Visual Arts

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MIT OCW
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Modern Art and Mass Culture
Prof. Caroline Jones
This class provides an introduction to modern art and theories of modernism and postmodernism. It focuses on the way...
Visual Arts Media Studies History
intermediate
MIT OCW
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Introduction to Photography
Prof. Reiner Leist
This course combines practical instruction, field trips, group discussions, and individual reviews intended to...
Art, Design & Architecture Visual Arts
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
User Interface Design and Implementation
Prof. Robert Miller
6.831/6.813 examines human-computer interaction in the context of graphical user interfaces. The course covers human...
User Experience Engineering Software Design and Engineering
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Computational Camera and Photography
Prof. Ramesh Raskar
A computational camera attempts to digitally capture the essence of visual information by exploiting the synergistic...
Art, Design & Architecture Engineering Visualization
advanced
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Introduction to the Visual Arts
Prof. Joe Zane
This class will introduce students to a variety of contemporary art practices and ideas. The class will begin with a...
Visual Arts Art, Design & Architecture
intermediate
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Sensing Place: Photography as Inquiry
Prof. Anne Whiston Spirn
This course explores photography as a disciplined way of seeing, as a research method, and as a medium of inquiry...
Visual Arts Urban Studies Architecture
advanced
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Art of Color
Dr. Peter Dourmashkin
This seminar introduces, through studio projects, the basic principles regarding the use of color in the visual...
Art, Design & Architecture Visual Arts
intermediate
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Music and Technology: Sound Design
Dr. Florian Hollerweger
In this course, we will rebuild the everyday sounds of nature, machines, and animals from scratch and encapsulate...
Art, Design & Architecture Engineering Game Design
intermediate
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Japan in the Age of the Samurai: History and Film
Aaron Moore
This course covers medieval Japanese society and culture from the twelfth to the nineteenth centuries, when...
History Sociology Anthropology
intermediate
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Introduction to Literary Theory
Prof. Shankar Raman
This subject examines the ways in which we read. It introduces some important strategies for engaging with literary...
Visual Arts Literature Philosophy
intermediate
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Topics in the Avant-Garde in Literature and Cinema
Prof. Charity Scribner
21G.031 examines the terms “avant garde” and “Kulturindustrie” in French and German culture of the early twentieth...
Visual Arts Anthropology Art History
intermediate
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Japanese Literature and Cinema
Prof. Ian Condry
This course surveys both cinematic and literary representations of diverse eras and aspects of Japanese culture such...
Visual Arts Anthropology Literature
intermediate
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Geometric Folding Algorithms: Linkages, Origami, Polyhedra
Prof. Erik Demaine
This course focuses on the algorithms for analyzing and designing geometric foldings. Topics include reconfiguration...
Visual Arts Mathematics Computer Science
advanced
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Producing Educational Videos
David Custer
Production of Educational Videos is an introduction to technical communication that is situated in the production of...
Visual Arts Educational Technology Art, Design & Architecture
intermediate
MIT OCW
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Studies in Film
Prof. Alvin Kibel
This course investigates relationships between two media, film and literature, studying works linked across the two...
Visual Arts Media Studies Literature
intermediate
MIT OCW
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French Film Classics
Catherine E Clark
This course covers the history and aesthetics of French cinema from the advent of sound to present-day. It treats...
Visual Arts Language Literature
intermediate
MIT OCW
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Visualization for Mathematics, Science, and Technology Education
Violeta Ivanova
This course is an introduction to principles and techniques of visual communication, and provides opportunities for...
Visual Arts Media Studies Communication
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Introduction to Photography and Related Media
Reilly Rabitaille
This course provides practical instruction in the fundamentals of analog and digital SLR and medium/large format...
Visual Arts Media Studies Art, Design & Architecture
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Special Topics: New Textiles
Prof. Leah Buechley
This project-based course will explore the future of textiles, focusing particularly on blending rich crafting...
