In the last decade, artists have been experimenting with the fakeness of the truth and the truthfulness of the fake creating fake documents, staged marriage, an arguably authentic artifact, imaginary advertisements of both historical and contemporary.
What does it mean to tell the truth in the context of art? How does art cross the boundaries between the real and the fake, truthfulness and misrepresentation? This course will examine social engagement of art and how “truth” is treated, interpreted, and presented.
Students will work on projects to construct believable reality through speculative design and narrative construction.
