This rigorous course looks at the historical roots of time-based media in photography and analyze specific examples from film and video beginning in the 1960s and continuing to the present. We explore those works in terms of their relationship to time, memory, and subjectivity. Focusing specifically on those practices that challenge conventional, industrial cinema, we also look closely at issues of technological development (digital imaging), installation (the expanded environment), and projection (the transmission of the image into architectural space).

The course is taught by Sotheby’s Institute of Art faculty member Melanie Mariño, whose areas of specialization are modern and contemporary art, history of photography, critical theory, and globalization studies. She has recently published on the work of Santiago Sierra and Shahzia Sikander. She has worked in research and curatorial capacities at the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Guggenheim Museum and has a Ph.D. from Cornell University and an M.A. from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University.

Course dates
July 6 – 16, 2010
10:00am – 12:00pm, Tuesday - Friday, no class Monday
Location: 570 Lexington Avenue.

Course fee
$1,500

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