grading:
Proposal for extended essay
10%
First draft ofextended essay
15%
Presentation of work in progress
15%
Written peer-review notes
20%
20-minute formal presentation in research symposium
20%
Participation
20%
Some useful texts:
Susan M. Bielstein,
Permissions: A Survival Guide. Blunt talk about art as intellectual
property.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006.
Angela Thody, "Getting into Print,"
Writing and Presenting Research
(London: SAGE,
2006).
Electronic resource
Phillip Vannini, ed.,
Popularizing research: engaging new genres, media, andaudiences
(New York: Peter Lang, 2012)
Wayne C. Booth, Gregory G. Colomb, andJoseph M. Williams,
The craft ofresearch.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008.
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FPA
Number (eg. 810) 823
Course Title (max 80 characters)
New Approaches in Visual Art and Culture
Short Title (appears on transcripts, max 25 characters)
Visual Art and Culture
Course Description for SFU Calendar
0 see attached document
0 Learning outcomes identified
Available Course Components: DLecture
0Seminar ^Laboratory
• Practicum (TJOnline
•.
9
Units (eg. 4)4
Grading Basis 0 Letter grades • Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory • In Progress/Complete
This is a capstone course [TJYes DNo
Prerequisites (if any)
• see attached document (if more space is required)
Undergraduate degree or equivalent and permission from instructor
D This proposed courseis combined with an undergrad course: Course number and units:
Additional course requirements for graduate students
• See attached document (if this space is insufficient)
Campus at whichcourse willbe offered (check all that apply) DBurnaby 0 Vancouver • Surrey OGNW •.
Estimated enrolment
20
Date of initial offering
September 2013
Course delivery (eg. 3 hrs/week for 13weeks)
3 hrs/week for 13 weeks
• Yes 0 No
Practicum work done in this class will involve children or vulnerable adults
(If the "Yes" box is checked, all students will require criminal record checks)
Justification
QSee attached document (if more space is required)
New course for MA in Comparative Media Arts by Cohort Special Arrangements
BBK> RESOURCES
If additional resources are required to offer this course, the department proposing the course should be prepared to
provide information on the source(s) of those additional resources.
Faculty member(s) who will normally teach this course
0 information about their competency to teach the course is appended
Denise Oleksiczjuk, Laura Marks, Judy Radul
Number of additional faculty members required in order to offer this course
Additional space required in order to offer this course • see attached document
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• see attached document
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4
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Mew Approaches in Visual Art and Culture
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committee where there might be an overlap in course content. The chairs willindicate that overlap concerns have
been dealt with by signing the appropriate space or via a separate memo or e-mail (attached to this form).
The new course proposal must also be sent to the Library for a report on library resources.
Once overlap concerns have been dealt with, signatures indicate approval by the department, home faculty and
Senate Graduate Studies Committee.
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support(s)the approvalofthe newcourse.
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School for the Contemporary Art
Contact name
Arne Eigenfeldt
Contact email
arne_e@sfu.ca
FPA 823-4 New Approaches in Art and Visual Culture
Description:
Empire follows Art, and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.
- William Blake, annotations to Sir Joshua Reynold's
Discourses
(ca. 1798-1809)
For WJ.T. Mitchell, pictures have lives and loves. Instead of seeing images as
inert objects that convey meaning, he urges us to see them as animated beings with
desires, needs, appetites, demands, and drives of their own. In the past three decades,
literature on visual culture has burgeoned in art history, cultural studies, critical theory,
philosophy and anthropology, and recently ithas taken on a"performative turn." For art
history, which is traditionally concerned with the interpretation of art objects, the artists
who make them and the interests ofpatrons, the interdisciplinary field ofvisual culture
has opened up new ways ofthinking about images of all kinds. In a culture in which the
production and dissemination ofimages has grown exponentially, ithas never been more
necessary topay attention to how images work and what they do. While histories of
images tend to locate intentionality in the maker or the patron, this seminar seeks to bring
forward the intentions of the image, how, for example, its formal material characteristics,
modes and contexts of circulation and use, reproducibility and referentiality, solicit
responses: how images seem to take on,in Mitchell's words, "lives of their own."
