Fall 2008: ART 8400: Theoretical Constructions in Contemporary Art
First Year Graduate Seminar

Professors: Ali Momeni, Jenny Schmid

This course focuses on theories of contemporary art and how they have created a foundation for current art practices. In addition to reflecting on theory, this class seeks to collectively explore new paradigms in the ways that artists are working today- through the creation of collectives, the globalized community and artist-as-curator model. Can post-modernism shift to not just operate as a resistance against an historical Western paradigm, but rather formulate new approaches that are based in a globalized, less provincial and more dynamic way of thinking?

Here are links to the syllabus/course description, the class blog, and the assigned readings.