New Genres is a philosophical, interdisciplinary approach in which the artist’s concept and intentions determine the best means for actuating each individual work.
Drawing on its legacy as the country’s first Performance/Video Department, its application of rigorous dialogue and questioning parameters of art forms to time-based work, quickly expanded to include installation, social practice, site specific work, and other trans-disciplinary media and approaches. No longer a medium specific department, the New Genres Department was born.
New Genres courses are cross-disciplinary laboratories for experimentation, discovery, and radical boundary-pushing. Through dialogue, critique, and practice, students learn to hone and better articulate their own visual language.
Past Courses
Studios & Equipment
Studios, classrooms, and various locations across campus can be reserved by students for production, performances, installations, and post production.
Equipment:
Curriculum
See a sample four-year academic plan in the BFA in New Genres program to help you decide what courses to take when.
Title | Units |
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Liberal Arts Requirements (Examples: Global Social Movements, Un/Natural Ideologies, Concepts of Creativity, Mathematics: A Visual History, Extinction) | 33 |
Studio & General Elective Requirements | 72 |
Art History Requirements | 15 |
Title | Units |
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Contemporary Practice | 3 |
New Genres I | 3 |
New Genres II | 3 |
Issues in Contemporary Art | 3 |
Installation Distribution | 3 |
Keeping Record | 3 |
New Genres Electives (Ex: Advanced Video, Experiments in Narrative, What's Cooking?) | 15 |
Senior Review Seminar | 3 |
Electives in any Studio Discipline (Ex: Bookbinding, Intaglio, Three Dimensional Collage) | 24 |
General Electives (Ex: Sacred and Profane, Sound Installation) | 9 |
BFA Graduate Exhibition | 0 |
Title | Units |
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Topics and Foundations in Global Visual Culture | 3 |
Topics and Foundations in Contemporary Art | 3 |
History of the Major | 3 |
Art History Elective | 3 |
Art History Elective | 3 |
Faculty
Sharon Grace (Professor Emerita)
Doug Hall (Professor Emeritus)
Paul Kos (Professor Emeritus)
Tony Labat (MFA Program Director)
Mads Lynnerup (New Genres Department Chair)
See the full list of current faculty.
Program Learning Outcomes