Spring 2025
Time and change are rarely treated as something a person can build, test, and revise. More often, they are treated as a background condition within which sound, image, and performance simply take place. Drawing on systems thinking and time-based practice, this course treats time as material rather than as a container for events. The course starts from a simple premise: a pattern of change becomes visible only once someone deliberately maps it, contains it, or builds a structure that runs on its own logic. A structure, whether a diagram, a box, or a feedback loop, does not simply represent time; it organizes how change becomes perceivable.
The semester is organized around three structures. First, students read a space through diagrams, developing methods to map relationships and changes that are not immediately visible in an everyday environment. Second, they transform a box through material, conceptual, or systemic intervention, examining how a container and its contents produce meaning through containment, repetition, or feedback. Third, they build a system with a visible or hidden feedback loop, questioning the boundary between an artwork and its environment. A final collaborative project brings students from different disciplines together to build a shared work using digital media, projection, or live performance in an exhibition setting, testing what happens when a structure is shared across disciplines. If time can be built, who decides how it runs?