Timescale Projects

3 units

Timescale Projects is a studio-based course exploring deep time and the long durée, considering human and planetary timescales and how art can function to envision our world - its past and potential futures. Students will research artists whose practices engage cosmic time, climate change, and event-based human history. They will do critical readings, meet with researchers across disciplines, travel to local sites, and create individual as well as collaborative studio projects. A variety of artistic processes, media, and methodologies will be introduced to achieve project outcomes. Students are evaluated on participation and project development through individual assessment and group critique.