This class works at the advanced level in the study and execution of digitally-based photographic image making. Students have the conceptual and technical freedom to create independent, large scale projects. FA 420 can be taken up to three times and affording the student the intellectual space and time to realize major bodies of work as well as longer term projects. The class also places a special focus on the contemporary state of video art with artist's studio visits, lectures and institutional field trips that focus on today's artists and tomorrow's possibilities.