Video, Art, Politics

CINE 311S/711S
ARTVIS 311S/711S, DOCST 321S

This class teaches aspects of conceptual video production within a study of historical work by
artists responding to still-current political concerns, such as anti-Black police violence, the AIDS
pandemic, electoral disenfranchisement and spectacle, and mass incarceration. With attention to
the complex relationships between politics and aesthetics, we will consider contemporary video as
cinematic form, gallery exhibition, web stream, broadcast television, and social process, or used
as act of witness, tactical media intervention, political prank, and legal/physical defense strategy.
Classwork includes individual and collective video production and extensive group critique. No
previous tech experience needed.

Jenny Lion

TU 1:25-4:25PM

Rubenstein 234