Fuzzy Pictures

This course receives credit under Topics in Photo
History.
Open to Art School BFA2 and above. This course
may be open to students at other year levels, and
in other Schools, by Permission of Instructor.
Practice Courses within the Photography and Media
program focus on making work and developing the
shape of students' practices. While each course
under this category may offer a particular theme
or subject matter, its primary organization and
outcomes will center around making. This category
will include, but not be limited to, modes of
production fundamental to photographic and
media-based practice, including film-based and
digital photography, video and moving image
production, sound production, performance and
book-making, and will sometimes include a focus
on the primary genres and categories of
production common to media and photography.

This is a studio class about what information and
indeterminancy, specifically the transparency of
the photography to its referent, or not. What
happens to an analogical medium when it is
reconfigured in the digital age? Is 'digital
photography' an invasion of the body snatchers,
or is the computer simply another in a long
series of technological refinements that marks
the evolving condition of photography from its
very beginnings? Conversely, is the analogical
urge that photography perfects in the west so
very secure, or is the attempt to fix the
referent in some untampered verisimilitude always
frustrated? Maybe Fuzzy Pictures is just a class
about making pictures that pose more questions
rather than answers-fuzzy ones, warm and fuzzy
ones, or maybe just presbyopic ones. Bring your
glasses. There will be a show.