Course Description
Visual Culture: Media, Art, and Technology, ART 9A
Examines creative activities in all spheres of life, including the "artistic" impulses that dwell in the individual. Culture is addressed in broad terms of the many institutions and cultural forces that shape everyday activities of listening, seeing, doing.
Key Information
Credit: 4 quarter units /
2.67 semester units credit
UC Irvine, ART
Course Credit:
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UC Berkeley:
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UC Davis:
Unit Credit
UC Irvine:
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UC Los Angeles:
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UC Merced:
UC Riverside:
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UC San Diego:
Unit Credit
UC San Francisco:
Unit Credit
UC Santa Barbara:
General Education: Area F-Arts
UC Santa Cruz:
Unit Credit
Course Creator
David Trend
David Trend is Professor of Art and Visual Culture and Faculty Director of the Inclusive Teaching Institute at the University of California, Irvine. He holds a PhD in Curriculum Theory and an MFA in Visual Studies. His recent books include Update Available: The Algorithmic Self (2023), Anxious Creativity: When Imagination Fails (2020), and Elsewhere in America: The Crisis of Belonging in Contemporary Culture (2016). He has held positions as Dean of Creative Arts at De Anza College and systemwide Director of UC Institute for Research in the Arts. Honored as a Getty Scholar, Trend is the author of over 200 essays and a former editor of the journals Afterimage and Socialist Review. He lives in Los Angeles.
David Trend is Professor of Art and Visual Culture and Faculty Director of the Inclusive Teaching Institute at the University of California, Irvine. He holds a PhD in Curriculum Theory and an MFA in Visual Studies. His recent books include Update Available: The Algorithmic Self (2023), Anxious Creativity: When Imagination Fails (2020), and Elsewhere in America: The Crisis of ...David Trend is Professor of Art and Visual Culture and Faculty Director of the Inclusive Teaching Institute at the University of California, Irvine. He holds a PhD in Curriculum Theory and an MFA in Visual Studies. His recent books include Update Available: The Algorithmic Self (2023), Anxious Creativity: When Imagination Fails (2020), and Elsewhere in America: The Crisis of Belonging in Contemporary Culture (2016). He has held positions as Dean of Creative Arts at De Anza College and systemwide Director of UC Institute for Research in the Arts. Honored as a Getty Scholar, Trend is the author of over 200 essays and a former editor of the journals Afterimage and Socialist Review. He lives in Los Angeles.