Visual Arts Media Studies Materials Science and Engineering
advanced
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free
The Film Experience
Prof. David Thorburn
This course concentrates on close analysis and criticism of a wide range of films, from the early silent period,...
Visual Arts Art, Design & Architecture
intermediate
MIT OCW
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Interrogative Design Workshop
Prof. Krzysztof Wodiczko
“Parrhesia” was an Athenian right to frank and open speaking, the right that, like the First Amendment, demands a...
Visual Arts Media Studies Art History
advanced
MIT OCW
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Indistinguishable From... Magic as Interface, Technology, and Tradition
Greg Borenstein
With a focus on the creation of functional prototypes and practicing real magical crafts, this class combines...
Art, Design & Architecture Humanities Game Design
advanced
MIT OCW
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Data Storytelling Studio: Climate Change
Rahul Bhargava
This course explores visualization methodologies to conceive and represent systems and data, e.g., financial, media,...
Game Design Visual Arts Media Studies
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Introduction to Video
Prof. Joe Gibbons
This class serves as an introduction to video recording and editing, presenting video as a tool of personal...
Visual Arts Media Studies Art, Design & Architecture
intermediate
MIT OCW
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Composing Your Life: Exploration of Self through Visual Arts and Writing
Graham Gordon Ramsay
In this interdisciplinary seminar, we explore a variety of visual and written tools for self exploration and self...
Visual Arts Literature Art, Design & Architecture
intermediate
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free
BSAD Foundations in the Visual Arts
Prof. Sanjit Sethi
This class offers a foundation in the visual art practice and its critical analysis for beginning architecture...
Art, Design & Architecture Visual Arts Architecture
intermediate
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free
Special Topics in Cinematic Storytelling
Prof. Glorianna Davenport
This seminar explores approaches to representation for distributed cinematic storytelling. The relationship between...
Visual Arts Media Studies Literature
advanced
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Transmedia Storytelling: Modern Science Fiction
Shariann Lewitt
Transmedia narratives exist across multiple storytelling platforms, using the advantages of each to enhance the...
Visual Arts Media Studies Literature
intermediate
MIT OCW
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Photography and Related Media
Prof. Reiner Leist
Subject combines practical instruction, readings, lectures, field trips, visiting artists, group discussions, and...
Art, Design & Architecture Visual Arts Media Studies
advanced
MIT OCW
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Design Across Scales, Disciplines and Problem Contexts
Prof. Meejin Yoon
This course explores the reciprocal relationships among design, science, and technology by covering a wide range of...
Art, Design & Architecture Visual Arts Media Studies
intermediate
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Islam/Media
Dr. Peter McMurray
This course is an introduction to Islam from the perspective of media and sound studies, intended for advanced...
Visual Arts Media Studies Sociology
intermediate
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free
Film as Visual and Literary Mythmaking
Prof. Irving Singer
This course examines problems in the philosophy of film as well as literature studied in relation to their making of...
Art, Design & Architecture Humanities Visual Arts
intermediate
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Fundamentals of Computational Media Design
Prof. Barry Vercoe
This class covers the history of 20th century art and design from the perspective of the technologist. Methods for...
Art, Design & Architecture Visual Arts Media Studies
intermediate
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The City in Film
Ezra Haber Glenn
Using film as a lens to explore and interpret various aspects of the urban experience in both the U.S. and abroad,...
Art, Design & Architecture Visual Arts Urban Studies
intermediate
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free
Introduction to Sculpture
Prof. Sanjit Sethi
This class introduces fundamental issues in sculpture such as site, context, process, psychology and aesthetics of...
Visual Arts Architecture Environmental Design
intermediate
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Making Science and Engineering Pictures: A Practical Guide to Presenting Your Work
Felice C. Frankel
In this course you will learn the basics of photography and gain an intriguing new perspective into the visual...
