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Course Description

Summary

Social practices in art incorporates many diverse strategies from tactical media, online networking, manifestos, street interventions, social sculpture, design, performance, activism, open systems, public discourse and more. In this course we examine the history of social practice and focus in on current practitioners. Students work collaboratively on projects that critically engage topics pertinent to this moment in history and are situated in the public sphere -- local or global, online or offline. There are lectures, reading assignments, collaborative projects and critiques during the course.