For your paper, you can choose as your main object ofstudy a work ofart, a
landmark exhibition, or afamous image drawn from popular culture. This image or event
will be the subject ofstudent presentations at the end ofthe term. The topic must be a
visual phenomenon about which there is asubstantial discourse in print, preferably in
both scholarly and popular sources. The final paper will be based on your presentation
and should address some ofthe critical issues and readings discussed in class.
Course outcomes:
Students will gain an advanced understanding ofvisual art and culture and its
historical discourses and practices. They will have the opportunity to read about and
discuss the key issues and topics concerning the hitherto unimagined number of images
that circulate in our culture; to develop acritical vocabulary and an understanding of the
categories of knowledge that are required to make sense of an image in a work of art or
the mass media; and to identify what is at stake when individuals or institutions create
new images that anticipate and cultivate new audiences.
//
Grading:
10%
Reading report (written and oral)
10%
Reading report (written and oral)
20%
Class presentation of research(in progress)
30%
Final paper
30%
Participation
Required textbooks:
Nicholas Mirzoeff,
An
Introduction to Visual Culture,
Second edition. London:
Routledge,2009.
WJ.T. Mitchell,
What Do Pictures Want?: The Lives and Loves of Images.
Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 2005.
On reserve:
Robert Nelson and Richard Shiff, eds.,
Critical Termsfor Art History,
Second edition,
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003.
Weekly Topics and Reading Assignments
Week 1: Introduction to the main issues and themes of the course
Week 2: What is Visual Culture?
WDPW:
Mitchell,Chapter 2: "What do Pictures Want?" pp. 28-56.
Mirzoeff:
An Introduction to Visual Culture,
"Introduction: Global Visual Cultures:
Paradox and Comparison." 2009, pp. 1-20.
Johanna Drucker, "Who's Afraid of Visual Culture?"
Art Journal
58:4 (1999): 36-47.
Mieke Bal, Visual Essentialism and the Object of Visual Culture,"
Journalof Visual
Culture,
Vol. 2 (1) 2003: 5-32.
Critical Terms:
"Visual Culture/Visual Studies," James D. Herbert, pp. 452-464.
Week 3: Semiotics
Charles Sanders Peirce, "The Sign: Icon, Index, and Symbol " in
The CollectedPapers of
Charles Sanders Peirce: Vol. II.
Cambridge: The BelknapPress of Harvard University
Press, 1960, pp. 135-173.
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COURSE
Subject (eg. MAPH)
FPA
Number (eg. 810) 824
Course Title (max 80 characters)
New Approaches in Moving-Image Studies
Short Title (appears on transcripts, max 25 characters)
Moving-Image Studies
Course Description forSFU Calendar
0 see attached document
0 Learning outcomes identified
Available Course Components:
• Lecture
0 Seminar
•
Laboratory
• Practicum
• Online
•.
/3
Units (eg. 4)4
Grading Basis 0 Letter grades • Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory Din Progress/Complete
This is a capstone course DYes 0No
Prerequisites (if any)
• see attached document (if more space is required)
Undergraduate degree or equivalent and permission from instructor
• This proposed course iscombined with an undergrad course: Course number and units:
Additional course requirements for graduate students
• See attached document (if this space is insufficient)
Campus atwhich course will be offered (check allthat apply)
DBurnaby
0 Vancouver
• Surrey
(TJGNVV
f~J.
Estimated enrolment
20
Date of initial offering
January 2014
Course delivery (eg. 3 hrs/week for 13weeks)
3 hrs/week for 13 weeks
DYes 0No
Practicum work done in this class will involve children or vulnerable adults
(If the "Yes" box is checked, all students will require criminal record checks)
Justification
DSee attached document (if more space isrequired)
New course for MA in Comparative Media Arts by Cohort Special Arrangements
BEB» RESOURCES
If additional resources are required to offer this course, the department proposing the course should be prepared to
provide information on the source(s) of those additional resources.
