Spring 2025
Time and change are rarely treated as something a person can build, test, and revise, they are treated as a background condition that sound, image, and performance simply take place within. This course draws methods from systems thinking and time-based practice, but treats time itself as material rather than as a container events happen inside. The working hypothesis is that a pattern of change only becomes visible once someone deliberately maps it, contains it, or builds a structure that runs on its own logic. This course is about constructing small structures, diagrams, boxes, feedback systems, that expose how time and relation actually operate, then testing what happens when that structure is shared across disciplines.
Students move through three structures across the semester. First, students read a space through diagrams, developing methods to map relationships and changes that are not immediately visible in an everyday environment. Second, students transform a box through material, conceptual, or systematic intervention, examining how a container and its contents can produce meaning through containment, repetition, or feedback. Third, students build a system with a visible or hidden feedback loop, questioning the boundary between an artwork and its environment. The semester culminates in a collaborative project, in which students from different disciplines build a shared work using digital media, projection, or live performance in an exhibition setting. A structure, whether a diagram, a box, or a feedback loop, is the ground condition from which everything else follows: it does not simply represent time, it organizes how change becomes perceivable, yet it is rarely treated as something built rather than found. What changes when a familiar pattern of time is treated not as given, but as something constructed, and something that can be constructed differently?