KU Expanded Media

KU Expanded Media The Expanded Media Area at KU is dedicated to an interdisciplinary approach to art and media that extends across any material constraints.

Engaging time, space, the body, and technology, students, faculty and alums exhibit their work around the world. The Expanded Media area is characterized by a dedication to innovative forms of artistic expression and conceptual approaches to art, the pursuit of which lies beyond any one medium. The availability and growth of media technologies have resulted in a fundamental rethinking of the bound

aries of disciplines. This is embraced as representing unique opportunities for students. The area provides a solid foundation for those who wish to integrate time-based ideas and technology into their art making process. Comprised of Performance Art, Installation Art, Digital Strategies and Intermedia, Expanded Media provides an environment for students who wish to experiment and create interdisciplinary multiple media works often associated with various technologies. Expanded Media emphasizes the idea and process of expanding techniques. It embraces collaborative and interdisciplinary approaches. Work is grounded in an exploration of new forms with an understanding that it provides the potential to open creative possibilities with all medias, which mirror and embody one's artistic vision. In Expanded Media, students are expected to engage in critical dialogue about art, technology, the nature of creativity, the role of the artist in society and other aspects of art as a professional practice. Issues of process, context and problem solving are inherent in the curriculum. Students are encouraged to find indoor/outdoor sites suitable for their projects and to procure professional exhibition spaces in the local community. There are numerous outlets at the University that can provide an opportunities for students to present their works in the public and professional environment. In addition, the city of Lawrence has many centrally located venues for students to exhibit their work before a diverse audiences.

11/13/2024
03/26/2024

Thinking about Summer classes? Check out this Special Topics class in Expanded Media!
SUMMER 2024 // EXM 300/500 • ART 898 SPECIAL TOPICS IN EXPANDED MEDIA: Experimental Documentary & Memoir | Professor: Benjamin Rosenthal

Throughout this major-project based course, students will be exposed to innovative methods of approaching documentary and memoir in media work. Working with independence over a longer period of time, students will develop a substantial professional-level project or an academic research paper. Interrogating strategies of representation, mediation, legibility/illegibility and the material of the work, projects will push the boundaries between storytelling, fiction, subterfuge, and non-fiction representation.
All production students enrolled in the course will be provided with a 20TB RAID Drive (mirrored at 10 TB) and their own BlackMagic Pocket 6K Cinema Camera Kit including a set of lights, tripod and sound equipment for the duration of the course.
Students interested in a non-production, academic option should email for permission to enroll, as enrollment caps are limited by equipment availabilty. CONTACT:
Benjamin Rosenthal - [email protected]
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Top // Revolver // Crystal Z Campbell, 2021-2022 Bottom // Country Ball // Jacolby Satterwhite, 2012
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KU Expanded Media

03/18/2024
05/31/2023

Last chance to enroll in Experimental Documentary and Memoir for this summer--only a few spots left! For permission #'s reach out immediately to Sarah Thomas at [email protected] !

Special Topics in Expanded Media: Experimental Documentary and Memoir

EXM 300/500/ 898 (898 code for grads/honors credit)

Throughout this major-project based course, students will be exposed to innovative methods of approaching documentary and memoir in media work. Working with independence over a longer period of time, students will develop a substantial professional-level project that can screen at film/media festivals or participate in exhibitions. Interrogating strategies
of representation, mediation, legibility/illegibility and the material of the work, projects will push the boundaries between storytelling, fiction, subterfuge, and non-fiction representation.

All students enrolled in the course will be provided with a 20TB RAID Drive (mirrored at 10 TB) and their own BlackMagic Pocket 6K Cinema Camera Kit including a set of lights, tripod and sound equipment for the duration of the course.

KU Department of Visual Art KU School Of The Arts

The Expanded Media Area at KU is dedicated to an interdisciplinary approach to art and media that extends across any material constraints. Engaging time, space, the body, and technology, students, faculty and alums exhibit their work around the world.

It took us this long to realize the poster says 2022! We obviously need a better source of coffee! But there are only 6...
05/01/2023

It took us this long to realize the poster says 2022! We obviously need a better source of coffee! But there are only 6 spots left to enroll in the Summer *2023* Experimental Documentary & Memoir course! Don't wait to enroll before it is too late--space is limited based on equipment availability!

