ARTH 498 Special Topics in the History of Art and Architecture: The Compulsive Browse - Forms of Attention and Production in the Arts

• Tuesdays, 6:00-8:15pm
• EV-3.760
• Instructor: Dr. Rebecca Duclos

The Compulsive Browse is a relaxed and intimate course that brings us together to engage directly in experimental research methodologies (not just reading about them!)  Your own domicile and the landscape outside will become your primary classroom and studio to explore new "ways of knowing." Everything we do in The Browse will be oriented towards expanding your toolkit as Art Historians so that you can both find and communicate topics that you are passionate about. We will explore methods such as the dérive and détournement, collaborative text generation, non-verbal narratives, unconscious scanning, lucid dreaming, and chance operations. There is no final research paper in this course, but we will keep fieldwork notebooks, create amateur audiovisual productions, and produce creative writing pieces. A special course reader will be available in analogue and digital formats.