Physics Visual Arts Engineering
intermediate
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free
Asia in the Modern World: Images & Representations
Prof. Shigeru Miyagawa
We will explore images that pertain to the emergence of Japan as a modern state. We will focus on images that depict...
Art, Design & Architecture Humanities Visual Arts
intermediate
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Media and Methods: Seeing and Expression
Prof. D. Fox Harrell
In this course students create digital visual images and analyze designs from historical and theoretical...
Visual Arts Media Studies Art, Design & Architecture
intermediate
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Small Wonders: Media, Modernity, and the Moment: Experiments in Time
Prof. Noel Jackson
The “small wonders” to which our course will attend are moments of present time, depicted in the verbal and visual...
Visual Arts Media Studies Literature
intermediate
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free
Shakespeare, Film and Media
Prof. Peter S. Donaldson
Filmed Shakespeare began in 1899, with Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree performing the death scene from King John for the...
Visual Arts Media Studies Literature
intermediate
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French Photography
Catherine E Clark
This course introduces students to the world of French photography from its invention in the 1820s to the present....
Visual Arts Language Literature
intermediate
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free
Digital Typography
Prof. John Maeda
This class introduces studies in the algorithmic manipulation of type as word, symbol, and form. Problems covered...
Art, Design & Architecture Humanities Visual Arts
advanced
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free
Philosophy of Film
Prof. Irving Singer
This course is a seminar on the philosophical analysis of film art, with an emphasis on the ways in which it creates...
Visual Arts Philosophy Art, Design & Architecture
intermediate
MIT OCW
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Queer Cinema and Visual Culture
Dr. K.J. Surkan
This course analyzes mainstream, popular films produced in the post-World War II 20th century U.S. as cultural texts...
Visual Arts History Gender Studies
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Sites in Sight: Photography as Inquiry
Prof. Anne Whiston Spirn
This course explores photography as a disciplined way of seeing, of investigating landscapes and expressing ideas....
Environmental Design Art, Design & Architecture Visual Arts
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Advanced Projects in the Visual Arts: Personal Narrative
Prof. Joe Gibbons
This advanced video class serves goes into greater depth on the topics covered in 4.351 Introduction to...
Visual Arts Media Studies Art, Design & Architecture
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Philosophy In Film and Other Media
Prof. Irving Singer
This course examines works of film in relation to thematic issues of philosophical importance that also occur in...
Visual Arts Media Studies Literature
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
German Culture, Media, and Society
Dr. Kurt Fendt
The topic for Fall 2006 is short film and radio plays. This course investigates current trends and topics in German...
Art, Design & Architecture Humanities Visual Arts
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Intentional Public Disruptions: Art, Responsibility, and Pedagogy
B. Stephen Carpenter II
During the fall of 2017, art educator B. Stephen Carpenter II began a residency at the MIT Center for Art, Science...
Visual Arts Policy and Administration Sociology
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
The Beatles
Teresa M. Neff
This class surveys the music of the Beatles, from the band’s early years to the break-up of the group, mapping how...
Visual Arts Music Art, Design & Architecture
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Dialogue in Art, Architecture, and Urbanism
Prof. Antonio Muntadas
In this class we will examine how the idea of the city has been “translated” by artists, architects, and other...
Visual Arts Urban Studies Architecture
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Global Africa: Creative Cultures
Prof. M. Amah Edoh
This course examines contemporary and historical cultural production on and from Africa across a range of registers,...
Visual Arts Anthropology History
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Studio Seminar in Public Art
Prof. Antonio Muntadas
How do we define Public Art? This course focuses on the production of projects for public places. Public Art is a...
Visual Arts Art History Architecture
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Visualizing the Birth of Modern Tokyo
Prof. Shigeru Miyagawa
This course shows the emergence of modern Tokyo through artist renderings of its neighborhoods, daily life and...
Visual Arts History Art, Design & Architecture
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Visual Histories: German Cinema 1945 to Present
Prof. Bernd Widdig
This course is an invitation to German film-making since the end of the Second World War. We investigate how German...