SUMMER 2023 COURSE ALERT! Space is extremely limited based on equipment:

OPEN TO ALL MAJORS

EXM 300/500 or ART 898
Sp Topics: Experimental Documentary & Memoir
ONLINE ASYNCHRONOUS: Professor Benjamin Rosenthal

Throughout this major-project based course, students will be exposed toinnovative methods of approaching documentary and memoir in mediawork. Working with independence over a longer period of time, studentswill develop a substantial professional-level project that can screen atfilm/media festivals or participate in exhibitions. Interrogating strategiesof representation, mediation, legibility/illegibility and the material of thework, projects will push the boundaries between storytelling, fiction,subterfuge, and non-fiction representation.

All students enrolled in the course will be provided with a 20TB RAIDDrive (mirrored at 10 TB) and their own BlackMagic Pocket 6K Cinema Camera Kit including a set of lights, tripod and sound equipment for the duration of the course!

For permission #'s please contact the Sarah Thomas in the Department of Visual Art at [email protected]

KU Department of Visual Art KU School Of The Arts

We stand in firm opposition to the continued assault on LGBTQIA2S+ communities in the state of Kansas and worldwide, and...
04/10/2023

We stand in firm opposition to the continued assault on LGBTQIA2S+ communities in the state of Kansas and worldwide, and continue to remind our students that resistance is never futile. Education fundamentally threatens intolerance and bigotry. As you plan your fall schedule, we encourage you to consider some courses that center LGBTQIA2S+ issues as we march towards greater equity. Below are some options both at home and afar:

ART 300/500/898: Sp. Topics: Global Approaches to LGBTQIA+ Art and Media
Professor: Benjamin Rosenthal - Tuesdays 2:30-5:20 PM - online

THR 380: Q***r Contemporary Theatre
Instructor: Webster McDonald - Mondays and Wednesdays 3:00 PM - 4:15 PM

ENGL 360/ WGSS 389: Q***r Ecologies
Professor: Megan Kaminski - Mondays and Wednesdays 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM

SUMMER 2023 COURSE ALERT! Space is extremely limited based on equipment:OPEN TO ALL MAJORSEXM 300/500 or ART 898Sp Topic...
03/29/2023

SUMMER 2023 COURSE ALERT! Space is extremely limited based on equipment:

OPEN TO ALL MAJORS

EXM 300/500 or ART 898
Sp Topics: Experimental Documentary & Memoir
ONLINE ASYNCHRONOUS: Professor Benjamin Rosenthal

Throughout this major-project based course, students will be exposed toinnovative methods of approaching documentary and memoir in mediawork. Working with independence over a longer period of time, studentswill develop a substantial professional-level project that can screen atfilm/media festivals or participate in exhibitions. Interrogating strategiesof representation, mediation, legibility/illegibility and the material of thework, projects will push the boundaries between storytelling, fiction,subterfuge, and non-fiction representation.

All students enrolled in the course will be provided with a 20TB RAIDDrive (mirrored at 10 TB) and their own BlackMagic Pocket 6K Cinema Camera Kit including a set of lights, tripod and sound equipment for the duration of the course!

For permission #'s please contact the Sarah Thomas in the Department of Visual Art at [email protected]

KU Department of Visual Art KU School Of The Arts

We are so excited to be hosting four brilliant residents from the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts on Monday April 3, ...
03/27/2023

We are so excited to be hosting four brilliant residents from the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts on Monday April 3, 2023! Please join us at 5:30 PM for a series of talks and conversation with these spectacular international artists and curator! KU Department of Visual Art KU School Of The Arts

We are deeply disturbed by the censorship of student work at the the University of Arkansas and stand in solidarity with...
02/24/2023

We are deeply disturbed by the censorship of student work at the the University of Arkansas and stand in solidarity with graduate student M'Shinda Abdullah-Broaddus. Censorship of works of art is deeply troubling in an academic institution, especially when that censorship focuses on non-white LGBTQIA2S+ students. In support of M'Shinda, we encourage you to follow the work on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/mshinda/

and we commit the following:
In the Expanded Media Area at the University of Kansas we will never censor the work of a student because of the nature of adult content or the politics of the work.

Difficult images may warrant difficult conversation and are up to being challenged and debated, but have a right to exist.

Students are entitled to explore the full range of complexities of ideas and issues in our program, and as emergent artists are entitled to have their voices respected and heard in the spaces in which art inhabits.

For more information on the controversy, please see recent news from the Student newspaper at the University of Arkansas: https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/feb/24/students-confront-uas-chancellor-on-art-censorship/

An event Thursday billed as an opportunity for University of Arkansas, Fayetteville students to bring their questions and concerns to Chancellor Charles Robinson focused on only one topic -- the university's handling of a student's art exhibition earlier this week -- after roughly two dozen students...

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