Faculty member(s) who will normally teach this course
0 information about their competency to teach the course is appended
Dr. Laura Marks, Dr. Christopher Pavsek, Dr. Jacqueline Levitin
Number of additional faculty members required in order to offer this course
Additional space required in order to offer this course • see attached document
Additional specialized equipment required in order to offer this course
• see attached document
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• Annually $.
•
One-time $.
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committee where there might be an overlap in course content. The chairs wilt indicate that overlap concerns have
been dealt with by signing the appropriate space or via a separate memoor e-mail(attached to this form).
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FPA 824-4 New Approaches in Moving-Image Studies
Description:
This course is an elective in the MA program. In it we examine what are
understood as the arts of the moving image: these include film, video, and other time-
based audiovisual media. We will begin by grounding our objects of study, i.e. specific
works and practices, incinema studies and survey emerging approaches in cinema
studies, relating these developments to the longer history of the discipline. Investigating
cinema intermedially, we will keep in mind the art forms that informed it historically,
including theater, public spectacles, photography, painting, music, sound recording.
Then the course will examine how the practice, aesthetics, and reception change when
cinema moves to television, both move to digital formats, and all these platforms move to
handheld and social media. We will investigate medium specificity in the moving-image
arts in light ofwhat is termed "media convergence." We will consider what new forms
emerge when moving images shift from the institution ofcinema to other contexts such
as museums and online sites. The course includes two orthree weeks topics ofinterest
that arise in the field, such as new national cinemas, new approaches to documentary,
cognitive theory and neuroscience, etc.
Course outcomes:
Students will gain an advanced understanding ofthe theoretical and historical
approaches to the moving-image arts, and they will be able to evaluate and apply these
approaches with respect to specific works. They will be able to situate media artworks in
terms ofthe histories ofthe medium and the discipline, and to draw on histories of
emergence, "convergence," and intermediality in order to choose the most fruitful
approaches to their own objects of study.
Grading:
Short essay testing methods on an object ofstudy
20%
Essay proposal
10%
Presentation on reading
10%
Presentation on proposed essay
10%
Final essay
30%
Participation
20%
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FPA 825-4 New Approaches in Digital Art Studies
Description:
This course will focus on the history and practice of digital art, with an emphasis upon
the artistic outcomes of the new methodologies and practices within this field. Digital technology
hasfundamentally changed the process and products of contemporary creativity in art-making.
Although a great deal of contemporary art involves some aspect of digital technology, this course
will examine those artists and art-works in which digital technologies play an intrinsic part in the
creative process, as well as the realization. A range of processes - from interactive systems
through to algorithmic approaches (stochastic, deterministic, chaotic) - will be examined, with
particular reference to artistic goals, approaches,and results.
Learning Outcomes:
The student will be able to:
• identify the fundamental elements of digital art;
• understand digital art as part of a history that includes visual art, music, and performance
practices;
• identify concepts of algorithmic approaches within creative work;
• participate in discussions about the example artworks and texts in the course readings;
• formulate and articulate critical analysis of a selected artwork;
• critically evaluate digital art.
Delivery Method:
Lecture and Seminar
Assignments
This course will require three assignments.
1 - An essay comparing two digital art works, one of which uses the computer as simply a tool,
the other that explores the potential for emergent artistic creation formerly not possible without
the technology.
2 - An in-class presentation on a selected artwork, in which concepts and techniques involved
within work, including an artistic evaluation of the work;
3 - A research paper on any topic in digital art, including an in-depth analysis of specific works
wherever possible. This assignment could concentrate on a specific artist, a technical approach,
or compare more than one.
Evaluation:
Comparison Essay:
25%
Research Paper:
40%
Artwork Presentation
20%
Seminar Participation
15%
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Department / School / Program
School for the Contemporary Art
Contact name
Arne Eigenfeldt
Contact email
ame_e@sfu.ca
FPA 826-4 New Approaches in Performance Studies
Description:
This course is an elective in the MA program. It traces the interdisciplinary originsof
performance studies and brings its concepts and methods to bear on dance, music and sound arts,
theatre and performance arts, and media performance while introducing cross-disciplinary ideas
from emergent areas such as neuroscience, cognitive science, and gaming, for example. Course
assignments will involve case studies as forerunners for further research.
