In this class, students will immerse themselves in a 13-week inquiry about originality within the action of crafting digital experience from existing materials.
[Radical Cut-up-Nothing is Original] Sandberg Series
Inspired by the book Radical Cut-up: Nothing is Original published by the Sandberg Institute, this educational space will serve students in understanding the meaning of appropriation and reappropriating.
"It's not where you take thing form - it's where you take them to."
[Jean-Luc Godard] Things I've Learned: Jim Jarmusch
As a researching baseline direction, the Radical Cut-up book suggests that designing from scratch is resolute and designers should embrace this contemporary ideology of redesigning as a way of designing.
Throughout this academic journey, this redesigning spectrum will also bring up larger inquiries. Specifically, each student should think critically and take a position on these questions:
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What does this mean for me as I am currently exploring and defining my own visual expression voice through school projects?
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What’s the best approach for manipulating existing digital design material for my own project?
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If I am using and manipulating materials from an open-source library, am I the owner of my project?
Students will craft their narratives and position values into an educational territory where exploratory (making driven) and utilitarianism (Human-centered design) methodology overlap.
The objective is to allow students to push the boundaries of digital creativity through a process of translating existing design material into personal voice and visual expression.
17
students
13
weeks
4
assignments
Phillippe Jean
Course Director
pjean@yorku.ca