Visual Arts Sociology History
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Numeric Photography
Prof. John Maeda
The aim of the students from the Numeric Photography class at the MIT Media Laboratory was to present an exhibition...
Visual Arts Media Studies Computer Science
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Stories Without Words: Photographing the First Year
Mr. Keith McCluskey
The transition from high school and home to college and a new living environment can be a fascinating and...
Visual Arts Art, Design & Architecture
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
The Production of Space: Art, Architecture and Urbanism in Dialogue
Prof. Ute Meta Bauer
This seminar engages in the notion of space from various points of departure. The goal is first of all to engage in...
Visual Arts Urban Studies Architecture
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Small Wonders: Staying Alive
Prof. John Hildebidle
This course closely examines a coherent set of short texts and/or visual works. The selections may be the shorter...
Visual Arts Media Studies Literature
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Topics in Indian Popular Culture: Spectacle, Masala, and Genre
Arundhati Banerjee
This course aims to provide an overview of Indian popular culture over the last two decades, through a variety of...
Visual Arts Media Studies Anthropology
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Advanced Topics in Hispanic Literature and Film: The Films of Luis Buñuel
Prof. Elizabeth Garrels
This course considers films spanning the entire career of pioneering Spanish filmmaker Luis Buñuel (1900–1983), from...
Art, Design & Architecture Humanities Visual Arts
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Contemporary French Film and Social Issues
Catherine E Clark
This course covers issues in contemporary French society as expressed through movies made in the 2000s. Topics...
Visual Arts Language Literature
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
At the Limit: Violence in Contemporary Representation
Prof. Eugenie Brinkema
This course focuses on novels and films from the last twenty-five years (nominally 1985–2010) marked by their...
Visual Arts Media Studies Literature
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Science, Technology, & World
Prof. Rosalind Williams
This class is an introduction to studies in science, technology, and society (STS), through examining a series of...
Art, Design & Architecture Visual Arts Anthropology
intermediate
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free
Literary Interpretation: Literature and Photography: The Image
Marja Roholl
This course introduces the practice and theory of literary criticism. The seminar focuses on topics such as the...
Art, Design & Architecture Humanities Visual Arts
intermediate
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free
Photography and Truth
Prof. James Howe
Still photography, a practice and form of expression that has worked its way into every facet of social life and...
Visual Arts Anthropology Art, Design & Architecture
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Becoming the Next Bill Nye: Writing and Hosting the Educational Show
Elizabeth Choe
Becoming the Next Bill Nye is about using video production techniques to develop your ability to engagingly convey...
Visual Arts Media Studies Communication
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Modern Mexico: Representations of Mexico City's Urban Life
Maria Luisa Martinez
The goal of this course is to offer a general introduction to 20th and 21st century literature and cultural...
Art, Design & Architecture Humanities Visual Arts
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Designing Paths to Peace
Prof. Alex Slocum
Teaches creative design based on the scientific method through the design, engineering, and manufacture of a...
Art, Design & Architecture Engineering Visual Arts
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Screen Women: Body Narratives in Popular American Film
Dr. Emily Fox-Kales
Using film and related popular media as our texts, this course will examine how screen “embodiments” of the woman...
Art, Design & Architecture Humanities Sociology
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Understanding Television
Prof. David Thorburn
The subtitle of this course for the spring 2003 term is “American Television: A Cultural History.” The class takes a...
Visual Arts Anthropology Media Studies
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
DV Lab: Documenting Science Through Video and New Media
Prof. Christine Walley
This course is an introductory exploration of documentary film theory and production, focusing on documentaries...
Art, Design & Architecture Visual Arts Media Studies
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Strobe Project Laboratory
Dr. James Bales
This is a laboratory experience course with a focus on photography, electronic imaging, and light measurement, much...
Physics Electrical Engineering Visual Arts
intermediate