Art Studio

In this studio course, students learn how to create visual narratives in sequential form. The emphasis is on visual narrative construction for the picture book, with some contextual history of the genre. Production aspects include analog and design techniques, continuity, and image and text relationships.

This course introduces the theories and practice of time-based media and motion graphics communication. It enables students to express ideas and messages through kinetics, time, and sequence using various techniques of graphic design and illustration integrated with motion aesthetics, animation principles, sound, and editing. Major topics include narrative and story development, dynamic graphic visualization, motion aesthetics, audio editing, and typography, utilizing with Adobe After Effects, Photoshop, and Illustrator.

This course examines the histories of design and art. It will include the analysis of selected visual and material cultural practices in a series of theme based modules that explore the origins and impacts of consumerism, globalization, sustainability.

In the post-industrial and information age, societal problems are increasingly complex and require systems thinking and design approaches that can deal with their complexity. This course introduces a systems design approach to complex social-ecological-technical problems. The scope of the course encompasses the theories, methodologies, and case studies related to systems thinking and design. This class is designated as a Social Innovation Certificate (SIC) course. The course contents and practices are related to social innovation and solving social problems. The Institute of Higher Education Innovation (IHEI) may collect student assignments and course contents for further purposes. For more details regarding the SIC, please visit the IHEI’s website,http://ihei.yonsei.ac.kr.

This course offers a practical study of sculpture using earth materials. It discusses traditional and innovative sculpture techniques using mud. This course also discusses carving, construction, and structural systems using stone, wood, iron, and natural fibers.

Students work on two complementary projects exploring materiality through assemblage construction and reductive working methods as a way of engaging with the current debates surrounding environmental and social sustainability in the arts.
Students are encouraged to consider the concept of sustainability in reference to specific cultural, environmental and socio-political frameworks and the implications for the production of art in the 21st century. They explore these issues through the development of a sculptural process that incorporates experimenting, presenting and reflecting. The focus for these projects is the development of relative thinking through physical experimentation and reflexive methodologies.