Did you notice that there was more than one reference to hip hop music in our discussion today? That's not entirely coincidental--hip hop is cool, and my use of it in class works to remind us of the broad range of creative expression that we can be engaged in here in the Media Arts department. I don't think we currently allow you to pitch a hip hop album as a TMA capstone project (shame), but what might we benefit from exploring such territory? Well, it (often, but not always) provides an example of skillfully produced, technologically innovative, culturally significant and conceptually grounded expressions that challenge conventional approaches to art. Additionally, these new(er) art forms invite experimentation that (perhaps) more traditional approaches don't (often) allow. Like this guy who creates hip hop beats from rock, paper and scissors.
So, keep this in mind as you read, write and make things this semester. Your dreams of producing Transformers 4 are not in vain. But your Transformers 4 might be even awesomer than you imagined if informed by your efforts to explore unconventional, non-linear, non-commercial, non-representational, conceptually- or aesthetically-oriented media arts.
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