ART 2600 Introduction to Photography and Digital Art
Explore how images are created, shaped, and shared across photography, digital imaging, and moving-image media. This course introduces technical and conceptual approaches to working with lens-based and digital tools while emphasizing how visual choices communicate ideas and experiences. Through hands-on projects, critiques, and discussions, students investigate the expressive potential of different media and consider how emerging technologies and practices influence contemporary art and visual culture.
Course Types
Expression; Professional Writing Elective; Multimedia Authoring Elective
Notes
Materials fee: $150
Course Outcomes
- Use lens-based and digital tools intentionally to address visual problems in image-making, including composition, framing, light, and sequencing.
- Capture, create, and refine digital images and moving-image media, demonstrating understanding of resolution, file formats, and basic digital workflows.
- Analyze how visual choices communicate ideas and experiences, considering how elements such as composition, scale, and time shape meaning.
- Understand and apply concepts of appropriation and image reuse, recognizing how artists reinterpret existing images within contemporary visual culture.
- Situate your work within historical and contemporary contexts, demonstrating familiarity with artists, movements, and practices in photography, intermedia, and digital arts.
- Integrate multiple media and processes to develop cohesive projects that explore experimentation and personal expression.
- Participate in critique and discussion, articulating observations about your own work and the work of others using appropriate visual and conceptual vocabulary.