2024-2025 Yavapai College Catalog 
    
    Aug 31, 2024  
2024-2025 Yavapai College Catalog

ART 117 - Four-Dimensional Design


Description: Introduction to the breadth of New Media art practices. This includes discussing duration, tempo, intensity, scope, setting, and chronology as the six major elements of time design. 

Credits: 3
Lecture: 2
Lab: 4

Course Content:
  1. Creative process 
  2. Application of 4D design principles including causality, duration, interactivity, musicality, tempo/speed and transitions
  3. Application of design elements including time, light, movement and sound
  4. Four-dimensional art media tools
  5. Formal elements and principles of four dimensional design 
  6. Historical and contemporary art examples 
  7. Critique

Learning Outcomes:
  1. Employ the steps of the creative process. (1)
  2. Use design principles such as causality, duration, interactivity, musicality, tempo/speed and transitions to develop four-dimensional works of art. (2)
  3. Use design elements such as time, light, movement and sound to develop four-dimensional works of art. (3)
  4. Use art media and tools to create four-dimensional works of art. (4)
  5. Identify the formal elements and principles of four dimensional design. (5)
  6. Analyze the formal elements and principles of design. (5)
  7. Interpret the formal elements and principles of design. (5)
  8. Recognize historical or contemporary examples of the fine arts or crafts. (6)
  9. Use media specific terminology to critique and evaluate works of art. (7)

Required Assessment:
  1. Critique and evaluation of art and artifacts.