Charlotte Greene

This course will introduce techniques within the Adobe Creative Cloud that are foundational for communicating and working in the professional creative context. Offering a hands-on entry into the technical and conceptual possibilities of digital media production, the course will emphasize core skills in Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign while also inviting students to reflect on how digital tools shape storytelling, authorship, and visual culture. Students will engage in short-form projects that explore image manipulation, vector graphics, and layout design. No prior experience is required.

This course will explore techniques of sculptural fabrication through the lens of quantum materialism. We will study digital fabrication tools from the perspective of phenomenology, considering the emergence of technology within the realm of deep time and quantum physics. Pulling from the philosophy of technology, the course will situate materiality at the subatomic level and complicate the line between the organic and the machinic. We will reflect on how the tools and techniques of digital sculpture themselves contribute to conceptual meaning within works of art. The course will introduce core Rhino modeling skills for first-time students and strengthen modeling techniques for students with more experience. Artists and thinkers such as Albert Samreth, Ralph Lemon, Charles Tonderai Mudede, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, American Artist, Robert Barry, Tavares Strachan, and Alice Aycock will complement our explorations.

This course will ground technical learning of sculptural fabrication within a critical examination of digital society at the planetary scale. Equipping students with accessible digital sculpture techniques that can scale to advanced creative workflows, the course will introduce core Rhino modeling skills, develop methods for smartphone-based 3D-scan-to-3D-print fabrication, reframe the notion of the digital/virtual within the context of the planetary, and foreground making through materiality. Focusing on the intersection of digital tools with the elements of earth and water, students will engage how digital tools interface with energy infrastructure, critical land studies, sustainable ecology, and supply-chain ethics. Utilizing digital fabrication methods to cast with biomaterials, we will explore the conceptual possibilities of our tools and media as co-makers with the planet. Artists such as Allan Sekula, Agnes Denes, Morehshin Allahyari, Lynn Hershman Leeson, and Julian Charrière, alongside various examples from architecture and neolithic art, will complement our explorations.