Photography as Art
New York University
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Location:
| Beijing - China | |
Highlights:
| Photography is a medium that can be used to negotiate the shock of a different culture. | |
Term(s):
| Summer | |
Language:
| English | |
English Instruction:
| Yes | |
Academic Credit:
| (6 - 6) | |
Subject Area(s):
| Photography | |
Included:
| Airport Transfers, Textbooks | |
Participants:
| Undergraduates, Graduates | |
Description:
| Photography is a medium that can be used to negotiate the shock of a different culture. China is an important Asian culture whose society has changed from agricultural to posttechnological at tremendous speed. China's culture can be best witnessed by the photographic method, including still, video, computer imaging, and performance. NYU student-artists work with graduate students, artists, and faculty at the Beijing Film Institute and other academic institutes in Beijing and Shanghai. Throughout the program, students engage in the exchange of tradition and modernity as it takes place in China.
For three weeks, student-artists from NYU and other schools work with two Western, one Korean, and many Chinese artist-teachers in making photographic art. Students spend 14 days in Beijing and seven days in Shanghai, where the Chinese Photographer's Association will be our host. The issue of the drastic usurpation of technology on long-term cultures is the beginning point of doing work. Photographic artwork comes from students placing themselves in a totally new environment that is impinging on the world's sense of itself. This new environment makes new work because one is dropped into a different place that challenges preconceptions and assumed styles. Student photographs are displayed in Beijing, and on our return to the United States, curatorial work and an extended exhibition take place in New York.
The program nurtures individual positions while noting how the self in photographic art can make cultural meaning.
Program open to graduate and upper-level undergraduate students. See Special Admission Information.
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URL:
| http://www.nyu.edu/summer/ |
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