Video Commune

Harvard FAS

From gifs and memes to confessions and controversies, what can the riotous festival of contemporary expression in video teach us about living together?In this hybrid lecture/production course, students will tune into the aesthetic, social, and political frequencies of video through individual and collaborative study, creation, and performance. Art history will commingle with social media as we put works of video art from the 1970s to the present into conversation with gifs, memes, and other…