ARTSVIS 711S · also CINE 711S, DOCST 711S, VMS 711S
Video, Art, Politics
Jenny Lion
Description from DukeHub
This class teaches aspects of conceptual and activist video production within a study of historical work by artists responding to still-current political concerns such as state violence, global pandemics, electoral disenfranchisement, and mass incarceration. With attention to the complex relationships between politics, spectacle, and aesthetics, we will consider contemporary video as cinematic event, gallery exhibition, web stream, art object, 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. Graduate requirements will include additional weekly readings and screenings.
Skills
- makingdepartment: ARTSVIS
AI-resilient: 2 of 5
- No: Physical, lab or field work
- No: Live work with people
- Yes: Judgment someone is accountable for · "legal"
- No: A craft you practice with your hands or body
- Yes: Small, in-person format · seminar, 4 seats per section
The checks lean on Microsoft Research, Working with AI (2025), which found generative AI applies least to physical work and hands-on work with people. A signal, not a promise. How the score works
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