Course Outcomes:
Students will gain an advanced understanding of Performance Studies, its history,
discourses, and practices. They will identify some ofthe differences between performance
disciplines in order to compare them and identify emergent practices. They will develop a refined
vocabulary fortalking about performance in terms of its own history and of other disciplines.
They will explore new hybrid methodologies and performance approaches that further the
discipline of Performance Studies.
Grading:
I. Critical Review 15%
II. Preliminary project 30%
IV. Essay proposal and annotated bibliography 10%
IV. Final essay 30%
VI. Participation 15%
Required Texts:
Auslander, Philip.
Theoryfor Performance Studies
London; New York: Routledge, 2008.
Henry Bial, ed.,
The Performance Studies Reader.
Routledge, 2007.
Recommended Texts: see attached list
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PROPOSED COURSE
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FPA
Course Title (max 80 characters)
Practicum in Comparative Media Arts
Number (eg. 810) 827
Short Title (appears on transcripts, max 25 characters)
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FPA 827-4 Practicum in Comparative Media Arts
Description:
This course is an elective in the MA program. Students are placed with an arts
organization in order to carry out a specific project of finite length. This may be an
organization that students identify themselves or that the MA program identifies. The
student liaises with the organization with the supervision
of a faculty member from the
MA program. The practicum takes place at the organization. Organizations include artist-
run centers, festivals of film, media art, and performance, nonprofit organizations with
arts programs, galleries, museums, and arts publications. The student's labor time in the
practicum should total approximately 120 hours, to be carried out over the course of a
semester.
Projects are initiatedby the student in consultation with the supervisor at the
organization and the MA program supervisor. Projects can involve research, writing,
organizing events, curating exhibitions and programs, public relations, media production,
archiving, andrelated activities. The student submits a proposal that indicates the
project'spurpose, schedule, plans for documenting and reporting, and planned outcome.
Final outcomes will vary depending on the placement.
The MA program director and the supervisor atthe organization approve the project, and
they and the student agree on the grading criteria.
Agreements: The student, the MA program director, and the supervisor at the
organization sign a letter ofagreement. Since the practicum is anunpaid work placement
considered an assigned work experience required towards completion ofthe degree,
students are covered by WorkSafe BC under Section 3(7)(a) Coverage registration No.
112786, "Work Experience Program." Students will need to file a Work Study Program
Agreement withthe Worksafe BC office at SFU. In some cases the project must be
approved by the Ethics Review Board.
During the placement, thestudent reports biweekly to the MA program
supervisor. Atthe end of thesemester the student submits a report ontheoutcome ofthe
project, with documentation ofthe project as an appendix. Responsibility for grading is
shared by the MA program supervisor and the supervisor atthe organization, who will
also provide a briefwritten report on the student'sperformance and project.
Course outcomes:
Students will be able to apply academic knowledge and skills in an arts-related
workplace. They will learn some aspects ofdaily operations in an arts organization. They
will be able to complete a finite project that serves a specific need for the organization,
which should give them a basis for carrying comparable projects in future employment.
Prerequisite:
Enrolment in MA in Comparative Media Arts orpermission of the program
director.
Grading:
The supervisor atthe organization will recommend a grade to the MA supervisor. It will
comprise one grade for ongoing performance, which includes preparedness, efficiency,
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initiative, collegiality, resourcefulness, creativity, professionalism, and other criteria
determined in the agreement and one grade for the final project, again based on criteria
determined in the agreement.
By MA supervisor:
Proposal
10%
Biweekly reports
15%
Report on final project
15%
By supervisor at organization:
Ongoing performance
30%
Final project
30%
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PROPOSED COURSE
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Course Title (max 80 characters)
Extended Essay in Comparative Media Arts
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DBurnaby
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Number (eg. 810] 829
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• 57
Units (eg. 4)
6
APPROVAL SIGNATURES
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been dealt with by signing the appropriate space or via a separate memo or e-mail (attached to this form].
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Contact name
Arne Eigenfeldt
Contact email
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FPA 829-6 Extended Essay in Comparative Media Arts
Description:
This essay isthe final project ofthe MA, and iscompleted in the fourth semester
of the program.
