Description
[Social Practice Program] One of the underlying areas of uncertainty in documentaries is the condition of truth. The practice has been traditionally attributed to “truth” and “reality” in the field of media and the arts based on ‘trust’ of the analog form of film and photography. The term ‘expanded’ refers to the shifting role and evolving definition of documentary in the artistic context and digital age, in which the merging of documentary with other art forms such as video, performance and photography results in entirely re-invented documentary practice. This course will outline the multiple divisions that arise in documentary including its status as art and non-art, aesthetic and the ethic, as well as between artifice and authenticity. This course explores contemporary approaches to social documentary photography and related forms in which techniques such as the archive, appropriation, digital manipulation: and conceptual and self-reflexive strategies including the autobiographical