ART 102 - CORE: SPACE School of Art + Design College of the Arts Portland State University COURSE DESCRIPTION This course introduces space as a medium, concept, and process framed by the principles of gravity/weight, compression/expansion, torsion/tension, presence/absence, and process/product. This course involves lectures, readings, demonstrations and hands-on exercises that help students identify space-based principles in art and design. Individual and group projects support these concepts in practice. COURSE OBJECTIVES Gain a basic understanding of physical forces and the interaction of forms in space. Gain an understanding of basic principles of organization and elements of threedimensional form. Gain experience with traditional and non-traditional materials and methods of fabrication. Develop ability to apply the design process to visual problem. Recognize significant issues in art/design history and contemporary Practice. Develop critical skills in making, evaluating and discussing art. LEARNING OUTCOMES Gain basic understanding of how design concepts relate to the world around us. An ability to engage in active seeing, recording and responding. An exposure to works of art and design in a range of media. A developing ability to analyze art and design within social, cultural, and historical contexts. Basic experience with traditional and nontraditional materials and methods of fabrication. An introduction to key art and design concepts and terms. An understanding of and ability to apply concepts and techniques to personal work. An introduction to multiple interpretations and levels of meaning in works of art
and design. ASSIGNMENTS 1. Object + Function 2. Systems + Connections 3. Interactions + Interventions COURSE REQUIREMENTS Assignment #1 25% Assignment #2 25% Assignment #3 25% Student Presentation 15% Attendance & Participation 10% GRADING SCALE A (93-100), A- (90-92) B+ (87-89), B (83-86), B- (80-82) C+ (77-79), C (73-76), C- (70-72) D+ (67-69), D (63-66), D- (60-62) F (<60) Bibliography Edgerton, Samuel Y. "The Mirror, the Window, and the Telescope." Aestimatio: Critical Reviews in the History of Science 7 (2010): 16-21. Foucault, Michael. Of Other Spaces: Utopias and Heterotopias. Architecture /Mouvement/ Continuité (October 1984). http://web.mit.edu/allanmc/www/foucault1.pdf Heidegger, Martin. Art and Space. In Rethinking Architecture: A Reader in Cultural Theory, 121-124. Ed. Neil Leach. New York: Routledge, 1997. Ito, Teiji, and Kuzunishi, So sei. Space and Illusion in the Japanese Garden. 1st English ed. New York: Weatherhill, 1973. Lee, Pamela. "Boundary Issues: The Art World under the Sign of Globalism." Artforum International 42, no. 3 (November 2003): 164-67.
Lefebvre, Henri. The Production of Space. Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell, 1991. 33, 38-85. Mitchell, W. J. T. Imperial Landscape. In Landscape and Power, 1-4. 2nd ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002.. Imperial Landscape. In Landscape and Power, 5-34. 2nd ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002. Morse, Anne Nishimura and Samuel C. Morse. Space and Ritual. In Object as Insight: Japanese Buddhist Art and Ritual, Katonah, N.Y.: Katonah Museum of Art, 1996 Moxey, Keith P. F. "Perspective, Panofsky, and the Philosophy of History." New Literary History 26, no. 4 (1995): 775-86. North American Buckskin Map: Exploration, Exploitation and Enlightenment (1680-1820). Narrated by Neil MacGregor. A History of the World in 100 Objects. BBC, October 7, 2010. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00v3kg5 Ousterhout, Robert G. "The Church of Santo Stefano: A "Jerusalem" in Bologna." Gesta 20, no. 2 (1981): 311-21. Pearson, Michael Parker, and Richards, Colin. "Ordering the World: Perceptions of Architecture, Space and Time." In Architecture and Order: Approaches to Social Space, 1-37. New York, NY: Routledge, 1994. Roth, Moira. "Reading between the Lines: The imprinted spaces of Sutapa Biswas," in New Feminist Art Criticism, 31-43. Ed. Katy Deepwell. New York: Manchester University Press, 1995. Winter, Irene. Reading Concepts of Space from Ancient Mesopotamian Monuments. In Concepts of Space, Ancient and Modern, 57-73. Ed. Kapila Vatsyayan. New Delhi: Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts: Abhinav Publications, 1991 COURSE SCHEDULE Week One Course introduction Introduction to Assignment #1: Object + Function Reading handout #1
Work on Assignment #1: Object + Function Week Two Work on Assignment #1: Object + Function Discuss reading handout #1 Week Three Work on Assignment #1: Object + Function Critique Assignment #1: Object + Function Week Four Introduce Assignment #2: Systems + Connections Reading handout #2 Week Five Discuss reading handout #2 Week Six Critique Assignment #2: Systems + Connections Week Seven Introduce Assignment #3: Interactions + Interventions Reading handout #3
Week Eight Discuss reading handout #3 Week Nine Week Ten Critique Assignment #3: Interactions + Interventions Finals Week Critique Assignment #3: Interactions + Interventions