The extended essay builds on knowledge students have gained in coursework. It
requires them to research in depth a topic in comparative media arts and develop and
polish an original argument, with the goal ofproducing an essay suitable for publication.
Alternatively, students can combine two essays written during their coursework in
this MA, one of which must have been instructed by a faculty member in the School for
the Contemporary Arts; however, the student is still expected to build upon anddevelop
the topics covered in the coursework.
The length should bethat of a typical academic journal article in the media arts,
about 6000-7000 words. Students may also write a catalogue essay or similar non-
academic publication, supplemented by an academic essay.
The object of study may be a single work or a group of works. Methodological,
historical, and theoretical approaches should be clearly identified. In researching these,
students should identify other scholars who work with similar objectsof study and
approaches: this is the intellectual company of the extended essay. Students should
clarify in what ways their project both belongs to this company and contributes
somethingoriginal. The Research Methods course will have established methods by
which to do this.
Students research the extended essay independently, but they develop and polish
it in the Research Colloquium, FPA 822-4. In the colloquium they write the essay
proposal and drafts, give and receive peerreview, prepare to submit the essayfor
publication,and prepare to make a 20-minute public presentation of it at the culminating
research symposium.
Students may enroll in the extended essay continuously beginning in the third
(summer) semester if they wish, or they may enroll in it in the fourth (fall) semester only.
Prerequisites:
FPA 821-4, Research Methods, and two electives in the MA in Comparative
Media Arts.
Grading:
The essay is evaluated by the faculty member leading the Research Colloquium in
the fourth semester and by one other faculty member appointed by the MA program
supervisor. They jointly assign a grade of Pass with Distinction, Pass, or Fail. A student
who fails may be permitted a second and final attempt.
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MA in Comparative Media Arts
LibraryCourse Assessment for MA in Comparative Media Arts
August, 27, 2012
This is the Library's assessment for a Master of Arts Degree in Comparative Media Arts,
which is proposed to begin in the
Fall of 2013 at the Vancouvercampus. Proposals for
eight courses listed below have been reviewed. Each class has an estimated enrollment
of 15 students.
FPA 821 - Research Methods in Comparative Media Arts (Fall 2013)
FPA 822 - Research Colloquium in Comparative MediaArts (Fall 2014)
FPA 823 - NewApproaches in VisualArt and Culture (Fall 2013)
FPA 824 - NewApproaches In Moving-Image Studies (Spring 2014)
FPA 825 - NewApproaches in Digital ArtStudies (Spring 2014)
FPA 826 - NewApproaches in Performance Studies (Fall 2013)
FPA 827 - Practicum in Comparative Media Arts (Spring 2014)
FPA 829 - Extended Essay in Comparative Media Arts (Summer 2014)
Based on the reading lists and outlines ofthe eightproposed newcourses, it has been
etermined that at the present no additional Library resources arenecessary to support
the MA in Comparative Media Arts program. Since there is a preference among faculty
that the books needed for this program be housed at the downtown campus, additional
copies ofa rather small number oftitles thatare exclusively held at Bennett orSurrey
may need to be purchased for Belzberg. The amount ofapproximately $400 will be
covered from the existing library funds for Contemporary Arts, so there will be
no one
time cost
for the Department.
However, there
will be ongoing costs
associated with purchasing media, which are
presently not listed in the reading lists of the proposed newcourses. The School of
Contemporary Arts has agreed to cover the costs of purchasing artists'media works
with public performance rights in the amount of$l,500/year, once the program is
approved.
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Appendix II
Calendar description for the proposed program
Master of Arts in Comparative Media Arts Program
Schoolfor the Contemporary Arts / Faculty of Communication, Art, and Technology
Simon Fraser University Calendar 2013 Fall
This Master of Arts (MA) degree program in Comparative Media Artstrains students to
think across the media arts in a comparative perspective that synthesizes the historical
and theoretical approaches of art history, cinema studies, performance studies, and
studies of computer-based arts.
