{"id":1248,"date":"2021-05-25T15:25:59","date_gmt":"2021-05-25T22:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/devuwcps\/course\/dxarts-598-advanced-topics-in-digital-arts-and-experimental-media\/"},"modified":"2021-05-25T15:25:59","modified_gmt":"2021-05-25T22:25:59","slug":"dxarts-598-advanced-topics-in-digital-arts-and-experimental-media","status":"publish","type":"course","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwcps\/course\/dxarts-598-advanced-topics-in-digital-arts-and-experimental-media\/","title":{"rendered":"DXArts 598 &#8211; Advanced Topics in Digital Arts and Experimental Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Visiting Professor, Edward Shanken, author of Art and Electronic Media (London: Phaidon, 2009) will be teaching a graduate seminar that will explore historical\/philosophical conceptions of truth and honesty with particular attention to art.<br \/>\nWe will consider a broad range of texts from the western philosophical tradition (e.g. Hegel, _Lectures on Aesthetics_,\u201d Neitszche, \u201cOn Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense\u201d Heidegger, \u201cOn the Origin of the Work of Art,\u201d Derrida, _Truth in Painting_,) as well as non-western philosophical approaches to the topic (e.g. Nagarjuna\u2019s _The Middle Way_, Huxley\u2019s _Doors of Perception_.)<br \/>\nWe will also examine\u00a0 the notion of honesty, particularly in the context of clinical psychology (e.g., Blanton, _Radical Honesty_) but also in connection with ethics (Habermas, _Moral Consiousness and Communicative Action_.)<br \/>\nWe will consider these concepts in relation to the work of artists such as Critical Art Ensemble, David Dunn, Ken Feingold, Lynn Hershman, Gary Hill, Jenny Holzer, and Alvin Lucier.<br \/>\nFinal projects will consist of a substantial research paper or a finished artwork supplemented by a clearly articulated theoretical statement.<br \/>\nThe goal of the seminar is to apply insights from these theoretical traditions and artistic practices to your own critical practice; in other words, to find truth and honesty in your own work and process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","categories":[47],"class_list":["post-1248","course","type-course","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive-courses"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-22 03:10:40","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwcps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/course\/1248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwcps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/course"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwcps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/course"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwcps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwcps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}