Word: ves
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However, Visiting Lecturer Elaine Reichek's class, VES 23aar: "Alternative Histories, Alternative Media" is unique for both Harvard and the VES department in many respects. The first is the degree to which the group shares a sense of humor...
...crowd gathered around a Carpenter Center table could almost pass for a cat-burglar convention--the students, lecturer and TF are uniformly clad in black. Viewed together, the group embodies a certain stereotype of "artsiness." The uninitiated reporter finds the attire fitting preconceptions about a VES class, and idly wonders: Where are the cigarettes and berets...
...students in the VES 23aar class are close in other ways. The course's structure allows students to devote much of their time to discussing individual ideas and critiquing each other's progress. Students say the personal nature of artistic expression makes openness and comfort crucial to such an endeavor...
While most of the College's VES courses are designed to teach the artistic use of a particular medium, Reichek's class focuses instead on the conceptualization of art. The students are encouraged to formulate an idea and then find the material best suited to bringing it to fruition in the semester's four projects...
...VES concentrators interested in getting out of Gund Hall and the Carpenter Center should take note of this architectural gem: Frank Gehry, an archictect from Santa Monica, California, is visiting MIT this semester. He is delivering "Current Works," a lecture with Dean William Mitchell and James Glympf of Frank O. Gehry and Associates. Reception follows. 7 p.m. Wong Auditorium, MIT Tang Center, 2 Amherst St. 253-7791. FREE...