Admission
Requirements
Applicants will hold a Bachelor ofArts degree with at least a 3.5 grade point average
(GPA) in studies of the arts, or equivalent humanities disciplines. Students with a
Bachelor of Fine Arts degree maybe admitted iftheir studies included a substantial
scholarly component.
Candidates must also satisfy the general admission requirements as shown in the
Graduate General Regulations.
Program of Study
This is normally afour-semester program. Students complete 30 units, including:
• FPA 821-4 Research Methods in Comparative Media Arts
• FPA 822-4 Research Colloquium in Comparative MediaArts
and at least three of:
• FPA 823-4 New approaches in visual art and culture
• FPA 824-4 New approaches in moving-image studies
• FPA 825-4 Newapproaches in digital art studies
•
FPA 826-4 Newapproaches in performancestudies
• FPA 827-4 Practicum in comparative media arts
Students must take one additional graduate course within the School for the
Contemporary Arts, orfrom another department with the permission ofthe MA
Program coordinator andthe faculty member teaching the course.
and
• FPA 828-6 Extended Essay
FPA 821-4 Research Methods, taken in the first semester, prepares students for
research across the media arts, while each elective deepens the student'sknowledge of
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the history and theory of individual media arts. In FPA 828-6, the Extended Essay,
students research in depth a topic in comparative media arts and develop and polish an
original argument, withthe goal of producing an essaysuitable for publication.
FPA 822-4, Research Colloquium,taken in the fourth semester, supervises the
completion of the extended essay and prepares students in research presentation and
other aspects of professional development. The program concludes with a public
symposium in which students present the extended essay.
Academic Requirements within the Graduate General Regulations
All graduate students must satisfy the academic requirements that are specified in the
Graduate General Regulations (residence, course work, academic progress, supervision,
research competence requirement, completion time, and degree completion), as well as
the specific requirements for the program in which they are enrolled, as shown above.
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New Courses
FPA 821-4 Research Methods in Comparative Media Arts
This course presents methods in graduate-level research skills, including
interdisciplinary research methods. Prepares students to develop research
questions for particular objects of studyin the media arts through the study of
philosophies of emergence, newness, and durability. Enrolment in MA in
Comparative Media Arts or permission of the instructor.
FPA 822-4 Research Colloquium in Comparative Media Arts
This course prepares students in research presentation and other aspects of
professional development through the development of the extended research essay
and its public presentation. Prerequisite: Enrolment in MA in Comparative Media
Arts or permission of the instructor.
FPA 823-4 New Approaches in Art and Visual Culture
This seminar course explores visual art and culture and its historical discourses and
practices. Prerequisite: Enrolment in MA in Comparative Media Arts or permission
of the instructor.
FPA 824-4 New Approaches in Moving-Image Studies
This seminar course examines the arts ofthe moving image, including film, video,
and other time-based audiovisual media. Prerequisite: Enrolment in MA in
Comparative Media Arts or permission of the instructor.
FPA 825-4 New Approaches in Digital ArtStudies
This seminar course examines the history and practice ofdigital art, with an
emphasis upon the artistic outcomes of the new methodologies and practices within
this field. Prerequisite: Enrolment in MA in Comparative Media Arts or permission
of the instructor.
FPA 826-4 New Approachesin Performance Studies
This seminar course traces the interdisciplinary origins of performance studies and
brings its concepts and methods to bear on dance, music and sound arts, theatre and
performance arts, and media performance while introducing cross-disciplinary
ideas from emergent areas such as neuroscience, cognitive science, and gaming
Prerequisite: Enrolment in MA in Comparative Media Arts or permission of the
instructor.
FPA 827-4 Practicum in Comparative Media Arts
A term of full-time advanced and intensive practicum experience supervised by
selected faculty and arts organization personnel. Students will assume a large
measure of responsibility and participate in a range of activities related to
the
placement Prerequisite: Enrolment in MA in Comparative Media Arts or permission
of the program director.
FPA
829-6 Extended Essay in Comparative Media Arts
The composition of an essay serving as the final projectof the MA, building upon the
knowledge gained in coursework within the program. Prerequisite: FPA 821-4,
Research Methods, and
two electives in the MA in Comparative Media Arts.
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