Professor: Christopher Michlig
4 credits
This course examines collage as a critical and generative practice, investigating the ways in which appropriation, assemblage, and juxtaposition produce meaning across a range of media and contexts. Students will engage with collage not only as a formal technique but as a conceptual framework for understanding how materials, images, and ideas interact to construct and challenge cultural narratives.
Through a combination of studio projects and critical inquiry, students will work across physical, digital, and time-based media, including audio and video experimentation, to develop both technical familiarity and a distinct conceptual vocabulary. Course readings and visual presentations will survey a diverse range of international artists, from historical practitioners to contemporary figures, situating collage within broader conversations in contemporary art and visual culture.
Students will complete individual projects that demonstrate an informed engagement with the methods and ideas examined throughout the course, articulating connections between their own creative aims and the critical discourse surrounding collage and related modes of production.